“I hope this message reaches you well. You should leave the Palace of Elmswood soon. It’s not a place for humans. Go where you were supposed to live. Your mother is worried for you. If she gets sick during Venus’s marriage, then it will be a problem. Once you go to the old residence, write to me using someone’s help.
Your father,
Norman Wilson.”
Magnus chuckled and was ready to tear it into pieces when Alora took it from her.
“Your father is worried for his second daughter, ignoring the fact that his first daughter is living with a vampire. Norman does need a good beating,” Magnus stated.
“Will His Highness not say such things about my father?” Alora requested him with a tinge of anger.
“Are you getting angry at me?” Magnus questioned her.
“I don’t dare to,” Alora said as she furrowed her brows together.
“But you did,” Magnus proclaimed. “Humans are strange. They love to feel pain even if their family hates them,” he muttered.
Alora sharply glanced at him. “Why is Your Highness taunting me?” She lowered her eyes and fiddled with her fingers.
“I have some work. Go back when you get tired,” Magnus stated. “And don’t wear a blindfold. Let the others fear you and enjoy that feeling,” he suggested to her. Magnus left her sight in a blink of an eye.
Alora sighed as she looked at the scroll. “Father will be angry to see me in the capital. But I’ll be staying with Prince Magnus. I don’t think my family will have a problem then,” Alora murmured as she was still unsure what more had written in her fate.
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“Your Highness, are you sure about returning to the capital?” Tobias asked. “Just because of a human the Prince has suddenly decided to leave Elmswood. It never happened.” At the same time, Tobias was astonished.
“It’s because of another matter, not Alora,” Magnus replied.
“His Highness cannot lie to me,” Tobias said with a smile as he was done checking the documents, which needed to be taken to Velaris.
“Tobias, shall I make you look into Alora’s eyes?” Magnus questioned him.
“Forgive me, Your Highness,” Tobias immediately apologized and lowered his eyes. The smile across his lips had disappeared too. He resumed the work, while Magnus engrossed himself in an important work.
What Magnus needed, he couldn’t find it in the old book in his hand. Closing it, he furrowed his brows as he contemplated.
“What do you think a human possesses such eyes?” Magnus asked Tobias suddenly, who was stacking the pages together.
Tobias stopped his work and gazed at Magnus. “I have heard that it was a witch’s curse.”
“Why would a witch do that? To wipe out the vampires or the werewolves or the humans?” Magnus’s questions made Tobias think hard.
“I wish I had known the answer, Your Highness,” Tobias humbly said. “The Prince should not be bothered about a human,” he then added.
“I am curious about Alora’s eyes,” Magnus answered.
“It’s strange that His Highness can directly gaze into Miss Alora’s eyes. No one could stand her eyes,” Tobias remarked.
“Is it a good thing or a bad thing?” Magnus inquired.
“I have no idea, Your Highness. The Prince despised humans, then why is he keeping Miss Alora close to him?” he pressed the question while squinting his eyes.
“Alora is an exception. She is the only human whom I cannot hate. Others are evil,” Magnus replied with a small grin.
“His Highness said the other day that Miss Alora fancies him. Does he like Miss Alora by any chance?” Tobias amusedly asked.
“I do like her. Alora is different and special,” Magnus stated with a smile, gracing his lips.
Tobias smiled. “His Highness never showed interest in any woman before,” he stated.
“Alora allures me toward her. Her charming blue eyes, her innocent talks, and her beautiful face are the few things I cannot ignore, Tobias,” Magnus asserted with a smirk on his lips.
Alora cautiously peered into the bedroom, puzzled not to find Magnus inside. “Is His Highness not here?” she whispered to herself in confusion.
Unbeknownst to her, Magnus stood behind her, his head slightly above hers, and he curiously joined in, asking, “What are you searching for?”
Startled, Alora swiftly turned around, her face beaming with excitement. “Your Highness!” she exclaimed, her demeanor suggesting she held joyful news to share with him.
“Yes?” Magnus asked.
“I found a pond with many swans in it,” Alora replied.
“So? What’s there to be happy about it?” Magnus asked and he walked past her to go inside his bedroom. “Also, how long were you in the garden? I think the pond is quite far,” he muttered, recalling the last time he visited it.
“I never saw swans,” Alora said and started explaining everything to Magnus.
Magnus was not truly interested in that kind of conversation, but he understood Alora’s enthusiasm to talk to him. He removed the long coat and it landed somewhere on the floor.
Alora quickly picked it up and told him not to throw his clothes like that.
“You act like a wife,” Magnus remarked and slightly turned to face her to see her reaction. She was definitely bewildered hearing him and knitted her brows close.
“I don’t think I can ever be someone’s wife,” Alora pronounced and folded the coat.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.