RITUAL 3

MUSIC RECOMMENDATION: Snowfall Effect by Calvarii 💖

As the time for the ritual approached, I felt so nervous about what it would be like. From what I've learned, the guest will be much more than the ones that attended the Introductory party since the lady has decided to invite non family members too.

I sighed staring at the servants cutting the leaves and moving in and out of the mansion with packages in their hands. I rested my chin on my hands as I watched them quietly from my balcony.

The introduction party was the first real party I've attended in my life since a child as my parents never allowed me attend any party. They always took Scarlett with them as the legitimate child while I get to sleep with my nanny.

Though I've always wished to attend a party one day, I just never thought it would be something this huge. I was so nervous at the outcome of tonight. I had no idea what a Bancroft ritual was like, hell I had no idea of what these kinds of ceremony looked like.

My heart raced in fear and no matter how hard I tried to calm down, I just couldn't.

I couldn't sleep like the lady had asked. She said the ritual might take the whole night so it's best I sleep now to not fall sick, but how can I sleep when I'm this nervous?

And just as I stood there I saw Scarlett walking towards the garden where mother and father where seated with the lady. She wasn't with Evren anymore and I wondered where he must have gone to. Maybe he has some business to attend to as usual.

"Stop Adara, he's not important." I shook my head to get him out of my thoughts. Right now, as I thought of him again, the anger I felt earlier was back. I hated him, I had no idea why, but I hate him now.

"You're getting married Adara, it's none of your business." It really was none of my business, I hated that I was angry about them. Evren could have the entire women in the country and it shouldn't matter cause I was getting married to his brother.

I stepped back into my room and his beneath the sheets. I closed my eyes pushing the sheets above my chest as I tried to force myself to sleep. I should try to fall asleep rather than being worried about that man and Scarlett.

He's a fool that shouldn't be worth my time.

Maybe if I just closed my eyes, maybe if I try harder, I might fall asleep.

"That's not how you fall asleep." I heard his voice and I jumped off the bed.

The silver haired man was standing just right in front of me and I could feel my heart doing different things to me at once. I couldn't understand why it reacted this way with this man around.

Seeing him standing just right in front of me, made me even more upset at myself.

"Don't you have pills to help you fall asleep? There are different exercises we can try to make you fall asleep quickly." It took a while to understand what he meant and my cheeks warmed up.

"What are you doing here?"

"I came to see how my princess is holding up. Especially with the upcoming ritual." Evren said with his usual smile, he has dialed his hair from black to silver matching his silver eyes. I couldn't tell which colour fit him better, the black or the silver.

"I'm not your princess."

"But you are, you even agreed with me twice." He used his hands to demonstrate the twice as he found his way to my sofa.

"What are you doing?" I panicked. I had no idea why this man would come here on a day like this, what if someone sees us in here. The last time had been Agnes and I had been lucky she didn't say a word to anyone.

"What does it look like I'm doing?" He asked back as he relaxed.

"I asked you not to come in here anymore. I'm getting married to your brother." I stared at the door.

"Maybe... I missed seeing your face." He drawled and then smiled.

"Don't bother about that, I locked it, so that no one would disturb us tonight. We don't want your nosey maid barging in again like before do we?" He clicked his tongue.

"What do you want?"

"To see you, wasn't that clear already?" He crossed his legs.

"I'm fine you can leave now." I said firmly but he didn't move from where he sat.

"We still have a lot to talk about." He suddenly said with a more serious tone.

"We have nothing to talk about. I have a ritual to sleep for. You can talk to Scarlett if you need someone to talk to, I'm not interested." I blurted out to see him smile slowly like the devil he is.

"Jealous much?" He asked chuckling.

"Why will I be jealous?"

In the blink of an eye Evren was standing right in front of me, "I don't know..." He said holding my chin as he pulled me closer. I tried slapping his hands off my face but his grip only got stronger but not enough to hurt me.

"You have been avoiding me lately." He said, his hot breath touching my face causing me to shiver.

"Because you're a bad person." I said without withholding anything and he laughed dryly.

"Of course I'm bad." He admitted and continued laughing.

"But that shouldn't be enough reason to run away princess. I thought I made it clear the last time." He said ever so slow with that deep velvety voice as he stared at my lips.

When he leaned in closer to me, I closed my eyes due to how close our faces were apart from each other. It almost felt as if he was about to kiss me again. My heart raced, breath hitched as a drop of tear fell from the corner of my eye.

"So stubborn." He let me go.

"Take this and sleep princess. It'll help you relax till it's time for the ritual, we'll take about me being a bad person another day." He smiled and ruffled my hair before stepping out of the room.

I stared at the door he walked through, and then at the substance in my hands. My face heated up. Evren had stepped in here to give me something to help me sleep. Maybe he isn't a bad person after all. Maybe I had only misunderstood him.

I walked over to my table to get a glass of water and poured the substance into it before gulping down the content in the glass. Once I was done, I climbed my bed and tried to sleep. After a while, I fell asleep.

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