Eternity in the darkness - Chapter 82

Ruka’s POV:

“Did you put in everything I asked for? I don’t want anything missing or out of place,” I said to the men who were setting up the table and they nodded, with a yes sir.

With all the things going around and the work piling up, Eve and I hadn’t got to spend quality time with her. The days we spent in her parents house was wonderful but I wanted her to myself, not when she had so many thoughts going through her head regarding the note. I was glad unlike many other girls who hid things from their partners, Eve was exceptionally different. She was my mate after all, I smiled at the thought of it.

It was time to spice up our love life. It had been a while since we went out and therefore I planned for a beautiful evening for just the two of us.

“Look at you being all romantic and taking off from work,” Sebastian whistled looking around the room and pulled out the chair to put his legs on either side of it, so that he was facing the chairs back now.

“Don’t you have a mate to woo?” I asked him raising my brow and heard him sigh at it, “You did something to the young girl, didn’t you?” I chuckled.

“You have no idea how hard it is to have a mate who doesn’t feel the pull yet. Moreover, she finds me scary,” he said scratching his neck, “It isn’t my fault.”

Sebastian’s mate, Ava was sixteen. She was a human and had two more years to turn eighteen due to which the mate pull wasn’t strong. Sebastian being him must have been impatient and done something to scare the poor girl.

He might come off as a sweet and funny person but that wasn’t his only traits. We might be cousins but he and Louis were just like my brothers. While Louis had a quiet and serious personality, Sebastian hid his slight manipulative tricks and scary self under that charming personality of his. Of course, he was a good person by heart just like my other siblings but we had our own faults but were accepted by the people who we cared for.

“What did you do?” I asked him while I walked to one corner of the room, where the vases were placed. Running my fingers on the smooth petal.

“She likes this guy which apparently isn’t me and the guy got mad for something I said which resulted in him trying to hit me. I gave him a black eye which didn’t end well,” he said with a crooked smile at the memory he was going through in his mind. He seemed more than pleased with himself but then frowned, “She called me stupid, mean and not to forget a monster. I’m still thinking what to do, I mean who would say no to this,” he said moving his hand up and down his body to emphasize his words.

“Yeah, hard to believe,” I chuckled.

“Your highness,” I saw Leo enter the room, “One of Hayden’s men discovered a new scent at the edge of the river near the dark forest an hour back. No tracks or trails were left behind though,” he informed me.

“Interesting,” I said at the information being provided, “Has there been any tress passing in the area? Do check with the packs,” I ordered him.

“Yes, your highness,” Leo answered, “There has been many incidents relating to the transfer students. Four humans were at loss of blood as the vampires fed on them.”

“Hasn’t Henderson informed about the no feeding in the campus rule?” Sebastian asked as I frowned hearing about it.

“He did but I don’t think the students took it seriously and is setting bad example with the other students. There’s another thing to add to it,” Leo said and I nodded for him to go on, “The new teachers have planned to add new matches in the curriculum of this season.”

“Isn’t sports good?” Sebastian asked tilting his head in question and Leo shook his head.

“Not normal sport matches but matches such as sword ship, witchcraft and other games that was done in their school,” he explained and I pulled out my phone to check the dates.

“Let’s carry ahead with what they have planned and make sure the game doesn’t turn dangerous. Have the blood law announced properly this time and if someone does break the rule to set an example to make sure no one does it again. Yes?” I asked him smiling and Leo nodded his head a little worried, “Good.”

Sebastian picked a single stemmed rose with his hand and got up, “I have sorry to ask, hopefully this will work,” I heard him mutter looking at the flower, Leo looked confused to what he meant but said nothing and took his leave.

“Alright then,” I said looking around to make sure about the setting I set for this evening and dialed the number on my phone, waiting for it to be picked.

“Ruka,” I heard the sweet voice speak through the other end of the phone.

“Love, are you done with your classes?” I asked her.

“Yup, we are on our way to the castle now,” she replied. I could hear Lizzy and Aiden in the background bickering about something.

“Good,” I hummed, “I will be picking you up in a while. Just a small dinner in the city.”

“Oh,” she said and stayed silent for some while before talking again, “What do I wear?” she asked me, making me smile.

“Anything simple will do, my sweet Eve but I would advise you to wear your sneakers tonight. See you soon, love.”

“Okay,” she said before I heard the soft click of the phone. The day was just beginning, I thought smiling, walking out of the place.

Eve’s POV:

I was brushing my black hair, untangling it slowly with the wide toothed comb. I looked at my reflection in the mirror and smiled, I had decided to go with a simple dress. I wondered why Ruka asked me to wear my sneakers instead of a normal sandal as we were going out for dinner. I looked down and saw my black sneakers, hopefully it didn’t look weird.

