Robert walks into the room holding bandages for Caroline to change into and a plate of fruits.

"what are you thinking?" he asks placing the tray on the table beside the bed.

Caroline is lying on the bed in pain, she could get up and see who it walked into the room until they came forward to her, he walked further to her and she looks at Robert who was treating her wounds.

"Robert"

"yes"

"if she didn't step in to stop Zanuel earlier, would you just let me die in his hands?"

"..."

No words were spoken, but the silence was louder. It doesn't matter who Zanuel tries to kill, Robert will never step in between, his firm trust in him will never let him go against him and the belief Zanuel would never kill someone without a reason is all Robert knows.

"what you did was wrong"

"I'm not asking you if I was wrong or right"

Robert gets closer to Caroline "I love you Carl, I would do anything for you, I even understand what you did, you love lord and I respect that and seeing someone else who he cares more about makes you jealous and that jealousy made you do things but you forgot that she was the guest Lord brought back with him and doing something to her was wrong and stopping him is not something I can do"

"not even when he tries to kill me, it doesn't matter if I am alive or not, right?"

"It matters, but if the person killing you is Lord then yes I will not try to stop"

"..."

Caroline grabs her coat and walks out of the room, Robert didn't stop her as she walked away, and after walking a while she broke down in tears in the hallway and Margaret saw her sitting on the ground, crying.

"is it bearable?"

Caroline looked at Margaret who held no expression on her face while she was burning in anger. "don't come near me Margaret if you don't want to die"

"I just wanna help you, Caroline"

Caroline couldn't believe what she just heard "you are the one who made me go through this"

"I know, and I want to be the one to help you, so please"

Caroline had no energy to waste fighting Margaret while her back was still bleeding, so she gave in and Margaret takes her to the room and tends her wounds.

No words were exchanged, and Caroline walked out of the room after getting treated.

"Caroline"

Margaret calls Caroline, stopping her from leaving.

"can you not hate Robert?"

"huh?"

Caroline looks at Margaret raising her left eyebrow as to what she was implying.

"He can't go against Lord, Lord saved him when no one did. Nothing in this world can make him walk away from that and you tried to kill Lord's guest, if it was someone else Robert would have killed them without a second thought but he brought you back with him to Lord so that he can plead for you"

"..."

Caroline knew all along what she was doing was wrong and there was no cure for jealousy. The only thing is acceptance but will she accept that?

Robert walked into the room and saw Zanuel reading the books, the spells.

"Lord"

"what"

"this-" he asks pointing to the books on the floor.

Zanuel looks at Robert and walks towards him "don't tell me you believed when I said I was lucky"

"uhh"

"I am going to visit some old friends, make sure Denisa is safe"

"yes my lord"

Zanuel grabs his coat from the bed and walks out of the room but stopped halfway looking back at Denisa's room.

'don't do anything stupid until I come back'

Robert watched him walk away and goes to Denisa as he was ordered to keep her safe. The door opened wide and Denisa looked that way and Robert walked into the room.

"my lady"

"what is it, Robert"

"Nothing my lady I am here to keep you safe"

"Why? will I be attacked by another blood-sucking creature today or the same old one?"

"nothing like that will happen today, my lady"

"..."

Denisa gets back to bed and starts reading the book. Robert keeps staring at her as she was busy reading.

"Where did you get that book, my lady?" Robert asks as the book looked familiar to him as if he bought it himself.

"I got it from the bookshelf"

Denisa showed him the shelf filled with books, Zanuel loved books and has a room just for those books, even when he was in the coffin Kate and Robert made sure they filled the room with books they thought Zanuel would like.

"ohh"

"I was told there was a book written on my parents but I never got to see or read it do you think it'll be here?"

"yes my lady, what's the title of the book?"

"The Prosper warriors"

Robert starts searching for the book and soon found it on the corner shelf.

"here my lady"

"Thank you, Robert"

Denisa was happy, this might be the only good thing that happened ever since she met Zanuel.

"you can sit on the couch, don't just stand on my head Robert"

Robert smiled at her, sat on the couch, and watched her read the book about her parents.

"My parents were great warriors"

Denisa couldn't feel happier, the book was filled with praises and war stories. Aurous was mentioned too, he fought with them and Olivia's face flashed in front of her.

"what happened my lady?"

"I have to go back, Robert"

"my lady you can't go back"

"if I don't, the king will kill her"

"who?"

"Olivia"

"who is she?"

"she's the only family left"

"I can't take you back to your chambers my lady, but I can bring her to you, do you want me to do that"

Denisa looks at him in hope "can you do that?" she asks getting up from the bed and walking closer to him.

"yes my lady"

"no one is going anywhere"

The voice echoed in the room, and the door opened while Zanuel walked into the room.

"I was clear last time you are going nowhere and no one will come here," Zanuel says looking at Robert who would rather die than go against his Lord's words.

"I will kill myself Zanuel"

"leave"

Robert leaves them alone and closes the door behind him.

"you'll die?"

"yes, I will die! I never asked to be here, you are keeping me here against my will"

"you want to go back to your fiancée?"

"yes, I do"

Zanuel is having a hard time controlling his feelings when it comes to Denisa, and it was getting harder for him to stay calm.

"you can try, but trust me you won't die. I will not let that happen"

"why! just why!"

"..."

Zanuel walked away from her and Denisa hurriedly grabbed the knife from the table to slit her wrist, she closed her eyes and cut the wrist open, and her fingers felt the warm blood falling down her palm.

Denisa opened her eyes feeling the blood but it didn't hurt and saw Zanuel standing in front of her she looked down at her wrist and it was Zanuel's wrist, it cut open and it was his blood on her hands "why would you do that?" she snapped, her eyes filled with tears and worried, her tears making their way to her cheeks.

"I told you, I won't let you die"

"you are foolish, why would you do that? what will you do if this doesn't heal," She says and Zanuel looks at her blankly, did she forget he was a demon and the cut would heal in no time

Zanuel looks at her in confusion as his heart aches to look at her cry "stop crying!" he says but she didn't listen and tears keep falling down her eyes. He was hardly holding himself back but seeing her cry is hard.

It is making him go crazy, he pulled her closer and pressed his lips against her and pulled her closer to him, tasting her salty tears as they kiss.

Denisa's eyes grew wider in shock, she didn't know what to do, she blinked a few times and tried to push him but couldn't, he held her tight and pulled her body close to his feeling her heart beat for him.

Denisa couldn't resist the man and gives in, and starts kissing Zanuel back, sucking his lower lip and Zanuel slowly let go of his grip over Denisa and smiled staring at her lips which he wanted to taste for ages.

"Now you know" he says and leaves her alone.