His Half Blood Princess

13.

I wiped the tears on my face and took deep breaths before exiting the library after returning the book. I had lost all the desire to read it again.

My footsteps felt heavy and sounded too loud in my ears as I went back to my room when, in fact, it was the sound of my heart beating so fast as if it would burst out of my chest.

I felt on edge while walking through the long corridor as if someone was behind me and ready to plunge and attack me and the corridor seemed to have increased in length and it felt like forever till I reached my room and closed the door behind me.

I leaned on the door, then slowly sat on the ground. My legs felt too weak to keep carrying me.

Now what should I do next? I knew escaping this place would not be easy, the guards would not let me out and I had no idea where to go from there.

Just run. My mind said and I quickly got up, remembering Helen. If she wanted me to escape, then she must have an idea how I can escape without getting caught.

Now how do I get to her without acting suspicious?

I got up on my feet to wash my face in the bathroom when there was a knock on the door and my eyes widened. I can't let anyone see me in this state and suspect anything.

"Give me a..." I started to say, but my voice sounded hoarse so I cleared my throat.

"Give me a minute." I said and quickly rushed to the bathroom to wash my face with cold water.

I went out and sat on the edge of my bed and made sure everything was alright.

"Come in." I called out, hoping more than anything that it wasn't Maria.

The door opened and she walked in with the laundry basket. One look at me and she knew something was wrong. Helen opened her mouth as if she was going to say something and I remembered that she was mute.

She must have remembered the same as she closed her mouth and shut the door behind her.

She looked away and went over to my closet and started arranging my clothes.

Now how am I going to communicate with her?

I was so lost in my thoughts I didn't know when she finished arranging the clothes and came to my side.

I almost jumped off the bed when she tapped my shoulder.

"Helen, he's planning to kill me." I sobbed and she looked at me with pity in her eyes. She had known all this time.

Helen sat beside me on the bed and hugged me until I stopped crying.

"I can't sit down and let him kill me just like that," I said, getting up from the bed. "Please help me, I need a way to escape this place." I begged her.

Helen looked away and seemed to think for a moment before getting up.

She raised her hand as if to say 'wait', I nodded in understanding and she walked out of the room while I went back inside the bathroom and washed my face again.

I came out of the bathroom and sat on the chair waiting for Helen to come back.

Thirty minutes later and she didn't come back, and I got up and went to the door.

I changed my mind and decided to wait for her again, this time walking to and fro in the room while biting on my finger nails. I didn't feel the desire to sit down anymore.

Helen didn't come back until another thirty minutes. I heaved a sigh of relief when she came in.

"What should I do?" I asked immediately. She closed the door behind her, Helen instead handed me a paper.

I took it from her and started reading to myself:

'The servants have been given a week's holiday and I waited till they left. Edwin is in his room. Maria, Gerald and the guards at the gate are still here, but you can run away if we get a way to distract them.'

"But how do we distract them?" I asked her, looking up from the paper and she took another from her uniform pocket and handed it to me.

"Scream loudly from one side of the villa and when the guards rush to see what is going on, you run and I will try to keep them from going back to the gates for some minutes." I read the paper.

"What? This doesn't make sense. How will you escape?" I asked and she shook her head.

"Helen, what about you? You should come with me. I can't let you keep staying with this man. This man and some of his men aren't human, they are werewolves." I whispered at the end.

I insisted but Helen smiled sadly and took another paper from her pocket and handed it to me. I read it.

'So am I, but the magic in this villa prevents one from shifting into their wolves'

My eyes widened as I read that and I looked at her, but Helen only nudged me to keep reading.

'I knew you would be surprised. But I knew that you were also one even before you came here. I overheard Vincent's plan and when I realized you were a good person, I wanted to help you. But there's nothing for me outside this place and even if I leave I have nowhere else to go. I know you won't understand, but I have already made up my mind.'

"Helen, you can come with me," I said, and she shook her head again and tears rolled down her eyes.

"You still want to stay, after all that he did to you?" I asked and she nodded.

Two hours later.

Lord Edwin Vincent's Point of View

Many people don't believe magic is real, most especially dark magic, but werewolves do not like to associate themselves with magic or the witches, and the people who believe it's real do not know one thing about it.

The thing is, dark magic has side effects on the person who performs them, and to keep the side effects from affecting you, you have to perform more gruesome acts, like killing a pregnant woman, for example.

Some even consider dark magic a taboo, but rogues like me who have used it to cut corners in life consider it a blessing.

After one month of grooming a girl I found in the forest, from a pauper to a princess as the prophecy says, it's finally time to kill her and fulfill the prophecy. If I keep doing this, maybe one day I will become governor.

I smirked to myself.

After the things I went through while I was young and a rogue, I wasn't going to let anyone stand in my way of success, and most especially not feelings.

Who says rogues can't make it in life? Well, I am living proof that rogues can do a lot without packs.

Of all the people I have met in my life, Serena was exceptional. Nothing was important to her as much as her family, and not even all the riches in this villa was enough to make her forget about them.

Will I miss her? Probably not when I am enjoying my new place in society.

I closed the book of spells I had been practicing and placed it on the table.

I took the small bottle that contained the sleeping potion and put it in the pocket of my coat.

I knew that by now the food must have been served in the dining room and Maria would be there preparing Serena for her death. The thought of that made me chuckle to myself.

I went down the stairs in an especially good mood, while hitting the railings lightly with my staff.

I went straight to the dining room ready to put a drop of the potion in Serena's food. I had expected it would be empty as I was here five minutes earlier but I was surprised to find Maria there.

Her head was down as her hands fidgeted and I suspected something was wrong.

"What is wrong, Maria? Why aren't you there grooming the girl?"

"sSir, I-uh your lord, your grace I mean," she stuttered.

"Just talk Maria, damn it!" I thundered and she started trembling.

"Sir, the girl, Serena."

"Yes?" I quirked my eyebrows.

"I can't find her. I searched everywhere but I can assure you she is not inside this Villa your grace."

She stated, and I felt myself boiling with anger. No! No way, it can't be. One month of hard work can't go for nothing.

"Call everyone left in this house, now!" I boomed and she scurried away to call them.

Five minutes later, Maria, Gerald, Hugh, Marcus and Helen stood in front of me.

Poor Helen, once a princess, the daughter of a king Alpha but now standing between rogues as one of them. I am truly powerful.

One look at her and I knew she was the one.

As I stood in front of her, she glared at me with her beautiful brown eyes. If only eyes could kill, then I would be six feet under by now.

but I intended to make her life worse than I already made it.

"Throw her in the dungeons and feed her dried bread only once every day." I ordered, and Hugh and Marcus did not hesitate to do as I commanded, as they grabbed Helen by the arms in one swift movement. Helen spat at my face just before Hugh and Marcus took her away while she thrashed her legs, but she had nothing against their hard grips. Or maybe it has to do with the fact that I have made her body weak.

I took out a silk handkerchief from the pocket of my coat and wiped my face before turning to my two fellow rogues.

"We set out to find our lost princess tomorrow in the morning." I declared, and Maria and Gerald nodded.