Bang! The door shook violently for a while before it was finally kicked open.
Rufus threw away the chair he had used to break the lock in a hurry. It seemed he had rushed here in a hurry without even putting his coat on. With trembling hands placed on my shoulders, he looked me up and down carefully. “Are you okay? Are you hurt?”
I shook my head. “No, no, I’m fine. They just locked me up in here.”
That’s a relief.” Rufus was still in a state of shock. He held me tightly in his arms and planted a thousand kisses all over my face before calming down.
“Wait. How did you know I was here?” I looked up at him in confusion. Flora or the others should’ve realized I was missing first, because as long as we were in the army, we would always be together. Rufus usually called me at the end of a busy day. He only would’ve called Flora if he couldn’t reach me.
But Flora and others didn’t even know that I was locked in this hall.
“I got a strange text saying that you were in danger here. I tried calling you but couldn’t get through, so I rushed here,” Rufus explained.
Frowning, I mulled over what Rufus said when a thought occurred to me and I looked at him in horror.
Noticing my horrified expression, Rufus asked, “What’s wrong? Sylvia, why are you looking at me like that?”!
Anxious and scared out of my wits, I shouted, “The flower! The potted plant! Their target isn’t me! It’s the flower they’re after! They locked me here just to lure you out of your room!”
Sylvia’s POV
Sure enough, by the time Rufus and I burst into his room, our worst fears were confirmed. The potted plant on the bedside table had been smashed, and the blooming flower had been trampled into pieces.
I held the remnants of the flower in my hands “carefully and felt my heart shatter.
Now that the flower was gone, the curse on Rafus couldn’t be removed.
My brain was a mess. I had no idea what to do.
Just then, Rufus’ men had captured someone and brought her to us. It was the she-wolf who had deceived me earlier.
I grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her angrily. “Why?! Why would you do such a thing?”
The she-wolf was no longer as timid and shy as before. She smiled complacently and said with disdain, “Rufus is a monster. He doesn’t deserve to be a prince, let alone a king.”
After saying that, she pushed me away and tried to kill herself, but Rufus quickly stopped her.
Soon, Rufus’ men subdued her and she couldn’t move.
“Take her away and interrogate her. Find out who’s behind this.” Rufus also ordered his men to investigate the she-wolf’s close connections in the army.
I watched from aside and felt guilt and despair.
If it weren’t for me, Rufus wouldn’t have been lured out of his room.
Anger, shame, and regret occupied my heart. I was so stupid! How could I have fallen for such a dumb trick?
“Sylvia, find a clean pot and replant the flower.
Maybe it can still live. I doubt Noreen’s things are that fragile,” Yana suggested.
I sniffed and snapped back to reality. Following Yana’s instructions, I found a clean pot, tidied up the soil and the flower, but the flower was too withered.
There was no way to fix it.
I dug my bare hands into the soil and tears welled up in my eyes. Our last glimmer of hope was snuffed in the blink of an eye.
“Don’t cry, Sylvia. The soil was nourished with Noreen’s blood. Perhaps it has other uses.”
Yana refused to give up and asked me to dig the soil up and seal it away.
But as soon as I found a plastic bag and was about to pack the soil in it, I found that the color of the soil had changed from red to normal. Now, I was certain that it was completely useless.
Tears streamed down my face uncontrollably.
Rufus came back in after he instructed his people to deal with the she-wolf. He was startled when he heard me crying. He knelt down next to me and asked, “Honey, what’s wrong?”
“It was all my fault. I was so easily fooled…” I cried so hard that I couldn’t catch my breath.
I wiped my tears away with my filthy hands.
As a result, ny face was covered with mud, and I felt even more dejected.
This made Rufus burst into laughter.
I stopped crying and looked at him in confusion. How could he still laugh like this?
Rufus stretched out his fingers to wipe the mud off my face and coaxed me softly, “It wasn’t your fault, honey. That she-wolf was a spy who has been lurking around for some time now. No one could’ve seen it coming.”
“But… But the flower is gone. The curse…
Speaking of that, I couldn’t help but burst into tears again. I felt like I was drowning in a pool of despair.
I had already started to picture a life with Rufus and our children, but now I felt hopeless and angry.
Rufus held me in his arms and comforted me.
“Honey, don’t cry. Things aren’t as bad as you think. There’s still hope.”
“How? It’s not like we can just bring Noreen here,” I said tearfully.
Rufus simply smiled and pecked me on the forehead. He then said in a meaningful tone, “Calm down. Let’s wait and see.”
Richard’s POV
Today was the night of the full moon. I had been watching TV in my room since early in the morning while waiting for the webcast to start.
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