章 2: Return

𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝑫𝒂𝒉𝒍𝒊𝒂 𝑷𝒂𝒄𝒌

"It will be for… just a couple of hours"

He whispered to himself in a way to comfort his heart but the cold memories he had only made that unpleasant feeling of disgust grow up in his stomach.

The letter from Caius had arrived with a package with an incredibly beautiful outfit inside, some jewelry, and makeup, Leva was excited to see her young master wearing all of those but she was upset because Terrence couldn't see any of the gifts.

TERRENCE

I regretted having agreed to go to the event, Leva had taken that party very... Well maybe extremely seriously...

After almost two hours of different baths to cleanse, exfoliate, and aromatize my skin, she let me out of the bathroom.

I didn't know where she got the outfit and all the jewelry from because I never went shopping and of course, I could never buy something so seductive as the clothes she gave me... or well that's how I imagine those clothes when he tried on them.

The material was soft but when I felt a chill on my back, I touched on the tone part of my body realizing that it had a big hollow, of course, I immediately got embarrassed cause I had never worn an outfit like that with my shoulders and back discovered.

Although Leva's complaint I strongly refused to wear that outfit, she had no choice but to accept what I wanted to wear.

...

Leva accepted that Terrence wanted to wear something different although she secretly packed those clothes in the suitcase shutout his knowledge, the young boy changed his clothes with a full white suit that had slight gold flower details and black shoes.

Terrence was grateful that this would be the first and last event for him to attend because he couldn't bear to go through Leva's torture ever again.

When Leva look the clothes her young master decided to wear she thought it was a boring outfit but at least he let her do the makeup a little of his skin and highlight his features; when she was applying the makeup since Leva knew how that mark bothered her master, she had hide it with total success.

Dusk was coming, and at the entrance of the mansion the carriage finally arrived, all the employees of the house were lined up around the way to the carriage, although they did not like serving him at all they did as they'd do with another noble prince.

After Terrence put aside his kindness and good heart, all began to fear being fired, that's why they served him extremely well.

Leva climbed the suitcase in the back of the carriage and then she helped Terrence go into the carriage.

The other workers dismissed him but Terrence didn't say absolutely anything to them, Leva was the one who told them what they should have to do and what to keep clean in the young man's absence before entering the carriage with him.

...

The road was long and boring, Terrence was not used to traveling so they made brief breaks to stretch their legs because it had been very uncomfortable to be sitting down in the same position all the time.

Time passed and night came, they still had to travel thirty minutes more to finally arrive at Reinheit but Terrence was not in a hurry to get to the kingdom, he was going to take his time and be impolite due to the short notice which he had received the invitation.

• • • • ❁ • • • •

Orsen and Killian were at the entrance of the castle, they both knew who would be the first people to arrive since there was no one prouder and more competitive than that pair of princes.

Blausen and Daemon were riding as fast as possible, increasing the speed until they passed Orsen and Killian ripping up some kind of paper that represented the finish line, both stopped their horses and looked at the others waiting for them to say who had won.

"It was a draw" Orsen knew that neither of them would be happy with that and they were going to provoke each other nonstop but it was the best result

"Hahahahaha what happened Dae, did your corsel run out of energy?" Blausen joked sarcastically.

"And what happened to you carrot? Why didn't you speed up?"

They looked each other directly in the eyes with anger and although they smiled they were fake smiles, nobody knows why they always argued as soon as they looked at each other but nobody knew that deep inside just as they considered themselves rivals they also called themselves friends and brothers although it was something they would not say out loud.

After a war of glances, they shook hands in complicity and got off their horses to take them to rest.

Orsen showed them the way to them while Killian waited for the companions of both princes, the youngest wolves of each pack arrived a few minutes later all of them were dead tired.

When everybody arrived, Killian also took them to the shed and guided them to their respective tables, although Daemon preferred to take a shower before the event. Normally they only stayed one day for the duels, and the celebrations were held a couple of days after that but Orsen had changed everything for that tournament, it was going to be longer than usual therefore Orsen had given a room to all of the guests.

