"And the very first step for them to do is to slaughter us all. All the royal vampires except himself, of course. I have learned about their plans earlier, so I plotted our escape. But my siblings were too weak to endure after all the long years of being imprisoned. And Seb had it way worse than any of us. His situation was so bad that he couldn't even get up.

  And with my miserable powers back then, it truly was not possible for any of us to be able to escape successfully. But I eventually found a way. My siblings told me to go alone.

  They were all aware that I was the only who would manage to escape with that plan that I had hatched. Left without a choice, I did exactly what they told me to, promising them that I would be coming back for them soon."

  His grip on her wrist tightened as he shut his eyes closed again, seemingly lost in his memories. He only looked up and spoke again after a long time of silence. But Alicia patiently waited for him to speak.

  "Before mother died years ago in the hands of that witch, she had told me to go to a certain place. So I went there…… many things happened…… I was pursued for I don't know how long. Forced to the brink of death. I didn't reach the place that my mother had wanted me to go. Because something in me had awakened. My demonic powers, something I didn't know I even possessed had somehow awakened. It was then that it all started. I became invincible. I rushed back to the Black Forest to save my family. But……"

  The heavy and dark aura oozed from him in an instant, turning the entire living room ominous and suffocating.

  Panic instantly gripped Alicia's heart. But the very first thing she did was to touch his face, caressing his cheek as gently as she could instead of trying to pull as far as she could away from him.

  Her touch seemed to do something to him. The heavy and suffocating atmosphere seemed to break, and he took in a silent breath and the air around them cleared. It was as if he had sucked in every bit of what had come out of him and locked them securely within him again, leaving nothing behind. As if the outburst had never happened at all.

  And he looked like the usual ever so calm and collected Ezekiel again.