231 The Unknown Truth
“I lost my exact memory, only in that precise year.” Said Brom again.
They were talking about the timing of Anne’s arrival with Brom, who just tell them casually that he lost his memory ten years ago.
“Wait, I am confused. Did you lose all of your memories ten years ago?” Justice asked him with a frown on his face.
“No, it was a selective memory loss. I lost my memory ten years ago, but only at that moment in ten years ago.” Answered Brom to Justice.
“What moment?” Asked Justice again.
He shrugs at him. “I don’t know. That’s why I called it memory loss.”
Anne saw that Justice almost lose his patience. She tried to talk to her friend calmly, trying from a different perspective. “Brom, even though you are lost your memory, someone ought to tell you something about it, right? I mean, you can just lose your memory without triggering something.”
“I don’t really care, but my mother probably knew something. After all, the event happened at our family villa.” With his own take, Brom answered his friend, and this time, at least Anne and Justice get a hint about his memory loss.
“I’ll go to the Alchemia tower right away.” Said Justice, to Anne.
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Anne stand up immediately when she heard him. “Wait, I’ll go with you!”
Gruntled, Brom followed the two of them from behind. “Just when I thought I have a relaxing time. Now this is happening.”
Justice took Anne into his horse, and Brom rode with his own horse. Together they went to the Alchemia tower in the basking of the moonlight. Justice called Kirara to come out, a big shadow comes out, and the direwolf ran beside Justice’s horse.
‘Yes, master.’
“Called for Vale, Xavier, and Henry asked them to meet me at the Alchemia tower, as soon as possible.” He gave an order to Kirara, thinking that this news need to be heard by the entire group. When Anne saw Kirara’s gone away, she asked him what kind of plan that he had. “I don’t know, but the more people heard about this, the more ideas we can come up with.”
Anne was impressed. She tried to turn around, but they were in the middle of riding a horse. As for now, the only thing that Anne can do is praise him and promise him a kiss when they arrived at the Alchemia tower.
Two hours later, the Alchemia tower was finally in front of them. Brom took a lead and called for someone to open the door, while Justice helped Anne go down from the horse, but he never let her go with his arm. Instead, the crown prince carry her into the corner of the tower and took her mouth into his.
His hands were all over the place, at her shoulder, at her hips, and at her chest, while his mouth taste her lips like a hummingbird drinking all the nectar of the flower. He was hungry, and in need of her, and Anne couldn’t even bother to scold him, since the flower now blooming and wanting the hummingbird as well.
“Can the two of you do this another day? I mean, this is a public place.” The two of them gasped and turn around to see Brom looking at them with disinterest on his face. “Come on, we can wait for the other on my floor.”
“Wait, did you watch us the whole time?” Justice pried on him, hoping that he will deny it.
Instead, a smirk appears on his face. “For a crown prince, I must admit, you have the experience, and here I am thinking that you just talk and no action.”
“Oh, my God! Brom! Unbelievable! You were watching us?!” Anne was furious. She took it upon herself to approach her friend and stomp his feet. Brom screamed in agony and she goes inside unhinged. Justice followed her from behind and chuckled the whole way into the lift.
“Gods! I wanted so bad to kiss you again, but probably for the next time?” He asked her, whispering into her ears, with the warm air blowing from his mouth, directly to her. She gets ticklish and giggled the whole through of the lift ride.
When the lift door opened, Chief Amaris was already waiting for them, with some hot caftea and moomilk. She smiles at them and asked them to sit on the sofas.
“Let us wait for the others, shall we.” Said chief Amaris, and she even gave Anne a big hug. “Oh, it’s so nice to see you again, dear, you should come by more often.”
“I… Oh, alright, Amaris, did you already predict that we were going here to ask you about Brom?” Asked Anne, squinted her eyes to the chief.
“Yes, dear, as soon as Brom told me about the midnight monster nest, I knew right away that sooner or later you will be here, asking me questions about the event from ten years ago.” Said chief Amaris to the two of them, she turn around to see Brom coming out from the lift, “I assumed we still need to wait for another three people.”
Turns out, in less than an hour, Vale, Xavier, and Henry already arriving at the tower. Justice explained to them about Brom’s encounter with the midnight monster and their information about Anne and Brom. They are now as invested as Anne and Justice after hearing the whole story.
“Now, Mother, you can tell us what exactly happened ten years ago.” Said Brom, while he drop himself to the chair.
“God! I need to remember the exact time when you lost your memory. It happened at the family villa in the countryside. That day, Brom was playing in the backyard, alone.” She looks at her son attentively before she continued, “Our villa is located near a forest, not a dense one, just enough but also doesn’t fill with danger. I saw him enter the forest, and the next thing I know, he was screaming so loud, even the stableman heard him from afar.”
All of them went quiet. This is the moment that they have been waiting for, the answer to the question.
“Then, what happened?” Asked Vale, since Chief Amaris just went silent for a moment.
She looks at his son with a look of fear, which is something that you would never expect from her. “I… I came to the source of the scream, which is my son, turned out there was a stray animal that terrifies him. He screamed and fall to the ground.” She took a sigh and walk into the window. “I must tell you this, please kept this information between us for now, especially you, your majesty.”
Justice nodded his head. “Yes, we promise, Amaris.”
“Good, because the information that I will tell you right now is something that could change your perspective about my son.” All of them were shocked, including Brom, since he never heard this story before. “When I saw him on the ground, the animal that surprised him was gone… Instead, in front of us back then was a black pool of shadows that went dispersed in every direction.”
Brom stands up from his seat, and shouted at his mother, “No, you’re lying, no, mother.”
She wipe her tears and took his eyes away from her own son, “I am sorry Brom, but, it is the truth, the Dark and Mischievous road was created by you.”
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