Chapter 46

“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.

Still insisting to leave, Fang walked up to the secured and sealed gate while the knights kept on telling her that they were not ready to open the gate for her.

While one of the soldiers left to request Sylvester approval of an important issue, Fang asked her maids to attack the soldier at the gate with knives and cutlasses. As a result of their code of conduct, they knew they shouldn’t hit or touch those women, so they shifted back and let them open the gate by themselves and watched Fang walk into her death.

The soldier came back to report to Sylvester about what happened. They found him sitting at the back of the house with his head in his hands.

“My lord, Lady Fang left with her maids. They tried attacking us but we couldn’t touch them” The soldier reported “But at least you tried,” The soldier nodded. “You may leave”

The soldier went back feeling less guilty about what happened.

Sylvester kept his distance from Desire no matter how much she tried reaching out to him. Even though she was still grieving for her friend, she still tried talking to him, to ask him what she had done. Yet he closed her out.

After checking on the soldiers that night, Desire went into his room to try and talk to him but he wasn’t there, so she got to his study and found him searching for something seriously.

“Can I help you with that, my lord?” His head snapped up to look at her, then turned back to whatever she was searching for.

“No, go back to the room. I do not need your help here” He replied aggressively.

Desire knew it was probably the guns that he was looking for and she knew she could help him search around the house as it’ll make it faster and easier for him.

“Should I bring your dinner up here, my lord?” Desire asked.

“No, I do not need you to do such things for me anymore. If I want anything, I’ll walk down the stairs and request for it by myself from other maidens. You can go about preparing breakfasts for your love”

Desire was confused about his words.

“What do you mean by that statement, Sylvester? We’re in the middle of a war and all you could do is get mad at me. I just lost a friend and all I need is your comfort and yet, you’re doing this” She said crying already.

“It’s none of my business even if you lost your parents” He spat.

“You do not mean to say that. You have no right to talk about my parents that way. You forced me to leave my home to come work for this mansion”

“No Desire, no! The custom and tradition forced you here, not me. Your region is the poorest and filled with all types of diseases, yet, making you leave your home was to keep you alive. If I had my way, you wouldn’t be here by now”

“You do have your way. Tell your men to open the gate, so I’ll leave this place, Sylvester. At least I mean nothing to you, so doing that would be easy, right?”

Sylvester snapped and walked closer to her angrily, he wrapped his hand around her neck in a tight grip, forcing her to not breathe properly while pressing her back against the wall.

“What are you doing,?” Desire cried out.

“Getting you back to your senses. The next time you refer to me as Sylvester, I’ll make sure I rip your throat out and don’t even dare think about leaving or else I’ll make sure you regret it”

He dropped her and moved back, regret evident in his eyes but quickly flickered away before Desire could notice. Desire kept on coughing until she could regain her breath back properly. She looked up to glare at him.

Taking him by surprise, Desire jumped on him. Wrapped her hands around his neck and kissed him softly. He was taken aback by her actions as he was confused and didn’t know if he should kiss her back.

By the time her tongue slid into his mouth, he dropped his thoughts into his floor, wrapped his hand around her waist and kissed her as angrily as she did. Teeth clashing, tongue fighting, the angry kisses went on for minutes until Desire pulled away from him.

“If choking me to death was your way of saying goodbye to whatever it is that we had, then that was my own way of leaving too. I’ll move out of your suite before you get back, my lord” Desire bowed even lower than before and walked out of the room, with tears in the corner of her eyes. Sylvester was speechless.

The first thing she did was to walk into the room she was using in his suite, pack up her bags and every other thing belonging to her and walked out with an intention of never coming back.

The soldiers at the gate heard another terrible, hard knocking on the gate. They peeked out and saw it was done by the country's soldiers.

“What do you want?” They asked

“A healer. We are wounded and we heard there’s a healer here. Once she treats us, we'll leave this place. Help us. We are brothers. Please.” Without thinking twice or informing Sylvester, they opened the gate for the five soldiers to come in.

They made them lie out front before going in to get Desire, Fei and Cassandra. On impulse, the three women walked up to the soldiers and inspected them.

One had been shot in the leg just like Ying, the second one had been shot by an arrow in his head and Desire knew he was probably dead, the third one hand had been cut off, the fourth had a sword slash through his face while the fifth one was only limping.

Desire asked Fei to take care of the ones with the deep slash wound made by the sword and the one that was limping.

When Desire moved closer to the first and second one, she noticed that they were smelling differently but the look on the face of the one shot was different from that of their soldiers. He looked at her with so much anger in his eyes, as he didn’t look as if he was going through any pain.

She inspected the one with an arrow in his head and discovered that he was dead.

Instructing one of their own soldiers, “This one is dead, take him out please” Before she could move closer to the one without an arm, the first one with the gun shot in his leg, held her hand suddenly.

She turned back and she saw him bringing out a shiny dagger from his pocket.

“Treat him or I kill you”

“He’s dead already. I’m not a magician, so I can’t bring him back to live” Desire replied.

The guy stood up and started waving the dagger in Desire’s face. She stood there courageously and kept on telling him she would not be able to treat him.

Desire tried removing her hand from his, but he held on too tight, scaring the girl to death even though she wasn’t showing it.

“Let her go” A soldier intervened, giving Desire the chance to remove her hand and run off.

Thinking she had escaped finally, she turned and ran towards the house but before she got there, the soldier threw the dagger at her, as Fei and Cassandra kept on screaming her name. By the time Desire turned, the dagger hit her sending her to the floor. She hit her head on the stairs, losing consciousness as blood pulled around her.