The Duke Possessiveness
No! He should stop thinking negatively, Vivian belongs to him and him alone, their divorce is only for the main time, and she won't get married to another man, she will wait for him, she loves him too much and he loves that, she can not be bear to be with another man, she didn't during their marriage so she definitely won't do so after their marriage, he thought with a crazy look on his face fully showing his possessiveness toward her.
"That's right, Vivian belongs to me, and her heart can only beat for me, what am I even thinking about in the first place, even though we were about to divorce, she still set aside her pride and made a move toward me for the first time in her life, she was only angry in the evening because I disgraced her and now she still wants us to be together, she will definitely wait for me as she always does," he said to himself as if trying to hypnotize himself and get the unhappy thought out of his brain.
With that thought in his head, the Duke finally headed out of the bathroom, dressed himself up, and went to sleep with a satisfied look on his face, The Duke's estate is quite peaceful and quiet unlike the chaos that is currently boiling underneath, nobody is aware of what will happen next as they all go to sleep feeling different types of emotions bawling inside them.
Tomorrow marks the beginning of a new life for all of them but what that new beginning holds none of them is aware of because the future is too mysterious for them to guess or even judge what will be of their fate, whether the decision they made today is right or wrong, they don't know.
In the duke's room
Isla is currently facing the mirror with a sinister look on her face but instead of the mirror displaying her image, it is the image of another woman that is displayed which is quite a strange phenomenon.
The woman in the mirror looks like Isla but she is a lot more beautiful than Isla, the only person who can reveal her beauty is Vivian, she gets off a seductive allure, every bit of her moves, reaction, and expression tingles a man's heart and carries an enticing energy, it is as if she is made to seduce a man, even though she is currently angry and there is a sinister look on her face, it does not make her look sinister a bit but rather radiates a whole different level of charm.
But the strange thing is that this beautiful woman is currently sitting in a lotus posture with different strange words written in an unknown letter around her neck, the place she is staying so dark that one can barely see a thing apart From her and some things that surround her.
There were different weapons surrounding her not allowing her to move from where she was with black flames burning around her, once in a while these flames would move and hit her causing her to wince in pain, and sometimes the weapon, it might be a whip whipping her now and a dagger stabbing her the next moment and then miraculously a white light will hit her causing her to also wince in pain again but also heal her of all of her wounds at the same time but despite all the torture she is going through she still maintains that sinister look on her face, her eyes speaks of the intense hatred in her heart and shows how much she yells for revenge but even this does not make her ugly in any way but rather she still looks charming and alluring even Vivian despite how beautiful she is wont to be able to pull off her charm the way this woman is doing it, this woman is like a nine-tailed fox, it is as if she is made to trap men with her charm.
"So you are telling me that despite lending to you a percent of my power and my beauty you are still unable to charm any of them or deal a blow to Vivian's reputation but rather you end up being retaliated against by her," the woman said calmly but the anger that is brawling inside her or the look in her eyes is anything but calm.
Even though Isla is angry and currently feeling bitter, she still flinches at the voice of the woman showing how afraid of her she is, she really wants to bow her head down so as not to look at the woman's face but she won't dare.
She has been the woman's retainer since she was young and she most times hears her voice in her head, it is only when the woman is extremely angry with her and wants to punish her did she instructs her to stand in front of the mirror.
The woman has been their family's source of easygoing life since she agreed to be her retainer at the age of ten, she granted her beauty and strength with wisdom and also made her brother smart enough to be a genius, although the woman's power is currently sealed and she has just recovered a little bit so she can't do much for them although she did just enough for them to be wealthy but unfortunately, her foolish parents let their entire family fortune to go waste causing her to be heavily punished by the woman.
The woman chooses her to help her collect fates and steal Vivian's luck in order to free her from her seal and she happily agrees to the woman's demand because not only do those things help her to stand above the archduke daughter that she envies but also hates a lot, it also helps her stand in top of the world as a subject of envy of other woman when all she has to do is just steal from the archduke daughter everything she loves, make her a subject of mockery and have her live in sorrow, only a fool will not take that kind of offer, and everything has been going smoothly until tonight.