Cassen looked at his wife with bewildered eyes.
He was her first husband, and being the first comes with different responsibilities.
What he found strange is that a day ago, the other four husbands started to behave strangely after waking up.
Their expressions were too excited then hatred followed by calmness. They looked like different people. Even when he told them that their wife was missing they just tried to find excuses and brushed him aside.
What was strange is that, they used to fear even her name but now, when he told them about their wife disappearence for more than twenty hours, they were too calm. In their eyes he saw something, hatred,disgust and the strong killing intent to ignore.
He left them be because to him they were not a threat.
He started the journey to the black forest to search for her. The legend is that, in the black forest, the prey and predators are ruled by the light.
There, near the river bank he found her, her body was unconscious and wet, a phone was besides her which was strange brcause it was not like the usual phone they use. Which is usually glass like and used crystals as energy. It will be tied on their wrists with different colours which signify power.
There are five colours in total. Red colour is for the Royal families.
Yellow for the families who are related to the royals.
Green, for the Nobles.
Blue, for the commoners.
Black, for slaves or the fallen nobles.
Chloe is a royal first princess of country X.
He touched her forehead to discover that she was running a high fever, he will not doubt if the doctor told him that her brain was fried. And he thinks so because who could tell him why he can hear his wife inner voice!.
To him Chloe is his light in the darkness, his first love that never dies and his reason to fight in this strange world.
He met her when she was eighteen. That is the age where everyone is carefree and the females start dating. To her that age was like a heavy stone, She was too mature of that age.
She would sit there in the dark arena, looking at the fighting mers on the stage or sometimes reading strange huge books. Sometimes she would stare at something lost in thoughts or peruse the books pages in an anxiety like time was not on her side.
To him, she felt like she could fade at any time and that brought the protectiveness in him. He fell in love at first sight.
He Concorted a scheme that brought them together.She used to call him pinkie because of his liking of pink things like clothes and ornaments, he even used to dye his hair pink even though red was it's natural colour.
Mers are not respected infact those who are stubborn and strong like men. Women prefer the white lotus type which he wasn't.
He was rejected even by his family members including birth parents so he found solace in hunting and fighting in the dark arena.
The day they met he was heavily injured. She came there in the lounge with first aid kit, silentntly she applied medicine to his wounds in a careful way.
When he asked her why she was helping him. Not because he did not appreciate it infact he appreciated it alot. In Novearth, Mers can not be treated without any guardian stamp.Either the parents, spouse or a friend but they should be female or male gives a stamp or something like a pass to the Mars. A doctor in the dark arena usually require an extremely high price for every minute.
"You know I have never been in a relationship pinkie." That was her unrelated answer to his questions which stunned him.
Wait pinkie? He repeated the name silently, it sounded nice rolling from those red lips of hers and he wanted to take a bite. And the voice oh God he knew it he had already fallen under a skirt. He could not help it but be drawn in to her voice.
It was too smooth,
Too lazy,
Too cold.
"Huh!" He was speechless.
"I am single." She continued. She raised her head to look at him. The disgust that he expected to see in her eyes, was not there but her eyes were too calm.
"I know, haven't you said you have never been in a relationship." He replied in an amused tone.
"I have never touched any mers hand or the opposite gender." She continued while wrapping the bandage on his wounds gently.
"Mmh, miss.."
"Chloe, call me Chloe. " She interrupted him.
"Miss Chloe so what do you want?"
" You need to be responsible."
"Responsible! How?" He exclaimed in surprise.
"Mmh, for me as a woman of course." She said those words like explaining the reason why it will be raining, like it's because the sun it's too hot.
Inwardly he was giddy with happiness. Is it what am thinking about, falling in love and getting married. Getting pregnant with her seeds and giving birth to a girl who looks like him and a boy who look like her. Then is that not a jackpot.
But outside, his expression was serious.
"Princess, do you know that am older than you with five years?"
She raised an eyebrows to my serious question or the way he addressed her."I know."
"Then why, marriage is a sacred thing." He asked hurriedly looking at her eyes for any emotions.
"Who talked about marriage." Her eyes widened.So he was the one who misinterpreted the meaning of being responsible right. But who can blame him.
" But if you think marriage is the only solution then I would marry you." She declared with a tinge of red on her cheeks.
Badum!
His heart skipped a bit, no, it did not skip jumped because that voice was too human.
" So she can be shy," he thought inwardly while clutching his imaginary heart." She looks cute and why is she so damn hot I want to … wait cassen get hold of yourself she is too young yes too young"
He does not know when his heart betrayed him, maybe it was when she came to bandage his wounds or how those red eyes or hers looked at him with no disgust but as a fellow human or earlier when she sat there reading her book but he felt drawn to her.
Since that day onward he became her stalker, friend and lastly a marriage patner.
At twenty, her parents started matchmaking her with different fallen nobles. It was an idea she was too resistant to even going as far as to self harm but she married them at last.
That is when it all started.
The changes.
Sometimes she became irritated at the other husbands of hers sometimes she was too calm in their presence even ignoring them.
She even went as far as abusing them and raising her hands at them. What puzzled him most was that, even if he intervened, she always look at him like an extra or someone who does not exit. Sometimes she will utter words like 'you are not supposed to marry her' and when all of her episodes are over she will look scared and hide in his room.
That prompted him to investigate, that is when he descoverd the secret.
The emergence of two different souls.
Both of them were evil, he knew it because she was never a saint. But one soul or personality was too irritable.
The real her, the woman he fell for had that 'are you tired of living for provoking me ' vibe. But the other soul was very wicked.
Very stupid.
Back to present.
"I am Cassen, your first husband." He told her when he heard her inner voice.
{System come back! You did not tell me he can read minds!} She shouted inwardly.
"And no I can not read minds it's just that your expectations are too vivid to ignore."
He looked at her, really looked at her and what he saw surprised him at the same time made him happy.
The gloom that had always sorrounded was gone replaced by the cheerfulness. Her always lifeless eyes, now they are vibrant. Maybe she had broken free from the plot she always murmured in her sleep but he can see that the burden was lifted of her shoulders.
He went at the bed side to touch her forehead while spying on her inner voice.
" System why do I not have any recollection of him, even in the book he is not mentioned when he is the main husband."
[Maybe it is because he is not tied down by the book rules or he is not the heroine husband as your other spouses.]
"So that is it, no wonder pinkie gives me a comfortable feeling"
Cassen cast his eyes somewhere else to hide the bitterness that was in them. " She really forgot me?" That thought made him gloomy and he felt like crying.
" But memories can be created, and this time" he thought to himself while a smile curved on his mouth. " let the memories be the happy ones." He cheered himself.