Megu’s POV

“Sure, it was all me,” I stated with a small smile on my face. “I solely needed to provide Angelica a protected place to develop up in, and this place is ideal.”

“I made certain that Brago and Ford would eat all of the meat they caught. It wasn’t that tough since each of them had the need to do exactly that, to start with, till, finally, they did not want my assist,” she defined and added.

“The ladies had been simpler to control. After I managed Emi to not do her work, it was solely a matter of time earlier than Sheryl additionally stopped working. After that, the ladies each spent their time having fun with their tea by the hearth and sowing discord with the blokes.

“As for Edgar.” Megu shook her head and sighed. “I did not must do something to that man. I knew that he would not have the opportunity to withstand and eat all these chickens. People would at all times discover a approach to destroy themselves. I simply gave them the push they wanted.”

“So that you made them struggle within the first place to say the territory for your self on the finish?” Cross requested.

I nodded. “That was the plan.”

Cross slowly clapped his fingers in a mocking gesture. His face was critical, and his eyes intense. “So what now?”

“. . . You possibly can’t kill us,” I stated with my chin held excessive. I did not know the place I received the boldness, however I believed in Angelica’s capacity to maintain us protected.

Cross chuckled. “However you can also’t kill me. I am certain that you simply already used your remaining spells for the day.”

I managed the worry rising in my coronary heart. He spoke like he already knew all our spells. May or not it’s that . . . he was additionally a BUG participant like them?

Cross seemed down at us from the bridge of his nostril. “So now what?”

I needed to cower from strain, however I did not. As a mom, I needed to be sturdy for Angelica.

“We’ll depart right here,” I stated. “Protected and sound.”

“And the place will you go?” he requested. His voice contained zero concern. It was extra like he was genuinely interested in my reply.

I did not know. To be sincere, most likely went again to the wilderness and again to controlling different gamers.

After I did not reply, he continued, “Let you know what . . .”

Cross stepped nearer to me, and I could not even draw back from his intense gaze. It was like I used to be being pulled to wash in his mesmerizing silver eyes.

“As an alternative of being on the run once more, at all times fearing on your subsequent meal, I am going to give you a once-in-a-lifetime likelihood to remain right here in alternate on your capacity. The each of you.”

​ “. . .” I had a tough time believing what he was providing, so I needed to repeat it myself. “You need us . . . to remain right here?”

“You’ve a uncommon class, and Angelica can also be fairly overpowered. I may actually use you two in right here. In flip, on your talents and loyalty, I’ll give you shelter, meals, and my safety. How about it?”

“. . .” I used to be nonetheless having a tough time believing what he was saying. “However . . . I simply tried to kill you.”

Was he enjoying with me proper now? Similar to what he did earlier than?

Crossed shrugged. “You are simply attempting to dwell like the remainder of us. No massive deal. It is not you’d succeed anyway.”

His provide was too good to be true, and I wasn’t born yesterday to simply belief him.

“I’ve just one situation,” he stated.

I assumed so. He was just like the others, too. I used to be certain that he want to ‘possess’ me as effectively.

Cross received one thing in his stock, and when he offered it to me, I noticed an engagement ring.

His chilly façade broke, however just for a second. It appeared like he himself was shocked on the merchandise. That went for the 2 of us.

Crossed cleared his throat and his chilly façade was again on his face. “You possibly can keep right here in the event you put on this. That is an adjunct. When you equip it, you can not take away it. One other factor, it will be sure that you stay loyal to me it doesn’t matter what occurs.”

“And if I am not?”

I did not just like the silence that adopted.

“Then . . . you’ll lose your life.”

“. . .”

“I feel it is a truthful commerce contemplating that you will dwell comfortably for the remainder of your life right here. Give it some thought. Take into consideration Angelica.”

“. . .”

If it had been simply me . . . I’d have walked away and brought my probabilities exterior. I did not wish to be underneath a person once more. Each figuratively and actually.

Nonetheless . . . Angelica stared into my eyes. Her massive shining eyes spoke into my soul, and her candy harmless smile melted my coronary heart.

For her, I’d do something.

Outdoors wasn’t for a child to enterprise.

I confronted Cross and requested, “How would I do know that this merchandise is not a controlling merchandise?”

“You simply should put on it to know, then.”

“. . .”

His eyes advised me that he wasn’t joking. I knew that he was critical, however he had fooled me as soon as earlier than.

Nonetheless, the sincerity in his voice when he stated that he wanted me for my capacity rang in my ears once more and crashed into my coronary heart.

Even now, the sturdy impression it left me stays.

Everybody needed me for my face, my physique, my love. These had been the issues that each man sought after they approached me.

The one one who requested for my energy was you. A younger man with a chilly face and a fair colder character. Who by no means seemed away when calling my title.

A small smile made its manner into my lips. I feel I simply needed to take the gamble, then.

I prolonged my hand to him, voice mushy as I resigned to the long run that he promised.

“Sure, My Lord . . .”

A ray of sunshine slipped previous the scarlet clouds and peered into the home windows, casting on our figures, and made the ring on my finger sparkle so brightly.