The Beauty And The Wolf - Chapter 134

The following day.

Inside the picnic hut.

After having an afternoon break from supervising the harvest in the plantation, Amber decided that it is the best time to inform her aunt that she was planning on leaving the Portwell Mansion.

She looked at her companion. “Aunt, can I talk to you for a moment?” she asked when her aunt was about to leave the picnic hut.

Cornelia looked at her charge and nodded her head. She saw a glimmer in Amber’s eyes, she looks different today, suddenly she feels something is not right with her. “What is it?” she asked, lowering herself on the chair again.

Amber cleared her throat. “Um… first of all, I would like to say that my real name is Sabrina, not Amber…” she began. She mentioned her real name right away to give her aunt a sign that she already knew everything.

Shocked, Cornelia’s eyes widened in disbelief and surprise. “Oh my… you know already? W-who told you?” she asked in a trembling voice.

Amber released a deep sigh. “I already know everything about my past. I know what Amara had done to me, it’s the reason why I ended here in your care…” she said sadly.

“My dear, I’m sorry… I apologize that Lady Helen and I didn’t tell you everything. We promised Amara to not tell you about your past to save yourself from the pain,” Cornelia explained, her voice heavy with guilt.

Misty-eyed, Amber took a deep breath. “I know, Aunt. It’s not your fault, no need to apologize to me. All this time, you have treated me with kindness and I appreciated it very much. Thank you for treating me well, I won’t forget your kindness and generosity towards me,” she said, feeling emotional all of a sudden.

“W-who told you about your past? W-who restored your memory? Is it the powerful medallion in your neck?” Cornelia inquired curiously.

Amber grabbed the medallion with her right hand. “Yeah, it’s the medallion,” she replied with a lie. She can’t tell her aunt about Ivy the bird, things will only become more confusing to the middle-aged woman.

Cornelia sighed. “I see… the medallion had finally awakened?”

Amber nodded her head. “Yeah, I think so…”

“Then what is your next plan now that you already regained your memory?” Cornelia asked in a dispirited voice, bracing for the bad news that will come out anytime soon.

Amber breathed deeply. “I’m sorry, Aunt, I have to leave your side. I have to go back to the place where I belong and reconnect with the people I left behind,” she said gloomily.

Cornelia’s tears sprang from her eyes the moment Amber mentioned leaving her side. “I w..was hoping that y…you will s..stay by my s…side…” she said in despair, her voice trembled as fresh tears rolled from her eyes.

Amber stood up and hugged the distraught woman. “Oh no, don’t cry, please don’t cry aunt!”

But Cornelia continue sobbing, her heart was broken into pieces. “I can’t help it. I’m going to miss you terribly. You’re like a daughter to me. My life will never be the same without you,” she said in an emotional tone. Loneliness will occupy her heart again after Amber leaves her side.

Amber bit her lip, a tear fell from her left eye. She refused to cry because she has to be strong for both of them. “Don’t worry, I’ll visit you here from time to time,” she reassured her.

Cornelia wasn’t comforted by Amber’s promise because she know that technically they were not blood relatives, so the girl has no obligation to visit her. But she was hoping that the girl will honor her promise so that their connection won’t be severed completely. She raised her tear-stricken eyes. “Amara left us… and now you’re going to leave me again… life is unfair!” she protested.

Amber sighed deeply and continue rubbing her aunt’s back to comfort her. It seemed Amara and Cornelia were pretty close in the past. “Aunt, you should marry so that you can have a family of your own,” she said.

“Who will marry a spinster woman like me? I’m past the marrying stage already. No one is willing to love and marry someone with my age,” Cornelia said dejectedly.

“Please don’t say that, Aunt! You’re looking young to me. Sooner or later, someone will surely come along in your life and offer you unconditional love and marriage,” Amber said, trying to comfort her.

“Keep saying that to me every day and I might believe you…” Cornelia suddenly laughed, breaking the gloomy atmosphere between them.

Amber smiled, feeling relieved that her aunt finally smiled at last. “Are you okay now, Aunt?” she asked.

