Chapter 32 - Civilization

“ I don’t want to break the curse!”

The words echo and create a vibration through the lake but it didn’t make me feel any better. Footsteps can be heard from behind me and I didn’t have to look to know that it was him, again.

Gray, cloudy with drizzles of rain starting to pour right in my face, however, it didn’t make me feel anything, even the slightest remorse of what happened to Alfred. “ Am I like my father?” I asked him as I feel the drizzles start to dampen the skin of my face.

“ You’re like…. Devon,” he joked but I didn’t get it. I turned around, only to see him holding a black umbrella with his usual leather jacket and annoying smile.

He walks closer, enough for us to feel each other’s breathing. “ It’s been a month,” he slowly said as if it will heal whatever is burning inside of me. The insignia of the curse of the moon goddess is still inked i