Chương 20: Chapter (20): Immense

He stopped. Elizabeth heard that and passed by them in rush.

Luna sensed the heat that escaped from Ryan's skin. His pulse grew faster, did he love her?

"Wow, you brought Cyrus here! I was wondering where you keep this beauty."

She ran forward to caress the beautiful sheer black horse. She peeked at frizzed Ryan who was just peering at her sister. She didn't need any proof to say that they were deeply in love with each other. She had to do something for them.

"Am I an arrogant man? Who can hate you?"

He asked.

Luna shrugged and he began to walk.

"I don't blame you for the accident, I never did. I made the mistake on my own. I should have had waited for you to come, coming on my own was foolish."

"Then how can I make you happy like before? Can you love me like those old days? Can you forgive me? I am a no-good human!"

Ryan asked. He never experienced the love of a woman he loved, there was no mother in his childhood and when he gave his heart to Luna, he didn't know how to reveal his emotion.

"I do always love you but I am tired of this. Look what had happened to us, we rarely see each other. You forgot us. If you want me to forgive you, then stay by our side strongly and fight beside us not against."

Before reaching Elizabeth, Ryan stood.

Luna remarked that from last year maybe she just heard him passing by and it was the first time they talked.

"You are the only woman that I..."

"Yes, Ryan go ahead!" Elizabeth murmured to herself, pretending to talk to the horse but she was actually listening to them.

Luna felt that she was as light as feather. Her brain stopped working for a moment, she was waiting to hear the next word but when he blurted it out, the world got back to its gloomy color.

He closed his eyes to let the word come out of his mouth, instead, "adore."

"Let's go home, Ryan! Uncle Miguel needs us and Lisa might be heartbroken now." The disappointed Elizabeth rescued them from that miserable situation.

Ryan moved up the carriage and put her on the seat.

"Cover yourself, the weather is harsh."

Ryan told the girls that just were adjusting themselves to their position.

Lashing the lariat to the air the horses moved.

"What are you planning for?" Ryan asked, directing to the Princess's request.

"We would do nothing! This is the plan." Luna answered.

Ryan raised an eyebrow and peeked at the girls from the corner of his eyes.

"Strange!" He blurted.

"Yes, if we persuade him to refuse that, they might hurt him, we don't know what is behind this will."

Elizabeth made it clear.

"How could they satisfy the Queen? That is forbidden fruit and why would the princess point on my father? Does she love him? I don't think that is about power!"

He had many questions. Since that shrew Elizabeth uttered the words, he couldn't focus on what was she meant to say.

He peeked at the sisters, "don't drop even a single word."

"We are stuck with an old love story, cousin! She had been an admirer of uncle Miguel..." Elizabeth devoured the rest of the words.

"Hmm, then? Was my father an admirer too?"

He asked as soon as he found it hard for the girls to explain straightforward and get into the main point.

"First, you promise us to use that brain usefully instead of going overage and judging very soon."

Elizabeth put him under conditions.

"Fine, accepted! You tell me, Luna! Elizabeth is crafty."

They got to the main road, the carriage was stumbling and Ryan kept the pace slow so the wind would not harm the girls.

"Thank you, cousin! You always give me unique compliments."

They made Luna laugh. She heaved out a breath, truly missed them fooling around.

"Yes, they were young and in love..."

She continued telling him what Lisa revealed but the details of this mysterious relationship were unlocked.

As Luna finished they arrived at the mansion. Ryan was drowned in his thoughts. Immense things had come to his head, his father used to be his hero when he was younger but everything changed when he joined the court.

"Master Ryan, you returned." Charles greeted them near the stable.

"Yes, Charles! Why are you still working? Did you have rest since you've gotten back home?"

Ryan believed that the old man was taking so hard on himself and Jason.

"I did sleep last night, an old man like me can't sit on the chair watching the horizon."

He took hold of Elizabeth's hand and helped her to get down.

Ryan jumped down and hugged Luna, dropping her down.

"Go inside, girls! I have a few words to share with this superman!"

The sky now was showing no sun gleams, unlike that savage thunderous clouds that turned every face choose the cold shades of colors.

"Alright! You might want to tell them about changing your mind about leaving us."

What Elizabeth uttered made Charles scowled, so his son guessed right.

Ryan sighed! When Elizabeth knew this then it meant that soon every single person in the house would figure it out.

"Luna, take this shrewd cat inside before I chain her to the boundaries of Rose forest for the wolves to have pleasure."

The furious Ryan menaced.

Luna nudged her sister and they went inside and in the meantime, the sky cried.

"Isn't it lovely?"

Elizabeth asked, looking up in absentmindedly expression.

"It is terrifying, Elizabeth! Your taste is rough."

Elizabeth shrugged leading her to the mansion.

"Yes, but I don't like wolves, especially the ones that he mentions all the time."

Luna smiled but the smile died on her face when a thought came to her head. That night a wolf saved her and it wasn't a faerie. Could it be a werewolf?

"Sister, do you remember what kind of wolf was that? A werewolf? Those beasts just love flesh."

Elizabeth asked, she read her mind as Luna drew into her imagination. She was certain that her sister was reviewing that night.

"It was a black Alpha, his eyes as golden as a sun, Elizabeth."

They halted near the door. Luna felt the shiver of Elizabeth's hand. Wolves were her phobia.