Darkest Hours (MGL series Book 2)

Chapter 12

He was mindful of the sly smirk of triumph playing on her pretty plump dark lips as he recalled the words said by Knox Garrick.

'The young witch does not need magic to do her bidding.'

Now that he went back and recollected those words, he understood what Knox meant. The woman needed no uncanny power indeed as she had great methods to chase people to insanity.

Thinking about Knox Garrick who had escaped from his grasp fruitfully made him smirk. How naïve of him to have thought he had escaped from Lucius without his notice!

He laughed as he took a glance at his beautiful wife as he recalled the day when Madonna had reached his cave and freed Knox Garrick from his grasp.

How they did not realize the fact that they had effortlessly escaped - rather, Madonna had effectively freed Knox from his cave which he had enclosed in many shields, was still amusing to him.

Foolish Knox was to assume he had broken through his clutches with the help of the young witch but Knox was still in the dark that it was him who had let him go. It was his very intent to let him escape.

It was Lucius' very intention to let go of Knox and Knox, being a foolish human has mistaken his effortless freedom, however, how the young witch did not mull over the easy escape still puzzled him.

By then, Lucius knew what a conniving fox Madonna was and with the concocting mind of hers, it was unusual not to suspect.

Lucius groaned as Madonna fell on him causing him to fall hard on the ground. He fell on the dirt land and the young Witch was on his lap, her feet not touching the ground but her lips were touching from ear to ear with the enormous grin she was giving.

He bent his wrist to haul her back in the air but the blue light did not appear causing him to realize that his magic shall not act in the bounds of the maze. He tried to use another of the spell to lift the woman into the air but nothing was effective.

With no other choice, Lucius groaned as he picked Madonna in his arms like a bride and grunted as he tried to keep her firm in his arms.

He had walked with her in his arms for most part of the day. It was silent like it always was except for the victorious simper he could see on her face every now and then.

"Knox Garrick had escaped." Lucius said baiting her to talk. Madonna not but simply raised her eyebrows in question as she gave him a little shrug. "I do know that you helped him go." He added.

Lucius was again shocked as he expected her to get startled by his knowledge but all he got was a smile in response.

Hell, how he wanted to squeeze the life out of her!

Lucius opened his mouth to shout of his aggravation at her but was stopped when he heard her voice for the second time in the day.

"He shall be back in you surrender shortly, Milord." Modonna spoke as she smiled knowingly. Her mind reeled back to what she had planned for Knox Garrick with Orla.

Madonna was positive that by the end of that night, the deliberated shall be done. By the time Knox was back in to the holds of her husband, Alder, his father shall also come back weak and feeble.

Madonna knew why she and Lucius were traveling through another path while Knox and Alder Emor took the shorter and easier path. She had made all the provisions for the men to fall in her trap and Lucius shall not intervene in it any way.

His father shall be ruined and she was going to make certain she do what she had determined.

Madonna's response brought a smile on his face as his own tricky self surfaced. To keep her talking and to trick her into answering him, he looked straight into her eyes, deep and dead, he had finally attacked her with the first surprise – nah – second surprise from him; first being their nuptials.

"Ah he can rather come back leisurely after he does what you intend him to." He provided making Madonna's eyes go wide.

She turned her face in a sudden and glanced at the knowing smile on his face which elevated her puzzlement.

"Pardon me, Milord, I am sorry to tell you that I have no idea what you are talking about." Madonna could not help but talk back when a sudden urgency hit her.

Was he just entrapping her for his own answers or did he indeed know about what she had done or doing?

Why did he say he knew what she was deliberate of?

Was he playing with her?

"I request for some enlightenment, Milord." Lucius smiled and shrugged in silence as he kept his mouth shut and continued walking through the woods with her in his arms.

It was now his time to impose the same tactic on her that she imposed on him.

Silence!

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Hello Sweeties,

Next chapter is here. Enjoy!

What do you think about Madonna's silent treatment?

Do you think it will work in making her not fall in love with him?

Or will it work on getting back her magic from him?

She is surely playing with his patience. Your views?

What did Lucius mean he let Knox go?

He said he know what Madonna was doing, did he really?

Or was he merely playing with her mind?

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