Chapter 9 Mystified

At dawn. Sei was sitting like a tyrant prince inside a dim, quiet room. He was looking at the moon outside the large window, emotionless, holding a mask in his hand. "So? How’s your first night with her?" A man suddenly uttered behind him, breaking the impending silence. "Disaster." "Pfft! Hahaha!" The man couldn’t help but laugh. He was amused by Sei’s one-word description of his first night with his wife. He walked closer to him, and the light of the moon made his face visible. He was the bodyguard Davi called, Mr. Chen. However, the moment Sei saw his face, he instantly gazed at him with a sharp, deadly stare. "Yeah, yeah, I’m taking it off now." The man touched his neck, then, after a while, he took off something that appeared to be a... mask. In a short while, the soldier-looking guy suddenly turned into a man with a breathtakingly beautiful face, pale as a sheet of paper, as if he were a... vampire. His skin and facial features were exactly vampire-like that anyone who sees him might think vampires were real and he was their long-lost prince. "Your wife was so comfortable with this face, though, she even called me ’Mr. Chen," he sighed while looking at the mask on his hand. "So? How’s she? Did you guys talk normally?" "She’s strange. Yes, she said I’m gay." "Pfft! Hahaha! Seriously? She said that? Wait... you didn’t hurt her because of that, right?!" "Strangely, I couldn’t get angry at her...at all." Sei’s answer made the vampire-looking man speechless in a good way. He looks like he was happy, as if he were proud of himself. "Tell me, Zaki, why did you choose her?" "Well... Uh, because of her look... of course... my instinct told me you will like her." Zaki’s answer was an obvious lie. Sei could tell he’s not willing to tell him the truth. He knows that Zaki will never hide anything from him without a serious reason. "If you still refuse to answer me, the next time I’ll ask you that, I’ll kill you." Sei’s voice was like a frozen stone. Heartless and cold. But Zaki still smiled mischievously as if he was already expecting every word he would say. "I got it, I got it. I will tell you at the right time." Sei was already gone when Davi woke up. The men she met, Ryou and that teenage boy named YiJin, were also gone, along with that bodyguard she called Mr. Chen. It was as if any traces of their existence suddenly disappeared along with them. Davi was mystified. She can’t believe that she slept soundly and comfortably the whole night alongside her mysterious and cold husband. She expected that she might be sleep deprived from now on since she always had trouble sleeping in an unfamiliar place, much more so sleeping with a mysterious person she had just met, and yet the opposite happened. Is it because she was just tired? Everything about her husband, Sei, was just too intriguing, but she could only wear a quiet, complex expression. "Young miss, this was left by the young master for you." The old butler, Mr. Gou, was the only person left in the huge gray mansion. Davi stared at the elegant-looking, glass-like silver card in his hand. She slowly took it with her brows knitted. "This is...?" she stared at the old man, curious. "Ah, that’s...You will use that for your expenses, young Miss. You can get anything you want with that." The old man’s face was pleasantly bright as he smiled at her. "Uhm... thank you. But where is he? I mean the m... S-sei?" "I’m sorry, Young miss, but the young master already left hours ago." Davi could only press her lips tightly upon hearing what the old man said. "When will he come back?" "I’m afraid I can’t tell when, even though I don’t know where he went, and when he will come home again." The old man looks apologetic, making Davi a bit awkward. But she tried showing him that she’s fine with it, making the old man visibly relieved. Davi was led right away by the old man to a large dining table, and luxurious food meant for a princess was served for her. She could only blink her eyes as she sat on the chair alone while the butler and a maid stood motionless in the corner, as if they were just wallflowers. She tried urging them to eat with her, but she noticed right away that it was futile. Thus, she ate her breakfast alone, feeling deeply left out, as if she were alone in the world.