WHEN one of the agents suggested that maybe the neighbors wanted Rosalie to be out from the neighborhood because she is brown and Asian, all of his colleagues looked at Daniel and waited what would be his reaction to the comment.
"There's no discrimination in the neighborhood. What you must say was that the people imagined things and see what they want to see. These missing young women entered the house of Rosalie and never came out, what happened to them? You all go there and see to yourself if you could come out again that house or stay there and disappear. The people just talked nonsense." Daniel answered his colleagues.
The police could not solve the mystery of the missing women. The murder in the coffee shop in which Agnes was the person of interest, was closed and consider solved because of the death of Agnes. The first victim that happened in the square, all pointed to his friend and to nobody else therefore the police dismissed his allegation that it's a woman and the woman must be Rosalie because it resembled her. The victim in the bicycle, investigation was still going on.
The death of four people in the garbage truck was also unsolved. The investigation was still going on and so of the missing women.
ROSALIE'S medication therapy of her hereditary disease continued. Because of Phlebotomy, and at the same time with medications, Rosalie's condition became better. Excess porphyrins were removed from her liver as she received also intravenous heme treatment. Gradually, blisters disappeared from her body, although she was still sensitive to sun exposure. She also must have a diet of less iron and no alcohol. Her Phlebotomy treatment was completed and the doctors said to her, she was lucky that her disease was quickly diagnosed and treated. There's a sign of remission.
Rosalie could not work yet as her work would constantly expose her to the sun. She thought to change jobs if the doctor would allow her to return to work.
But Daniel had another plan. He asked Rosalie to marry him.
"Sweetie, marry me and just be my wife. It's not necessary for you to work."
"Daniel, the doctors say that my sickness maybe would come back, because it is in my blood. I don't like to bother you in the future." Rosalie was still worried about her disease.
"Let tomorrow for tomorrow. Now is important, please marry me." Daniel suggested that Rosalie must not worried about tomorrow.
"Okay," Rosalie said.
"Okay, does it mean you will marry me?" Daniel was glad and excited.
Rosalie just smiled at Daniel. Daniel suddenly hugged Rosalie and they kissed. A passionate kiss of two people in love with each other.
Rosalie and Daniel made plans. Their wedding must be simple. And their honeymoon would be in the Philippines.
Rosalie's house must be sold after the wedding as she and Daniel agreed.
That night before the wedding day, Rosalie dreamed of Queen Riza.
"How are you?" Rosalie asked Queen Riza.
"He just freed me." Queen Riza replied Rosalie at the same time telling her that she was just freed by Prince Suryabhan from being chained.
"He'd chained you for a long time?" Rosalie felt pity for Queen Riza.
"I'd sustained it. There's nothing to do there, boring, thereby you, are more fun." Queen Riza said.
"Tomorrow is my wedding day," Rosalie told Queen Riza about her wedding.
"I know. Eliazora, I will not discourage you but please be careful. Daniel is a man in uniform if you know what I mean." Queen Riza said to Rosalie. "Be happy, Eliazora, be happy, only as I said just be careful, and remember you know already you have powers, use your powers in time of need."
WHEN Rosalie woke up in the morning, she thought about what Queen Riza said to her. She must be careful because Daniel was a man in uniform. In her previous life, if it was true, her husband who murdered her was a man in uniform, that was what Queen Riza meant.
But then Rosalie also thought, she must not let the previous influence the present. Daniel was a different man at a different time. The wedding must go through. Also, at present, she was not Eliazora but Rosalie.
Rosalie and Daniel were married. The wedding was simple. Some Filipina friends of Rosalie stood as her family during the wedding.
The wedding was held in a small restaurant. Second marriage to both, Rosalie and Daniel were convinced that their marriage would last.
Before going to the Philippines for their honeymoon for six weeks, Rosalie and Daniel together arranged the things of Rosalie.
"Look Honey, I think I would give these to the children." Rosalie was talking about a World Ball lamp.
"Yes, that would be very nice for them, they learn at the same time the map of many countries." Daniel agreed that the lamp would be nice and useful to his children.
"Can I put this in their room?" Rosalie asked Daniel.
"Of course, you would be their second mother, this house is your house now," Daniel replied to Rosalie.
Rosalie went to the room of Daniel's children who were not home and stayed with their grandparents to give Daniel and Rosalie privacy on their first night as husband and wife.
Rosalie was just a moment in the room of the children. She rushed out of the room, still in her hand the World Map Ball lamp. Rosalie was pale and had fear on her face.
"Rosalie, what happen?" then Daniel remembered something. He knew why Rosalie rushed out of the room.
"Rosalie, come." Daniel held Rosalie in her hand and they walked back to the room. Then they both stand in front of the big mirror. They both have no reflection.
"This is a magic mirror. I'd bought it for the children." Daniel said and he pushed a button at the side of the mirror. Rosalie saw then they have both reflections. "The children enjoyed as they frank their friend with this mirror."
Rosalie was relieved. She had thought for a moment that the mirror would be a portal for Queen Riza and Prince Suryabhan again or that she became already a vampire, for as what she came to know, vampires have no reflections. *The End of Part 1* Remedios Dorio