But then the door opened and Adrian strode in, his eyes haunted. He stopped the moment he saw me and scanned me from head to toe. "I thought you'd left." He said, his tone strained. "Yes, come in. Great manners for knocking." Dagon snapped at him. He ignored her and walked into the room further. "I was just out in the forest. With Dracula and Warrior." I responded. Adrian's eyes widened and I saw the carnal fear in his voice. "Without any guards?" He asked. I hesitated. Maybe that was a bit stupid. "Yes.. I'm sorry." I apologised. Adrian strode to me and stood right in front of me. I looked up at him and he looked down at me with dark eyes. His cold hand cupped my cheek. "You can't just do that. I'm sorry for what I said to you, but you can't just leave. It puts me into a state of absolute panic. I had the whole castle looking for you." He calmly said. I swallowed heavily. Running away was always my solution to problems. I wanted to avoid confrontation and wanted time for myself.

We searched for ten minutes. Ten whole minutes where we searched and threw around everything. Megera kicked over the cabinets in a last attempt and started kicking the cell door again. You could see the steam coming out of his ears. "Guys!" Rana suddenly shouted. We were both with her within a second. She looked up at the underside of the desk. "What has 13 hearts but no other organs?!" She screamed at us. Megera and I looked at each other, and then down at Rana again. "What?!" Megera shouted back, his face full of frustration. "It says here.. There's a sentence written underneath here... It must be a clue." Rana answered, her eyes narrowed on the riddle again. Meanwhile, my brain was working overtime to solve the sentence. 13 hearts... 13 hearts... No other organs... I had my eyes closed tightly and then noticed the silence in my cell. I slowly opened my eyes and looked at Rana and Megera, who looked at me with expectant gazes. They trusted me to solve this. I looked away from t

The silence that greeted me was as comfortable as the forest around Adrian's kingdom. A kingdom that would never be mine.Wait. Did I have thoughts?I opened my eyes and felt no pain. I felt... nothing.Weird?As I opened my eyes and saw a blue sky above me, I again checked my body for wounds, cuts.. anything. But my body felt perfect and healed. I sat up and stared at the back of someone. Someone I hadn't seen in a long, long time."Aklan?"Aklan turned around to me with sad eyes. "Hey, Elle. I would say it's good to see you here but... I thought it would take a few more years." He crawled closer to me and cupped my cheek. "I'm so sorry." He said with genuine pain.I was so confused. What in the world...I looked around me and saw nothing but beautiful nature around me. It was something straight out of a painting. Birds sang, the sun was shining, there was a lovely breeze that picked up strands of my clean hair. My body felt healthy and this place felt just... Right. Comfortable. "Wh

"Welcome!" A loud voice made me snap my head up. There was a man announcing something from the altar and everybody fell silent at once."We are gathered today to witness the royal wedding of our King Asmodeus." He said. I bit my lip hard but Guela quickly pinched me. "Don't ruin your make-up!" She whisper-shouted at me and I couldn't help but smile. The announcer kept talking but the words hollowed out in my head. I was more interested in the people that were there. Scanning the entire crowd for any familiar faces, my eyes kept going back to the spot where Adrian was standing. If only these damn trees weren't in the way."This is where I leave you," Guela whispered to me, "before they notice that there are humans among us." I nodded without looking at her and kept my eyes on Briva, who was walking towards the aisle in her high heels."And now I want to introduce to you all.... The new queen for Lust!"Everybody seated turned around, all facing the end of the aisle.Briva appeared. Wit

"If you're not careful, I might use it on you." Samael said to her in a deep voice. "Is that a promise?" Fay winked at him and if Samael was shocked by her behaviour, he didn't show it. "You want to cut my skin and see the blood well up? Smell my human essence whilst fucking me? Would you run your fingers down my body, coating it with blood and sweat and hold me down while you take me?" I heard Fay whisper. Even Adrian seemed shocked at her words. Even I was. She was worse than Satan.Samael just looked down at her. "Because that's never going to happen." Fay whispered next as she pushed him off and walked away to the bar with swaying hips. Samael just stared at her with glazed over eyes. "What is wrong with your friends?!" Samael asked me, getting frustrated. "Every time I think I have her, she just pulls the fucking rug from underneath me!" He pouted angrily. Adrian clapped his shoulder and Micah nudged him. "You're about to be married, brother, maybe forget about the human." Micah