Hellbound Heart

Trying his hardest to keep his cool, Sebastian squatted before Kana. However, he made sure to keep at least an arm's length away from her.

He had not expected this woman to turn on her allies and switch sides. All without a moment's hesitation. She was such a cruel and ungrateful person. But who was complaining? In fact, this was a favorable situation for him. Now he knew Elijah's backer was indeed a witch and it was a woman. Who was this female witch? She was so powerful to create such a topnotch spell that can imitate even the person's heartbeats?

In the past, witches could never do this. That was why the royal blood vampires could always find out whenever someone was in disguise through their heartbeats. This disguise was so perfect, he had to only rely on his own gut feeling and the reaction of his body to tell him that this woman was not his Izabelle. She was at most, a high level immigration goods. Impressive and high level, but an impostor nonetheless.

This was such a dangerous magic that needed to be destroyed at all costs! Sebastian vowed to himself to search for the source of it and remove it from the roots. This dangerous magic, if allowed to propagate, would only spell more trouble in future.

"Tell me, Kana... who's the f**cking witch who did this to you?" he tried his hardest to sound even a little soft. This was his chance to find out more. To dig for truly important details that might change everything. To turn the tables around and use her to his advantage.

Kana wiped at her eyes, as though brushing away tears from her current distressing situation. And she reached out to him, desperate for more attention. The little attention he gave her right now was nowhere near enough. And she was craving his attention as a plant craves the sunlight.

Sebastian fought the urge to swat her fast approaching hands. He needed to hold on. He must make her spill what she knew before getting away from her.

Kana hugged him and Sebastian's jaws clenched tightly in revulsion. What he wanted to do most was to slap those offending paws that were currently on his person and wash her disgusting scent off. But he tamped down the urge and did not move and just asked her again. "Kana... you need to tell me more details. This witch needs to be dealt with as soon as possible or she'd find someone, disguise her, and send her to me again. They might even make a replica of you next." Thankfully, his tight voice and words spoken through gritted teeth matched the content of the message he was trying to get across even though it actually was out of revulsion of Kana.

She reluctantly pulled away and looked at him. "Your Highness... before I answer your question... please tell me you're going to bring me back to your side again. I promise I will behave and serve you way better than before. I will give you my life, Your Highness, I â€"" Kana's words were rushed and tumbled out one after another.

"Kana." He cut her off. "About that... we'll talk about that again at another time. For now, we need to deal with this current issue. This is a serious thing to me and you know I can't focus on you until this matter about this witch that is occupying my mind is being dealt with. You know how much I despise witches." He even slightly growled as he uttered that last line. And since it was true on the whole, the sincerity in his tone and the distaste in his face convinced Kana that he was being honest with her.

Kana seemed to be convinced by that at last.

"Promise me we'll talk about that again once you're ready, Your Highness." She demanded. She still wanted a guarantee that he would not throw her away after he got what he wanted out of her.

Sebastian paused but eventually nodded at her. "I give you my word." He said and Kana smiled triumphantly.

"Actually, I didn't see the witch's face." she began a little slowly and Sebastian barely stopped himself from snapping at her.

"You didn't see her..." he narrowed his eyes, not hiding his disappointment and suspicion of her.

"Please believe me, Your Highness. The witch was wearing a long red cloak and her large hood was constantly covering her head."

"Do you know her name?"

Kana shook her head, pursing her lips with the hopes that she might come across as pitiful. "She didn't tell me..."

Sebastian clenched his fist discreetly as he tried calming his expectant reaction to Kana's ignorance. "So you do not have anything valuable to tell me to trace her, Kana?"

Kana swallowed. "I... I'm so sorry, Your Highness."

Sebastian ignored her words and just shot out the next question. "Where did you meet her then?"

"She approached me in my room in our manor." Kana had no choice but to continue answering him. No matter her feeling a little disgruntled at how he was treating her, still, having to be able to talk to him is so much better than being ignored.

"Did she tell you to meet with her again?"

"Yes. She said she'd come to our manor again when I'm ready."

"Then you need to leave now and go back."

Her eyes circled wide and she clung to him again. "Your Highness, I â€""

"I am going to go hunt that witch. She needs to be dealt with immediately." And Sebastian shrugged her hands off and stormed out of the room, leaving it open.

Kana called out but Sebastian did not bother to look back at all, leaving her gritting her teeth and clenching her fists.

The next moment, Rion entered the room and grabbed her arm. His actions were not too gentle and it hurt her.

"What are you doing, Rion?"

"His Highness ordered for you to be detained."

"What?! That cannot be true!"

"Just obey, Lady Kana." Rion's flat and unimpressed voice sounded out beside her.

And Rion dragged Kana towards the underground dungeon. Upon the sight of the door leading underground, Kana threw a fit.

"Let me go! I'm not going to enter that dungeon prison!" she yelled.

But Rion did not budge and continued pulling her along with ease. Not caring that she was a noble's daughter.