Chapter 106 - HEART WRENCHING CRY

July waited for Knox to come back, throughout the night until the morning sun rose from the east. She sat near the huge window in this presidential suite hotel.

July had informed the crew and all the people in the location area that she was fine and they told her the whole set was on fire, it would need more than a week to settle things there, rendering the production to be pushed back because of that accident.

July smiled cheekily when she heard that, that was another level of Knox's pettiness because he didn't want her to shoot a kissing scene with another man.

However, her smile immediately disappeared once she put down the phone and found herself all alone inside this vast room. It looked very empty and lonely.

She didn't feel this way before because all of her senses only focused on Knox, yet when the silence hit her hard, it spoke of the amount of sadness and made July think a lot of things.

It was not that she was unaware of the situation out there, about how aggressive the people could be when they heard about the non- human beings, as they showcased their hostility so openly.

July fully understood that it was only a matter of time. If she could still careless about how things had changed out there now, but soon everything would be out of control. There was nothing that could deny the fact that Knox was a non- human being.

And once the people knew about it and her family caught wind of this information, she needed to choose her ground.

July lowered her head and looked at her ring, she caressed the surface of it and felt the materials. "Knox, where are you? What happened to you?"

The fact that it was not Knox's usual behavior to leave her alone without saying anything truly couldn't settle right with her.

Something must have happened, but what?

And only after a few hours July spent in silence, she finally switched on the television to see the news about the McKeltar manor that she finally found out the answer for her question.

Seeing that, without thinking twice, she rushed to her home.

And with this, July knew that her time to choose her ground had come earlier than she expected.

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"You need to eat something…" Gael was still persuading Lise to eat, as her face was so pale and she was so weak after days depending on IV drips. "Tell me what you want, I will get it for you."

Lise turned her head to her left, so she didn't need to look at Gael at all. "I want you to leave."

The silence inside the room spoke more than what their little conversation could offer. Both of them were tired, exhausted even in this situation. One of them needed to take a step back and let the other person breathe.

Therefore, Gael put aside his ego and walked out of the bedroom, but before that, he put down a bowl of porridge on the table beside Lise and told her to eat.

However, once Gael closed the door, he heard the sound of the bowl being thrown against the door, as it shattered to the floor.

This was not the first time Lise did this and she was too kind to throw it right at Gael's face instead.

The maid there was about to enter the room to clean the mess, but Gael raised his hand and made her stop.

"Leave it," he said. "All of you leave."

There were around two maids and four guards, who were guarding this room and all of them walked away when they heard Gael's order.

Once it was only him alone in this corridor, Gael sat down on the floor and leaned his body against the door behind him. He listened to Lise's cry. She was crying her heart out and every second he heard that, it hurt him even more…

Was this his punishment? Sure it was… it almost felt like dying instead of a mere punishment.

Gael clutched his chest and breathed raggedly. He felt more like a human by each second that passed… his heart bled and so did the wounds from the fight before as they had not yet healed completely.

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The news about the fight that broke out in McKeltar manor had filled all the media outlets, they were trying to find out the reason why The Hound attacked the McKeltar family.

Many people didn't believe that the McKeltar family were supernatural creatures, their assumption was; The Hound had wrong information when they targeted that family, because there was no way the vampires also were there to attack the McKeltars if they were from the same kind.

Yet, there was another opinion that the McKeltars were vampires, therefore when The Hound attacked them the vampires were there to protect the family.

Until now, the news was still not yet confirmed and they were still trying to find the truth behind all of this, since there was still no explanation from The Hound's side.

Fortunately, that night, all of the family members were out of town. That was what the McKeltars spokesperson said to the media. There was no harm that fell upon the McKeltar family, but the families of the guards who died during the attack would be compensated.

But they said nothing about the attack that The Hound launched on the manor.

It was still a mystery.

But, July didn't have time to wait either for the media to reveal the truth or for Knox to show up in front of her and explain all of this mess.

Because now, July had lost her patience when she grabbed Jasmine's hair all of a sudden and gave a hard slap across her face.

"I asked you what happened in the McKeltar manor?" her voice was rigid, as she stared at her twin in malice.

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