Madonna grumbled as she walked beside Lucius. From a peripheral glance, she could see a smile of satisfaction on his lips which irked her more.
How she wish to wipe the smile from his face!
"You haven't informed me of the purpose of weakening Keya." Lucius asked as he matched her pace beside her.
They entered the tunnel cave which was dark and long. Madonna flicked her fingers to lighten the fire logs along the pathway.
It is behind the tunnel is where the tribe of elves reside and it was very important to Madonna to strip Keya of her powers. Killing her was not her work although she does know that not long after her powers are gone, she shall be killed.
"I want her weak and that is good enough purpose." Madonna answered sternly but she was chuckling to herself inside.
Oh how she liked the spat of words with Lucius.
Giving Lucius vague and silly responses was what she seems to be loving recently. The way he gets bothered by her retort was just so enjoyable to her.
She must be an insane Witch to be feeling that way but she just began to feel all fuzzy at the thought of aggravating the Lord.
Lucius, on the other side, frowned at her response but did not say back anything. He knew too well how the young Witch is. He has enough idea of how happy she was to be in a word spar with him.
Damnation!
They still have good distance to walk before they reach the borders of the Elves tribe so to keep up from the absolute boredom and with the excitement to receive some harsh retorts from his wife, Lucius started his interrogation for the day.
"I always had a doubt over an issue." He started and saw the twitch on her lips as he continued. "Do you hold a grudge against Lady Ella Knight?"
Madonna was surprised at the mention of the new wife of Lord Xander Knight, but answered him nonetheless.
"Nah, as it happens, I admired her inner strength. She was put through many trials throughout her life and she endured it." Madonna answered truthfully as she looked at him.
"My mother was the one who gave the catalogue of rituals to be performed to Knox and years later it so happened to be Ella Rosemary not to forget you are the sacred Witch for the whole region who assisted them into such gruesome acts. Is it a coincidence?" Lucius could not help but spur out what he felt about the issue.
He still has his doubts regarding Madonna's affiliation with his mother. He was not so certain in the beginning but he slowly came to understand that both the women have each other's back.
On contrary to his realization, he still hasn't seen Madonna going to meet his mother or never had he informed of Orla meeting Madonna in her lair.
He had not sensed magic on Madonna or in her establishment to prove him that they perhaps associate with each other through magic.
"I'm a selfish person, My Lord. I'm surprised you are asking for clarification." Lucius smiled when he heard her.
"You are indeed a selfish, infuriating and a conniving Witch, my dear. But that wasn't the answer I am looking for. For one, I did come to know that you cannot involve an innocent in your selfish motives." Madonna glared at her husband playfully and was about to retort him but was stopped when she lost her steadiness.
She did not see the large rock under her feet, as she lost her poise. Her leg twisted and a squeak came out from her mouth as she was halfway through the fall.
Lucius was quick enough to wrap his arm around her waist but not very quick to stop her from the fall. Madonna's eyes widened as she fell on the hard wet ground with a thud followed by her husband who graciously fell on her.
Madonna was already hissing in pain but she never expected to be attacked by her husband's hard, smooth body on her and most certainly did not expect a pair of luscious lips colliding with her soft ones.
Madonna and Lucius froze equally when their lips touched each others. Moments of intimate emotions passed in their eyes. The soft breeze and the dim light of the fire was making it tough for both of them to look away from each other.
One moment they were mocking each other and the subsequent moment, their eyes met with untainted passion. There was plethora of sentiments playing in both their eyes that both of them just forgot their surrounds.
It was not that they both hate each other, nah, it wasn't. Lucius was undoubtedly fascinated to her or to put it simply, intrigued by her. He has mixed feeling for her and one of them was concern.
He was very much worried for her, liked taunting her and his eyes always grasped a secret picture of her beauty when she wasn't aware of.
Looking deeply into her half opened eyes, he slowly slithered his tongue out and ran it along her lips. His action was so sudden that not only stunned Madonna but also Lucius.
The feel of his lips on hers beget a new beat to her cold heart. As the wet goodness touched her dry lips, sparks of sweet and sour taste bubbled inside her insides.
Dear Heavens, what a sweet tongue he hid inside the pungent mouth!
Her eyes involuntarily closed as his tongue briefly touched the sides of her lips giving her a sequence of sparks while he received a sweet moan of goodness that healed his ears.
Startled by the sound that left her throat Madonna, she jerked back from her haze as the thought of Lucius' death struck in her mind.
What was she doing?
How could she have let her sentiments for him overwhelm her wisdom? Her affection was poisonous that shall kill her husband.
She was trying very much hard to hold back the affection she has for him by giving him a hard time yet the fall and intimacy between their lips brought them closer.
Madonna cleared her throat, pushing Lucius from her and that was when Lucius was back to the reality. Clearing his throat himself, he slowly stood up with one last glance into her deep eyes.
He offered his hand to the still lying Madonna and saw her hesitating for a moment before she took the hand and stood up slowly.
Both of them turned their backs to each other and collected themselves before turning back to their path.
Although the moment of sweet intimacy was passed, the air around them was still warm and swoony. Lucius was still awed by the shiver a small touch from her created in him. It was something he hasn't experienced before.
He had fair share of women in his bed but by no means had he felt the shiver of ecstasy he experienced with just a touch of her lips.
Madonna felt the silence between them unnerving as she waited for him talk something to gain her attention like always. One glance at him, she gathered that it was just as unnerving to him as her so to wipe the uneasy silence between them, she raked her mind to talk something; anything.
"Prophecy." She cleared her throat again as she successfully gained his attention. "There was prophecy that a man shall die and shall come back to life again with a dark energy but a calm heart. It was said that the man shall be the origin of the new variety of mystical beings and that would be all because of a woman." Madonna answered as she reeled back to the time when she had to be stone hearted to not be an obstacle in fate's path.
"That was Lord Xander." Madonna nodded to her husband's statement as she continued to clarify.
"Knox somehow knew of the prophecy and did not want it to happen as the man who shall come back from hell shall be much more powerful than him or your father. But he did not know the woman who the prophecy mentioned was Ella herself. You know there is a rule in the nature, My Lord. One who shall lose everything shall receive it back in a best way possible." Madonna recalled how the poor maiden Ella had to loose her family for the cruel rites of Knox and his village.
"You know how Knox Garrick is. He can do anything to get what he desired and the easy prey he saw was Ella. He killed her family to get her vulnerable and that was how he is. It was only when I was well aware of the whole situation that I asked him to get Ella married to a corpse as I was well aware of the Prophecy and in those years in the village, I realized that Ella was the one. So I had to mislead him so Ella could suffer a little more but in the end she shall receive what she deserved." Lucius nodded as he got the gist of the whole tale from what she told him.
At that time, Madonna knew the new young Lord was Ella's husband and the man Prophecy noted about so it was her own effort to mislead Knox into giving him a remedy of breaking the virtue of Ella out of a relation bonds as she knew the Lord would not keep still when it comes to his notice.
Lucius was right, she was selfish but she never wanted to get an innocent involved in her game.
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