Hellbound With You

"Where did you go?" Agnes immediately confronted Lilith as soon as she entered their room. "Did you forget that we have a curfew? You'll get punished if you get caught you know? And this is just the first day too."

"Sorry… I just got a bit lost out there." Lilith told her and then she hastily entered the bathroom to calm herself.

She washed her face and looked at herself in the mirror. She looked so different now. Her face was completely altered, thanks to that special disguise spell. The colour of her eyes was now a dark brown and her hair was the same tone as well. Since she could not disguise these two things which were the colour of her eyes and hair, she had opted in using a human disguise. She had worn a wig and a pair of contact lenses, and it was amazing because other creatures cannot see through disguises that does not require magic at all.

As she looked at herself, Lilith was certain that no one could recognize her. She was confident even Kyle could not see through it. But why? Why had he looked at her like that? She could never forget the way Kyle stared at her before. Those gleaming and expressive grey eyes that always made her heart flutter like crazy… it was as if he was looking at Lilith and not Luna, her alter ego. Even though it was obvious that he did not recognize her. Could it be possible that he was interested in her disguise as well?

Lilith ran her hands over her face again. This was the last thing that she had ever wanted to happen. His last words when they had separated echoed in her mind again and her expression became firm as she looked at her reflection in the mirror.

"He had begged you to never show up before him again, Lilith. So you have to try your best to fulfil his wish." There was a tinge of pain in her voice as she whispered that to herself, but there was also conviction in her eyes. Lilith was well aware that the two of them were just impossible. They were from two opposite sides.

'You both can't be together. A witch and a vampire can never be together. That's why you must stand your ground and do your very best to avoid him. You know that you both will only get hurt in the end if you dare try to be with each other again.' she told herself inwardly and after that, Lilith's eyes were filled with intense determination. She firmly slapped her cheeks a couple of times as she motivated herself, repeating over and over in her mind that she could do it.

…

Meanwhile at Little Flower bookstore.

The men were still working at night, going through the books one by one without taking a break. They had already tried to use magic to find the book they were looking for, but it just does not work. No book was responding to any of the spell they casted at all and that only meant one thing. That the books in this bookstore were not written with magic at all. Or probably, someone had put a very impressive spell that was keeping the book from getting detected.

After trying all the methods that they knew and failed at every one of it, the witches could only opt to open the books one by one. And that was a really challenging method that would require them absolute patience.

It had been a day and half of a night spent in going through the books manually and they have yet to find this elusive book.

Zeres had picked the books the witches had sorted out and showed them to Iryz so the girl had been with them the entire time and was helping out to check on the books as well.

"I'm so sleepy now… I'm sorry I can't fight it… anymore…" Zeres heard her murmuring and as he looked her way, he saw her head dropped and rested on the thick book that was on her table.

A sigh escaped Zeres' lips and he put the book he was holding down and walked towards her. She had been doing her best the entire day to help find the book as well.

He felt bad for making the girl work for him, but he had no choice. He needed her as Zeres realized that perhaps, she might be the only one who could find that book.

Zeres had realized what she said before, that her grandmother was surprised that she had managed to even read the book. That could be an indication that the book was not something that just anyone could find. Worse was that this girl might be the only one who could find it as well.

It was a dilemma because there were thousands of books in this bookstore. How long would this girl take to go over every single one of these books?

Zeres could feel that this might turn out to be much harder than he thought it would, but for some reason, he had a feeling that this girl will eventually find it. This gut feeling made him relax a little because it honestly was very rare for him to feel a bit better like this.

Looking at the girl again, he lifted her up and tucked her gently on her bed. As he stared at her peacefully sleeping face, Zeres could not help but wonder if she was truly just a simple human. Somehow, he could not make himself believe that completely.

Should he dig further on her identity?

He looked away and walked towards the window. The moon was up and as he looked at it, he remembered Alicia again. He always thinks of her every time he looks at the moon.

Where is she right now? He wondered and suddenly, as a thought came to him. Could it be that she… he gritted his teeth as he closed the window and hastily left the room.

"Where are you going?" Jude asked Zeres as he passed by them.

"I'll be back soon. Continue with the search." Was all he answered and as he held the door handle, he looked back to the witches who were still going through the books. "Don't any of you dare touch the girl upstairs.." He warned them and everyone looked at each other.