There was a knock on the door when I placed the comb down. It opened to reveal Lizzy and Aiden, Lizzy was holding Bunny in her arms.

“Is Ruka here?” I asked them.

“Yup,” Lizzy replied and frowned looking down at my legs, “Sneakers? Do you need my sandals, Eve?” I shook my head smiling.

“Ruka asked me to wear them.” We heard a honk outside and l looked towards the window. Aiden whistled.

“The king’s here to take his queen,” he said wiggling his eyebrows.

I almost ran down the stairs and slowed down when I reached the main door. Stepping out of the main door, I saw Ruka waiting for me. Getting inside the car, I came face to face with him to see a soft smile on his lips. Leaning towards me he placed a kiss on my cheek.

“You look beautiful,” he murmured as he pulled back to look into my eyes.

“Thank you,” I said pleased that I had kept it simple as he asked and he liked it.

Ruka had taken me to a restaurant in the city that looked really expensive. It was a dream date any girl imagined or wished to be. He had booked a room just for us that were lit by candles and roses. In short it was a romantic candlelight dinner. The room was in ninth floor and had a city view. There was faint music being played in the background when we walked in. The dinner was delicious and everything that was served was my favourite.

He kept looking at me with those deep violet eyes as I ate, I don’t know why but it felt like I was eating more than Ruka was eating. When I was done eating, he got up from his seat and raised his hand forward,

“Dance with me, my sweet Eve,” he said and my eyes got a little wide.

“Dance?” I whispered even though there was no one in the room. The music was too low to dance and as though reading my mind he snapped his fingers and the volume of the music increased. Ruka never ceased to amaze me.

I placed my hand in his and got up. He brought me close to his body, placing one of his hand on my waist while the other held my hand.

“I want you to be extra careful in school, love from now as there are vampire’s that use humans as walking blood offerings and you being an angel makes you more vulnerable,” he informed me as he twirled me, “I know Louis and Derek are there watching over you, and that you are excelling well in your training but I want you to be extra cautious.”

“Oh okay,” I said stepping back and forth as he moved, “Did you find anything about the stones?” I asked him.

“We found a link to the people who rampaged the school and it might be related to the mirror,” he said and I looked at him in question, “The mirror leads to the land of the dead by the help of the stones.”

“But why would anyone want to go there?” I asked him.

“I don’t know, love. There are mysteries that are yet to be solved,” he answered.

After that, Ruka and I left the place in his car, going on a long drive. He stopped the car near a hill like place that had lot of trees. For some odd reason I felt like I had been here. He had asked me to wear my sneakers as we had to walk inside the woods. When I asked him what we were doing here, he told it was a surprise. At a certain point we stopped and he made me stand at a place where there were less trees.

“Patience, my love,” he said when I opened mouth to ask him. He took a seat near a broken tree and watched me.

I was looking around in the dark quietly until I saw something glow on the ground. For a second I thought I was imagining but there was a glow again. A light zapped at one corner and slowly many lights like insects started moving around me first but they later began circling, going in random.

“What are these?” I asked Ruka amazed. I could feel the wind blow as the strip-like lights went around me.

“They are called the lighters, tiny little harmless insects,” he replied. “They are attracted to angels, my sweet Eve. Purer and kinder heart,” he said walking towards me and that’s when I heard an owl hoot. I looked above and saw an owl.

“Deja vu,” I whispered to myself and said to Ruka, “I had a dream similar to this. There was this same hilltop but there were villages instead of tress.”

“This is not good,” I heard him murmur, “Let’s head back, love.”

“What do you mean by it’s not good?” I asked him as we walked back.

“Someone’s taking you to the past which has happened years ago which is not good,” he answered me, “There was a village a long time back but it was burnt down by a witch. It was a time during the time of war. Transporting to the past is difficult and needs a person’s help, someone is giving you these flashbacks and there might be a possibility if it’s done wrong you’ll be stuck in neither the past nor the present.” Why would someone want to show me a past that’s gone by? I didn’t get it.

The next morning when I went to school, there was a lot of noise and crowd in the corridor than usual. I saw Bella come out of a small crowd that was standing in front of the huge bulletin boars.

“What’s going on?” I asked her.

“They have put up names of the games and matches for this season. Then there are other activities like last year with names. I’m into drama again. Everyone is assigned something,” she answered and I saw Aiden with his eyes furrowed.

“Eve, your name’s here,” he said pointing his thumb at the board and my eyes went wide.

“For what? Where?” I asked going towards the board with him and looked at the sheet that had my name in it. Looking up the heading, I narrowed my eyes that read ‘Sword fight’.

Who put my name in that section?!