Chapter 288: What Are You Going To Do?
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"Are you sure this will work?" Carmela worriedly questioned Marius as he sat down on his armchair, his leg crossing the other, whilst he played with a green crystal, as though it was an invaluable toy. His silence for the past few hours was starting to give Carmela the creep, and she watched as he kept tossing the crystal in the air only to catch it back in his grip.
His obsidian eyes reflected a slight hint of displeasure, and then he stopped.
"She will have no heart." He repeated with no warmth in his voice. Pausing for a moment, he leaned back on the chair and continued, "in order to have her wrapped around my fingers, she needs to lose the ability to feel things. Great power comes when there is nothing to feel sorry for, and she... well her heart has been exposed to too many emotions. We need to make her stop, and to accomplish that, she’ll need to feel the negativity of having emotions that she will wish not to feel them any longer, and when that happens... her heart will stop... beating, replaced by an empty void." Marius’s lips curved deviously, but Carmela still felt a bit unsettled by the idea of making her numb to emotions.
"What about your uncle? Did he come as planned?" Marius asked as he poured himself a glass of liquor, and Carmela nodded in satisfaction, whilst she folded her arms.
"He should be in the chamber with her already. After the little visit from Alistair, I felt it was time to set her up with my uncle, in the hopes that she channels her anguish towards killing him." She admitted, "I want that man dead, he’s first on my list, and if she succeeds in getting rid of him, I will use her to end the bloodline of my relatives’ generation."
"Then so shall it be, Carmela." He smirked and took a sip of colorless drink.
"But even so, Your Majesty, why do we have to make her lose the ability to feel? The vampire King must be seeking our land already and we don’t have that amount of time to groom her heart into stone." Carmela voiced her discontent, "you can get inside her head, can’t you? You own the Orb so that makes you her Master, you can make her listen to your wishes so why do we have to start with baby steps?"
"You lack patience, Carmela." Marius rubbed his temples to ease off the headache this woman was deliberately causing him, "she’s no longer an Orb, an Orb is a round object with many divine powers tainted by my deeds. An Orb has no heart, neither does it have the ability to feel. However, that Orb is now human, it no longer recognizes me as the master, so I have to start all over. I have to make her lose her heart if I want to unleash the darkness inside of her."