? The
Heartless
immortal ?
{Cold as ice and dark hearted …}
Written by Ibrahim Gift
Chapter seven
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Alex slowly opened his eyes with his hand on where Cyrus had knocked him out.
When he realized that he was in the dungeon, he just shook his head. He already understood what happened, Cyrus had knocked him out to prevent him from drinking that drink.
He looked around and saw another person lying on the ground unconscious.
He went to the person immediately and he realized that it was Harley.
“Hey new girl!!!”, He called since he didn’t know her name.
“Hmm…”, Harley said as she opened her eyes.
“Are you okay?”, He asked and she nodded.
“Where are we?”
“We are locked up in a dungeon.”, He replied and she just looked around.
“But why?”
“Why are you here? Did you do something?”, He asked and she shook her head.
“I only offered to take the drink and then I just backed out.”, She answered.
“But why would you want to risk your life for lord Cyrus?”
“I don’t know, I just wanted to help him.”, She replied but Alex just smiled.
“What do you think happened to those girls?”, She questioned.
“They must be dead by now, lord Cyrus must have ki||ed them.”, He replied and Harley gasped.
“He is just a heartless being, isn’t he an immortal? What will he loose if he just take the drink? If he is Afraid them he shouldn’t have stopped us.”, She stated and Alex only sighed.
“I’m not surprised that you judged him so quick, yes he is cold sometimes… But he has feelings too, he is human too and it’s not everything that he has to show his emotions.”, He said but that only confused Harley more.
“So what do you mean?”
“Yes he is an immortal but he feels pain too, he gets tortured too. Taking the drink won’t ki|| him but will make extremely weak and what do you think we happen to the academy, he did what he had to do to protect us.”, He said and Harley just kept mute.
“Sometimes I don’t understand him sometimes but I know that most of the terrible things he does is to protect us and the academy.”, He replied.
“So why are we here? Being locked up when we offered to help?”
“That’s because he wants us to be punished for meddling in his issue, he didn’t want us to risk our life because of him.”, He explained and Harley felt bad that she had judged him so quick.
“What is that mark on his neck? I saw him in great pain the day he wanted to have me ki||ed.”, She said and Alex’s eyes widened.
“He didn’t clear your memory?”, He asked shocked.
“He did but someone recovered it for me.”, She replied.
“Make sure you keep it a secret or I’m afraid I won’t be able to protect you anymore.”, He said and Harley just nodded confused but she didn’t want to ask any question.
“Do you know when we will get out of here? I’m hungry.”, Harley complained rubbing her stomach and alex just smiled.
“I don’t know how long we are going to stay here but I’m sure lord Cyrus instructed them not to give us any food or water.”, Alex replied and Harley frowned sadly.
“Oh God! What do I do? I can’t live without food.”, She complained.
“Then you should have thought twice before you tried to help lord Cyrus.”, He said and she just frowned.
***
“I just wonder how Harley is doing? I can’t believe lord Cyrus locked her up for trying to save him, he is a monster, I h@ťě him.”, Ruby said.
“She will surely be fine, she is just being locked up from a while.”, Liam replied.
Emily just listened to them and she was scared… Scared about the fact that Alex and Harley were together in the dungeon.
What if Alex start to like Harley? What will become of her?
“Are you okay Emily?”, They asked her noticing that her mind wasn’t in what they were talking about.
“Just mind your business, we aren’t close okay?”, She said as she left.
“A lot of people are getting on my nerves recently.”, Ruby said and hissed.
“You don’t like pretty when you frowned, I like your smiling face.”, Liam said and ruby blushed.
“Really? No one has ever said that to me, thank you.”, She said blushing more.
#Next day
Cyrus went to the dungeon.
“Lord Cyrus.”, They both said in unison surprised that he came.
“Do you know your offense now?”, He asked coldly and they both nodded sharply.
“What is your offense Alex?”, He asked.
“I am not suppose to meddle in your business, act irrationally and disobey you when you asked me to stay out of it.”, Alex replied.
“And you?”, He asked referring to Harley.
“I … I wasn’t suppose to meddle also.”, She replied.
“No that’s part but the main reason you are being punished is because I warned you that I don’t want to see your face, I was indirectly telling you to always avoid me.”
“Since the both of you are willing to die so badly, then don’t do it in academy, you can do it elsewhere so that I won’t take responsibility.”, He said and they nodded.
“Release them.”, He ordered the guards and left.
***
“Lord Magnus you are right, lord Cyrus didn’t ki|| the new girl like he said.”
“Something is off, maybe she is the new weapon that I will use against him like I used Ariel.”, Magnus said with an evil grin.
“He saved her from getting ki||ed from Ember, he asked his right hand man to train her, he stopped her from taking that poisonous drink we planned and now he didn’t ki|| her.”
“That still doesn’t prove much, make sure you make him fall in love with her even more than he loved Ariel, then we will use her as his weakness.”, Magnus said and the person nodded.
“I have to get back to the academy before anyone notice that I am absent.”, The person said and disappeared.
“I made a mistake by not getting rid of you that time but I will surely not make the same mistake again.”, Magnus said with a smirk.
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