Hazel emerged from the bathroom, her pale blue nightgown shimmering in the soft light, she settled into the chair in front of the dressing mirror, her damp hair wrapped in a white towel, and sighed, as she removed the towel and ran her fingers through her hair, her face scrunched up in a frown, Ezra entered the room, carrying a steaming mug of tea and a bag, he set the mug down in front of her, his eyes locking onto hers, "What's wrong?" he asked, noticing her expression, "I need another bath, a longer one, I haven't had a proper bath in almost a week.", Ezra's hands paused as he unpacked the hair ornaments from the bag. "I helped you with your bath," he said softly, Hazel's face contorted in horror "You...you did what?", Ezra held up his hands, his eyes pleading innocence. "I swear, I did nothing inappropriate, you needed some herbs to heal, and you weren't conscious. I had to help, actually it's nothing, I would still end up your husband" he said, Hazel's anger flared, her voice rising. "You think it's nothing? If I had stripped you bare and touched your private parts In the name of bathing, would you be so calm?", Ezra's smile was sudden and playful "Actually, I'd like that, why don't you take revenge on me and do exactly what I did?", Hazel's eyes widened, her mind reeling from the unexpected turn and her mouth going mute, she felt a flutter in her chest as Ezra leaned closer, his eyes sparkling with mischief, "you, you are so annoying" she said and moved away from him still frowning, "I am sorry" he muttered "but I had no choice, you wouldn't have healed without the herbs and sincerely I didn't do anything other than bath you" he said "I am sorry dearie" he added again "it's fine, let's forget it" she muttered her frown lingering, her eyes still flashinhg with annoyance, Ezra's apologies and promises seemed sincere, but she wasn't ready to let him off the hook just yet,"Okay, fine," she said finally, her voice dripping with sarcasm, "I forgive you, but only because I don't want to be responsible for your crushed ego.", Ezra's laughed his eyes sparkling with amusement, "Thanks, my lady, I owe you one", Hazel rolled her eyes, a small smile dancing on her lips, just then Melvin's knock sounded urgently on the door, "Ezra, my mistress isn't dead, she didn't get burnt" he cried excitedly and Hazel's gaze turned confused "I would explain to you later I promise, I have to attend to this" Ezra said and hurried out of the room to Melvin who led him to the study, "look at this" he said pulling out a stone with glaring yellow light from his pocket, "this is a life stone, I don't know of the other witches but my mistress has one, she created it, engraved her name on it and uniquely made its colour yellow then gave it to the master so he could monitor her well being anytime she isn't by his side but the master refused to collect it, he said he preferred being by her side all the time than keeping her life stone by his side so she kept the life stone with her. Today I went back to the basement of that inn trying to see if I could find anything and I found this below some old woods in the room, it was perfectly hidden under the woods but I noticed the little lump and after some digs here it is, with this we can tell that my mistress is still very much alive and is perfectly fine" Melvin said and Ezra frowned "if she is alive where is she?, is she in the midst of her sisters cooking the ritual plan with them?, was she one of those witches who partnered with the humans to kill my father?, if she isn't why did she hide her being alive from I and my father?" he muttered, Melvin looked at him sadly and patted his shoulder "you were very young when she disappeared so you really don't know her. Though my mistress is a witch, she is very different from the rest, she would never hurt any creature except they are threats to her and those she loves. I know she is somewhere around the world doing something important and I know one day she would find you" Melvin said "I would be waiting then but if she turns out a threat, I wouldn't hesitate killing her" Ezra said expressionlessly and strolled out of the room while Melvin silently put the stone back in his pocket.
Ezra strolled into the room, Hazel was standing comfortably in front of the window feeling the winters wind without any thick clothing, "I would really suggest you shut the window" Ezra said, his hand sliding around her waist from behind while he inhaled her soothing scent "Melvin said my animal side is a polar bear, it works with my human body so the cold wind shouldn't be a problem" she said but she still shut the window and turned to face him "so, what have I being missing" she asked and he sighed "I should tell you about me, then you would understand" he said "ok, I am all ears" she said and he suddenly picked her up and placed her on the sofa "my parents are two different creatures that don't cohabit, but strangely my mother, a witch, turned out to be my father, a vampire's mate".