hat wa

ying in front of my grandmother is too awkward. She know

you meet in these treacherous woods of ours, Cassidy.” She turned

n’t a

red in my mind. Even though his body needed a few stitches, he still looks smoking h

him?!’ I cursed my own mind, even my own t

e a look that says she finally found the last piece of a puzzle. “Tell me what happened

ook like a bo

t a human…” she murm

man, m

ips. I softly glared at he

ther grabbed my wrist, staring straight

her what happened from the start: I found a big dog which disappeared and a bulky man lying on the wood

cision is still firm to ground me inside the cas

e days, I remained a p

*

she’s always on guard at the main

d there she was, standing like an eerie childr

and pointed at the bro

I shook my head because it was painfully true. Even though I was angry, deep inside I’m hungry. Meal time wa

issed and told me to foll

head even if I was just about to say something.

will be fine, Cassidy. You need not to worry. Besides, why do you still want to go there?” She knows that

odded, not wanting to persuade her any

*

opened the glass window of my room, throwing the l

earlier. She’s going to check up on me later, but I put a bolster and pillows that epitomize the shape of my body. Quite dumb

s the cabin, quickly closing the

I let the silence of the night sink in,

ore me. But I managed to cover my mouth t

ng, his jaw fell open upon seeing me. It looks like any

lding his arms as I led him to sit dow

d was directly whipping him. Torturing him. I couldn’t stan

oice was hoarse and his teeth wer

agine what would

“You should’ve… stayed…

w did you know I lived in a castle? And, oh my Heavens,

m to listen? I’m just a kid to him. “W—What’s your

s,” I muttered. “I am going to stitch your wounds.” While I was away for a few days, he managed to stop the bleeding, but that doesn’t

eered at him. This is the first time I’ve seen this reaction from him, h

sed a brow. “I thought

And now you’r

“You’re good at throwi

only

do you

is nose. “You’re too

thread to start stitching his eyebrows. His body jo

t to die?”

uld irritate him. I shook my head in the last

t bobbed.

ll still come for you and treat your wounds.”

gining th

to not cal

was just telling the trut

-and-one y

hed but grins, “You don’t underst

rd, I do know what I’m doing.” He looked away after I said that without breaking contact with his eyes. This man’s e

in his ears. “What’

ared shoulders. To my surprise, I almost stood from straddling h

asked inn

hat but I just saw him in front of my sight pacing back and forth. “Do you

t haywired. What he blurted o

even know his name because he wouldn’t tell me. This man is so, so mysterious but I still find him so

I think I have seen the reflection of my own. Sad, like the sun in the day of mist

der the blue sea. I couldn’t understan

ow, we have met at the right time and at the r

I know that love is a rebellio