SHRINE OF DEATH

Dreygur sauntered to the right side of the bed where the maiden is peacefully sleeping. Staring straight, intense, and deeply at her face. He admires her otherworldly beauty laying defenseless and captivatingly in front of him. Dreygur couldn't believe the young girl he desired would get even more beautiful, growing up into a fine woman.

He remembered the moment when his eyes landed upon her, and started to have forbidden feeling toward Sumire when she was 13 years old. It was on her 13th birthday. Chadwick took him to Chaise Massoullève's manor. The young lassie had a very innocent baby face but Dreygur could see a dark spark in her eyes. When his eyes meet hers for the first time, Dreygur was like staring into the dark abyss. But when she adorably smiled at him, his heart skipped a beat. A strange feeling he never knew would make him go crazy. With her innocent smile and eyes that gleamed, it woke the sleeping twisted beast inside him. And now it yearns for the girl who had Davenford runs in her veins.

"That's little Sumire, the birthday girl," Chadwick whispered to him and they approached her. Chaise gently pushed her daughter to meet his Uncle.

"It's your uncle Dreygur, baby." Chaise said with a smile. Young Sumire walked closer to Dreygur and accepted his gift.

Sumire was slightly stunned when Dreygur held her hand a little too tight but the little girl just flash a smile. She then pulled Dreygur down to kiss him on his cheek. Dreygur who had held Sumire's soft little hand had the urge to possess and own her. He knows it was wrong but he feels strong unbridled affection for his niece that it messes up his sanity and rationality. And he was surprised when she pulled her down, close enough to kiss his cheek. Dreygur quickly returns the kiss on the maiden's forehead with a sweet smile on his face. He was tempted to taste her pinkish-red lips. Dreygur couldn't believe his lascivious thoughts clouding his mind. Even he is disturbed by his own thoughts but that is what he truly feels and he can never stop himself from getting obsessed with her. It was the first time it happened to him.

"Happy birthday, Sweetheart," Dreygur said and straightened up. He then gently pat and ruffled her hair.

"Thank you, Uncle Dreygur!" The young Sumire responded and shifted her gaze to Chadwick. She seems to be waiting for her Uncle Chad's present with a meaningful smile on her beautiful face. Chadwick who noticed Dreygur's strange look at his beloved niece saw a sudden opportunity. Inside his mind, a grin formed on his lip.

"Uncle Chadwick," Sumire called his name and Chadwick had his one hand dug into his pocket. A black necklace with a death scythe pendant appeared in her sight.

Chaise immediately approached with a big stride and take it, especially he could see the excitement on his daughter's face. Of all the presents she received, the only one Sumire liked was the necklace Chadwick gave her.

"How many times do I have to tell you-" Chaise didn't finish what he had to say when Sumire snatched the lovely necklace from her father's hand and immediately ran outside.

The three men looked at the young lassie who hurriedly left the place. Chadwick burst into laughter and his brother Chaise glared at him. It was the first time he showed up to his niece and he gave her such kind of necklace.

"It's just a necklace." Chadwick guffaw heartily as Chaise clenched his hand into a fist. If it wasn't his daughter's birthday, he might have punched his demon brother straight in the face.

"Damn, why did I even invite you here!" Chaise exclaimed in disbelief, leaving Chadwick and Dreygur in their place with a heavy sigh.

"That was intense," Dreygur said with a smile after Chaise left them.

"And why did you do that?" Dreygur replied, turning his gaze on him. Chadwick just shrugged his shoulders, not giving him an answer.

"Then excuse me," Dreygur said and quickly followed his niece. He found Sumire going out of the manor gate with a bike on her. A malicious smile curved on his lips. Dreygur followed her and brought a car.

Sumire went to a mountain that Dreygur thought the land belonged to the Massoullèves and she stopped at a bizarre shrine. Inside the tinted car, Dreygur wondered why there was a shrine on the Massoullèves property. But what made him struck with a shock was when he realized it wasn't a simple temple. It was the Shrine of Death. Dreygur got out of his car and slowly followed the niece.

Sumire who received a gift from her uncle Chadwick wanted to pray at the shrine of Death and wish her life to end without killing herself. But her prayer was interrupted when she found a godlike man wearing an expensive all-black suit napping while his book was placed on his belly, wearing round black glasses. Sumire was hypnotized and approached closer to the long table of the shrine where the man was silently sleeping. She climbed up and sat next to his head and stared at him for a long time. Sumire unconsciously leaned and kissed the man on the lips. At the top of the man, she stole something from the shrine, bringing the bizarre painting with her. That painting originally came from a bloody asylum made by the infamous faceless artist, DEATH. The man sleeping in that shrine was none other than Mort.

