Chapter 280: Without A Heart
How did he know that the bond between Samantha and Marius wasn’t a mate bond? Aside from trying to figure out the location of his enemies, he had been digging up little pieces of clues recently, whilst trying to fit in the complicated puzzles in his head.
After the note from Samantha’s Father, he explained that the whispers she had heard were Marius’s ways of controlling her mind to his advantage. His heart had stopped upon jumping into the conclusion that Marius was his wife’s soulmate, but when she broke down after reading the letter, he felt her pain, and that denial in his heart returned– the denial that his little lamb belonged to someone else.
From the little information he had gotten from the letter, Marius was the sole owner of the Mystic Orb. He hadn’t done further research on the enigmatic demon until the day he inquired more about Marius from Viktor.
When he read the documented history of the war between Marius and his people, it was rather clear that Marius had a strong, negative effect on the Orb before he lost it, and considering his possessiveness towards the Orb, he was practically seeking his little lamb in order to make use of her power; he knew how to lure the dark side of the Orb, and that was the only connection his little lamb shared with Marius.
As much as he was left aghast by the discovery, the paleness on the vampire Lord’s face had left him mute.
"Did you say Marius?" Viktor, who seemed to be unaware of Marius’s return, moved closer to Ivan who gave no response, but his silence conveyed what Viktor needed to know. It suddenly made sense why Ivan had been so curious to learn about the demon, and what was he thinking at that time to not have noticed?
"If she was the Orb this whole time why didn’t you say anything sooner?" Lucius seemed to have panicked more as he got up from the chair he was sitting, and Ivan exhaled deeply, his hands resting on his hips, his bottom lip in-between his white teeth. He didn’t come here to listen to their unnecessary scolding about why he did what he did, and if they really knew the Orb like they claimed to, shouldn’t they have noticed it for themselves?
"I am losing my mind right now," his voice dropped to a gravelly tone as he had his eyes transfixed between the two of vampires, "I just want to find my wife, I don’t care how you intend to scold me or hurt me after that but I need my wife, and I need your help. I don’t know how she’s doing, I don’t know if she’s safe, her heartbeat, her scent, it’s all gone like I never felt them and I’m slowly losing it. All of this wouldn’t have happened if I followed her down the stairs last night. It’s my fault, but I can’t find her without some assistance. Are you going to help me or not?"
Lucius and Viktor exchanged meaningful glances, and as much as they were both upset that he had hid a matter so crucial from the both of them, they could not ignore him. In their eyes, he was still a child who was progressing and was bound to make mistakes on the way– still better late than never. Coming to a decision, Viktor’s shoulders eased.
"The guard at the gate claimed she disappeared last night, on her own accord." Viktor started the conversation as he took his seat, "your wife wouldn’t leave on her own accord, it’s not possible unless someone made her leave." He asserted, based on his belief, and that only left Ivan feeling more perplexed.
"I don’t–"
"Marius made her do it," he said, sounding as though he was a witness to when everything happened, "Marius can’t get into the Palace even if he wanted to. His aura can only be concealed for some minutes, and that is a limitation to his presence, cause he will be caught eventually. The Palace is difficult to get into, but not impossible. I believe someone has helped him take your wife away, which isn’t good, at all." Viktor shook his head, especially now that Marius was involved.