Blausen stayed talking a little longer with the boys of his pack before going to get ready, he commanded his companions to take a shower as well because they did smell so bad after riding so long to get there.

The afternoon was falling fast, most of the pack's leader was gathered there, and also the caravans of the six-packs that carried the Omega of marriageable age and the one with the Alpha that would fight in the competition were slowly entering Reinheit.

Although Blausen was already the leader of the Nacht pack, his parents attended the event to find a good match for their son as well as for Daemon who was also like a son to them. When Daemon lost his parents at a very young age Blausen's parents took care of him until he reached adulthood and took control of the Blumme pack.

Blausen and Daemon grew up together but their relationship had never been good, no matter how hard they had tried those two always ended up fighting.

Daemon came out already dressed in quite comfortable clothes to wear under the armor, black pants with a loose long-sleeved blouse with a small V-neck that showed the muscles of his chest.

Blausen opted to wear an all-black formal suit with a white shirt and a ruby collar as decoration. Blausen's hair was a bit long so that night he let it fall freely to his shoulders.

"The stuffy one arrived" Daemon mentioned looking at the opposite with a mocking smile.

"…. Ha… look and I thought I was seeing a servant, what happened Dae? Did you not have a budget to spend on your outfit? The Blumme pack must be broken"

A new fight started between the two but they couldn't argue much because of the presence of Blausen's parents.

"When are you two going to stop fighting?" the mom of Blausen scolds both of them.

"When he stops having that face that annoys me…" Blausen replied crossing his arms

"And when the carrot stops being so immature" replied Daemon with a tired sight.

The adults looked at each other and then at their sons with a rather exhausted look because to them they both looked like a couple of babies fighting.

Blausen's mom went to sit with Daemon at a table while his father took Blausen to another one, they wanted to talk a little with each other separately and discovered the reason why they hated that much but in a way, they wouldn't cause a scandal.

...

"Orsen calm down already… you're going to make a hole in the ground"

"I can't calm down... There are already four packs, Blumme, Engel, Teufel, and Nacht... Spear's and Dahlia's pack are yet to arrive"

"I think that you are more worried about a certain person from Dalia"

"He has a curse, Killian... and He received it not for nothing… but for murder" Orsen mentioned with a slight tremor.

"The truth is that I don't think someone like him at his age can kill the one who raised him"

Killian was very doubtful as to who had murdered Terrence's stepmother.

"Besides, the only one who suffered the consequences was Terrence"

"What do you mean, Killian? Erick lost his mom too"

"I know… well I didn't want to tell you this but"

"But what? Talk!" Orsen's eyes sparkled with curiosity.

"One day I went to visit my grandfather's grave and I met Terrence there, he was wearing a hood so I couldn't see his face very well but he was crying in front of his stepmother's tombstone…"

"Well at least he regrets...that's good"

"That day I approached and talked to him..."

"Excuse me, What did you do?" Orsen looks at him without believing what he was listening to

"I talked to him... Auch"

The hit of Orsen makes Killian stop talking but before the big scolding arrives, Killian puts a sweet bread in his master's mouth.

"Listen to me... That day was the anniversary of his stepmother's death, Terrence left in the afternoon but the only person who visited the grave after that was Caius, I passed all day in my grandpa's tomb"

Orsen eats that little bread with rice pudding inside and then speaks.

"Do you mean that Erick didn't visit his mother?"

"It seems like that…"

"Well, not going to visit his grave doesn't mean that he has done something... Erick is two years younger than Terrence, would he be capable of killing his mother?"

"No… well I don't think so either, I just feel that he doesn't seem to suffer the loss of his mother, that's what I mean"

"Well, that's…"

The sound of trumpets announcing the arrival of a new pack interrupted their talk but they didn't know that the two remaining packs had finally arrived...

To be continue

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