Desire slept alone that night and before it was probable, she cried herself to sleep. She didn’t know she'd miss Sylvester that much after he had left. The feeling of not knowing where he was or how he was doing wrecked her into pieces. She promised herself she’ll stay with Fei or Lady Nor at night till Sylvester returns home. Chang and Sandra kept her company during

Desire sat beside Sylvester’s bed and watched him get rid of his cloth to take a bath. She kept on staring at him, thinking if this was a reality or dream. She thought she had lost him when those soldiers walked in without him behind them. She was so scared and prayed all night long that he'd come back to her. 

“What happened? What did she tell him?” Fei asked Desire who kept her eye glued on Sylvester who was looking at her with so much hatred. “I do not know, Fei. But whatever she said had changed his mind about me” she replied. 

The following morning Sylvester and all his soldiers and knights excluding just five of them left for the battlefield. They knew they had to save their region and not wait for the war to reach their wall before taking charge. Sylvester had found more than a hundred guns and several bullets in one of the attics in the mansion. Through the night, the soldiers were train

Three months later, still waiting inside the mansion for good news to come with hunger already setting in. Their food supply has reduced drastically and they could barely eat twice a day. The little farming they could do was in the garden and Cassandra weep bitterly when most of her flowers were uprooted to give space for planting crops. “We couldn’t possibly eat flow