NIGHTS OF HALLOW

Perdita shifted in her seating position and cleared her throat. She didn’t want to think in depth about the meaning behind Sthena’s words.

Was she going to stay with him in the future? And did that future start now?

Sthena oblivious to what Perdita was thinking continued to explain, ”Vampire wines are stronger than normal wine that the humans drink and that is why I gave you a glass since you are just waking up. And not to add, you have been unconscious for a long time.”

He paused and stared all over her face and asked, ”How are you feeling now?”

Perdita cleared her throat again still thinking of what Sthena had hinted in his words. She didn’t even listen to his explanations of vampire wines.

”I feel a slight headache and a little bit of dizziness. Aside from these, I’m doing good.” Her reply brought back the memories she had forgotten for the small moment of Sthena’s distraction.

She spun around to fully face Sthena and questioned with wide eyes, ”The village. The exorcism. M...my brother. Is he safe? Or d...did they capture him?” Her questions came all at once with a worried look on her face, especially because of her brother.

”Relax,” Sthena chided. ”You are just waking up and you need to rest more.”

Sthena paused and exhaled before he went on to say, ”To put your mind at ease, your brother was not captured. He is safe. You both are safe, so don’t stress your mind with worry.” He finished speaking and watched the silent Perdita.

’Seems like she didn’t remember that I first teleported with her brother before coming back for her’ Sthena thought.

Well, it was understandable, considering she was in a daze when it happened.

Perdita nodded. One part of her brain eased a little. But the millions of questions that still swirled in her head could be seen in her eyes.

Sthena on the other hand knew she would ask a lot of questions whenever she woke up and this was the reason why he waited patiently for her to ask them.

And then came the questions of Perdita.

”Were you the one who saved my brother and I?”

”What do you think?” Sthena questioned back with a small smile.

The answer was a big YES. Perdita answered in her head and went on with the next question.

”What about the church members? Did they find out we are no longer in the village?”

”No,” Sthena replied confidently, knowing fully well that Daemon and Churchman Theodore will perform their task without any mistake.

Sthena further spoke, ”With me involved, the church members can never know that you and your brother are no longer in the village or that you two are vampires.”

”Okay,” Perdita said and closed her mouth, probably thinking of how to phrase her next question.

After a while, she asked, ”Where is my brother? Is he harmed? Did the smell of the exorcism ritual affect him like it did to me too?”

”I told you that your brother is doing okay, though it did affect him, it is not like it did to you.” Sthena half lied knowing that Perdita would jump out of bed to look for Marco if he told her the state he was in now.

As Sthena answered each question of Perdita, he adjusted in his sitting position knowing that more questions were coming.

”How long was I unconscious?” Perdita questioned while fearing to hear the answer of Sthena. At the back of her mind, she waited to hear two days.

”Not that long. You’ve been gone since yesternoon till you woke up just now.” Sthena’s answer put Perdita’s heart at ease again. She felt the weight of her problems and worries that made her head ache lessen a bit.

Perdita looked away from Sthena and her gaze returned to look at the luxurious room again.

The soft bed she sat on. The rich and slightly dark decor of the room, the fireplace, the transparent glass table, the costly wood of the couch, the marble floor, the curtains, they were too many to mention.

And then her eyes went up to the ceiling and was greeted with a magnificent view she had never seen before.

The mirror ceiling of the room reflected everything that was in the room including her and Sthena who she saw from the mirrored ceiling, was looking at her, his gaze unwavering, left her breathless.

To say she was awestruck was an understatement to how she felt from seeing such beauty of a room.

If the room looked this breathtaking, then what about the entire house, or should she call it a mansion?

Of course, it should be called a mansion. Only a mansion would look this way. It was even more like a castle’s room in her eyes.

Perdita shook her head at the way her thoughts were going. Why did she compare this room to a castle’s room? Was it because she felt they were the same because she had toured the castle on the day of the hallow ball and had seen how magnificent it looked? Maybe that was the reason for her wild comparison. Perdita thought and consoled herself.

Breaking from her reverie, Perdita’s gaze went back to the beauty of the man beside her with his dark glacial eyes.

Sthena’s lips stretched into a small warm smile that had the already thudding heart of Perdita that didn’t stop from skipping a beat no matter how hard she tried to control it, knowing Sthena will hear it.

Perdita nervously wetted her lips and swallowed the lump that made her remember the taste of the wine she drank.

Without breaking eye contact with Sthena, Perdita opened her sealed lips to ask the question that had been bothering her. That she somehow dreaded to hear. She asked,

”Where are we?”

”In the church building,” Sthena joked and chuckled when Perdita’s eyes widened before they narrowed suspiciously at him.

Sthena stretched his hand and flipped his long red hair backward, deliberately showing his neck where Perdita had bitten him.

Perdita eyed his neck before she heard him answer,

”We are in the castle.”

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