Chapter 101

NOTE: DEAR READERS, THIS CHAPTER HAS BEEN GIVEN IN THIRD POV AS IT WAS NOT RELATED TO THE MAIN PROTAGONISTS... THIRD POV… The cave was filled with the unpleasant odors of burnt herbs, blood, and a palpable sense of dread. The final enchanted map vanished in a puff of black smoke before his eyes. “Another failure…” His hushed silence was more terrifying than a scream. Carmella whimpered as she knelt before him, her once-sultry face bruised and pale. Olivia stood to the side, trembling, her lips bitten raw from silence, from holding back screams. "Tell me again… how did you both fail me?" Ghost's voice came slowly, deliberately, as if calm before a deadly storm. No one answered. Even the shadows feared him. “Carmella,” his low voice echoed, smooth as poison. “Did I not give you beauty? Charm? A curse powerful enough to rot a king’s soul if he ever tasted your lips?” Carmella’s body shook. “Y-yu did, my Lord.” Her voice shook with knowing fear, which is perhaps unknown. “Then why,” His ad