••• BALVINA •••

The sky over Balvina was much clearer than Basarisk's sky. White clouds made their ways slowly among the random breeze and almost brushed past against the top of that old castle. The castle was looking like a mighty king who stood among all the soldiers proudly. A bat chirped flaunting its wings anxiously when Cedric and Ayra stepped on the entrance. The castle looking like a haunted house. If they weren't any mere human not any creatures, they would have freaked out to death in fear after stepping in.

Ayra gave him deep glances oftenly. She heard various rumours regarding his parents. Though she didn't know which one to believe, she certainly believed that his mother had a tragic ending definitely or else this three siblings wouldn't be left alone in this world. Cedric held a complicated emotions thus she couldn't see through his mind deeply.

When he reached for the door knob to push in the door, Ayra repulsively clutched his extended arm. Sighing softly, she questioned in a very soft voice,

" Are you really going to enter? It's okay if you don't want to go. We can visit other places."

She feard that past memories would trigger his emotions. He already had transparent mood always and she didn't wish to make it worsen any further. Cedric's hands quivered slightly when the gentleness of her voice and touch echoed in his ears.

He arched his head to look at her and saw her already staring deeply. Her gaze was slightly concerned as if she was worried about his emotions. After marriage, this was the first time that she treated him so gently.

His lips curved up into a genuine smile. Staring down at her grip, he spoke with a grin,

" To be honest, I didn't want to go even a few moments ago but now I am impatient to have this date with you here, Princess."

Sudden realization hit her sense when she noticed that she had actually hold his arms willingly. Retracting her grip from his arms, she muttered with a shy face,

" Whatever! "

Cedric chuckled without revealing her inner thoughts and pushed open the door for them. A gush of goofy wind passed through their nostrils when the room was opened completely.

Both of them coughed before stepping inside slowly. Cedric scolded with a huff,

" This places..No matter how many times it gets cleaned, it smells so bad..."

Ayra didn't heed on his words. She started to wander around on her own and walked forward. The palace had everything as if nothing had been changed a bit. Only the difference was that every staffs were covered in heavy dirts.

Walking away from the hallway, she started to see through paintings that had the image of Cedric's father. He was handsome same like him!

Ayra thought to herself and smiled slightly.

Wait.. Since when did she found him handsome?

She shook off such ideas and stopped in front of painting in where the former king posed with his wife and two daughters but Cedric wasn't included in any of their pictures. Not only that, she didn't find any single image of his childhood here.

When she was too immersed in her thoughts, Cedric approached her from back and stood just behind her. Smelling her rosy fragrance, Cedric asked in a husky voice,

" So my wife finds this picture worthy of looking for so long?"

Ayra gasped turning her face back and found him so closer. Taking a deep breath to console her thumping heart, she asked out of curiosity,

" Umm..I was just wondering why aren't you in these pictures?"

A pain surged from the core of his heart. To avoid Ayra's mood becoming bad, Cedric joked around hiding his long buried behind his wide smile,

" Because I am too handsome to pose with them. So they didn't include me ever."

Ayra growled with a pout,

" You always joke in every single matter."

Cedric changed the subject consideringly. Pointing at the center of hallway,he gestured at her to come,

" Let's have our dinner first, Princess."

Ayra was going to ask that there was no foods hereby.

What would they eat?

Cedric clapped his palms together and soon a candlelight dinner table was appeared in her sight. She sighed and almost forgot that he had other unique powers than her.

Looking at the table with red petals, Cedric winked at her before dragging her closer,

" Look.. Doesn't it seem like our wedding night?"

Ayra grumbled letting go of his embrace and went to sit down,

" No! It's a dinner table and I am super hungry."

She eyed on the different arrangement amusingly. Unlike other dinner table, it was different. A middle sized table was stationed in the middle but it was too low. Even the table didn't had any chairs and they had only way to eat the food by sitting on the floor. Lucky the floor was covered in red carpet. So she didn't mind in this different arrangement.

Cedric took the other side of table and spoke opening each dishes for her,

" So...see.. which one would you like to eat first?"

Ayra was slightly surprised to see that all the dishes were served according to her preference. She couldn't help but exclaiming in amusement,

" How..how did you know that I like all this foods?"

Cedric used a fork to have a bite from his fish cutlet and replied with a snort,

" What did you think of me? I would easily let you say that your ex boyfriend knows you better than me."

Ayra was stunned before turning speechless.. this man.. But a smile soon after appeared on her lips when she sensed that he was freaking jealous over Seth.

Soon she reached out to taste every food slowly and didn't pay attention on other things much. She was already starving for a while. When Cedric streched out his arm to pick up a meatball, he noticed something wierd. A vague shadow appeared between the candle light as if someone had watching over them from afar.

He retracted his hand swiftly. Dabbing the napkin over his lips, he mumbled to Ayra lowly,

" Looks like someone is asking for death for ruining our date night."

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