Hazel’s perfect eyebrows raised in amusement when she noticed the girl grinning like fools.
“You are the one who spiked my drink. Not that kid!” so, she did check right, the boy was telling the truth.
“A kid! He will be 150 years this month and you are only twenty with face and bones.
I wonder who the kid is here!” chuckled the girl but her eyes filled with anger. She took a step back in arrogance as if she had Hazel in her control.
“I spiked your drink but it was not poisonous. Just a way to make your life more kinkier since you looked quite desolate there.
And it would keep you away from foolish things you are planning so you do not get exhausted for the wrong reason.
Am i not considerate, my queen!” asked the girl with a mocking laughter but Hazel nodded her head sincerely.
“Yes, you are! But you forgot one thing.” Hazel replied, with an audible sigh of disappointment that confused the witch. Her brows furrowed as she tilted her head and stared at Hazel to see if it was one of her tricks and did not reply further.
“You forgot that I am your queen.” Hazel, who was still leaning on the wall with a layer of sweat covering her body, stood straight and walked towards the girl at ease.
Her red face turned to her normal pinkish hue.
“You should have chosen a stronger one for me if you really want to stop me.” The girl’s eyes bulged, she looked taken aback as her lips parted and then closed without a sound.
She took a step back ready to leave since negotiation would not work now but Hazel held her hands and pulled her back.
“Leaving! Already? I was expecting to spend more time with you, my subject.” Her grip was so tight on the hands of the girl that she was not able to move away.
Her eyes turned silver and so did her hair as the room started to shake. The ground beneath them cracked and a tree started to emerge.
“Power of earth! Many witches have it. I must say you are special.” Hazel looked at the smirk forming on the face of the witch who was sure she would be free when the branches of the tree would get hold of Hazel. But Hazel only tilted her head and waited.
The branches of trees covered her whole body and started to place pressure. If it would have been a human, her whole body would have burst out already with the force. And if it would have been a witch, she would have been struggling to get free and she would have forgotten about the girl she was holding but it was Hazel.
She smirked and continued to hold the hand of the girl with force that confused her.
“You forgot that you have called me queen for a reason.” She exerted a bit of pressure and all the thick branches broke and fell on the ground as if they were made of paper. “I have the power to control all the elements and perform all kinds of forbidden spells. Defeating me is impossible.” and to show that, Hazel moved her fingers and the tree started to cover the girl instead whose eyes bulged out with shock.
She tried to cast spells, she moved her fingers but nothing worked. The tree that she had summoned was not listening to her at all.
“How.. could that be?“ She was having trouble speaking as she felt her bones getting crushed in the process.
She cursed herself, she should have listened to Luhan but she wanted to show him that Hazel was not what they were looking for.
When Hazel had drank the wine without any reservation, sigh!
“It was all a trap from the start. Isn’t it?” she asked with a look of defeat. Her vicious smirk and arrogance had already gone and she looked no less than a deflated balloon when Hazel sighed and snapped her fingers.
The whole tree started to move back and go back to the ground leaving both of the girls alone. The crack on the ground started to fill itself again with only a fine line remaining as a proof of the whole incident.
“Since you have already checked my powers. You must know that running is not a choice. Right?” Hazel asked in a cold voice when the witch bit her lips and dug her nails deep into her arms but said nothing.
“If you are not interested in speaking to me, I will hand you over to my husband. He is better than me when it comes to making confessions.” Hazel said in a defeated voice as she shrugged her sh0ulder and moved her fingers.
A rope came out and bound the girl so that she could be dragged easily.
“Wait! Wait. I will not go to vampires. I never wanted to harm you or I would have mixed poison. I just wanted to stop you from meeting our coven.” she said in a hurried voice when Hazel stopped dragging the girl but she still did not let go of the ropes holding her in her place.
“Luhan was looking desperate so I went and saw them. Why are you so against the idea when you know that I am strong and can help you?” the woman gritted her teeth, hatred seemed to be forming in her eyes as she continued to look at Hazel.
“Because I know that you have already abandoned witches. You only support vampires.
Even humans are a puppet to you.” she snarled when Hazel chuckled.
It was the first time she was blamed to abandon them when they were the one who wanted to kill her.
- “Do you think no one knew? What you did with Lucian was merciless and cruel. You broke his core to force him to live like a human when he was serving you for months and have saved your life for so many times.
Who will trust you after that?”