Chapter 16: Good Luck Brothers
Damien watched Annalise leaving the Pool Room along with her maid, a couple of minutes after he left her there all alone.
She was now dressed in a simple white gown that flowed around her as she walked. Her long platinum blue hair was wrapped in a white cloth to help it dry.
He couldn’t help but watch her from the shadows. His eyes moved along with her as she ascended the stairs and eventually disappeared into her room.
He relaxed against the wall behind him and closed his eyes, but was immediately gifted with the image of his wife that he just encountered in the pool. Her sparkling sapphire eyes, the wet strands of her hair falling down her cheeks, the blush that coated her soft and fair skin, and her full red lips that he kissed without thinking straight - he couldn’t remove that image of her from his mind even if he wanted to.
He still wondered what took over him all of a sudden to lose his calm that easily. He was supposed to just take a look at her, but he ended up pinning her against the wall and kissing her, well... more than just kissing her.
He couldn’t make up his mind whether he was feeling angry at himself for losing his calm and kissing her in the first place, or for not kissing her properly.
A long frustrating sigh left his lips as he gave a last look in the direction of Annalise’s room before heading towards the direction of the secret door leading to the basement.
He found both Kenric and Valerius perched on the couches in the dimly lit main hall. Ignoring the two of them, he headed towards the staircase leading downstairs to their bedrooms even though he had no plans for sleeping.
"Where have you been?" Kenric asked when he noticed him. But Damien just ignored him and went straight across the hall towards the stairs leading downstairs.
"You were with her." The one who spoke this time was Valerius and he sounded like he knew exactly what had happened. His voice was calm, just as usual, but the tension in the room was telling otherwise.
Damien let out another sigh before he finally turned to look at his brothers and only then did he realize that not only Valerius, even Kenric knew about his meeting with Annalise.
"What now? Am I not even allowed to meet her?" Damien could already feel his frustration growing and that was definitely not a good sign for anyone. Unlike his brothers, he wasnt really good at controlling his powers, his darkness, and because of that he usually ended up in a mess that the other two had to sort.