Chapter 20: Claiming What Belonged To Him
"What did you find?" Kenric asked Damien as soon as he and Valerius returned to the basement. Unlike the upper floors of the castle that were now brimming with light, the basement was still filled with the usual darkness that resided in it.
Damien had skipped the breakfast as well as the morning tea, but Kenric and Valerius stayed back to accompany their wife for a couple of more minutes before they too left to meet with Damien and talk about his findings.
"Nothing," Damien stated as he tucked a loose lock of his hair behind his ear while ignoring the surprised and confused look on Kenric’s face.
"What do you mean by nothing?" Kenric asked when Damien refused to give any further explanation.
"It’s simple, Kenric. I found nothing because I was unable to read her. My powers didn’t work on her. As for why? I have no fucking idea." Damien responded as he spared a quick look in his younger brother’s direction.
Kenric ignored the look that he got from Damien and instead, turned to look at Valerius who was silently staring at the dead fireplace built in the very center of the room.
"Did you already know?" His question was directed at his eldest brother this time. Valerius was the most powerful among them and also the one who always had the answers to any question, and if he couldn’t give a specific answer, he still could give something to work on.
Valerius let out a small sigh before he moved to take a seat on one of the couches before replying, "To some extent. Something about her isn’t as normal as it seemed. Ever since she stepped on these grounds, the castle is no longer the same as it was before her arrival. Things are changing and in the best way possible."
The room was silent for the next couple of minutes before Kenric spoke, "What if we are thinking too much about this and it’s actually nothing?" Even he knew how futile his words sounded at that moment.
"Do you really believe that all this is nothing and she is just someone normal?" Damien questioned as he looked at Kenric with a little smirk decorating his lips. "A nobody who’s able to reverse the curse of this castle whenever she touches something? A nobody who can make all three of us kneel in front of her?"
Kenric opened his mouth to respond to that last statement that Damien just threw out at their faces but stopped before any word could have left his lips. What was he supposed to even say? It wasn’t like he could deny the fact that he was immensely attracted to her. Every time she’s around him, he just wanted to stay as close to her as possible.