Deal with the Devil - Fear the devils series book 1

Chapter 16

Egypt, 1660 B.C March

396 years.

It had been 396 years since Celine had seen Blade and had felt his lips against hers.

After he had brought her to the city that day and left her, she wanted to forget him, but instead, there hadn't been one day in which she hadn't once thought about him. On some days with longing, on others, cursing him.

There even were times when she thought she had seen him in the corner of her eyes but every time she checked, it never was him. She was relieved of course, but a little part of her was devastated.

On especially lonely days, she considered calling for him, but that would have meant for her to surrender to him and a confrontation of the kiss they once shared.

Why had he even kissed her, to begin with? She has replayed their conversation in her head very often and for her, it seemed that it hadn't been his original plan to kiss her, it couldn't have been.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have just dropped his game and brought her to the next city, like a human being with morals. Blade is everything but neither a human nor does he have morals. He's one of the most fearful, one handsome angelic looking man from the outside, but the perfect example of 'the devil in disguise' which Elvis Presley sang about.

She hasn't met the others of the most fearful nor does she ever plan to change it. One devil is enough for a lifetime. Even in one as long as hers.

From the first years of living in the past, she had learned to be in the shadows. The fewer people that know about her, the fewer can eventually forget about her.

Being forgotten had been devastating at first, making it look like to be delusional when trying to remind someone of her existence. But she found its perks with it over time. Unlike having to move to not be recognized and acknowledged that Celine doesn't age, she can stay as long as she wants in a place.

This had been one of the reasons why she was still in Egypt.

One day she has to move but not in the near future. She grew to like it here and what she liked the most was helping families, making them medicine from books she had read before she made the deal with the devil - to be immortal and relive history with her own eyes.

Fortunately, people forget about her the minute their loved ones either heal or die. As if they forget her in a new chapter of their lives just like Blade told her would happen.

"Pardon, are you the magician the people gossip about?" asks a man, coming into her working place without invitation.

He looks to be in his twenties.

"Who's asking?" She turned her head towards him.

"My name is Marcatus and I came from a small village. Thirty days travel from here. I have an important question to ask the magician. So are you the one?"

"I consider myself more of a nurse but yes, that's probably me. With what can I help you?" Celine wants to know from the man, who just barged through her door without knocking.

"I don't need your aid. I rather wish to be your apprentice. I have heard great things about you and you intrigue me. I want to learn and help people with magic. Our society sees it as a scandal but I truly believe that magic is progress in curing people." The man states with confidence.

"That's no magic I'm doing. I'm only mixing plants together to make medicine which I learned by reading books." she clarified.

"Oh, so the magic is very ancient as are these books, I assume."