THE ENCHANTED DEFORA By Livelihood Partridge

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She turned her head around to see him standing with a cherry on his lips , he slowly but into it maintaining eye contact , her breath hitched at the mere sight , his eyes on her , she walked closer and said ,

How do you get so ahead of yourself ?

She remained calm throught but her heart was racing ,

Maybe because I know I'm not getting ahead of myself and I'm actually speaking what's on your mind .

He said almost not paying a heed to her but his eyes said something else , it was like a mirror crystal clear yet so opaque I couldn't see through them.

She moved one step ahead and he disappeared infront of her eyes , she sighed heavily and went to take a bath , she came out looking fresh , feeling fresh , she moved towards her closet and chose a gown not too unique but not too simple that it won't get the eyes of everyone .

She walked out and started moving towards Leo's bedroom when she heard hushed voices , she moved closer , not making a sound of her footsteps she heard Leo speak ,

I know what she did , I know and that's why I want to stop it , I want to stop them .

And unknown voice came from the other side , the man spoke ,

Yes , and for that you need to marry her and either kill her or never let the fate cross them

To this , Leo hmmed in response , she heard footsteps approaching the door , she quickly hid behind the corridor , calming her breaths , trying to remain as quiet as possible ,

Who were they talking about , who do they need to kill and what fate?

She thought rapidly , she waited a few moments before going back inside , but she saw a helper had seen her , the girl who has also heard everything and she looked as if she was about to call for the king and tell him and for some uncertainty I didn't want that .

I wanted this secret to myself , she opened her mouth to speak but before she could , Vivienne lept forward and pushed her behind a corridor , she kept her hand on her mouth , stopping her from speaking , Leo and the man were still talking at his door , they couldn't know about her presence.

She had a tray in her hand , probably for Leo's breakfast , she had cutlery in the tray as well , Vivienne took the knife from the tray and placed it to her throat . She either imagined or hallucinated that the helper gave her a smirk , the smirk creeped her out so much , she held the dragger more to her throat , the helper's hand immediately the knife and with immense strength she took her hand away from her throat , Vivienne panicked as the helper threw Vivienne's hand away from her , Vivienne sliced her wrist open , she let out a small scream and Leo and the man went quiet , Vivienne immediately regretted her thoughts went back to Mr Clock and him saying ill always come . Leo and the man turned around the corner they both saw that they were hiding behind the corridor but something didn't feel right , they neither made a noise noe a reaction , they looked as if they saw nothing , as if we were invisible , invisible ! It was Mr Clock protecting me again and I knew it finding it right , I sliced open the helper's shoulder blade and get another scream came out of her but Leo and the man didn't react as if they heard nothing .

Vivienne saw them talk , Leo said

Maybe it was just something else , no one is here except us , leave before someone hears or sees us.

And the man walked away while Leo walked back into his room , the helper slowly slided to the floor with a pool of blood rhe floor , dripping from her shoulder and her slicked wrist , Vivienne took her throat in her hands and sliced open it as well , as now the helper's body laid lifelessly on the floor , Vivienne came back to her senses , she has yet again killed someone , yet again took a life .

She had never laid a finger on anyone in Vajnar and yet here it hasn't been a week and she had already killed someone , she had became a murderer in less than a week , she breathed a heavy sign and heard chuckling behind her , she knew who it was and she simply said ,

"Do you like appearing after crime has been commited or what?"

"I'm always around , you just don't notice it ."

He said and snapped his fingers the body , the pool of blood on the floor and the knife , all vanished and she looked around and looked back at him ,

Today he wore a grey silk shirt with it half tucked ina nd half tucked out , he wore a black pants and his pockets full of cherry.

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