“I heard about it,” Ashford's voice made Brandon halt in his footsteps. Then he got down from his seat, walking at a measured pace towards Brandon.For a second he looked at Freya, but unable to keep it, Freya broke the eye contact. She couldn't even hide the hate one bit. Especially with everything going on with Brandon. All along she knew someone had been the cause of Brandon's sudden change in behaviour.'How could I miss it all this time?’ She gritted her teeth. 'Who else could control you?’She raised her eyes to look at Brandon who faked a smile at Ashford while nodding like a puppet Ashford was trying to turn him into.“It was a good one,” Brandon said, with a slight bow. “I also made sure William got into an actual combat without getting hurt.”There was no better word to tag the expression Ashford on his face other than SATISFIED.“I really love the man you're becoming,” he took Brandon's hand in his own, kissing it softly. “Before you know it, you'd be in a league of your ow

Snap. Snap. Snap. Twigs broke as Joshua walked further into the woods with his hands in his pockets. He had seen Xavier walk into the woods on several occasions, whenever he got into an argument with any of the clan members, and Joshua figured it might have been a way of clearing his head.For him, it seemed different.'Or is it because this is still my house?’ The shelter was tall enough for him to see, despite how far he had gone into the bush. True, he still got reminded about his life before the system handpicked him. Before he won that lottery. When he was still controlled by Elena and her family, but the rain had erased most of the places he knew. Joshua came to a sudden stop, looking to the left, then he shrugged. “Seems like the lottery shop was also erased with the rain. Wow.”As he continued in his steps, he came to a sudden stop when he saw Matthias throwing stones into a lake. It was one Joshua recognized.“To what do I owe this unexpected visit?” Matthias held on to th

“Catherine is away from him, same with Theodore,” Molly laced her hands above one of the tables in the room while she watched Derek from a distance.He had made it clear he needed no one close to him for the last couple of days. He was in a state of pure agony, and no one wanted to know what his anger would lead to at that moment.“For a second I actually wished it was not Andrew,” Lucas pressed his lips together. Turning to Molly who rolled her eyes at him, and she let out a scoff.Her words were genuine. Same with her expression. “I don't think you'd wish for you to be in his shoes Lucas.”“You might hate it so much that he had to die, but trust me if we were to go back in time, you would choose yourself to live, and it'll be the same answer, even if you were asked a hundred times.”Lucas was unable to say anything. It was the truth. The truth that needed no subtraction nor addition. “Do you really think we can get to the last stage of wherever this event is taking us to?” Lucas as

The smile quickly faded from Joshua's face when he saw what the mission was, and the only word that could come out of his mouth was:“What?”His forehead creased with worry, and his eyes narrowed on the words that were written on the system's window.‘No, this cannot be it,’ he tried telling himself otherwise, and just like he was trying to convince himself he had not just seen what was written there, he closed the window, then proceeded to shut his eyes for a couple of seconds.Only to be forced to open his eyes by Xavier's voice.“What's this?” He barged into the kitchen with worry written all over his face.Jasper who came from behind him also looked at Joshua like he was the one who had just given them that mission.“I really don't understand what that shit is,” Jasper's voice was coated in worry. Fear. Doom. And when Joshua kept looking at him he had no other choice but to look away.He stared at his legs. “You seem like the only one who can explain.”“There's nothing to explain,

[DESTINATION REACHED.]The loud chime in Joshua's mind made him inhale deeply, then he let it out from his mouth. The city was nothing he had seen before. And not just in one way. In every aspect imaginable.The silence. The atmosphere. The structure. Everything seemed like it was sculptured by a master sculptor who had decades of experience.“It's oddly beautiful,” Alice remarked, while her eyes kept sweeping across the city. From its purple sky to its evergreen trees. Including the leaves that were also still, despite the wind that kept blowing across the whole place.She became curious.“Why's the grass still?”Everyone beside her could also feel the breeze, but since they hadn't gotten close enough to the city gates, they came to the conclusion it was because of the distance.“So what do you say?” Xavier asked Joshua who was still surveying the area, lowering his eyes from the clock tower, down to the entrance gate that was decorated with flowers of different kinds.He turned to