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He inches closer, a single finger roaming her heated skin. Breath mingling with breath. 

A loud bang vibrates through the room, so thunderous as if god himself was furious.

Slowly he looks up staring out the large glass windows to the backyard, 

"You have a visitor." His rasps calmly.

"Who?" Rose quickly fires, feigning ignorance. She knew well enough who it was. Her nightly visitor has arrived.

Surprising, He only visits when she is alone.

"One who comes out at night. Lurking in the shadows, in the darkness... just like its intensions."

He looks down still leaning on top her, once more pinning her with his intense gaze.

"Are you afraid?" His voice dead serious, eyes going back to look outside.

And Rose lied, "No." 

But is it a lie when her fear was never really rooting enough to make her run the other way but instead often getting mixed with exhilaration.

"You should be."  

He leaves her staring wide eyed on the sofa and goes to stand before the glass panes.

"It's not happy to see me here. I can see the raging pits of fire in it's gaze. Ready to burn me right where I stand." he chuckled, sounding most sinister, "It definitely wants to rip my innards out."

"You should take off your shirt." He suggests casually.

"Excuse me?"

"Let's see if it riles him up even more to shatter instead of just slamming the windows like a wuss." He rouses under his breath, his excited provocative tone not escaping Rose's attention. 

What the hell is he up to?

"This isn't funny." Rose sputters out, standing up from the couch.

"I'm not trying to be." He faces her again, sporting a deadpan face. 

"Whatever. You think I'm one of your stupid fan girls to take my shirt off just because you want to rile someone up? Besides, there's probably no one outside and you're only making it up to see my boobs like a pervert."

His eyes roams her from top to bottom, there was distaste evident in his gaze.

"When he comes at night and leaves a little something for you, maybe then you take off your clothes for him... like a slut." Rome stared into her eyes with nothing behind those icy orbs to show for a lack of meaning behind his words. Because he means every single thing he says to her.

"Get. Out. Now!" Rose boomed furiously. 

"Whatever, I was leaving anyway. This has become boring." He walks towards her front door.

"Wait. How do you know he comes at night and leaves something?" her eyes narrow.

"Because I've seen it before."

"You saw him? It is a real guy?" Rose wanted to confirm, for some reason she thought otherwise.

"I never said I saw him. I've only seen it happening to someone else." 

"Whom?" 

"You don't need to know." He closes off.

"Then at least tell me what happened to her? Can I meet this person?" 

"You can't." Refusing calmly he was almost out the door when Rose pleads against hope.

"Please."

"You can't because she disappeared." Those were the words that finally did it. Brought her racing heart and buzzing head to a sudden halt. "Never to be seen again." 

 "When he stops visiting, that's when you should be most afraid." His words rang like a siren in the silence of her mind as he left.

Now she felt true fear for the first time.

==

In the embrace of her ancestral town, Rose seeks refuge from the echoes of her past. 

Little does she know, her return to her roots will awaken dormant shadows, shattering ordinary her existence. 

For when the darkness falls over the town, from the pitch black rises a shadowy figure that haunt her nights. 

In the darkness he sweeps her off the ground in terrible fear and the allure of sinister intrigue.

And once the sun comes, a man with a god awful attitude, haunts her in the broad day light. Causing her to swell with pure disdain. 

With each passing night, it draws closer to Rose, casting a chilling spell that both terrifies and exhilarates her.

Thrust into a labyrinth of mysteries can she navigate the treacherous path laid before her, or will her nightly visitor consume her whole?

He Comes At Night

"This is Rose, ladies and gentle men. Rose Gabrielle," A smooth voice rang from the back. But there was something mocking hidden in that voice.

Why did he say it in such a weird way? Like he meant something between the lines. Something humiliating.

Something prickly felt pert up on the spine on my back.

Draken. Of course, what did I expect.

How the hell does he know my name, though?

Moreover, I am done letting him interrupt me every time he is lurking around me. This is getting out of hand, now he wouldn't even let me introduce my own damn self by my own damn self?

I turned to glare at him, unfazed by the curious stares around us. "Oh, how thoughtful—" I even shifted my glare to a mocking sweet smile. "—mansplaining my own name. What's next? Teaching me how to breathe? Next time, try letting me handle the things I've been doing perfectly fine my whole life."

Draken tilted his head staring back with no words and a rising brow, leaning back in his seat.

"Ooooh, burn!" Aria coughed in her fist, barely containing her laughter as a few chuckles spread through the room.

Even Mr. Aspen cleared his throat, his lips twitching slightly.

"Alright, Ms. Gabrielle," Mr. Aspen continued, regaining his composure. "Since you're new, it is understandable to be confused on the first day since you joined us at your own leisure." He gave a pointed look and I gave a guilty smile.

"That doesn't mean you get a free pass at disrupting my lectures whenever you want. But let's keep the witty back-and-forth for after class, shall we? And the same goes for your friend."

Clearing her throat, Aria smiled nodding obediently, "Won't happen again." The minx was getting a kick out of this, I'm sure.

"As for the material you have missed. I will be taking care of that. I expect you in my office after classes to go over what course of action we need to be taking for the matter."

My first day and I am being called in after classes.

He turned and began scribbling on the board once more, though his clear voice rang again, "Oh and girls, if you decide to do that little chatting session again, you will spend the rest of the semester doing the same just standing outside of my class."

Well that was enough to shut everyone right up.

27. Draken (Part 3)