Ensnaring his Dark Moon-Chapter 284: Yours to kill

’’Then, along with her soul, I would have disappeared too.’’

Luciana froze, her eyes turned wide as she stared at him blankly. If he did disappear, he would not be sitting here with her. The thought of it made it hard to breathe, ’’You are powerful,’’ she whispered. He was powerful. He would not have disappeared.

’’Not as powerful as my mother, father, or my brother,’’ Cardan shrugged a shoulder as he held her waist and pulled her onto his lap. When she did not protest, he gently nibbled her neck, ’’In heaven, a child of mixed origin can become the most powerful entity or the most useless one. The former would be my brother, the child between the god and a human who possessed the god’s most remarkable abilities, pure divine powers, and the ability to teleport. Humans are weak and the royals do possess some magic that brother had inherited from his mother but those measly powers could not suppress the god’s abilities. But the abilities of the most powerful witch and the God were so strong that they could restrain each other, forming a barrier in between, stopping one from unleashing the full potential of one. So, the latter, the useless one would be me, who could not be proficient at black magic or divine powers.’’

Luciana frowned when she heard his self-deprecating tone. She placed her palm on his neck and he stopped kissing her shoulder. She tilted his head and cupped his face, ’’You are not useless at all. You have helped me by spellbinding the whole castle’s workers,’’ she whispered and with slightly narrowed eyes, she added, ’’You threatened me for a year or so. I was so intimidated by you,’’ she pressed her forehead against his, ’’I have never seen you as useless,’’ she was not consoling him.

He was a formidable entity to everyone she knew.

He chuckled, ’’Lucy, I never tried to threaten you. I never intended to scare you. I apologize,’’ her face softened and he added, ’’But it seems like I am useful for you so how about you keep me?"

Luciana’s lips twitched, ’’You are unreasonable,’’ she stood up from his lap.

Cardan shrugged.

Averting her gaze from that sinful face of his, she turned around to leave but before she could reach the door, she looked at him from above her shoulder, ’’Es has regained her memories.’’

Cardan raised an eyebrow, ’’My brother must be dancing in joy. The reason you are telling me this is...?"

’’Weren’t you always curious about her?" Luciana turned fully to look at him.

’’Told you I just wanted to placate a heartbroken man sulking in heaven so I took his lover’s information for him...’’ Cardan started speaking with mild annoyance but soon, he trailed off, ’’Are you jealous?"

’’I. Am. not.’’

Jealous? Over a man? Men who drowned themselves in the world of countless women, mistresses, and whatnot.

Even a person like her father who used to claim to be the greatest husband beat her mother and had entanglements with many women.

She was not putting Cardan in the same mold but people changed and so did their preferences. He had this strange obsession with her today, who can say that his interest won’t wilt tomorrow when he discovered she was just an illusion? Interesting from afar, but ugly up so close.

She frowned. It would be disgusting and shameful if such a day ever came when she would be jealous over some man.

’’I...’’ Luciana cleared her throat, ’’Didn’t you want to know the reason we were here?"

She stepped towards him just as he stood up from the bed, his hair covering a part of his face as he tilted his head down to look at her, ’’So, you want to tell me about it now?" he asked, his eyes twinkling.

Luciana did not understand what he was trying to insinuate but she nodded in a response to his words, ’’My father wanted me to capture Aleister’s weakness, which happens to be his Uncle so he sent me to Visteria,’’ she noticed how his eyes narrowed slightly, she could see the protectiveness for his elder brother and it made her guiltier that like the whole world, even had seen him as a bad person at some point, ’’But unbeknownst to him, I am here to find Duke Maverick after Esme told me that he was captured by the heir apparent.’’

’’Heir apparent?" Cardan’s brows tugged together as if he was trying to remember the face of the insignificant being who was just mentioned.

Knowing him, it was not surprising that he saw everyone beneath him, ’’My Uncle, Jeremiah,’’ Luciana clarified.

Cardan seemed to have been enlightened by her clarification, ’’That hare-brained man with a twig-like body?’’ The corner of her lips twitched at his description as he continued, ’’I just knew that he was the kind of bad creature in this world.’’

Even Luciana was shocked when Esme made this revelation about Jeremiah but when Cardan phrased it like that, Luciana did not know whether to laugh or cry, ’’Who is the kind of good creature in this world then?"

’’Me,’’ Cardan pointed a long finger at himself as he blinked at her.

She was speechless, ’’You...’’ she sighed.

’’You are my world,’’ Cardan stepped towards her, ’’The better I treat you, the better kind of person I become in this world.’’

Luciana’s eyes widened when he grabbed her hand and brought it closer to his mouth before he placed a soft kiss on the back of her hand.

’’Sweet-talker,’’ she breathed as his lips lingered there. Now matter how many times she said it, it won’t justify how much of a sweet talker he was.

He looked into her eyes, his lips still on her skin and she swore her heart beat faster than ever when she saw the sparkle in those beautiful blue eyes.

’’You told me the reason you came here, does that represent your trust in me?" he raised his head but his slender fingers still held her palm.

Luciana was flustered for a moment, ’’Back in the past, I pressed the dagger against your neck, did that represent my intent to kill you?" she retorted, avoiding his pressing gaze.

’’Kill me all you want. I’m yours to kill. I’d willingly die a thousand deaths by your hand,’’ he tucked a loose strand of her golden hair behind her ear before stepping back from her and he dropped her hand.

Luciana’s heart skipped a beat but she avoided that strange feeling bubbling in her chest as she turned around and left her room. That flirtatious man!