Sasha
I was glad that I had kept some savings on me. It had been easy to run away when the master had broken us free from the cage.
We had left the party without anyone noticing us and it was from there that I knew my life was about to take an interesting turn.
Master couldn’t hide how much he hated the werewolves and it had taken all that I had in me then to convince him to not retaliate as we were leaving and find a better plan and time to punish them.
I couldn’t blame him for wanting to deal with them at that moment. I would lose my wits as well if I was locked up in a place for twenty years. That was insane.
We had a lot to talk about. I had a lot of questions for the master and it wouldn’t be in my best interest if I allowed him to act foolishly out of his emotions.
After being locked up for twenty years, I didn’t think he was going to be as strong as he was then. No matter how much I idolized him. I had to be realistic with myself.
He was already straining himself to work with the invisibility cloak that he was making for us to escape safely without anyone seeing us. I could see the toil the magic was taking on his body as sweats bobbed on his forehead. He was walking on his own without accepting support from me, pushing himself forward with sheer stubbornness despite how worn out he looked.
I snorted. He had always been a proud man. I tried not to snort at his look and long hair. I knew that he could swap his identity but I wondered why he tried to look as he did while being held captive.
It wasn’t like the one who had captured him wouldn’t have been able to recognize him again even if he changed forms.
Even with the long hair covering his features, I could see how stressed he was. I would be a fool to let him try to use his magic to kill anyone here when he was in this state.
He could pass out from exertion if he attempted to kill anyone. If he did that, the invisibility cloak would be gone and we would be caught and both thrown into the prison.
I didn’t want that. I didn’t waste my life searching for him and was eager to waste more of it while I was trying to rescue him.
In this state, he wasn’t going to have good targets and I didn’t want him killing off the innocent humans that had nothing to do with this.
He looked at me as we walked out of the house, hissing that I restrained him. “You could have let me have my shot at those kids. I don’t think that I can have another chance to tell Albert that I had escaped his grasp. Killing one of the boys would be my message to him to expect me that I was going to make his life miserable.”
I shook my head at his logic. “You could have harmed any of the humans there.”
“And what do you care? They are part of the waste of a battle.”
I sighed. He hadn’t changed. I felt stupid for wanting to wake up someone as evil as this but my loyalty wasn’t something that I had a choice in. I had sworn my allegiance to him with a blood oath and it wasn’t what I could easily get rid of. I had also promised as he was taken away that I would find and save him.
A witch was bound by her tongue. That was the first lesson that master had taught him and that explained why he never promised anyone anything good so he wouldn’t have to do what he didn’t want to do in case he changed his mind and decided to punish the person, which was what he enjoyed doing.
“I have a way for you to get your revenge without hurting any innocent souls.” I said, leaning towards him. “I know the weaknesses of the boys that you can use to torment them.”
He grinned, his eyes sparkling with mischief as he turned to me. “Really?”
“Yes.” I knew some of their individual weaknesses and also knew their general weakness. When it came to their general weakness, there was only one thing that came to mind and it was one beautiful lady that didn’t know she was special to the people she hated.
I knew Mia was a smart lady but in this instance, she was a fool. How could she not see that her brothers cared about her than they let on?
Just some minutes at the birthday party of the triplets, watching how their eyes followed her all around, I knew what she didn’t know for months.
I nodded and breathed in relief when we got outside. I frowned, wondering how we were going to get home. It was a long walk from the house to anywhere we were going to find a cab.
“What is it?” Master frowned as he saw my expression.
“There is no cab.”
“Wait.” He said and did a summoning spell. “Come to me.”
I held my breath in lungs all through the act, afraid that he was going to pass out. If possible, I didn’t want him using magic at all for the next two days.
I watched in surprise, dancing with excitement despite my fear when I saw one of the men at the party drove out without anyone noticing. Master must have put an invisibility cloak on the car as well. The man parked beside us and looked out with glazed eyes. It was the one that had been trying to flirt with me.
I didn’t feel bad at all for him. I was only happy and full of pride that master still had some tricks in him despite how tired he was. I was about to complete my training. The world was about to gain another powerful witch.
“Get us to the main road.” I could hear the thick hypnosis in master’s voice.
The poor guy had no choice but to obey. We hopped into his car. He drove us to the road without a word and when master told him that he could leave, he nodded without a word and zoomed back before anyone could know that he was gone.
Even without master’s invisibility cloak, no one at the party could have known that the man was gone for a while with the way that they were all busy having fun.
My work there was done and I wasn’t concerned with any of them, not even Mia. I would miss her but not too much. Master came first out of everyone that I knew.
I looked for a hotel nearby and told master to disguise himself before we entered. I would hate for the receptionist to have a heart attack with the way he looked. He looked like the twenty years he had suffered. He decided to cloak himself instead, saying he didn’t want Albert to catch him before he was ready to be seen.
I believed him though. Albert was in bed with the law and he could have all the records of the hotels nearby, trying to find the master from the guests who lodged in at the time he had escaped.
I scowled, feeling like an idiot when master pointed that out. Why didn’t I think of that?
He smiled, seeing my expression and patted me on the back. “Don’t feel bad, girl. You don’t know Albert as much as I do. You couldn’t have known.”
He cloaked himself. We went in and got a room. I left him in the room to clean himself off while I went in search of food. I stopped in my tracks as I got back inside and saw master in his original form.
Tears pooled in my eyes and I struggled to blink them away. It had been long I had seen that face and I couldn’t stop my lips from quivering.
“Master.”
He smiled at me. “Come here.”
I rushed to him, kneeling down by his side and placed my head on his laps. I sobbed in joy as he ran his hands through my hair, patting me on the head.
“You did well, child.”
I smiled, my lips splitting in happiness. At that moment, I knew I was stuck with master till the day I died. I would find my way to get my stuff from the dormitory I lived in and give the human world a goodbye I knew I wasn’t going to regret.
With the master by my side, what was there to regret?