Chapter 60

The moment their hands touched everything around Isabella went dark. And in a flash her surroundings lit up. She saw flames burning around her. She could feel the heat in her skin and could smell the smoke in her nose.

She looked around, trying to identify where she was. Then she saw a familiar structure. She saw the garden at the back of her courtyard where she spends her leisure time reading books. She was sure it was the garden in her courtyard because of the cherry blossom tree beside it. In all the courtyards in the palace, there was only one cherry blossom tree and it was lucky to be in her small courtyard.

All of the estate was burning. She was standing at the edge of the small pond in the back yard when some flash caught her attention.

She looked at the direction where the flash came from and then she saw Erik was dueling with a man dressed in black robes. She couldn’t see the features of the man clearly with the smoke interfering with her vision. All she could say was that th