After searching every place, he believed there was, but still couldn't find it. He stood, his lips closed in a thin line, his right hand holding his chin, his index finger stroking his stubble-free chin. His eyebrows are deeply knitted. Until his eyes glanced at the one thing he hadn't checked, the suitcase stored in the corner of the room. Next to the cupboard.
His lips curled into a small grin, smiling. His feet stepped closer to the suitcase. His left hand pulled the suitcase out so it could be stretched on the floor and opened the lid.
Inside were still the clothes that Leigh had worn in Yannick City to attend the annual Company gathering. Folded neatly, even though it has been used. One by one he lifted the contents of the suitcase, not missing a single item in his capable hands.
Until his hand holds a box with unique decorations. Without waiting he opened the box. Inside there was a cloth bag, he lifted it, his fingers felt, feeling an object, like a pendant. He opened the pouch. And it's true that it contains a heart-shaped pendant with half a heart. He could feel that there was a dark aura in the pendant.
He moved the pendant from his right hand to his left hand. His right hand reached into his trouser pocket and fist out his cell phone. Pressing on the button, opening the contacts menu, dialling a number.
He didn't have to wait long on the second ring, the phone was connected. He immediately greeted "My lord, I found it" he was silent, waiting for a response from the other side of the phone.
"Good, bring the item here," answered a voice in a flat tone and immediately hung up the connection.
The person immediately put the pendant back into fabric cloth. Put it inside the box. Rearrange all the contents of the suitcase, return to its original state. put the suitcase in position in the corner of the room.
Then the figure disappeared from the room into thin air.
The day before.
Kendric was sitting quietly in his room. Sit facing the fireplace. Looking meaninglessly at the embers dancing on the firewood. This is his life, having eternal life, sometimes it makes him bored. Moreover, he lived as long as he could remember, alone. Only accompanied by his loyal servants.
The sky outside was dark, without a moon, but starry. Makes the night imperfectly dark with twinkling stars stretching across the sky. Decorate the dark sky. He was still looking at the fireplace in a daze. When suddenly his breath hitched, it was as if air had entered his respiratory cavity which seemed dull to draw in the air of life again. his eyebrows were deeply knitted together. Both hands gripped the arms chair tightly. He didn't know how long it lasted, but it wasn't too long, before he had time to act, what he felt, disappeared instantly. But he still felt a sense of suffocation.
His eyes darkened, his jaw tightened. He stood up, leaving the sofa in front of the fireplace, leaving the room. His footsteps took him to his study room. Entering, he walked to his work desk. Sitting in his leather chair. Leaning his head on the back of the chair, closing his eyes. Like going to sleep but he didn't.
A moment later, a knock on the door was heard. On the second knock, the door opened. Showing the figure of a middle-aged man, around twenty years old. But that's just the outer appearance. The actual age does not need to be asked.
Ezra, stepped in, walked towards Kendric's desk, standing one step away from it. Saying "My Lord, Falrey is still tracing Ociel's movements, and has not yet returned." Ezra received a call from Kendric through his mind. On the way to his office. Making him immediately rush over. Didn't want to make Kendric wait long.
"Ask him to come directly to me as soon as he comes back," remarked Kendric with his eyes still closed. His bearing felt heavy and suffocating. Indicates that he is in a bad mood.
"Yes, my lord," answered Ezra, bowing his head once, standing up straight, then walking out of the study room.
It was already afternoon when Farley entered Kendric's house. His demeanour is serious but calm. His face was expressionless.
Ezra immediately approached him when he heard the sound of a car in the yard. He bowed before Farley, saluting. The respect he will always show is only within their kinds. "Sir, the Lord, asks you to go straight to him when you get here" Ezra conveyed Kendric's orders, in one sentence.
Farley tilted his head, he could feel something was wrong. But he didn't ask Ezra. He only noded his head once. Then walked past Ezra, towards Kendric's study room.
When he arrived, in front of the study room door. He knocked, waiting for an answer which he immediately received in his mind. He immediately opened the door and stepped in.
He walked up until one step away from the work desk. At that time Kendric just opened his eyes. Staring at him with dark eyes.
The look in Kendric's eyes confirmed his suspicions, something bad had happened, which made Kendric's mood dark. "My lord" he greeted as he bowed his head once, and looked up at his lord, anticipating.
"How is your investigation going so far?" Kendric asked expressionlessly. His voice was flat, as calm as sea water before strong waves came crashing into the rocks, ready to crush the rocks to pieces.
"Ociel, move full of accurate calculations. He barely left any traces behind. If it weren't for us successfully capturing the captives we are holding now. I think it will be difficult for us to get a glimpse of their movement plan. But from the investigation I found. Closely related to your relationship with Leigh. It's like they want to sabotage Leigh, monitoring her every move. I think they already know that she has a special relationship with you, my lord," Farley explained in detail, without missing the slightest information. Kendric would know if he was hiding something.
Farley's last sentence made Kendric's eyes even darker and more terrifying. However, his face was still expressionless and unreadable. Sit quietly, leaning back in his chair.
"I want you, go to Leigh's house, find the object that has dark magic in it" Kendric ordered, wasting no more time. Because he had waited enough, for Farley to come to him. He didn't want anything unexpected to happen to Leigh, where she was far away from his reach now.
Farley didn't ask what it was, and why Kendric suddenly gave such orders. He already roughly knew what was going on. Following Kendric for hundreds of years, he did know how Kendric would act, towards what he thought was his.
Therefore, he nodded his head, leaving Kendric's study room. Without him having to talk, if he was done with him.
Kendric closed his eyes like before Farley arrived, he hadn't moved from his leather chair since last night. No breakfast, no lunch either. Ezra had asked if he wanted breakfast but had gotten no answer from him at all. Therefore, he waited anxiously for Farley's return.
This was the first time he had seen Kendric, this scary, after hundreds of years of living in solitude, without the emotion he had ever shown in front of anyone, not even in front of Farley who had followed him much longer than him. The last time he heard Kendric emit a dark aura like this, was when he lost the person, he loved the most during his eternal life.
Since then, Kendric has always displayed an emotionless face, not after he met Leigh. He could see Kendric smiling. A smile that seemed forgotten after hundreds of years, miraculously, like someone who got lost, found his own way home, and smiled again.
Back to the present.
Farley appeared instantly in front of Kendric in his study room. As soon as he saw Kendric, he immediately bowed his head "My lord" then walked over to Kendric's work desk, with both hands still holding a unique box containing a heart pendant with half a heart inside. Put it in the middle of the table. Then stand up straight. Waiting for Kendric's reaction.
Without moving from his sitting position, Kendric just waved his hand, and the box contained a heart pendant with a half heart. It flew and landed in his palm. The box opens by itself. Likewise with the cloth bag. A heart-shaped pendant necklace with half a heart, out of a cloth bag, floated in front of Kendric. With just one glance, Kendric's jaw tightened.
He knew what was in the locket. The same magic, used to kill the person he loved thousands of years ago. And he knows who did it. His eyes were filled with uncontrollable anger. Burning, like embers in hell. Burning without mercy the sinners who enter there.