The Demon's Bride

Chapter 206: Mistake-III

Elise didn't know how to digest the situation. She could get the faint idea of what happened but somewhere a part of her was refusing to accept what she could take. She looked at the wood on Carmen's hand and it was clear what Carmen was trying to do, "What are you saying, Carmen?" Elise looked away from the vampire, her eyes falling to the other pieces of woods lying on the ground beside her.

"Where is Vella?" she asked after trying to wrap her mind around the situation. She saw Carmen's eyes that had always looked at her with a confident and witty smile, now stared with fear and guilt. "Please tell me, Carmen!" Elise pressed her lips. action

"She found that letter. I've tried to hide it, but Vella found the letter!" Carmen yelled. She walked away from Elise to pushed the door closed behind her before pushing the boot to lock the place.

Elise became more alarmed and she took another step behind with her hand ready on her sides. "What letter?" asked Elise.

"The Letter from your village, Saltige," Carmen covered her face with her hand, her expression seemed as if she would burst or break down at any moment. When she pulled her hand away, a small smile stopped at her lips, "You don't know everything, Elise! I didn't want to be a part of this but I have no choice!"

Elise looked stunned at Carmen. She can't understand why the village where she lived the last was brought up now, and Carmen's words only put more puzzles in her. "I can't understand what are you saying, what do you mean by Saltige?"

Carmen shook her head and whispered, "I can't tell you anything," her eyes darted around the room as if searching for something before she looks back at Elise, "You have to know, I don't have a chance, not a single one. When Vella took that letter from me, I was cornered and there was nothing I could do but to silence her."

Silence? Did Carmen meant that she killed Vella already? Then was the vision that she saw was after the incident? The letter, thought Elise, was it the same letter that she saw when meeting Vella?

"Where is she now?" asked Elise, she still holds on to the silver chance that Vella was alright.

She looked at Carmen, who was not in a stable state of mind. The vampire trashed her head as if trying to come in term with something inside her mind before raising her hand to point to one spot, "She is behind you, under that floor behind you. I didn't mean to push her."

Elise turned her eyes at the place Carmen pointed; to find that on the floor a square door was built in it. There was a small knob that could be pulled to open the knob which she suspects would be connected to an underground.

Before Elise try to open the underground, she noticed the shadow on the floor behind her thicken and turning around, she was met with Carmen whose hand swung the wood piece on her hand, almost hitting Elise's head, but fortunately, she knew Carmen was about to big her and had moved quickly to dodge the attack.

Elise moved many steps behind her, "Calm down Carmen, we can talk about this and sort things out."

But Carmen shook her head, "Vella said that to me, but that doesn't work Elise. If talking would have done something, I wouldn't do this. I was told to kill everyone who would be on the way and I never hope that someone would be Vella. If only she did not persuade me from killing you or take that letter. She wouldn't have died," a tear found itself on the rim of Carmen's eyes.

Elise pulled her brows, her eyes moving before coming back to Carmen, "Killing me?"

"Yes you and the Lord," Carmen took a step and the wooden floor creak with the extra weight. "All Demons have to be killed. You and Lord Ian, I know you two are demons. I was told to work here and kill you two. I tried killing the Lord but there was no chance. But they were getting impatient and the letter they sent was found by Vella— that letter that ordered me to kill you."

Elise was still in the middle of understanding Carmen's words which she can't understand when Carmen didn't hold back to swing the wood across her head again. This time, Elise crouched on the ground to escape from being injured.

She rolled on the floor going to reach the door when her collar was pulled and Carmen threw her to the ground, "I'm not a Demon! You've got it wrong Carmen," Elise hoped Carmen would heed to her words before she killed more people she shouldn't. "You have to stop before you make more mistakes!"

"I wasn't wrong!" Carmen replied she pushed the wood on the floor and Elise managed to avoid the wood from plunging to her face by craning her neck to the side. "I know it, I saw how your shadows would move on its own to push the things you have set in place." Did she mean the answer to the odd events of things falling around her was because of a shadow? "I thought at first it was your carelessness. But when I tried to see it for myself again for the second time, I saw your shadow from the floor moved to the plates and knocked them down."

That happened? Elise was never aware of it. She didn't know this happened nor she ever notices how Carmen was trying to kill her until this moment. Had Carmen all this time put on an act to become her friend while hiding the intention to kill her and Ian?

Elise then felt a drop of tear dropped to her cheek from Carmen. She appeared to be in pain that made Elise to want and help her but before she could, Carmen pushed the wood to her face, as if trying to stab her.

Elise looked around and she saw the wood beside her. Carmen also noticed this action of hers and when she was about to move away the wood Elise had been looking at, Elise from bellow pushed her knees hard, kicking Carmen in her stomach.