Lycanthropy
Chapter Seventy-One

“Fine, it was our deal indeed. Let me show you.” Marius huffed.

He began to stand closer and looked me straight into my eyes. I could see his pupils dilate as he was focusing on something in the back of mind. Could he read my mind? Was he able to read what I was thinking?

Marius blinked his eyes a few times now, and looked at me a little confused. I don’t know what he was trying to do, and I was waiting for him to do something. He said that he was going to show me, so why wasn’t he?

He now held my face with both his hands, and I had just let him. I wasn’t afraid of him, and he was actually kind to me ever since we had bumped into each other. So I stood there, my head engulfed in his hands, waiting.

Again his pupils dilated and he held in his breath, as if he was focusing even more. But again, nothing happened.

“What are you doing?” I asked him now.

He suddenly let go and looked at me with strange eyes. Was he afraid or confused? I don’t know but before I could ask him, he was gone.

“Seriously?” I asked the air in the room, as no one was here.

At the Monarch’s office:

“You have to let her go!” Marius came storming into my office.

My glass filled with Emerson’s blood nearly tipped over and I cursed him for it.

“Well hello to you too, dear brother.” I replied bored.

I have been looking through my books to replace something about Lycans and their abilities. But I hadn’t found a single thing that told me how she was able to withstand my command. Or why I was so attracted to her.

“Radu, I’m serious, you have to let her go!” He yelled again.

“And why should I?” I asked him now.

“You just should, she is no good to you.” He suddenly stopped yelling and said this in a sad voice.

“Care to clarify?” I asked him, still bored.

“Radu, please, I’ve never asked anything from you but I’m going to ask you to trust me with this. You have to let her go! If she replaces out about this, I don’t know what she will do!” He said with pleading eyes.

Now he got my interest. He knows something that I don’t?

“Spill!” I yelled to him, after flashing right in front of him and pushing him to the bookcase behind him.

“No! If I tell you, you will never let her go! You would only keep her locked up and for her to never see the light of day again! I’m not going to watch and see how you put another one through our way of life. It’s not fair to her!”

I am the Monarch of our people and I am the strongest one here, yet I never had to try and use my ability, to look into someone’s past, onto my brother. He has always been truthful with me, and always told me what I wanted to know. This was the first time that he wasn’t telling me, and if it were about something that didn’t matter to me unlike she does, I would have let him walk away from it. But she is something that matters to me, greatly, so I needed to know what he knows.

I looked into his eyes, while my hand was on his face now, and strained my focus upon looking into his past.

“Don’t you fucking dare! I’m your brother, you should trust me!” Marius said, but I didn’t care. I was already looking through how he had spent his time with her.

With my little white.

He had shown her a new set of fighting skills, showed her all around my house, told her about the hierarchy and the use of ranks within my people’s community and he even explained why we had to kill people, instead of just taking half of their blood. They also had shared a few laughs and connected together on a friendly base. I even had to smile lightly at the name that her sister had given us ‘Nightstalkers’, but I continued to search for whatever he must have seen or heard the last few minutes.

Marius has the ability to look into someone’s past as well, but then in a different way. He could see the heritage of people and thus also who their parents were and such. I saw that her mother was just as beautiful as her, and her father is a werewolf, but not a Lycan. Then I saw the parents of her father, which was none of interest to me, and so I went to see the parents of her mother.

“NO!” Marius yelled and shook himself out of my grasp before I could see what he had seen.

“Stop what you are doing! I’m not going to let you do this to me!” He yelled and flashed away.

I looked dumbfounded at the books in front of me. My mind was working in overdrive to think about what he could have possibly known that I couldn’t figure out myself. My feet paced underneath me subconsciously, walking an invisible path across the carpet in my office.

My mind drifted away, thinking of every possibility that I could imagine.

He had the ability to see the roots of someone, and he had shown me her grandparents from her father’s side. But then when I came to see about her mother’s…

No…

No, no, no, no… This is impossible.

I raised my head, to look upwards to the wall behind my desk. There was something hanging there that made me aware of what I had in the past, which was now lost forever. It reminded me every day of how stupid I had been to ever lose what was so dear to me.

The massive painting hanging there, only made me more confused in irritably annoyance as my mind couldn’t comprehend if this could be true at all or not.

I needed to be sure of this, but Marius wouldn’t tell me, and I doubt if he was going to ever let me touch him so I could read into his past again.

Back to her:

“Emerson, you’ve got to listen to me! We have to leave now!” Marius said to me.

“Why?” I asked him.

I was glad that someone wanted me out of here, as it was getting harder each day to not think about the things that I have seen in here, but I was curious as hell as why I should be leaving right now. He had left me in the gym only twenty minutes ago, all confused, and now he had returned to my room and demanded of me to leave.

“No time, let’s go!” He said and grabbed my arm.

He took me downstairs about ten staircases and when we stood in front of a wall he said a few strange words and the wall had opened up, for us to step outside. So, there is a door!

It was dark but I could see that we were on top of the tallest summit that I had ever seen. The valley that I could see, where at the bottom stood houses that had their lights on, must have been the most deepest place I have ever gazed upon. And when I looked behind me, the building that we just left, had disappeared.

I still don’t know where we were and how it was possible that a building just vanished into thin air, but there was no time to think about any of those things.

Marius took hold of me in his arms and he used his ability to flash us the hell away from the dark place I had spent too much time in.

In the distance I could hear a terrible scream and was sure that it was Radu, just realizing that we both were gone. But why? Why did Marius take me away?