Upon getting into the dungeon, Erica searched everywhere until she finally found her friend. Maria was beaten up and blood was all around her body. She was weak and looked completely lifeless and upon seeing the condition her friend was in, Erica felt like crying. "M-maria?" She called on to her and upon hearing Erica's voice, Maria opened her eyes and she smiled slightly. "Erica? You are here? That's nice?" She said softly and hearing that Erica took hold of her hands as she said to her, "Don't give up Maria, they just want you to confess so they can kill you but you must not admit to what you didn't do!" "I believe in you and I promise that I would find a way to get you out if there just beat with me!" Erica said as soft tears fell from her eyes. And hearing that, Maria smiled weirdly as she said, "You know Erica, I always knew that a day would come when I die in the palace, after all, I was a witch…a witch hated by all and just as I predicted, my death is closer than expected t

"If we can find out where the book is then your friend is safe!" Lecoi said as he gently separated from Erica. And hearing his words, she asked, "But where can we find the book, I don't even know what it looks like talk less of what it might be!" Erica said and hearing that, Lecoi said, "Well I think I have a little memory of what the book looks like so I'm sure I would be able to tell if it's the book when we see it!" He said and hearing that Erica sighed, "Okay then, we should get searching but fusty I want to ask, what is this book to the lord…why is it so important to him?" She asked as she was a little curious. For a man like Robin, it took great things to impress him but yet he was just so attached to the book. She couldn't help but wonder what could be written in the book. Hearing her words, Lecoi's expression changed as he said, "It was a book given to him by his mother before she passed away…it's the only memory he had of her since his father had gotten rid of everything

The next day came in really fast and The entire palace was so busy that no one even had time to gossip about what had occurred yesterday. And the reason was something everyone knew, the Redmoons were arriving. And so everywhere had to be spotless unless blood was gonna stain the ground tonight. Even Lecoi was busy as he had a lot of things to do before their arrival. Because Maria was still weak, she didn't do any work and was still resting but as for Erica. She was given both Maria's chores and hers to do, But she made sure not to let her know since she didn't want her to be worried. And finally, The main hall was ready as they had decorated it with some flowers for when the Redmoons would arrive. Meanwhile, cutting some Vegetables was Erica as she overheard the other maids gossiping, "I can't believe that the lord still allowed the Redmoons to visit after what they had done years ago." Said one of the maids and then the other said, "Yes I remember, the Former lord was always r

Upon seeing the woman, Raymond asked, "Alena is that you?" "It's Alana and yes, this Is me!" She said and hearing that, Raymond scoffed a little. As he walked closer to Alana, "You haven't changed have you, you just look taller than how you were years ago but your bad habit is still intact!" He said and hearing that, Alana smiled as she said, "I should say the same for you. Shouldn't you be in your room or something but instead you are parading in someone else's palace." She said and hearing that, Raymond smirked as he said, "At least I'm in someone's palace as a guest, not a concubine!" He said and hearing that, Alana furrowed her brows in annoyance as she said, "Concubine? I'm not Lecoi's concubine!" She said and hearing that, Raymond wanted to laugh as he said, "Yes! Yes! Your not, you're actually his fuck buddy if I'm not wrong." Upon hearing his words, Alana felt like digging her long nails into his face as she angrily turned around, "What, you know I'm not wrong, don't yo

Wrapping his arms around Erica, he pulled her closer as he kissed her more and more until they were both out of breath and finally, they separated. Breathing heavily, Erica's face was completely flushed as she stood up from the bed and made her way to where the food tray was with that, she took as much food as she could and stuff it into her mouth. "I already kissed you, now let me eat!" She said as she took another bite of the food seeing that, Leroi just sighed. Of course, she would only kiss him because of food, it's not like she enjoyed it or something. Standing up from the bed, Lecoi said before going to the bathroom, "From now on, if you wanna eat in my palace, then Yiu have to kiss me first or starve and whoever tries to feed you apart from me…will have themselves kissed, got it?" He said and hearing that, Erica nodded with food in her mouth and with that, he made his way to the bathroom. With him, gone Erica then sighed as she touched her cheeks which were so red. If not