The Devil's Temptation!

106 A Pinky Promise

Walking past the hallway with a sweet humming tone leaving her closed lips, Anna’s footfalls clicked on the tiled floor as she wandered by without having any specific destination in mind.

She radiated vigor and abundance like a happy child as she continuously hummed something melodious. She had kept her mind preoccupied all through the morning, not giving it any little chance to recall that harrowing nightmare that makes her shudder till now.

Her feet suddenly came to a quick stop after catching sight of a familiar figure, sitting in a bright-lit room that happened to be the library. The blue curtains were spread apart, allowing direct sunlight to filter the room and cast a shadowy figure over a particular being.

His unreadable gaze was locked in a book he was currently reading as he sat at one of the tables, legs crossed and looking more enticing as those eyes barely shifted from the book.

A slow smile formed on her lips as she watched him, he was fine and alive, she had absolutely nothing to be worried about when it came to him. She remembered perfectly how he patted her to sleep in his arms.

She was sort of anxious when she woke up this morning, afraid he might have done something to her since she got all emotional and a little clingy last night, but impressively, she met him asleep and there was nothing that indicated he touched her.

Maybe he does have emotion, but why was he always so reluctant when it came to showing it?

Noticing how deeply engrossed he was in a book, Anna quietly tiptoed to stand behind the glacier, making sure her footsteps were as silent as that of assassins and she felt proud in her heart, seeing he hadn’t sensed her presence yet.

His gaze still raked the pages of the book, giving Anna a chance to peep at what he was reading as she childishly thinned her lips.

.....

“What are you doing?” Came the abrupt question from the glacier and since she wasn’t expecting to be caught so soon, it made her stumble forward as she missed her footing, but somehow managed to regain balance, except she was standing right in front of the glacier now.

Bursted.

“Tch! I barely heard my own footsteps, but you....” She twitched her lips in great displeasure, finding it very abstruse on how he still sensed her presence.

“Your floral scent.” He subtly responded to the question she silently asked herself, “I can’t mistake it for anyone else.”

“That is not polite, you can’t invade my thoughts without permission.” Her eyes narrowed into an accusing slit, but he slapped the book shut and lifted his gaze to meet hers.

“I can’t help it when you tend to carry such a... fascinating cerebration.”

A quick gasp left her lips at his comprehensible words and her pupils dilated slightly, showing her discomfited reaction. Her eyes slowly averted.

‘Does that mean he’s aware of most of my thoughts?’

“I will if you don’t stop thinking a little too loudly.” He said again, responding to her thoughts and her eyes snapped at him.

“Stop that! You’re doing it again!”

“I thought you were asking.” He defended himself with the same innocence in his demeanor. One that could easily deceive people into thinking he was the victim in all of this.

“Sheesh.” She frowned at him, but he just opened a book and let his eyes sink to the words written on them.

Sitting beside him on the study table, she picked a scroll that rested at the end of a table and her eyes widened in stupefaction.

“You read grimoires?!” She asked, the surprise evident in her voice as she looked at him.

“Demons are connected with magic, and also drop it, you can’t read that.” He blatantly told her, leaving Anna to feel somewhat useless as she dejectedly dropped the scroll back on the table.

Stealing glances at Roshan who kept himself engrossed in a particular book, Anna couldn’t help but wonder why he’s reading all these scrolls and books on the table and unfortunately, she couldn’t understand them since it had something to do with strange spellings and words.

‘Demons are connected with magic,’ she silently pondered on that word for reasons unknown to her, and that’s when her eyes went round as something struck her.

A radiant look came over her face and she gave Roshan a tap on the shoulder, drawing his attention back to her.

“Demons are connected with magic, right? Isn’t that what you said?”

His eyes curiously narrowed as he cocked his head at her, the gleam in her eyes was one he couldn’t comprehend with and he wouldn’t want to read her thoughts again.

“So?”

“If Demons are connected with magic, doesn’t that make it easier for a demon to connect with another demon, but through mind communication.”

Roshan still didn’t get it and Anna had to break it down for him, “what I’m trying to say is, what if you connect with one of your guards or your family members using mind communication.”

“You mean communication through the mind.”

“Yes, isn’t that possible for Demons as well? You’re a half Demon but that shouldn’t limit you right?”

Roshan closed his book, completely awestruck that he never thought of using the mind array. He’s never used it after stepping out of the temple and that must be why he didn’t recall something as the mind array.

“If I can get hold of Azazel or Levi, they might be able to get us out of here.”

She nodded, “exactly.”

Roshan had to admit to himself, that was a pretty nice idea from his annoying woman, wow, she really studied about Demons to know this much.

“I’ll do it tonight and hopefully I can get through to one of them.” His concentration might be a little weak, but before tonight, he should master the art of concentration when it comes to the mind.

“See, you also need me.” Anna jokingly uttered before picking a book, “without me, you wouldn’t have thought of this.”

For once, she decided to feel herself and her worth, leaving Roshan to roll his eyes but he chuckled with mirth.

“I don’t trust you, so I need you to make me a pinky promise,” She looked at him, “...that you won’t leave here without me, no matter what happens.” She raised her pinky finger, leaving Roshan to stare blankly at her little pinky before meeting her gaze.

“Pinky.... promise?”

It finally occurred to Anna that he clearly has no clue on what a pinky promise is.

“Oh, see in the human world, we lock pinkies to seal an unbreakable promise, so now I need you to promise me that you won’t leave here without me and once we lock pinkies, it’s a promise you have to keep.”

A look of realization finally dawned on his expression, making him look cute as he stared at her pinky. He equally raised his fair pinky and looked at Anna, as if asking what to do next.

She smiled and gestured with her eyes for him to join their pinkies together. He did as told and intertwined their pinkies together, before lifting his sparkling eyes to meet hers.

“It’s a pinky promise.”