Chapter 95: What Is At Stake
Before it could lay those vicious long hands on him, Cassian took his hand to the back waist of his trouser, bringing out the mirror he had successfully grabbed from the table earlier. He pointed it at the creature’s face, showing it its own horrid reflection, and to Madeline’s surprise, the creature immediately halted.
Upon seeing its own reflection in the mirror, a loud shriek escaped its mouth like the sound of a banshee, and to Madeline’s awe, the creature was instantly swallowed into the glass of the mirror before it could think of escaping. She watched as Cassian slammed the mirror to the ground, shattering the glass into pieces.
Tiny black soot escaped from the broken glasses before vanishing completely into thin air.
The room immediately regained its eerie silence after the creature was no more, and Cassian let out a breath of relief as he leaned his back against the wall, feeling relaxed that they had gotten rid of the ghost without anyone getting hurt.
Looking at Madeline who stood at the other end of the room, he never expected to see the woman run towards him as she immediately embraced him with her hands connecting around his neck, not minding that he looked like a vampire in front of her.
He could feel her body still tremble in his arms as she hugged him, but he also sensed the relief that came with it, making him wrap one arm around her as he embraced her in return, equally feeling glad that she didn’t get hurt by that thing.
"Are you alright?" He asked softly when she finally pulled back to meet his Amber-brown eyes that had returned, and she nodded her head while smiling at him. "Yes, I’m... I’m fine." Her response came out in a hush tone as she was still in the middle of recovering her voice.
Tapping her cheeks lightly in a reassuring gesture as though saying ’everything was alright now’, he retracted his gaze to the box they had opened, and his expression turned into a subtle frown as his brows creased into a state of rumination.
"I have no idea what uncle William must have done before he died..."with his voice trailing off, he left Madeline’s side to go pick up the box they had found.