The Devil's Temptation!

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After being given the chance to regain herself, Anna was able to push that thought out of her mind as she wiped her face clean with a towel, stepping out of the bathroom and standing before her dressing mirror.

She looked at her face in the glass mirror and that strange feeling returned. The more she stared at her face, the more the thoughts of Aveline kept reeling in her head and she closed her eyes, exhaling softly to ease her tensed body before opening her eyes again.

“This is complicated.” She breathed out as she tried to make sense of the situation.

Okay, let’s say she was Aveline, theoretically, if she was, why did Levi and Azazel keep mute if they recognized her all this time?? Not just the two of them, but his family in particular.

No one said a thing to her about who Aveline was and despite being known that she was a reborned mate of Roshan, no one said a thing and ignored the meaning of her return.

Not that she was aware of why her soul left the limbo in the first place but if Azazel was in charge of the limbo, then there’s no doubt he knew everything right from the beginning, and it only started to hurt that he kept it from her and Roshan.

But why is he hiding it? He even told her to keep shut about Aveline the day Roshan passed out the moment he kissed her, and he called her Aveline too.

Not once, but twice!

Why??

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If Roshan can’t recall his past, it’s obvious he still feels Aveline’s presence, even without his memory and if her death really affected him to the point he lost the memory’s associated with her past life, how can she die again, knowing fully well that he won’t be affected this time around, or maybe even worse.

Anna felt conflicted as the thought suddenly hit her, her fingers dug into the folds of the towel and she couldn’t push aside the feeling that something terrible will happen, she felt a storm brewing but was unaware of what to expect from that storm. All of this is pretty much unusual to her, but it couldn’t mean she was a demon in this life as well, right??

Her lips tilted down when she cracked her brain, her eyes squinting into contemplation as though she was getting to something and that’s when her gaze returned to the mirror.

Staring at herself, she took a step back and demonstrated with her hands on how the force left her palm in Ark Ville, pushing her hand forward.

She still remembered vividly how that strange energy shot through her palm like a quick bolt, unintentionally hitting that assassin to the point she couldn’t help but cringe at the sudden recollection. She hoped he was fine though.

Shaking that part of the scene away from her head before she feels more remorseful, she stretched her right arm forward to see if the same energy would shoot out from her palm but to her disappointment, it didn’t.

Inwardly convincing herself to try again, she stretched her hand before the mirror but nothing happened, making her face frown in displeasure and now, it was making her question if that force even happened or if it was a figment of her imagination.

Maybe she should find Azazel first, if she really was Aveline, then he’s the only one capable of telling her that and he’s going to have to tell it to her face.

A look of determination glinted in her eyes and she stepped out of her room. The males have been divided from the females which meant they stayed at the opposite side of the corridors, but how will she be able to locate Azazel’s chamber without stepping into the wrong one??

Well, however it goes, she has to find Azazel so he can tell her the truth about her past life.

Going down the stairs till she made it to the downstairs hallway, it was looking extremely splendid with the decorations, but Anna had no time to admire as her aim was making it to Azazel’s chamber.

Going up the second stairs in a hurry, her footwear slipped from her feet, falling to the ground and when Anna turned around to go get it, someone got it before her, but before she got a chance to thank the person, she watched her slipper’s get thrown into the courtyard, leaving her dumbstruck and she met the cunning stare of Roseline.

“Oops, I guess my hands slipped.”

Seeing it was no one else but lady Roseline, Anna couldn’t retaliate. If it was actually one of these maidens, then someone would have gotten a hot slap for throwing her favorite shoe like that, most especially when she’s not in the mood to get picked on.

Already aware of the fact she might get insultive if she opened her mouth, Anna wisely remained quiet and just hopped on one leg, going to the courtyard where Roseline had thrown it to get her shoe.

The maidens working couldn’t hold back their snickers and laughter as they watched her go.

Unknown to Annalise, Roseline wasn’t done with her just yet as she followed the hopping Anna to the courtyard. With the intention of disgracing her even more, she broke a few clayed pots filled with flowers on Anna’s path, forcing her to come to a stop and she met Roseline’s stare, obviously stricken by it and silently asking what that act was all about?

“Go on, get your shoe.”

Seeing the sharp shards of broken clay pots, Anna knew if she ends up stepping on those broken clay pots, she might as well be preparing some herbs to clean the injuries she would sustain from them.

Dropping her second feet to the ground, she doesn’t mind stepping on a little dirt to reach her shoe. She’d wash her legs once she got to her chambers.

At this point, all the maidens were peeping to see the drama Lady Roseline had caused and the rest of the demoness stood at the top of the stairs, watching the scene and already concluding on how she intends to suffer the innocent maid.

“Rose can never change,” Melrose added with pity, “who knows what the innocent maid did to her this time around.”

“You’re worried about the maid?” Lady Iris giggled softly before looking below, “she’s just a maid anyway, be quiet and watch the drama instead.”

Meanwhile, at the courtyard, Roseline was very much aware of the eyes on them, making her smile in half triumph because this was what she wanted, to embarrass the human maid.

This maiden dared to make out with her future mate! The fact she had seen his highness go into her room only proves that.

She’d teach her a very good lesson that when she hears the name Roseline, she’ll shiver in fear.

“What are you doing?” Roseline asked after seeing the maid walk with both her feet through the dirt, the dirt she had been planning to avoid stepping on.

“No more hop hop, miss froggy.” She mocked, but seeing as Anna was barely affected by her words and ignoring her constantly, it made her insides boil and before Anna knew it, she was being pushed.

“You need to listen when I’m talking to you! You shameless slut!”

“Ah!” Anna instantly lost her balance, and to her greatest horror, there was a piece of broken clay in front of her, one capable of causing her serious damage if she fell on it, except, it wasn’t her body that aimed for it, but her face as she kept falling and when she closed her eyes, expecting the stinging, agonizing pain that’d follow her fall to the ground,

Someone instantly grabbed her wrist at the nick of time, saving her from the fall and pulling her back in such a swift manner that he effortlessly picked her from the ground into his arms.

Anna, whose eyes were tightly sealed shut, anticipating the terrible pain, felt herself being pulled into the arms of someone and when she tore her shaky palms from her face, wondering who had saved her. She looked up to find herself staring into the hazel-green eyes of a certain glacier.

Her heart skipped a beat.