The Devil's Temptation!

201 Take Care Of Me

Sitting at the dressing table, Anna’s fingers hesitantly reached to feel the silver birthmark on her forehead, but looking at herself in the mirror like she was seeing another completely different person, there was nothing there.

Her forehead was evidently spotless.

There wasn’t any sign of the meteor mark and the word disbelief reflected in her brown eyes. She went further to press her thumb against her forehead and even rubbed it in a circular motion whilst she was hallucinating it’s disappearance, but it wasn’t her hallucination.

Anna didn’t know if she was supposed to rejoice or cry, or even do both.

“It’s.... it’s really gone!” She got to her feet after the happy exclamation, staring at herself in the mirror and admiring how spotless her forehead looked without the mark. For once, she felt pretty without having to stare at her face through the mirror and see a silver mark that signaled her death.

But with the meteor mark gone, does that mean the curse has been uplifted?? Her lifetime is no longer limited and she can live for many years and grow old like normal people?

She jumped up with a girly squeal of excitement before settling herself down. She took a deep breath to restrain herself from acting crazy. Her heart was pounding with sheer excitement and it was too much for her to contain.

She wasn’t oblivious to the darker shade of black strands that grew with her hair, she saw it clearly, but her heart was bursting with joy to even bother about that for the meantime.

She barely remembers anything that happened or how this miracle displayed itself, and the only memory she could recall was dying in the arms of Roshan, and it ended here, but now she’s here, alive and with the meteor mark gone!

.....

Even the wound she got from the arrow had already healed.

All of a sudden, the excited Anna paused in her silent jubilation when an unknown feeling hit her pretty hard in the chest, catching her off guard and it made her brows knit into seriousness, unsure of what the unknown feeling meant.

“I_I feel like I’m forgetting something.” She muttered candidly to herself. There was this unsettling feeling in her heart as though she had forgotten something really important, something she shouldn’t have forgotten except it was difficult to tell what was causing the discomfort in her chest.

She was still busy figuring out what the issue might be when she heard a clicking sound coming from the door. Alarmed, she swiftly swirled around to see what had caused the click.

Her observatory gaze landed on the door knob, and she watched it twist for three times as though someone was trying to open the door, one more twisting and the door finally unlocked with the same clicking sound she heard a few seconds ago.

Remaining in her position, the door finally pushed open with uneven sound before her eyes.

The first person that came in mind when the door opened was nobody else but Roshan, but when the person walked in, it turned out to be Azazel and Levi who were having a conversation, but stopped abruptly to the point of freezing in their spot after sighting Anna.

With an unbelievable stare, Their eyes silently raked her from head to toe, seeing her stand on her two feet and staring at them with a pointed gaze.

Levi’s eyes dilated and an unprepared gasp escaped his agaped mouth, he instantly tapped Azazel on the shoulder, looking like someone who had just spotted a ghost.

“I’m starting to see things,” he complained while nudging the dumbstruck demon by the arm. “I think I’ve developed a new supernatural that’s making me imagine things.”

“Anna.” Azazel took a step forward, leaving the shock-stricken Levi behind and the Levi had the looks of someone who was about to faint at any moment.

“When did you wake up?” He asked calmly, and Anna just smiled, a bit taken aback by the genuine calmness in his tone as she bowed her head slightly at his presence, before raising her head up to meet his gaze.

“Not too long before you walked in.”

“She can speak!!” Levi intervened with his dramatic display, finding it shocking that Anna was standing in front of him, which means Roshan wasn’t wrong when he said he retrieved her soul all this time.

He did it!!

“Pardon me,” Anna raised her head, indeliberately interrupting their conversation and she quickly cleared her throat, “...if I may ask, where is his Highness?” Her tone came out meek as dove, when she asked, keeping her head bowed and toying with her fingers.

Seeing her innocent gesture, Azazel just cleared the path for her, “you’d know better where to find him.”

Fixing her gaze at the door, Anna’s mind was still rebooting on a lot of things, but when it came to Roshan, they seemed to be a special file that properly secured every memories she has for him, and her

Looking at Azazel with a grateful gaze, Anna ran out of the room with a lingering smile on her lips. Before Levi could go after her, Roshan grabbed the clingy Levi and made him stay by his side.

“Don’t, let her see him first.” He suggested, and although Levi was a bit reluctant on Azazel’s suggestion, it was actually a thoughtful one and it’s been two weeks since Roshan revived, and he bets they both have a lot of things to catch up on.

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Bursting the door open, Anna’s hopeful gaze fell on his room, her eyes glancing from one angle to the other incase she spotted the man she wanted to see more than anything right now, but to her disappointment, he wasn’t in his chamber like she had predicted.

The room was lit with only one candle, making it appear dim and it wasn’t so easy for her eyes to adjust since she escaped the abyss.

*Where did he-” she wasn’t even done completing her words when she felt two strong arms snake around her waist, pulling her close to someone till her back met his hard chest.

A shaky gasp escaped her lips since she wasn’t expecting such action and due to the person’s hold, it was difficult to turn around.

Her heart raced when the familiar scent reached her nostril, there was something temptingly spicy about it that it left her heart to quicken in reaction and she gulped.

As she was about to turn and see who had caught her in his hold, the being didn’t let her and instead, whispered right into her ear with his addicting velvety voice that sent her mind turning as blank as a paper.

“You said you’ll take care of me,” he whispered, “shall we begin?