Chapter 118 - A Change Of Heart (2/2)

”Hue, I want to show you something. Can you follow me to the garden, please?” She begged him.

”Can you show it to me during the day?” Hue hesitated.

He knew she meant something else behind her intention to ask him to follow her to the garden. He can't risk creating doubt arousing from all around him.

”It's only blooming during the night and only once in a year,” Katerina said.

Hue smiled, ”Thank you for the invitation but I am tired. No worries, I'll tell the other to join you. I'm sure they will be super happy to view the flowers with you.”

Hue immediately disappeared to his room after he told the others of the rare flowers which bloom once in a year and only at night.

Inside the bedroom, his entire body shuddered, ”Such a persistent human. I'm not going to fall for that trick.” He talked alone. He had goosebumps all over his good looking body. Even his strong six-packs.

Jennet stepped out of the bathroom while holding a face towel in her hands which she used to dab dry her face.

”What's wrong, honey?” That question popped out of her mouth. She hung the face towel on a hanger before she put her attention towards him.

Hue huffed before her, ”That woman, that... I don't know her name, the one who dressed lavishly, she had dirty thought about me. Her mind was the dirtiest I have ever seen.” He complains to her.

He fumed before his wife and yapped nonstop about the annoying woman. He said about a lot of things about how dirty her mind was and how he disliked her.

Jennet laughed as she sat down on the stool beside the dressing table. Served him right, she thought.

”Now you know how it feels when you did the same to me.” She said, adding salt onto his wound.

”Honey, that's a different kind of approach. I approach you persistently because you are mine, legally in both realms. But, she isn't related to me in any way.” He sat on the bed and pulled on a sulking face.

Jennet rose from the stool again and sat down beside him. Smiles still lingered on her face. It was rare for Hue to complaint about anyone of the opposite gender before.

”I know.” She took his hands and clasped her hands on top of his. ”I trust you won't two-time me.”

”I would not do that.” Hue hissed at her. At the same time, he rolled his eyes at her. He was unhappy if she didn't trust in him.

”Okay, forget about her. I want to tell you about something else.”

”What is it?”

”Can non-human exist among humans?”

”Yes, of course. Take me for example.”

”Okay. Then, you do have good and bad non-humans as well, right?”

”If you're referring to the Fallens, yes. They are the bad type of non-humans.”

”The Fallens...” Jennet thought deeply. Could Helena be considered as the Fallens?

Hue explained further without waiting for Jennet to continue, ”Yes, the Fallens were once good deities however they strayed from goodness. They were associated with those from the Dark World.”

”Does that mean they have the face of snakes?”

Jennet remembered and it was fresh in her head about the sudden changes on Helena's image.

Hue frowned. ”Face of snakes?”

He had not heard of such appearance in so many years. It would be the first he heard of it. After he was exiled, he hadn't seen any of the Fallens scampering around because the villa protected him and would destroy anything that comes near its perimeter.

”As far as I know, they can appear in so many forms. They don't stick to one form. They are those who don't follow rules in either realm.” He elaborated.

”Then, would you believe what I have to tell you?”

”I would. Just let me know.”

Jennet inhaled a deep breath, ”I'm suspecting Helena isn't human. Well, I don't know if my eyes played a trick on me but I saw her face changing in a brief moment. Or rather, am I going insane now for thinking too much about too many matters?”

Jennet voiced out her concerns. At the end of her words, she exhaled a long sigh.

She hoped she was wrong about what she saw. It was impossible to think of the impossible to happen in her family. Pretty much, her entire family were humans.

”You're not the only one who thought of the same thing.” Hue broke the silence with an assuring answer.

Jennet gasped and her eyes brightened, ”Then, I'm not wrong for suspecting her?” She asked him for confirmation.

Happiness beamed on her face. Someone else shared the same concerns as she had. She was happy to know about that.

Hue nodded his head, ”You're not wrong to suspect her. Little Veen and I found something was fishy about her behaviour for the past few days. Well, actually from the day she arrived.” He told her of their findings.

However, he found out about another finding that was rather shocking. He wasn't aware of it at first but he couldn't let it slide anymore. For sure, he won't tell Jennet about it just yet. He will tell her about everything he knew once he was sure of it.

Hue added with a warning, ”Remember, do not show your awkwardness around her. Just act normal as if you knew nothing. Little Veen is playing hard to get with her. Well, you know, human kid's stuff when they are being shy.”

”I will. I will.” Jennet felt safe when she listened to him. She can't stop smiling when they got to bed.

”Shall I erase your memory to make sure you forget about what we talked about? It's dangerous if she found out about what you knew.” Hue said before he laid down beside her.

It would be dangerous if he let her wander around with all those memories in her head. Once stolen, the enemy knew what they knew. It would also spell another trouble if the memory was lost from the hands of the thief.

”You can erase memories?” Jennet squeaked from beside him. Her eyes widened.

She had no idea about that before. She knew he had the 'undressing' power which was too much for her.

”Yes, but not me doing the erasing thingy. My aides could, actually. I'm...well, not given that...privilege...” He answered sheepishly and his voice lowered too.

Jennet clicked her tongue. She was happy momentarily before she knew he had no power for a memory-erasing.

”No, thanks!” She rejected his offer. ”I want to keep my memory intact until the end of this story.”

Erasing her memory was the last thing she would ask from his aides.

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