Chapter 129 - Nailed A Hammer

Sitting right opposite to him on the dining table, Clara was silently chomping a slice of pancake, continuously stealing glances at Czar who was gulping down those slices in a rush. He was stuffing his mouth with the pancakes that she had prepared chomping and swallowing them holding a small smile on his face.

"He seems really hungry..." Wondering inside her mind, she was peeping at him furrowing her eyebrows.

"Yes, you are right.  I was indeed starving since the last night. And I really wanted to have breakfast together since I am sick of always eating alone." Startling her for a moment, Czar quickly responded to those exact words which she was wondering inside her mind.

"Huh? Ma-Master, did you just read my mind?"

"No. But the way you were glancing at me, I assumed you might be wondering about it." Taking a large bite on a slice of a pancake he was gripping on his hand, he smiled a bit mystically at her.

Clara silently glanced at him for a few seconds, without uttering a single word. She was squirming on her own as if something was quite bothering her from inside. He noticed her anxious face quite evidently and chose to speak first. "If something is bothering you from inside, then you can spit it out."

"Master... whatever I had told you last night... regarding Eva... Please, keep it tight-lipped with you. I beg of you... She should never know that her father wasn't a human--"

"He was a beta werewolf, like us." Before she could finish her words, Czar proclaimed his remark in a dark voice, staring invincibly at her eyes. She was awe-struck at his sudden declamation as she didn't expect him to find out her father's real identity, which was secured as a secret by Clara for all these years.

"Ho-How did you know about it?" Gulping down her saliva, she probed him restlessly.

He laid still on the chair for a moment and took out a deep huff of breath. "Not only that, he belonged to our Romanos. Steve Romano, the toughest swordsman we ever had." He replied.

"What?" Swirling her eyes in fear, she jolted up on her seat looking deadpanned in shock. For a moment, her vision almost blurred out as her mind started to feel dizzy.

"Not only that... he has been always known as the traitor who dared to abandon his own pack...just to dream of a happily ever after with a human. Such a darn fool..." Wiping his fingers with a tissue, he smirked with a vile expression on his face muttering out in a deep voice.

"I...I can't believe this!" Looking extremely perplexed with the revelation, Clara gasped out a heavy breath of air, fidgeting her fingers involuntarily. She was grimacing her face and anxiously rose her chin up, staring at him before conversing further. "That...Does that mean Eva is going to walk on the same dreadful path her mother chose for herself?"

"There is a basic difference that lies in between... The one she has chosen for herself is the alpha of our pack! If Zeus dares to commit the same mistake as him, he won't be spared by our celestial ancestors. Despite this, he might get terminated forever in the prison of hellfire! After all, whatever destiny has decided for them, Zeus will have to pay a hefty price of the consequences." Smiling viciously with a devilish expression on his fresh bright face, his eyes shimmered in gleam while he was articulating about it to her.

Like a numb statue, she sat still, looking at his eyes which seemed much entertained, sparkling in bliss. Frowning her brows, she inquired at him, "master...you are smiling?"

"Yes. Why? Am I forbidden from smiling?"

"Master...your brother is gonna face such a cruel fate on the hands of destiny! Even...He could be executed in the realm of hellfire by the celestial ancestors! You must know it well, it's the severe punishment in our world. And yet...you are laughing at this brutal consequence? Is this something to be laughed out?"

"Ahh, don't start with your nagging again." He scoffed at her quickly, making a vexed expression on his face. "He is not worthy of my sympathy... In fact, he has never considered me as my own brother! All he could do these years was portraying a fake act of compassion towards me and trying hard to win my heart. But deep down inside...he has been always aware of how much I have hated him... no matter what." Crossing his arms over his chest, he grumbled out his words in an irked pitch. 

She stared at him in wonder for a few seconds and sighing a heavy breath out of displeasure, she stood up from the seat holding a bereaved gesture. "Master...if he has been always aware of your hatred towards him...yet he has still tried to win over your heart, then...probably...he must have really cherished you deep down in his heart."

"What?" Hearing her answer, in the blink of an eye, he leaned forward on the table, gazing at her in disbelief.

"Master, one can only be earnestly compassionate towards the other bearing the hatred if...he genuinely cares about him. Perhaps, he had always cherished you as his own brother but his cold heart couldn't display it out... Probably, he chose to perform his duties silently but maybe it bloomed further disputes between you both." 

"Quit your nonsense," looking much irked at her response, he stood up from the chair. Angrily vexing at her, he grumbled out, "what do you even know about us? How could you defend him as if you had known him for a long time?"

She fidgeted anxiously for a moment and raised her chin up to glare back at him. "I don't know anything, master. But...isn't it easy to understand? Or...maybe, you just want to keep these flares of wrath alive in your heart just to hate your brother?"

"That's enough!" Unable to hold back his anger, he yelled out aloud reverberating the whole room as an echo which immediately halted her from speaking further. "I have had enough of your lectures. I am leaving from here right now!"

Stomping his feet in anger, he dashed into the room to grab his clothes before leaving the house. Clara stood still, frowning her face while watching him leaving in such a rage. 

"Maybe...I have nailed a hammer in a deep painful scar of his heart. But...in all this chaos, I am most worried about Eva. Ultimately, she is the one who will have to go through so much pain...

Damn... I wish...I wish I could stop her before choosing Zeus..." She sighed out, wondering inside.

...

It was already past evening. Spending quality time together for the whole day, holding arms in arms, walking next to each other both Zeus and Eva went out to their nearby store as Eva was short on groceries. Zeus was indeed feeling much better after she had forced him to gulp down the medicines, so he decided to go on a small walk with her, breathing some fresh air out with the evening breeze wavering the small shrubs around them. 

While passing by a small public park, near her apartment, Eva noticed three young men were playing a street performance singing beautiful melodies while playing violin and a cello. A crowd of people was surrounding those artists and a young teenage couple was dancing to the rhythm of the melody there were playing, holding each other in their embrace. The whole atmosphere looked quite blissful and curiously, Eva was gazing at them while crossing the park.

"Do you want to visit inside?" Watching her observing those people impertinently, Zeus gave her a wide smile and whispered his proposal softly towards her.

"Umm, but...there are many people inside...And, you don't like crowds..."

"But for you, I am willing to change myself, Eva." Gripping her hand tight, he murmured his words which startled her pretty much as she didn't expect, she would be able to cause his change of heart in such a short span. With a bright smile on his face, Zeus tugged her inside the park, closer to the band which was performing on.

"Oh my! Look at this pair...They look so adorable... Both of them look so beautiful together..."

Some of them whispered among themselves when both of them walked amidst the crowd holding each other tight. Both of them blushed with those compliments and continued smiling wider.

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"Is there any couple who is willing to dance in our next melody? It will be a beautiful, romantic one." The vocalist suddenly announced his remark in a loud voice, rolling his eyes amidst the crowd.

"Here, we will!"

All of a sudden, Zeus raised his arm up higher with the announcement. His unexpected reaction immediately baffled Eva as she continued gawking at him in wonder. Softly turning his gaze towards her, he tossed a meek smile before asking her out, "would you like to dance with me, my lady?" 

Flustered red in shyness before the whole cheering crowd and her deep brown eyes shimmering in happiness, she chuckled at his tender request and nodded her head staring at him in awe."I would love to, my lord." 

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