Rosie's Games

Chapter 297: Summons

Chapter 297: Summons

"I can smell them," Lucas said the moment he arrived inside her room. His face immediately turned ugly. "Someone else was here"

"Yes," Rosalind had been waiting for him. She knew that he would come back tonight. A part of her hoped that he would sneak into her room in the dead of the night. "Atior, the sorcerer, came." She was sitting by the fireplace reading her book. She looked up and stared at him.

He was standing by the window, scowling at her. How could someone still maintain his looks even when he was scowling?

Rosalind could not answer that.

Instead, she chose not to focus on his face but on the words that he was saying instead.

"What did he want?" he asked.

"She called me her Goddess." Rosalind frowned. "You don't seem to be surprised."

"You are someone who could wield the darkness. The fact that she or any sorcerer for that matter would call you that, is not surprising." He walked towards her and calmly sat on her bed as if it was his.

"She is saying that she will serve me."

"You cannot trust them."

"I don't."

"But?"

"I thought it would be better to keep my enemies closer. I can also use them against the Blessed Families."

"And?"

"And I need your help."

"With a place to keep them."

"Yes." Can he really read minds? Her eyes met his.

"Then I shall provide you with a place like that."

"You will?" Rosalind beamed.

Almost immediately, he provided her with specifics. The sorcerers were people who seemed to hate living with humans; however, there was a possibility that they would agree to live near Rosalind. For that, the Duke was going to start constructing a building for them to live in.

That was something that she had never expected, but was going to accept. Atior and the sorcerers had been hiding from everyone else for centuries. It was time for them to have their own space.

"What about the Blessed Families?" she asked. "You just welcomed them right?"

"Yes. Ena Thun congratulated me for my marriage by letting me choose other women to become my concubines."

"Huh?" Rosalind could not help but frown. "Was she intentionally trying to provoke you?" Did the woman want a reaction? Did she want him to kill all those women? "You you did not give her what she was asking right?"

"What do you mean?" he asked, almost innocently. However, she could never ignore the sinister glint in his eyes.

"Did you kill them?"

"I did not."

"Then those women"

"Are dead."

"You just said you did not kill them."

"I did not."

"But they are dead?"

"I am pretty sure they are."

"What happened?"

"An accident," Lucas said. "Although, I did not come here to talk about them."

"So why did you come?"

"To look at you."

Rosalind's eyes turned wide. He was making her blush again and she disliked this feeling. For some reason, she felt that she could not do anything about her reaction. She was helpless in front of him.

"Satisfied?" she snapped.

"Very," he smirked, then looked at the book in his hand. "The Dark Lord, eh?"

"I am curious."

"What are you curious about?"

"They said he can defeat the Blessed Ones."

"And?"

"Well if he can defeat them, how did they capture him?"

"They did not."

"What?"

"Did it occur to you that perhaps, they made a deal with the Dark Lord?"

"Hm?" She never thought of that. There was a war and those people were given abilities to fight against the Dark Lord. Why would they make a deal with him? "Why would they do that?"

"Perhaps because they knew they would fail," he shrugged.

"Do you think the Dark Lord could really kill them?"

"Yes."

"If he could kill them then why didn't he do it? He could easily rule this continent if he wanted to."

"If he wanted to."

Rosalind's lips thinned. If the Dark Lord could defeat the Blessed Families then what was the point of having a deal with them? Unless of course, the Dark Lord was not planning to rule the continent.

"If the Dark Lord was not planning to rule this continent then why did he kill all those people?"

"How would I know?"

"You seemed to know a lot of things."

He shrugged, "I guess I don't."

Rosalind glared at him. She knew that he was lying.

"The Dark Lord is evil. You should stop reading about him," he said.

"Why?"

"They said that those who wanted to know would dream of him every night. There are simply things that you are not supposed to know."

"Right." Dream of the Dark Lord? She had never heard of that before. Again, she knew he was lying. "Oh. Since you are already here then I would like to inform you that I am leaving for Rakha."

"Ena Thun will never leave you alone."

"I know. This is why I wanted to stay away from her. Elias and Valentin will be coming with me."

"You are not going anywhere without me."

"Why?"

"It is too dangerous."

"Then what about Ena and that Mr. Gliss?"

"She is going to use you. She has been looking for a weakness and she is glad she found one. I would not be surprised if she would invite you for tea tomorrow."

"Then should I go?"

"You should, they should have the best desserts."

"And?"

"Show her what you have got. That woman is a snake in human clothing. Treat her how you treat snakes."

"Snakes are dangerous. There is only be one way to treat them." Rosalind was honestly not prepared to deal with the older member of the Thun Family. Aside from the fact that Ena could wield lightning and easily kill her if she wanted to, she was also very clever and dangerous.

Rosalind would really want to stay away from that kind of woman.

She wanted a peaceful life!

"Just be the Rosalind that I first met," Lucas said. "There is no need to show your real face, for now. Let her think that she is smarter."

The very next day, Rosalind received a summons from Ena Thun.

She wanted to meet the Duke's Bride.