Chapter 9 - Mystified (1/2)

At dawn.

Sei was sitting like a tyrant prince inside a dim, quiet room. He was looking at the moon outside the large window, emotionless, holding a mask in his hand.

”So? How was your first night with her?”

A man suddenly uttered behind him, breaking the impending silence.

”Disaster.”

”Pfft! Hahaha!” The man couldn't help but laugh. He was amused with Sei's one-word description about his first night with his wife.

He walked closer to him and the light of the moon made his face visible. He was that bodyguard Davi called, Mr. Chen. However, the moment Sei saw his face, he instantly gazed at him with a sharp deadly stare.

”Yeah yeah, I'm taking it off now.”

The man touched his neck then after a while, he took off something that appeared to be a… mask. In a short while, the soldier looking guy suddenly turned into a man with a breathtakingly beautiful face, pale as sheet of paper, as if he was a… vampire. His skin and facial features were exactly vampire like that anyone who saw him might think vampires were real and he was their long lost prince.

”Your wife was so comfortable with this face though, she even called me 'Mr. Chen',” he sighed while looking at the mask in his hand. ”So? How is she? Did you guys talk normally?”

”She's strange. Yes, she asked if I was gay.”

”Pfft! Hahaha! Seriously? She said that? Wait… you didn't hurt her because of that right?!”

”Strangely, I couldn't get angry at her...at all.”

Sei's answer made the vampire looking man speechless, in a good way. He looked like he was happy and proud of himself.

”Tell me Zaki, why did you chose her?”

”Well… Uh, because of her looks… of course… my instinct told me you would definitely like her.”

Zaki's answer was an obvious lie. Sei could tell that he was not willing to tell him the truth. He knew that Zaki would never hide anything from him without a serious reason.

”If you still refuse to answer me the next time I ask you that, I'll kill you.”