"I am stating the truth! The woman said that she could take away the pain." Jeas insisted.
"How could soone treat a curse like that? Even the Blessed "
"Are you still going to think about those people?" Jeas asked Victoria.
"How dare you cut off! Have you lost your mind?" Victoria hissed, her foxy eyes narrowed. Almost imdiately, Loren appeared behind Jeas, a dagger glinted in his hand.
"I have seen Dorothy suffer because of the curse, all I want is for her to feel better." Jeas was not planning on backing down. He looked at Dorothy was who lying on the bed.
It was already night and the pain was once again wreaking havoc inside her body. She had fainted and then had been woken up from the pain again. "Let us accept it, the Lux Family has long abandoned you and Dorothy," Jeas added.
"You dare say that in front of !?" Victoria slamd her hand on the table, the teacup resting on it broke from the force. It shattered into hundreds of small, little pieces that imdiately cut her hand. Despite this, she continued glaring at Jeas.
"I am still soone from the Lux Family!" she insisted.
"Then when was the last ti you have seen your own husband? Or maybe even talked to him?"
"You"
"Federico and your husband abandoned Dorothy like a dirty rag. All I want is to help her. If you think maintaining etiquette is more important than your own daughter, then feel free to stay here. I am going to take Dorothy to see that woman."
"Are you out of your mind!?" Victoria screeched. "Dorothy is soone from the Lux Family! How dare you take her to see so random woman from the slums! Do you think"
"Dorothy is going to die," Jeas said. His words sohow cald Victoria down. It had been a very stressful week. Everything from Dorothy's wedding to the rumors hiding the real situation had been handled by Victoria. She had not had any decent sleep for the past few days! Victoria looked at her daughter.
Hopelessness surrounded her heart.
Dorothy was no longer the Dorothy that Victoria raised. Right now, the woman only had a blank gaze. She no longer spoke a word or seed to care about anything else. She was but a shell of a person.
Again, hate and fury filled her heart.
How could the Goddess do this to her Dorothy?
"Are you saying that this woman is a sorceress?" she asked.
"That is the only possible explanation that I could co up with. She used sothing to throw out of the house. She could open the doors even without touching them. I believe she is a sorceress who has been hiding in the slums."
"And she wanted you to beg her?"
"Yes."
"What else?"
"I nothing else. She just wanted to beg her before she would tell the thod to help Dorothy."
Victoria's eyes narrowed. She looked at Jeas' pitiful appearance. She knew the man well enough to know that he would never lie, especially when it ca to Dorothy.
"I will see her."
"What?" Jeas looked surprised before relief flashed in his eyes. "Then we should do it tonight before the sun rises."
Victoria gave him a concerned look.
Jeas' love for Dorothy was undeniable, but how could one love soone like this? No. The question was how could a love like this exist? Was it because they were younger? Was it because Dorothy was more beautiful than Victoria when she was younger? Was this the reason why Dorothy found a man who would never leave her despite everything that had happened?
Again, she looked at her daughter. The Dorothy right now was nothing but a bag of breathing bones. She looked pitiful on her wedding night, yet soone was still willing to do everything to save her.
Victoria then looked up. Perhaps, the Goddess was still blessing them. Perhaps, this was her way of showing them that She still existed.
With that in mind, Victoria, along with Loren and Jeas, secretly left the bridal chambers and went straight to the slums. After about an hour, they finally arrived at the sa house where the strange woman lived. This ti, Jeas knocked three tis, and again, the door opened.
He looked at Victoria who seed to be visibly shaken. After all, this was the sa thing that Jeas told her earlier. They walked inside. However, just as Loren was about to follow them, the door closed.
Victoria let out a surprise squeak and quickly moved behind Jeas, fear apparent in her eyes.
"You are back," the sa voice as before welcod Jeas. Again, the woman was standing at the spot where she stood earlier. She was holding the sa teapot and teacup. Again, the woman poured the contents of the tea before she said, "Sweet tea?"
It was the sa exact voice, the sa exact creepy smile.
"W We are here to ask you what you want. We will pay you anything as long as you tell us the thod to help her."
"Oh? Anything?"
"Anything," it was Victoria who answered her.
"Ah you brought guests," the woman said. She was acting as if she did not see Victoria walk through the door. "Another one with the sll of the curse."
"I I am her mother and" Victoria swallowed, the poise and grace that she always had were no longer there. In front of a sorceress like this Victoria could only swallow her pride. After all, it was no secret that every sorcerer harnessed the powers of the Dark Lord. Sorcerers could easily kill soone like her if they wanted to. "And Jeas told about everything. I am willing to give you anything."
"Anything?" the woman repeated. Then she started walking towards the old piano.
"Anything at all. Gold, lands, houses, businesses."
*DONG*
"Foolish human," the woman said after she pressed the sa key that she pressed the last ti that Jeas was here. The similarity in her posture and everything else did not sit well with him. For so reason, he felt like he was watching a play instead of talking to soone real.
"I I will give anything," Victoria said.
"Then beg ," the woman gave a tight-lipped smile. "And I will say."
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