Chapter 116 [Bonus chapter] Was it one?

Hazel felt something had struck in her throat when she heard those words, she waited for them to laugh over it but the seriousness on their face told her that he was telling the truth.

She nodded and walked out of the room and just as the door was shut, Rafael snatched the sheet from the man.

His eyes were tracing the lines that looked like veins with such intensity as if it would burn hole in the sheet.

“What if she was reincarnated?” the man chuckled as if he had heard a joke but it only felt taunting to the vampire.

“Aren’t we all reincarnated? The souls are never new, they change bodies all the time.

You want to know if she was Bella, you are waiting for.

Though her face had the same features, her blood did not match hers. Her life tree is of humans and her future is with humans too.” he held the fingers of Rafael and pierced them too.

The blood fell on the same sheet but instead of mixing, the blood repealed each other. As the drop fell, the vines moved away and created distance as if it had their own mind.

“See! You are not meant to be with her. She would make her future with a human and live a peaceful life.

While you.. You are bound to another war. I can see that a rebel is forming against you. I wonder how much of my clan would be killed by you this time.” Rafael closed his eyes as his eyes turned dim.

“You have to let her go, Rafael. She might not come back.” whispered the man softly with a hint of pity in his voice.

Rafael’s eyes snapped open and his hands wrapped around his neck and pressed it, stopping the flow of air in his body instantly. His eyes had turned so dark as if he had lost all his senses.

“No! She had told me that she would come back for me. And I would wait for her even if it would take more than a century.

It is all because of those witches that I have lost her and I would never forgive them.

She had given all her life to love and care for her clan while they had sold her and then when she started living a good life with me then they killed her. There is a limit to hatred and jealousy.

And now you have to bear its cost!”

“I know I am one of the survivors too. If you are forgetting then I was sold too. And if not for you, I would have been killed too. So, even if you kill me now, I do not have any regrets.

It would be worth dying from your hands!” though the voice came out stuttering, there was no fear in his eyes.

As if the death would be his salvation, Asher closed his eyes and waited for the death to engulf him when Rafael finally let him go.

“No! Your punishment is to live with me and face that pain i am suffering with.” Taking a few deep breaths, Rafael stood up ready to leave.

The more he stayed there, the more old memories would start to flood him and make him realize how hollow his life had turned. The feeling was suffocating.

“If you still want to wait for her, then you have to let go of this girl.

She is not the one you are looking for. If you continued to pin your hopes on her, then it would only end up with disappointment for both of you.

Your life would be more entangled than it is already!” a wry smile formed on the face of the vampire who already knew all this but the hopes in his heart were not ready to let her go.

He had brought her here only to check once again even if he had checked it so many times, hoping that he would get a different answer this time.

It felt like his fate was playing with him, giving him hopes only to break them again which pierces his soul one more time.

His eyes that were cold and hurt just a second ago filled with serenity when he opened the door.

When Hazel walked out the man turned to stare at her direction and waited patiently while looking behind her but when they realized she was alone, their gazes turned cold and they looked away as if they did not notice her presence yet she was glad.

Walking out, she decided to look around as she was told rather than standing in the corner and waiting for Rafael.

“Pretty sister, do you like to have some flowers? It is freshly brought from the garden and it costs very cheap.” looking at the pleading face of the girl, Hazel did not have the heart to say no.

She bent a little as she took the flowers from her hands and the sweet fragrance filled her nostrils. It reminded her of the time when she used to work in her garden with Anne.

“Ouch!” a small thorn from the rose pierced her skin where the man had pierced her and a few drops of blood started to fall on the ground.

“Oh! I apologize, have you hurt my pretty sister?” the girl panicked, afraid that she would not only buy the flowers but scold her or even throw the flowers away so that she would not be able to sell them later.

“It is okay, how much did it cost?” Hazel turned to look at the men who looked away. Her eyes narrowed as she took out the ring for payment when she felt footsteps behind her and turned to see Rafael had come there.

He took out a few gold coins and passed it to the girl who bowed her head and thanked them again and again before leaving with a bright smile on her face.

On the other side, Asher threw the sheet in the fireplace to burn it but just as he threw it, the blood that had made two different life trees started to swirl again and mixed in each other as if it was one.