Blood Bound - Chapter 84

>>Maya

“Maya?” Yohan helped me out of the car, “Have you lost weight?” We had just come back from Quincy’s house and it was around 11 in the morning.

“I have?” I played ignorant.

He seemed worried, “Yeah. You seem a lot lighter.” He stared at me, “And thinner.” I just smiled in return.

“I guess I’m getting an ideal woman’s body.” I fiddled with my thumbs and he stared at me with a weird expression.

Was he catching onto something?

“I-” He wasn’t sure what to say so he stepped closer and picked me up suddenly.

“Yohan?!” His actions surprised me, “Yohan, we’re still outside!” I tried getting out of his embrace but he held onto me.

“Maya. You’re hiding something from me aren’t you?”

“What? Let me down first! We’ll talk inside.” He stared at me, “Yohan people are staring.” He glanced at the bystanders and I took the advantage of that distraction and managed to get down. Then I ran inside without wasting any time and went to my room upstairs.

Yohan was outside my room in a few minutes and he knocked at the door since I locked it.

“Maya? Why is the door locked?”

“Oh it’s locked? I didn’t realize.” I stood against the door with my back against it as if I was afraid it would open on its own.

“Well open it then.”

“Why?”

“Because we need to talk.”

“Can we talk tomorrow?”

“Why? What are you hiding?”

“Something…”

He sighed, “So there is something…”

“I’ll tell you but not today.”

“Is it serious?”

“I said not today.”

“…” He didn’t say anything for a while.

He sighed, “Okay. I’ll wait.” There was another pause, “I need to go to work now so, I’ll see you later?”

“Yeah. At dinner.”

After hearing my answer, he walked away and I took a breath of relief and slid against the door to the floor.

He’s noticing…

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>>Yohan

When I was going through some stuff at the office Ruiz came in with a letter and placed it on my table.

“Who’s it from?” I looked at the envelope that was clearly not from this world.

“From someone named Roro, it has a magic emblem, I didn’t open it since it seemed personal.”

I nodded, “Okay. You can go.”

He bowed and left while I opened the letter.

It was from Roro and his wife. I was expecting the letter to be full of complaints about me not attending his wedding and all but instead there was something unexpected written in there.

He wrote about me and Maya and how it saddened him that I was cursed by the Queen. This is how the letter went.

“Dear Yohan,

When Prince Quincelet brought you to the magic realm for recovery I had no idea you were the crown prince. That was shocking, but what was more shocking was that you were cursed by the Queen.

Everyone knows it wasn’t her fault, she didn’t mean it but still, it ruined your life.

A curse from such a powerful deity can most likely never be cured unless you wish it from The Holy Elk. I’m sorry for that , I really am. My heart aches for you and I don’t hold anything against you about not coming to my wedding and all. I wish you did but I know you must have other problems so it’s okay.

I hope you and your mate are happy.

From Roro and Mimi”

Oh Roro… You’re making me feel really guilty…

But other than that. ‘A curse from such a powerful deity can most likely never be cured unless you wish it from The Holy Elk?’

What’s that supposed to mean?

Isn’t the Holy Elk some mythical creature? Moreover according to the legend he sleeps for centuries probably why everyone believes he’s not real.

I was still thinking about it when I got a call from Ruda.

It was sort of surprising, I didn’t expect him to call me this soon.

“Hello?” I answered the phone.

“Hi,” He replied in a soft voice.

“How are you doing?”

“Fine I guess…” I heard him gulp.

“Did you go to class today?”

“I did,” He sighed, “And actually that’s the reason I called.”

“Because you went to class?” I got confused for a moment.

“Because I learned something there.”

“What?”

“Maya dropped out of university.”

“Excuse me? She dropped out?”

“Yeah.”

“You mean she froze her semester right?”

“No I meant she left, permanently. That cancels all her time here.”

“What? But why?”

“That’s what I want to know. That’s so unlike her. She wasn’t picking up her phone so I called you.”

I looked outside at the sky. The sun had pretty much set, “I’ll talk to her.”

“I want to too. Can I come over tomorrow?”

“Sure.”

I hung up and thought about going home but there was a lot of work piled up that needed to be done since I was on deadlines.

I sighed and began working again. Momentarily forgetting about the content of the letter that seemed suspicious.

When I reached home, it was pretty late and Maya had already gone to sleep in her room. Her actions made me really suspicious but I couldn’t say anything.

I’ll get it out of her tomorrow though.

I’ll be sure to.