Ensnaring His Dark Moon

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''We will have to go to the library again if we want to know what those verses mean,'' Aleister said. 

Esme frowned but she knew what he was saying was true. Since that book was kept in the library, there has to be some clue there that can help them open it. 

''Do you think that... that person was a...'' 

''A merman,'' Aleister said, ''The mer people are half-humans but they retain the property of a fish, a tail, fins, scales, and tears that...'' He paused noticing the paleness of her face. There were words that he wanted to utter but he stopped himself. 

Esme closed her eyes and inhaled a deep breath, ''Don't stop,'' She glanced at the darkening clouds and rumbling thunder. The weather of Visteria has always been this unpredictable as to when they stepped out of the castle, she could still see the sun which was nowhere to be seen now.

Aleister placed a hand on her lower back quietly without speaking anything. And for the first time, Esme did not try to get his hand off her. To her, he was strangely comforting.

A small moment of silence lingered between them but both of them had words at the tip of their tongues. 

It was Esme who broke the silence between them as she said, ''I have not told you about something before.'' 

''I am listening,'' His palm stroked her back gently. 

''I can heal too. Like you,'' She said. Royal family members were born with magical powers because of the main-nerve in their body but she has never heard of anyone possessing healing powers. 

''When I am wounded, you should heal me as I healed you,'' Aleister nodded solemnly at his own words, ''No matter where the wound is,'' He added. 

The corner of her lips twitched and she glared at him, ''Why are you like this?" 

''Because of you,'' He tilted his face to look at her, ''You have to be responsible, Esme.'' 

Esme narrowed her eyes. If she was given a choice to go back to the day before tomorrow when his thoughts about her were still unknown to her and when he was not this brazen, then she will go there. 

''And I have exceptional hearing,'' She said.

''I know.'' 

He has seen it many times with his own eyes. Esme lowered her head, ''But...'' You can always tell me what you are thinking without any hesitation. His words rang in her mind and they urged her to continue speaking, ''I have... I think I have scales,'' Her voice was barely above a whisper but Aleister heard it. 

After a long time when he did not say anything, she tilted her head to look at him but the nonchalance on his face stunned her. ''You..'' How could he stay so unaffected about it unless he knew it or he did not believe her? It could not be the latter. Aleister would always believe in her, ''Did you know...?" She asked. 

He nodded. 

''When?" Despite expecting it, Esme was still in disbelief.

''The day when you fainted in my bath.''

Esme recalled that day when she had followed that maidservant to a ballroom and tried to control her mind to get to know her thoughts. But in all this, she overused her powers and exhausted herself. And noticing the changes in her body, she had rushed to his room and had entered his bath. A strange shiny thing had emerged in her body and in a moment of impulse, she had plucked it. It caused her to lose a lot of blood before she fainted there.

Thinking about it, he never once showed it on his face, ''You have always known?" 

He nodded. 

Esme blinked as she glanced at the sea, ''Don't you find me strange? Do you think I am...?"

''Whatever you are, to me, you are the one that I want. If you are touched, we can get ready for our marriage...'' 

Esme ended up laughing at his words instead of being angry. She tucked the loose strands of her hair behind her ear and turned to look at him, ''Don't you think that we are not fated?" 

''Why do you think so?" 

''If I don't belong to the land, how could we ever be fated?" She asked him. There was a faint feeling in her heart that their thoughts about this were true. And she was reluctant to accept it but the truth was laid in front of her eyes. 

''A pity that you think like that,'' Aleister grabbed one of her hands as he twirled her before placing her hand on his shoulder. He placed one of his hands on her waist while he grabbed her palm with his other hand, gently pressing their palms together with the tips of their fingers intertwined. ''I think we are very fated.'' 

''What are we doing?" She glanced at their positions. 

''Dancing, my dear moon,'' He whispered. 

She stepped to the left, following his steps, as they danced. The gentle breeze caressed their faces and her gown swayed when she moved, her long hair stroked the side of her face as the tresses moved forward towards her neck. 

Esme looked at him with her eyes slightly lowered because of the wind. ''Why do you say we are fated? I have ever only wanted to stay away from you,'' She raised her voice slightly. 

Aleister raised an eyebrow, ''I have something to say to you.'' 

''I don't want to know it,'' She decisively shook her head, wondering whether they were the first people who danced without music and at a place like this. 

''Why?" He asked as he twirled her. 

''I am not curious,'' Her hair moved in an arc when he twirled her as it came to one side of her shoulder. The last time he said 'I have something to say', he told that he... had affections for her. She did not want to know any more of his 'something' that might astonish her even further. 

''But I will tell you,'' He twirled her again. 

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A/N: Thank you so much for your patience. Although I had different plans but I didn't want to leave you hanging with this incomplete book. I am back and I will make sure to complete it. The updates will be slow but once I finish my other book, it will pick up the pace. 

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