Eyes widened in horror, Dreygur witnessed it all. And because of jealousy, he approaches and blocked Sumire's way who already had a painting in her hand and a necklace on her neck. Dreygur will never allow any man in the world to claim her niece but him.

"Eh, uncle Dreygur?" The lassie was so surprised to see him in the place. Dreygur forces a smile.

"I was worried about you that's why I followed you here. You can get in my car so you don't get in trouble. You still have a painting with you." He said.

Sumire who was unaware of Dreygur's dark ulterior motive immediately got on board. He started the engine and drove the car in a remote area, parking it near the forest far from the road.

"Uncle, why are we here?" Sumire asked curiously, eyes looking around the place. Dreygur locked the window and door of the car. He stared like a dangerous predator at Sumire who was also looking back at him.

"Uncle, why are you looking at me like that?" Sumire asked again as Dreygur smirked. He didn't respond. His hand reach for her cheek and caressed it gently. The little lady saw something strange glint in Dreygur's eyes. It was impure.

"You are mine." In a deep tone, it was like a demon whispering in her ears. Dreygur licked Sumire's earlobe which made her scream in terror. The maiden let out a piercing scream and kick the car's door to get away from him but her effort paid nothing as the car is soundproof. No one can hear her.

Chadwick, who had followed them, parking far away from where Dreygur and Sumire were saw the car shaking.

"I fucking knew it. I just didn't expect him to do it right away. Ha... Troublesome." Said Chadwick and stared at his son Blanche who was sound asleep in his car. His phone vibrated and Chadwick answered the call right then and there.

"I'm here boss." His men said on the line who was also positioned nearby, not far from the place in Dreygur's car.

"Do it." Chadwick coldly commanded. And from the green bushes, emerge a black car and hit the driver's seat of Dreygur's car pushing it to the tree. Alarmed, Dreygur failed to rape Sumire, quickly move but failed to take control of the steering wheel.

"I'm sorry, Sweetheart. I have to do this." Chadwick added meaningfully when he saw how the side of the driver's seat in Dreygur's car was hugely damaged.

The accident was reported quickly to the family. The driver who crashed into Dreygur's car died. Dreygur and Sumire got injuries but not that severe.

And for some unknown reason, Chadwick operated on Sumire. Panic-stricken, Dreygur who is worried if the maiden will report what he did to her to the Massoullèves, is starting to pack his things in his condominium to leave the Brethren city. But before he could leave the country, Dreygur heard the news about Chadwick's operation on his niece is successful but Sumire got amnesia. The maiden forgot about the shrine, the man she kissed at the shrine, and the painting she stole. Sumire had forgotten completely Dreygur's attempt to take her innocence and purity. It truly is the luck was on his side and Dreygur felt victorious. To confirm, he visits the maiden at the hospital and found her on the bed with a bandage on her head. When Sumire saw Dreygur in her room, the maiden just smiled beautifully at him like nothing bad happened to her.

"How's your head, Sweetheart?" Dreygur asked as he approached Sumire sitting in the hospital bed.

"I'm fine, Uncle! Though, I don't remember anything right now." The maiden replied with a bright smile like a ray of sunshine. Dreygur smirked in his mind.

"That's good to hear. The important thing is that you are okay." Dreygur replied with a smile and hugged Sumire tightly. At that moment, Dreygur made a promise to himself to wait for Sumire to be in her 20s before he will come back to her. Now, he will distance himself from her as she was a minor.

He waited for years and tonight is the right time. This midnight he will claim her fully. 'I wanna take it slow but Mort is to blame. He is making it harder for me to calm down and take my time. Even on Sumire's 13th birthday, he is the one who trigger me why I did that to her. I don't get it why did they meet again? Even though she doesn't remember they met at the death shrine, Sumire is still in love with him, just like before she got amnesia. She fell hard to him which I don't like.' Dreygur's long said while gritting his teeth in anger, eyes burning in jealousy.

"Sumire, I love you too much that I wanna eat you alive so we can't be separated from each other ever again." Dreygur hotly whispered between their almost sealed lips and kiss Sumire's forehead. He is drowned with madness.

Dreygur planted light kisses on her face so the maiden wouldn't wake up. He caressed her neck and gently moved it to the slope of her shoulder, teasingly sliding down on Sumire's tummy until his lustful touch reached her exposed legs. Dreygur bit his lower lip when he almost touched her innocent between Sumire's thighs. He runs his hand to Sumire's right hand and kissed the back of her palm. The little kisses he made on Sumire's hand runs back all the way to her shoulder up to her delectable neck. He is careful not to wake her up.