Cornelia nodded her head. “Yeah… I’m used to it already. People come and go in my life and in the end I will live alone on my own, there’s no one to love me and comfort me when I needed them the most…” she said miserably.

Amber sighed heavily. She runs out of words to say to her aunt. “Aunt, as long I’m alive, I will visit you here once in a while. I promise you that!” she said in a serious tone.

Cornelia nods her head and smiled. “Okay… I hear you! So… when are you going to leave Portwell Mansion? Aren’t you going to say goodbye to Lady Helen first before you finally leave this place for good?” she asked while busy wiping the tears from her face with her handkerchief.

“Of course, I will say goodbye to her. I’ve already told you that I’ll still visit you here. Sooner or later, Lady Helen and I will cross paths again, as long the world will not end all of a sudden,” Amber said.

“Okay, I’ll hold on to your promise,” Cornelia stated and rose to her feet. “Common, let’s resume our task…” she said and moved towards the entrance of the picnic hat.

Amber followed her aunt outside, feeling relieved that she finally bid a proper goodbye to the woman who took care of her when she loses her memories.

The question she needs to address next is when is the day she will take her boyfriend back and confront that Priestess Leera?

She will decide tonight before she goes to sleep.

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~Midattere Mountain~

Leera was inside the two-story hut, located on top of Midattere Mountain, the home of her friend, the great healer nicknamed Doriaas.

The healer was attending to her patient, lying unconsciously on the wooden bed.

‘It’s been several days already and yet the healer can’t still figure out what’s wrong with my husband!’ Leera grumbled in her mind. She went to bed and addressed the healer. “How is it? When my husband will wake up?” she asked anxiously.

The healer glanced at her and smiled. “Tomorrow morning, he will finally wake up from his slumber,” she replied.

Leera’s eyes twinkled with excitement and happiness. “Thank you!” she said joyously.

But the healer’s face turned serious all of a sudden. “However, there is something you need to know about your husband…” she said.

“What is it?” Leera said.

“If he will wake up tomorrow, he will remember his past… especially his first love named Sabrina,” Doriaas, stated.

“Whaaaaaat-!? But why!?” Leera blurted in shock.

“We both know that you already erased his memories, but those few hours when he went missing and before you found him again, someone fed him a restoration juice made from the boiled roots of the legendary tree called The Green Bolean Tree…”

“That’s not a problem! I will erase his memory again!” Leera said smugly.

“No… you can’t continue doing that. You can’t keep erasing his memory at your whim like you change your clothes every day… unless you are ready for the consequences!” Doriaas warned her sternly.

Leera’s brows knitted in confusion. “W-what do you mean?”

“The Green Bolean Tree has dual effects, it can restore someone’s memory and at the same time if you tampered that person’s mind again after ingesting the amazing restoration roots, his mind will stop to function normally and he will become a mindless adult…” the healer explained.

A deep frown appeared on Leera’s forehead. “What exactly is going to happen to my husband if I will erase his memory again? Please make it clear!?” she asked impatiently.

“Your husband will become an empty shell, a pathetic shadow of who he used to be. He will lose the capability to talk and act like a normal adult. He will no longer call you darling, he has no emotion and no feelings at all, in short, he will become an empty shell. He can still walk though but you should not leave him wandering around in that state or else he will hurt himself since he already lose the ability to know what’s wrong and right for him,” Doriaas elaborated further.

Leera raised a brow in disbelief. “Are you kidding me!? I don’t believe that’s going to happen to him!” she said indifferently.

Doriaas sighed deeply, shaking her head. “Okay fine, if you don’t believe me. Anyways, she is your husband, you can do whatever you like with him,” she said and rose to her feet. “Think a hundred times before planning in erasing his memory again! Don’t say that I didn’t warn you!” she said and walked out of the room.

Leera lowered herself on the bed and caressed Allan’s face lovingly. “Darling, what I’m going to do now? I’m confused. I don’t want you to become a mindless person. But if you wake up tomorrow and you remember Sabrina, I’m sure, you will leave me in a heartbeat to find her! I can’t allow you to do that to me and leave me and our unborn child in deep longing and misery. Please, tell me what to do!” she said desperately.

Leera’s lamentation filled the entire room.