The black cloud that was hovering above them was drawn by some unknown force towards the window. The man in black that was standing there earlier appeared again. Opening his mouth, he swallowed the black cloud and disappeared.
His disappearace made Lara to come back to her senses. Her long fingernails retreated and she became a human again.
"What happened?" She wondered as she asked no one in particular when her eyes looked at where she was. She shrieked out in fear as she saw the lifeless and naked body of Lucy. She put her hands on her ears quickly as she got scared. She saw that she was also naked as her sagged but standing breast which was impossible for an old lady at her age to have unless she maintained her body was opened.
She shifted and got down from Lucy's body to the other side of the bed.
"Lucy? Lucy, wake up." She called out to Lucy as she tapped her on the tighs and noticed that there was blood on the sheets but can't travel any on her body.
"What happened to her? What have I done to her? Master is going to kill me. Oh no Lucy… Lucy please wake up." Lara tapped Lucy in an attempt to wake her up but she wasn't getting up.
"What have I done? What did I do to her? Has it started again?" Lara asked herself as she got out of the bed to dress up. Her clothes were already torn into rags but she still put them on.
She looked at the big clock that was hanging on the wall. It was only fifteen minutes until the master was to see Lucy.
"Oh no….what am I going to do? Master can't find this girl like this. I can't risk my soul again…" Lara muttered to herself as she rushed into the bathroom and reappeared with a bucket of water, a bowl and a towel.
She cleaned Lucy's body from her toe to her face when she noticed two spots on her neck. She looked closely at it as she tried touching it then drifted backwards in fear as her body began to vibrate with fear.
She tried to remember what happened. The two holes looked just like the mark of a werewolf given to his mate. She was scared but made sure that she covered it. She continued cleaning Lucy's body with her guilt filled mind when she noticed five striped lines on Lucy's other neck. It was respiring just like the gills of a fish. Is Lucy a mermaid?
She was a bit relieved to see the gills because it convinced her that Lucy was alive but how could she explain all the sudden features in this young girl's body by one mistake? What was she going to tell the master?
"I'll have to make sure all these are hidden. Or I kill her and hide her body." Lucy thought aloud. She was done cleaning and dressing Lucy when she carried her out of the bed and dropped her on the couch.
She went towards the cupboard and was about to shift it when she noticed a hole but something distracted her. The tick of the clock was very loud. That was the time that the master wanted to meet with Lucy.
She heard footsteps approaching towards the room door. Her eyeballs popped out. She rushed over and carried Lucy back into her bed and pretended to care for her.
"Knock! knock!! Knock!!!" There was a loud knock on the door and Lara rushed towards it to see who was there. No one had ever come into this room or even came anywhere near the floor. Lara suspected it to be no one other than the master.
She opened the door slightly to be sure it was him first before widely opening it. It wasn't the master but a guard.
"What are you doing here?" Lucy asked the guard.
"Master summons the presence of the young lady sleeping here." He said to her,
"Oh…where is he?" Lara asked him as she tried to hide her guilt.
"In his chambers." The guard replied.
"Can I take her with me?" He said to her again as she hesitated.
"No no…I'll bring her myself." Lara said to the guard.
"Okay but I'll have to go with you two. That's his instruction so get her here quickly." The guard said to her again as he peeped into the room but couldn't take a look at anything.
"Isn't she coming?" Ge asked her again.
"She is…I'll go and bring her out. Just spare me a few minutes." Lara said as she went back in but took longer than what seemed to be a few minutes.
"What is taking you so long? Master is going to get angry and might kill any of us. Please get her here now or do you need any help there?" He asked her from the door.
"Hello?" The guard called out again but Lara wasn't replying which made the guard enter the room as it wasn't locked. He didn't see Lara in the room but only saw Lucy laying on the bed.
"Hey…wake up. This isn't the time to sleep. Hey…" The guard tried to wake Lucy up as he tapped her when he noticed blood. He went closer to take a look. He saw the mate mark as his eyes were wide opened.
"Who could have done this to her? Is the master aware that she is mated already?" The guard asked no one in particular as he tried to turn to look for Lara when he felt a sharp pain in his back. Lara had stabbed him with a dagger from the back as he fell to the ground slowly.
She pulled him away from the room and shifted the cupboard with all her strength. There was a wall behind it which she easily pushed open. It was camouflaged with the painting of the wall as there was a secret door there.