Chapter 72 - UNDERWORLD (2) (1/2)

Anne looked at Knox, whose face was completely pale, his skin almost looked transparent, as his body was very cold and the only sign that he was still alive was his shallow breathing.

While Gael was in a different room, sleeping throughout the night and day. The Doctor had looked at him and ran a check on him, but Anne didn't let anyone see Knox.

Knox was not Gael, he was a non-human being. Even if she let the doctor see him, he wouldn't understand what was happening to this man, it would only complicate this already uncertain situation.

The massive earthquake during the wedding of Gael and Lise happened two days ago and fortunately, this manor was able to stand such destruction.

It was whether the building was really strong, or it was Chaos himself, who had protected it, because all the buildings around this manor had been flattened to the ground. Anne couldn't find an answer to that, since that man was not here and between Knox and Gael, none of them could be asked for the meantime.

The two men appeared all of a sudden when she just arrived at the manor, guarded tightly by all those bodyguards.

At first they were afraid to enter the building during the earthquake, but when they witnessed how strong it was, they decided it was safe enough for them to stay.

”Knox, tell me… what happened?” the old lady took Knox's hand and grabbed it tightly. She looked at his and couldn't help but compare it with hers.

His hand was very smooth and young, while hers was so old. It was upsetting and sad when she remembered there was a time when her hand was only half the size of his, while she innocently called him uncle.

Time flew very fast and Anne knew, as a human, she didn't have many years left. On the other hand, they would be alive for eternity.

”Where is Chaos? Can you wake up and tell me where he is?” she asked in a hoarse voice, as she bit her lips and wiped the tears from her wrinkled eyes. Her hands were trembling.

She had been with them long enough, or she could say she had been with them for her entire life, so Anne knew that something bad had happened to Chaos, to make Knox like this.

They were different people with the same soul, therefore, if something happened to one of them, they would know it for sure.

Anne had asked about this before, what he felt when he had to kill the bearer of a piece of his shattered soul and Chaos had said it was like shedding your skin only to be replaced by a new one.

Even now, Anne was not sure whether that was a good thing or not.

”Can you let the other bearers live like you had done to Knox?” she had asked when she was only a young innocent woman, who had fallen for someone that she must not.

”I can, if they are as strong as him.”

Therefore, Anne assumed Knox was the strongest that Chaos could find, so he wouldn't die just like that, and as long as he was alive, so would Chaos.

”Please, stay alive…”

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Lise had not yet gotten a chance to go to the hospital to get her pregnancy checked and even though she didn't say it out loud, she knew that Sol was already able to guess it.

It was a tacit understanding between them.