Darkness

He has kept his distance from her and observed her from afar all those years. He placed spies in her nation to give him updates on how she was faring since he couldn't get near.

With every year that went by, he had to keep convincing himself that she hadn't matured yet, which was miserable for him. A silent torture. He had to remind himself that there were still dangers all around him.

After five years of watching her, he stopped. He stopped checking in on her because he felt that that was more torturous. He wouldn't be able to achieve anything if he keeps keeping tabs on her, it would only be a distraction. So he busied himself on becoming stronger, and he began making plans on how to capture her.

Then she was eighteen in a blink of an eye. King felt it was time to finally make his move. He couldn't wait another year. Who would have thought that he'd be alerted of her so-called boyfriend she's been seeing for two years in the human world? When he first got the news he panicked. ‘Has