He was sitting in his house with his head bowed and his arms tied. Chief Benari's piercing eyes were fixed on him, he wanted to take the boy's neck, but he was helpless, he needed Percy in this battle.
"Why did you do that? You took that Precious Blood into the jungle on the day we needed it. Why this treachery?" Chief Benari shouted angrily.
Percy began to hide the smile that spread across his face hidden in his bowed head and disheveled hair.
An entire existence had suddenly disappeared, they could be relieved, as their spies continued to search and finally found out that the Precious Blood was alive and the Reesani and Percy were the ones to get him out of Benari.
They now wanted to give him severe punishment for his betrayal, but they were helpless.
Percy desperately needed to use the weapon from the originals in this battle.
"I didn't do anything wrong. She was begging for help, she is still loyal to me for my help. She is the only one who can kill Lord Reesan. How long would her blood have saved you? When this blood supply runs out we're going to end up worse than the Lunars.” Percy was speaking calmly; his argument was so deep everyone had to be quiet.
"Okay fine, so will you support us in this war now? This will make up for the damage you have done to us.” Laura addressed Percy softly, stopping Chief Benari from speaking further.
"Time will tell how much I can support you all." A sarcastic smile spread across Percy's face, Chief Benari pursed his lips at his suspicious smile.
He understood that Percy was not loyal to him.
He got up and walked over to Percy and tapped him on the shoulder.
Percy shifted his hand anxiously, Lord Benari put his hand on his head and he started to follow the urge, but it was too late. Chief Benari sifted through his memories and removed all the old memories from his hatred.
Laura smiled and Percy fell to the ground with his eyes closed.
"After the war, we will decide the punishment for his treason," Chief Benari said in a loud voice in front of the whole crowd. There was a wave of happiness in the crowd.
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Mia's face was reddened with anger and shame, Lord Reesan touching her figure had upset her.
She was becoming unconscious of his hot closeness, but it was not in her power to stop him, and going away was painful and unbearable.
Reesan was looking at her face with curious eyes. This emotion and this feeling were completely unique to him. He liked that delicate touch.
He was falling in love with her, which happened to him for the first time in his thousands of years of life, and he did not even know how to understand or handle this emotion.
He had forced Mia to keep her in his own way.
He was cooling his impressions by touching her with his lips; this was his old method of coercion and confinement, which he used in love too, making Mia feel angry and helpless.
She was getting nervous and scared at his closeness and touch, but she had to bear all this to avoid the curse of Reesan.
"Free me from this curse of yours. I want to get rid of this curse, shadow man.'' She had rested her head on his chest the next morning.
"You are a soft sugary little thing." Reesan was holding her in his chest and speaking very calmly. Mia's mind was blown by his words. She was burning with shame, she was a human being where there was a limit to words and expressions, but Lord Reesan probably didn't believe in any limits. His words and manner were bold and beyond any limit.
"Now you go. Teresa is waiting for you.” He freed her from the burning curse and walked away. Mia's color turned pale at his words. Is she really a maid?
"I am not a maid. You are not my Lord." She stared at his back and spoke with anger.
"So what are you human? You are a servant. That's why you are here with me.'' Reesan took out his special dress and said, making Mia uncomfortable.
"Oh, so do all your maids keep coming to your residence?" Mia asked in a burning tone, Reesan gasped helplessly.
"They are just servants. But you are longing for me. You are my property. You are only limited to me. You can't go from here." Reesan smiled and raised his eyebrows and chewed word by word.
"I am not a slave. I am not a prisoner. You make me work. I will leave here whenever I get a chance." Mia felt bad to call her a servant like all other servants. Reesan's carelessness started to sting her. Why is he not keeping her special, why is he considering her as a slave?
"You can't go anywhere now. You will not be able to get out of here now. I have cursed you; I have limited you to myself. If you don't get me now, you will die." He shrugged calmly and told her about the strange curse that he had given her last night. The cursing was deadly and knocked Mia out of consciousness.
The Lord's love for a human being. It could have been the most difficult and life-threatening. He was human and weak, but he was Lord Reesan, the most powerful and willing in this world.
He had locked himself in the bathroom with his clothes and Mia was stunned by his words.
Will she ever be able to leave here? When had he cursed her? How? She started scratching her hair.
She wanted to get her memory back, she wanted to go to her home, but everything was destroyed. Lord Reesan had put her in an unseen prison.
~Time skip
He went out to take a hot bath and stopped to see Mia still frozen on the bed.
"Don't you want to work today?" Reesan asked, stroking his silver-grey damp hair with his fingers.
Mia grimaced and shook her head and looked at him.
"Shadow man, if you want me not to be your enemy, don't make me work." Mia looked at him seriously and angrily and he smiled.
"Human, if you want to be shown mercy, Humans my respect for yourself." He stood in front of her in his black clothes. His tall stature becoming prominent, Mia's eyes were fixed on his face helplessly.
"Shadow Man. What is the real color of your eyes?" Mia asked after seeing the changing color of his eyes.
Risaan smiled as he felt her words change. And when he closed his eyes and opened them, there were completely gray-silver-shining eyes in front of Mia.
She looked at him in wonder at this strange color.
"I don't want to work, Shadow Man. I do not bow before you. You are not my Lord." Mia emphasized her words this time in a slightly pleading tone.
Reesan's eyes were starting to change color with this.
Mia realized that the colors of his eyes expressed his feelings.
"Would you like to spend today with me, little thing?" he asked, smiling as he moved towards her. Mia nodded thoughtfully.
Reesan leaned over her and hugged her to his chest.
Mia's breath caught in her throat as she wrapped her arms around Reesan's neck.
"Don't make me work, Shadow Man. I'm not a maid.” She wanted to make her point, she wanted to be special, and she had to stay there willingly so that she could leave the mansion as soon as she could. She didn't want a guardian like Teresa over her head.
Reesan hugged her and stood up so that Mia's feet were off the ground and she was stunned.
"You won't get any work done, but now you can never go out of the mansion, Heartbeat. If you want that, you will have to kill me and remove my curse, but for that you must first overcome all your fears and weaknesses. After that, one drop of your blood will stop my breath immediately.” He was telling her while holding her completely in himself. Mia was shocked.
He was Lord Reesan, he had no fear of his own death and this poisonous girl.
But Mia took his words well in her mind, she was just a prisoner and no prisoner is ever happy in prison and no human being ever wants to be kept in prison.