SILVER-HEART
Chapter 93: Love

Chapter 93: Love

In books, I read ’Love’ is a deep and tender feeling of affection or attachment or devotion to a person. It further explained it as the act of caring and giving to someone else. Having someone’s best interest and well-being as a priority in your life. ’To truly love is a very selfless act’

In all my life I have never experienced love or LOVED someone before, I was always hated but I cared for those who hate me even though they didn’t want my affection, my feelings have been dipped into mud maybe times, and yet I still carry a fraction of my heart out in hopes it would be accepted, but the world was cruel to it.

I have fallen in love.... With the very man who purchased me months ago for the highest price for a reason unknown to me, and then he took care of me in his own way and I slowly began to have affection towards him... a man who had nothing to show but speaks mostly with his actions in the most unorthodox way possible.

One would say I have grown an unhealthy attachment to him and what I feel is just me being grateful to him. Well, I’m grateful for everything he has done for me... and there’s a line between appreciation and love. I have grown to care for someone, be sad for someone, think about someone, and constantly crave the attention and little things that were enough to make my heart beat a mile faster.

The mere sight of him, I’m flushed and my body heat gets the better of me, the attraction I have for him is beyond me, it’s too strong in a way I cannot explain and I narrow it down to the love I have for him.

I have fallen in love with William Basker Darkmore.

I’m in love with William Basker Darkmore

I LOVE HIM!

I placed my hands on my cheeks, great, now I was getting hot again. After that day I made a mental breakthrough about my affection for William. I constantly ran serious body heat, it seems like my aura affects my emotions a lot. I can’t help it! My heartbeat is constantly beating a mile faster than I could bear and an enduring need to inhale every minute. And as always because I’m too stupid and flushed, I avoid eye contact with him.

I should be grateful he’s back to work in the library... but that doesn’t stop the dark thoughts that keep fueling my mind and giving me heartbreak.

What if William doesn’t love me?

What if he doesn’t feel the same way I do?

What if he merely just feels this attraction for me to quench curiosity and it has nothing to do with love?

This is the worst feeling ever, not knowing what someone you love feels... and William doesn’t make it better at all... he doesn’t show his emotions to read, it was all up to me. Yes, he’s sweet to me, constantly pulling me to his side like a second skin, always watching me sleep at night with our hands locked together, gods I even avoid having baths with him much to his disagreement, he’s there when I eat at the dining hall, ever since I have never eaten alone.

And if he’s working in the library he insists I sit by him and study and ask any questions that bother me. All in all, William is kind in his own way... but that doesn’t mean I can process his emotions, he’s like a cold wall that sometimes provides warmth.

How do I find out he feels the same way?

"AVY!!!!!" A loud voice came in and my leveled gaze raised to find Sophia rushing to me with tears in her eyes.

"S-S-Slow down!"

Too late because she jumped at me and I caught her against my chest, she broke into tears and almost got her running nose on my shirt.

"S-Sophia!"

"I was worried, Avy!" she cried, using the back of her hand to wipe her nose. A smile found my lips... that’s right I haven’t seen her ever since I recovered, she must have been so worried.

"I’m alright now okay? So stop crying" I said, wrapping my arms around her tightly and she buried her face in my chest.

I don’t know how long we stayed in this position, long enough until she stopped crying and finally agreed I was okay, she was all smiley again and I was thankful.

She dragged me along with her to the garden to play with her. Jumping around in circles and asking me to watch her. Which I happily did and followed her to play, laughing my heart out to the skies.

I giggled at her actions, she ran around playing with a random butterfly.

"Look Avy," she said pointing to one in the air and I raised my gaze looking at the simple creature flying around, some settling in the pond and flowers. I have never been in the garden before... except that fateful night when I sneak out for air. But now William said I could stay here, it wasn’t as much as the nature I craved for but it was better, it was nice to be under the sunlight.

I turned my gaze to the wide pond with water lilies on top and then a patio just at the center, so beautiful. I walked closer to the pond and stared at my reflection with a smile on my lips. I was on a white long-sleeve shirt and a waist-length brown skirt, and my hair was let down over my shoulder to roam freely with the wind, held by a silver pin at the back.

Staring at my reflection now it seemed strangely familiar like I have done so before, I narrowed my eyes... The feeling overwhelmed me, and the more I tried to think about it the more I could clearly see my reflection but not what I saw earlier but a girl with amber knee length hair, dressed in a beautiful silver gown, a silver crown around her head, and vermilion eyes staring back at me.

Is that me?

"Avy!"

I gasped snapping out of the trance I was suddenly in, Sophia was beside me pointing at a goldfish.

"Look it’s fishy"

I darted my eyes at it and saw several of them roaming around in the pond, colorful ones and they were so beautiful. I paused looking back at my reflection and it all seemed like what I thought I saw earlier was a hallucination.

Was it?

It felt so familiar...

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William kept his crystal green eyes on Ava as she played with Sophia out in the garden, unable to take his eyes off her or even his attention, she has never been more beautiful, especially with her laughter and her playful antics. They were music to his ears and he didn’t mind standing here all day and just watching her.

She’s a fascinating sight to behold.

"Master"

He darted his eyes away from the window and turned his attention to Severus.

"What have you found?" William asked, taking his seat back on his kingly chair.

Severus dropped a Vermilion book on the table before William.

"I have found it out just like you said"

William reached for the book and opened it and met with the exact same tattoo that his fairy has... drawn as a design on the very first page.

"There is no further information there... it’s like the library doesn’t know much about it" Severus said just as confused for he knew a library should know all, especially one as the Holy Library.

"Where did you find it?" William asked.

"In the Northern wing, Master, for forbidden knowledge"

William’s hand subconsciously gripped the thin book.

"The contents in there are as you told me... Young Miss is not just a fairy"

"Let this stay between us, am I understood?"

"Yes master"

William raised the book and it vanished into shiny lights. "Keep an eye out in the Northern wing, and scrap anything you can find about Elven blood"

"Yes master," Severus said, placing his hand on his left chest and giving a bow before retreating.

William leaned against his chair in deep thought, his finger tapping the surface of the armchair.

It was just like he thought when he first saw her tattoo, everything he have thought so far he was right, he have come across this particular book many centuries ago when cataloging and due to the little and rare contents it was written out as forbidden for no one should learn about it, it was something ancient and something Basker once told him about too.

If everything in that book was true then why?

Why her?

Why Ava?

The prophecy does not make sense, it was totally a different thing. Once again he has a strong feeling that Basker knew all this beforehand, was this some kind of test for him?

The prophecy mentions a ’Fairy shall reunite all’ and yet Ava is far different from a fairy.

Ava was not the fairy mentioned in the prophecy, she’s not the one who would reunite him with his long-lost family.