Positioned himself on top of her and strong hands on the side of her head, Dreygur lowered the lace of her nightgown using his teeth and gently bit down on Sumire's collarbone. Sucking and nibbling on it. Her scent is truly intoxicating and Dreygur wants more of her. His lips run on her jaw and licked her earlobe. Stared deeply into her serene face and lips invitingly parted, he was about to kiss Sumire on the lips when her phone on the near table rang. Mort's name appeared on the screen.

'Fuck that man!' Jaw-clenched, Dreygur hissed in his mind. The call is ruining his plan. Before Sumire woke up, he turned off the red light lamp and quickly hide beneath the mattress. The moment he successfully crawled under the bed, Sumire woke up from the series of rings and answered the phone call.

"Mort? Why did you call this late?" Sumire said with eyes half closed and yawned. She opened the lamp and looked at the clock next to it.

"It's 12 midnight!" She added, wanting to burst into chuckles.

"I can't sleep." Mort briefly replied. Eyebrows slightly knitted and amused, Sumire smiled at what she heard.

"Why?" Sumire asked with a laugh. She then turns on the light in her room. Dreygur listening to her was still under her queen size bed, hiding.

"I'm thinking of you," Mort said in a serious tone. It is the only way to keep her awake as he feels something is not good happening at the manor. Sumire was stunned by what he said. She didn't expect him to say that thing.

Narco, who was writing Mort's pick-up lines, grinning from ear to ear. All of them, Klauss, Laurel, Lyric, Leroy, and Narco are already in their pajamas, carrying pillows with them to Mort's office. They were about to sleep when Mort suddenly called them to come to his office.

"Mort, are you drunk?" Sumire asked with a laugh, who was squealing at the top of her lung inside.

"Sumire, can I ask you something?" Mort asked again, reading what was written on the small whiteboard that Narco was holding.

"Sure baby," Sumire replied and leaned on the headboard of the bed while smiling happily.

"Aren't you tired?" Mort asked in a serious tone.

"What do you mean?" Surprised, Sumire replied. She felt a sudden nervousness at the idea Mort might break up with her. Maybe the hunk thinks that it would be much better if they broke up so she won't get tired of waiting for him.

"Because you're always running through my mind." Jaws greatly dropped, Sumire was sitting on top of the bed, stunned. Questioning whether Mort is really a Mafia Boss. Leroy, who almost tore Lyric's clothes from grabbing his twin's shirt felt elated at what they heard, blushing with embarrassment. Klauss, on the other hand, eyed Narco brazenly in the corner for making his Boss look like an idiot while Laurel was recording Mort's moment with his future wife while holding back her laughter.

"Oh my God. If you miss me that much come see me right now." Sumire said laughing out loud again. Mort was about to speak again when Sumire preceded him. She saw her uncle Chadwick's car had just arrived at her home.

"Sweetheart, talk to you later. Uncle Chadwick is here. I'll go meet him downstairs. I love you!" Sumire said and quickly ended the call, never heard Mort say 'I love you' to her.

She went downstairs in surprise to open the gate for her uncle Chadwick to come in. After Sumire left the bed, Dreygur returned to his room with a darkened face.

"Uncle Chadwick, it's midnight. Why are you here?" Sumire asked with questioning eyes after she invites Chadwick to enter the manor.

"Blanche told me that Dreygur is with you now. I just thought I should stay here so that we can go abroad together for the reunion of the Davenfords. The reunion is three days from now."

Chadwick said that Sumire's face immediately brightened especially with Chadwick's last words. She thought the reunion will be on next week.

"That's great, Uncle! I'll wake Dreygur up to tell him. But am afraid he's tired." Sumire said enthusiastically, jumping and clapping her hands in delight.

"No need, you can do it tomorrow. I'll just sleep in the library next to your room." Chadwick said. His gaze lowered down and saw the visible bite marks on Sumire's collarbone who is unaware of Dreygur's indecent pleasure in her.

'He is insane.' He uttered at the back of his mind. When Chadwick entered the library, he immediately opened his laptop and a video was played of what Dreygur did to Sumire on her 13th birthday. He got it on the dashcam of Dreygur's car. And another video captured tonight that Blanche secretly put a small camera in the guise just in case Sumire might be abducted by Mafia enemies of Mort.

"Easy."