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"Shh, it's okay. This kind of incident would never repeat itself as long as I live. I promised I would take you out of here, right?"

Astrid nodded her head at him before she responded, "Yes."

"We leave tonight. I would not let you stay one more day in this village. I have prepared everything needed. Just wait here for me, I would go get our things and at the dead of night, we make our escape."

"Okay."

After Jareth got her assurance, he made his way out of the house and straight for their house to get their things.

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~HUMAN KINGDOM - EAST BANE~

It was already evening when Cullen woke up from his sleep and sat up on the bed. After the hours spent basking in his sinful desire, it came dawning on him what he had just done.

He never expected himself to be that weak and fall for her charms like that, let alone do the deed with her.

Word of regret began playing in his mind as the memory of all that transpired between them came flooding in.

'How could you? You were better than this, Cullen. You should have held on and resisted the urge.'

His mind was like a mini turmoil now and he blamed himself for everything.

He turned to his side and saw Evelyn lying down and sleeping her tiredness away like a new born baby with no cares in the world.

Mainly looking at her, his body could not stomach the vile thing he had done and he left the bed to dress up.

His body still felt sticky from all their lovemaking, further irritating him.

Without another second to waste, Cullen made his way to the bath tub to clean himself up.

By the time he was done, he wore his clothes and made his way outside. On getting outside, his stomach growled as he had not eaten all day, but his appetite went out the window with each step he took.

Not too far from where he stood basking in the moonlight sky, Cullen could see Owen leaning on a tree in front of the house he was staying and walked up to him.

"Hey Cullen, where have you been all day?"

Owen's sharp vouice pierced through the night sky as he called out to his friend.

"In my room."

"Why do you look so gloomy? Did someone die or something? Or is it that you are missing your love so much that you look like a love sick baby?" Owen asked again.

The worst thing Owen could have done was not allowing Cullen the time to answer before he dropped that last question on him.

The young general's face looked so gloomy and his face fell further, making it seem as though insult was added to the injury and his wound further worsen.

Tears threatened to spill from his eyes as the regret came rushing back with full force.

Owen noticed the drastical change for the worse and knew he touched a wrong chord. He took a step closer to his friend and placed a hand over his shoulders.

He opened his mouth to tell his plight but all that came out was a silent and wordless cry. The more he became down, the more miserable he felt, the more Owen was at a loss of words to comfort him or understanding what had transpired.

By the time he left him in the afternoon, he looked vibrant and full of life. Now, he looked like a living corpse.

All the colour had been drained from his face and what was left was a terrible sight to behold. He looked sickly all of a sudden and Owen knew he needed to take him out of the village as soon as possible.

This was the first time he was seeing the almighty young general like this and as much as it scared him, he did not want others to see him in this condition.

"Speak to me, tell me what happened. Who did this to you?"

Owen's voice began to rise with every passing second as his anger and anxiety began to take over. "I… No one. I did this to myself. I brought it upon myself."

"What do you mean by that? What did you do?"

"I fell, Owen. I could not resist her anymore and slept with her.

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Owen was shocked by what he just heard. His friend was looking like a living dead just because he slept with a girl.

Was it that sleeping with her drained away all his life force or what? Because no matter how Owen thought about it, it just wasn't making sense anymore.

"I betrayed her love. I betrayed her trust, Owen. I failed and I succumbed to my canal desire and I had sex with her," Cullen lamented again.

His eyes were now shriveled inside from the internal pain and struggle he was having with himself.

As much as Owen wanted to laugh at the current situation they were in, he swallowed it all and maintained a serious face.

Reasons were not being that he did not find it funny or annoying and all that, he simply did not laugh because from the little he knew of Cullen, he was a one-woman man and now he could not control himself and he fucked another lady that his heart did not belong to.

This was one of the reasons why Owen refused to let his heart actually love someone. He did niot want to be tied down and be heartbroken and left without a choice.

He had never experienced love but the so called love between his parents made him give up on it at such a young age.

If his father, King Bayard had really loved his queen, Owen's mother, like he claimed to, then he would not have been sleeping around with other women and ultimately brought about her untimely death. 

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