"The moon is beautiful today" a cold voice resonated in the room cutting the silence like a knife causing her eyes to widen in fear. Panicking she swept her gaze across the room searchingly. Finding nothing she was about to dismiss it as a figment of her imagination when soft breathing fell on her neck.
Turning around nervously, she saw the man that has just spoken standing few inches away from her most of his features were hidden by the darkness of night but once he took few steps back she was able to make out his features under the moon-light. He had just emerged from the shadows where he had been waiting for her.
"What are you doing here?" she asked softly to avoid waking up others. He closed his hand around her wrist and dragged her to the library in her home. His handsome features looked darker than usual because of the lack of light in the room.
"I came to see you" setting his gaze on her. "Where did you leave to?"
"I went to see the new flowers" came a quick reply that put a smile on his face, a smile that scared her to the core.
She took a step back involuntarily, her instincts were screaming at her to run but she stay put knowing that the man in-front of her loved to hunt down his prey. In this case the prey was her. Her movements didn't deter him and her cornered her between the wall and himself. He raised his hands and took the ribbon from her hair causing it to fall down like a waterfall framing her face.
"In the middle of the night?" she didn't answer him knowing that he will decipher her lie through her words. He brought his face closer to her ear causing her to shudder in fear, his words vibrated against her skin.
"Did you go to see the flowers in his pavilion? Did you go to meet him, little Bai?"
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