As Josie took a step forward, she held her breath, trying to gather the courage that had led her to apologize to her sister this morning. She didn’t want to make the same mistake but starting something was never easy for her. She feared the possibility of her losing control of herself to jealousy again. That wasn’t what she wanted to do.Jayden wasn’t hers. It’s the bitter truth but she realized it faster which was better for herself. When she heard a loud clank, her entire body jumped. She looked behind, surprised to see how Shawn’s eyes had been intensely studying her.She gulped, turning back to the prison cell and began to push her voice out, “Jay— Mr. Harding?”Silence answered her to the point that she had to wait in five minutes if a pin drop silence. She looked back at Shawn whose eyes turn less intense. He nodded to her and Josie decided to call for the man inside the prison cell again, thinking that her voice must have been too soft to be heard.“Mr. Harding.. Ah!” She ga
While Josie stared at the glass window, she recalled Rose again. Closing her eyes, all she wishes now was to see her sister again and give her a hug.Meanwhile in the forest, Cain pulled a torch in front of the vampires. They had followed him but it wasn’t enough as some others were still following Rose and Anna. Gritting his teeth, he yelled enough for Rose to hear, “Lady Rose! Can you get rid of all blood from Anna?”Rose quickly understood that the vampire smelled blood strongly as well as their dim eyesight. She looked at Anna who had gotten pale. She didn’t know where to begin as her body was entirely covered with blood. The clothes Anna wore was also drenched with the red liquid. As she wondered for a way to get rid of the blood, her ears sharply caught the trickling sound from her left side. “Anna, hang on,” she whispered, gathering her energy to bring Anna to the side of the river before letting her dip inside. Anna cried from the pain as the water hit her wounded skin but
Dominic held her hands, understanding that she was more in pain, feeling heartbroken from the pain that he felt. He soothed her, “I know you are worried but I wasn’t acting tough.”“I know,” she whispered slowly, “You are used to feeling the pain but you should be aware of the pain, it could have gotten more dangerous.”Dominic softened the corners of his lips, “I promise I will.”Rose then settled beside him, pouring all her focus on his wound and making sure to help him in every steps of his recovery. Anna didn’t wake up until the morning came, leaving Andrius to bring her asleep to the ship. Meanwhile Cain had told a few of his soldier to take care of the matter in the castle. Although injured, Dominic had stood up the next morning, looking unfazed by the wound and poison running to the stream of his blood. “Shawn would take this opportunity to overthrow my position I’m certain,” Dominic responded. “But before my father come back home I should have plenty of time to stay there.”
Stepping inside the kitchen, Mrs. Maury let Josie in before shutting the door behind them, something they rarely do. She then looked at her daughter, “What happened? Why are you alone?”While Mrs. Maury wasn’t educated she knew something was off instantly with her instinct. “Rose would have came with you if you are going to come back home,” her mother added again.“It is about Rose,” Josie hesitantly brought up, sighing underneath her breaths, “She’s leaving with Dominic.”“Leaving?” Her mother gasped, “Leaving where?”“Outside Essex for…” Josie could see her mother’s face palling that put her in a bind. She couldn’t see herself telling her mother that her sister had gone to a trip after a single letter which was obviously odd. “For?” Her mother urged, her brown eyes staring to her soul.“A light trip!” Josie lied, not wanting to add the rest of the information as she could tell her mother wasn’t in a state to receive more heart shaking news. Although it had only been some week, Jos
Shawn who had been looking around the small house was certain the place had too little space for anyone to hide anything. Mrs. Maury was particularly welcome for him to enter, even leaving him in the house with all the room unlocked as though she knew that she didn’t have anything important for anyone to search.Humming a tone, he decided to walk back to the living room when he heard something shaking from the floor. At first he thought it was the weak floor that had began to sang from the soreness of old age. He realized soon enough it was the sound of wind that came from below. This made his eyebrows to raise. He bent down slowly, placing his ears against the floor to hear the small but definite sound from below that sounded empty. It as though there was a void hidden beneath. Curious, he went to look for the door that can lead down. Knocking on some part of the floor, his eyes stopped at the carpet below the sofas, finding trace they it had been moved. As his fingers lifted th
The door to the church was colored with the stain glass. Josie opened the door confidently, knowing her way all over the church as she and Rose had constantly visited the place. Upon entering in, they were greeted with a cold air. Silence filled the room, leaving only their footsteps to be heard. Josie who was more familiar with the church, finds nothing new with the view, letting Shawn to enjoy his time.“You often come here?”“Yes, with Rose,” Josie confirmed. “We have visited here almost weekly for as long as I can remember. Praying to God and helping to clean the garden at times. There’s a statue of an angel behind and it’s the prettiest I have seen. I am sure you would like it as well.”Josie had walked straight with her head turned to Shawn, not realizing how there was a person in front of her and bumped to their chest flatly.“Ouch,” she sighed. “Ouch as well,” said the other person in front of her. He lifted his face that was colored in a smile, “Oh, Josephine. I was thinkin
Mrs. Maury welcomed the two when they had gone back home. She prepared a dinner which Shawn stayed into eat together. After the dinner ended that was when Mrs. Maury began her question, “When do you think you will come home?”Josie pursed her lips, “I want to help with dad but I also want to stay in the castle and wait for Rose to come back. When she comes back I promise I will stay back home.”“I don’t mind you staying there. I’m only taking care of your father so there isn’t much thing I can do either. Thanks to Mr. Dominic’s help now your father’s medical bills and his medicine is always there when we needed it. Physician comes regularly too,” continued Mrs. Maury with a smile. “I am glad that the person Rose is engaged with think of her so deeply.”“Mr. Dominic sent a physician to take care of father?” Mrs. Maury nodded at once. “Yes he did. It was quite a long time ago. After you left the house to visit Rose the physician had come. I was in a bind because suddenly Marie said she
The smell of ocean was unique. It had the taste of salt, the peaceful ambience, and a unique scent of ocean water. She paced over the wooden floors, looking over to the sailors who were busy exchanging conversation. As she made her way to her room, she made sure her steps were silent. She didn’t want to wake up the person who she had left asleep when leaving the room earlier. “Leaving me the first thing once you wake up,” said Dominic. His deep voice echoed across the wooden walls, making her shiver. She stared at his black eyes, smiling in response to his teasing grin. “I thought you might need to change your bandage to a fresh one,” she lifted her hand where it was holding a bandage.“Yes, I do need it,” Dominic pushed himself from the bed, leaning his back to the headboard while Rose prepared the scissors and the ointment that she had been told to use over his wound. Dominic gently unbutton his shirt which Rose noticed. Her ears turned pink as she could see from the corner of h