Arabelle

Chapter 35 - Morning

Derrick’s POV

I lay on my bed facing the ceiling, I had a lot on my mind, it had been a very eventful day filled with a lot of mind boggling events, starting with mother during breakfast and nearly been killed by Arabelle and then finding out that Ian Langrove was a witch and that he was Arabelle’s brother, that piece of information still I still couldn’t warp around my head, if he was her brother as he said he was from her past mother, that meant that Lady Highwater was also back, the list of people I had to seek forgiveness from kept getting longer and longer,

I had no idea how to face Lady Highwater if I ever saw her, she had treated me like a son and she had entrusted her daughter to me and I had betrayed the trust she placed in me, I was ashamed to face her, if I ever saw her again, I will go down on my knees and seek her forgiveness, I had committed an unforgivable sin towards her,

I remembered her kind smile and gentle laughter, she was a sharp contrast when compared with Arabelle, where Arabelle was like a wild fire, she was like the calm river that flowed, where Arabelle was the raging wind, she was a gentle breeze, and I know just how much she had loved her daughter, she hadn’t survived long after Arabelle died, I hadn’t gone to visit her when she was sick and dying and I hadn’t said a word when she scorned and referred to as the mother of a witch, and even when I heard that she had passed away in her sleep, I still hadn’t gone to her funeral,

I couldn’t blame this on my mother’s magic, this was because I was stewing in misery from losing Arabelle, I had been so lost and I didn’t care about anything else,

I owed her a great apology and I just hoped that she will be forgiving. 

After battling with thoughts a little more, I finally drifted off into a restless sleep.

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Bella’s POV

I wake up the next morning feeling tired but the pain was gone at least, I stretched out on the bed and closed my eyes, the event of yesterday flashed in my mind,

I had looked scary even to my own self, I sat up slowly and looked around,  I was in a room I didn’t recognize, I had been in so much pain that I hadn’t even bothered about asking where I was,

From the look of the furniture and colors, it was clearly a boy’s room, the chair were all in black leather and the floor was made of polished wood, the curtains were black as well, the bed was also covered with a black bed sheet and so were the pillows,

The tables and shelves were made of polished wood as well, it was a very clean and neat room, I stood up and came down from the bed, I swayed a little but I steadied myself, I was still dressed in my clothes from yesterday but the rubber band with which I had used to tie my hair in a ponytail was gone, my hair was flowing down to my back,

I walked over to the shelves filled with books, the books looked like they were in pristine conditions, as I glanced at their tittles, I saw they were mostly books on business and accounting, I stuck my tongue out, I wasn’t interested in such,

I heard laughter behind me, I turned around to see Ian holding a breakfast tray,

“Don’t judge” he said,

I shrugged my shoulders and said “You can’t blame me, I never knew you were such a nerd”

He laughed and dropped the tray on a nearby table “Don’t call me nerd please, I am certainly not, I need those books to run my business well for your information” he said

“Yeah sure, whatever you say Mr CEO” I said,

He laughed again “I hadn’t expected to see you walking around already, I thought you might still be in bed by now” he said with a smile, but I could see that he was worried about me,

“I am fine, just a little tired and also very hungry” I said with a bright smile,

Ian laughed and said “Well good thing I brought you breakfast then, mum had said if you were feeling better then we could eat breakfast together but I had argued with her saying you will still be asleep, yet here you are, walking around and looking at my priced books”

I laughed “Next time don’t say something you are not sure about or you will end up looking stupid, now let’s go and have breakfast with mum and I can watch how she throws it at your face”  I said,

He stuck his tongue out at me and picked up the tray he had brought along with him and walked out of the room, I quickly followed behind him, making teasing and jeering sounds all the way to the dinning room.