Song recommendation: None but the lonely heart. Op.6*****Belle could hear the piano’s key changing. The tune smoothing out as it turn to a newer song. Her eyes were affixed at the red gaze that didn’t once let her leave. She felt Leon’s hand across her her waist while her fingers hang on his shoulder. The waltz started slow with the flow of the tune and all she could hear was the echoes of both her shoes and his in the silent lake. Belle gulped feeling his hand pulling her tighter, “You’re a good dance,” she spoke, an effort to drive away the silence.“Am I? That’s flattering, I would have thought you have danced with so many better men out there,” Leon said, perhaps still spiteful that she didn’t called him handsome the last time.She chuckled as his sarcasm that sound funnier to her as the time passes. “In comparison, don’t you think I have fall pale in comparison to your other dance partners?” Belle stepped forward only to feel her lungs stopped working with how close her lips

Her blue eyes widely stared at the woman, “You knew?”No way… all this time.. does Lady Edith knew about everything?Even her contract with Leon?But how?As Belle went in panic, she heard the woman lightly chuckle again. “Come on, I am called the high witch for something,” Lady Edith turned her eyes to the same apple tree where Leon had disappeared“Did you tell anyone?” Belle quickly asked, worried and scared.“No darling,” she respond, “And I promise I wouldn’t. I see you need your own time,” she noted seeing Belle’s paling face. “You can go home with those books now. I don’t want your parents to worry.”Belle only gulped as she held the books. Lady Edith helped her by putting the books in an old trunk of hers with her magic. As she stepped out from the house, Belle still felt shell shocked by what had happened.As she moved toward the foothill, her eyes caught the leather black shoes. She didn’t had to ask to know whose shoes it was. She spoke, “How strong do you think the witch

Nikolaj eyed her for a long time where Belle realized how the man’s eyes lingered over her face before he spoke, “I think beside us she’s the most confused.”She nodded and looked at Leon, the source of her answer, “What happened?”“You don’t remember but you fainted,” answered Leon. “When I found you, you were lying on the floor unconscious on your way to your room.”Leon frowned how Belle didn’t remember. Last afternoon was the time when Belle had just finished reading her books. She would take walks in the afternoon alone and he would always silently put his eyes on her until she walked back to her room. As she ascended to the staircase that was when her eyes had suddenly black out and she fell backward to his embrace. When he thought how badly she could be injured without his help, Leon’s jaw ticked and his anger raise.“I thought you should wake up but I smell something odd from you, like a scent, I couldn’t tell what it is but it was a sour scent that didn’t sit well with me,”

The clothes slipped from her shoulders easily, so easily that it fluidly slide away down to the ground, making Belle toes to curl deeper to the floor.“It’s off,” Leon slowly spoke as if announcing it slower to make this time move in a turtle phase for him.Belle gulped, she held to her last piece of clothes as he slowly led her to the bathtub.“You… will stay?” She whispered, startled when her own voice echoed.“I do have a spell to finish. I don’t want you coming out still smelling with her. If one day you faint like that in front of me again,” he drawled, his eyes darkening when he said, “I won’t be able to take it peacefully anymore.”Belle felt as though her heart had jumped on his statement. She can find his worries on his eyes but was still unsure, “You were that worried?”Leon looked up. He wasn’t dumb not to know Belle was testing him. He could lie. He knew he was a good liar. Yet despite himself he said, “I was. A hell lot.”As she felt giddiness that spread over from her ch

Evenora walked toward the woods. Being the highest witch, she was used to walking with people. However, tonight she had chosen to walk alone through the woods.Stopping at the familiar house which looked ancient in age, she went forward, pulling her wrist out of her sleeve to knock on the door only for the door to be opened before her knocks.A sigh slipped from Edith whose eyes looked tired underneath the black veil she wore.“You’re a pain, do you know that?” Edith clicked her tongue seeing Evenora who lifted her face to pull a smile. “Suddenly giving me a student who look exactly like my teacher.”Evenora hung her head down. The high witch who always proudly brought herself in pride could only look apologetic to the point her expression looked pitiful to Edith. “I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you about it since the beginning.”“No, it wasn’t your fault. I do know how much the hatred against me is. Whatever happening in the coven, I am always kept in the dark. After all, they can’t have