My Alchemist (the Mythical Zawgyi of Myanmar) Book I

Chapter 25

Thuriya's house is almost always heavily guarded but today, the gates are opened to accept the investors coming in from another city.

Rose came running out of a bungalow beneath the main house and she panted in short breaths as she reached outside. Her eyes were unsettled and she covered her face with both hands in dilemma.

As she stood in pause near the gates, she had thoughts, drifting her back down the memory lane.

"The dreams.....why am I seeing these in broad daylight..?", Rose murmured to herself.

She took in deep breaths looking up the sky where she heard a loud engine coming in.

A black sedan rushed into the house compound and drew the brakes harshly right beside to where Rose was standing. Rose took a few steps back to avoid the car but she ended up falling onto the ground.

And from it, came out, Arkar Kyaw Zaw, Rose's ex boyfriend.

"Arkar....what the hell are you doing..?". Rose shouted being perturbed.

"Rose....", he said coming close to her.

"You're coming with me.."

"What..?". Rose glared hard.

"You're crazy aren't you.."

"No...", he said grinning wickedly.

"He took Shwe away from me....so I'm taking you back as a compensation"

"What on earth are you talking about Arkar..."

Rose saw an unfamiliar reaction in his eyes, an unsettling rage that burned in jealousy. She had never seen such expression in Arkar before. The man standing in front of her was completely different, restless and hostile. And that thought gave Rose a jolt in her heart. 

He's seemed as if he's determined to do something really bad.

Shaking off her weariness, Rose tried to get back up but Arkar suddenly approached her and picked her up in his arms.

"Let go Arkar....let go of me.."

Rose yelled and struggled but he was way too stronger than her.

He put her in the passenger's seat before taking out a handcuff to cuff her to the side door.

"Arkar...are you crazy...!!! let me go...no...let me go.."

He then quickly got onto the car and rushingly drove off from the compound.

Rose was terrified and speechless at the same time of what's going on and she took a last glance at the house to see if Thuriya's came out but there was no sight of him.

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Thuriya sighed, standing in front of his painting after Rose ran out.

The penalty to disclosing the secret of his kind to a mortal was non other than death of the mortal or him completely disappearing from that place forever. And both options were just impossible for him.

He recalled what Auratha asked him many years ago when they last met.

"You cannot turn your back on us Thuriya..", he said.

"The last time you went too close to a human village, you almost put yourself and us in a grave danger..., you can never do that again...."

He was right.

Thuriya knew too well the consequences of letting himself exposed.

President Henry Lin became an option only because he owed him his life but being entangled in a relationship with a human would bring him closer to her social circle and eventually make him vulnerable to being exposed.