Chapter 74 - Fervent Heart!

"Eva...was here?" Dripping a drop of tear down from the corner of his dark and distressed eyes, Zeus murmured his question towards him quite impatiently.

Taking a deep huff of breath out, Czar sulked his face and stared at him straight. "You know...I really wanted this fact to keep hidden from you because as far I know, you will be eager for causing much trouble for me...But my darn stupid lousy mouth! I couldn't even keep this secret intact--"

"How did she get in? And...And what about the royal guards? Didn't they abduct her? Oh...Oh my gosh! How could she even come here? How could she enter our strictly forbidden werewolf mansion? Where is she right now? I...I am sure something must have happened to her! Damn it! How is she? Is she alright or...or injured? Where is she!? Where the heck is she?" Looking extremely fretted and petrified, he started to probe him with several fiery questions at once without even breathing a huff. 

"There you go again, I knew you would be panicking like this and that's why I wanted to keep it hidden from you. Relax, calm down a little or you would overstrain your fragile body again and your family would blame me for causing you unnecessary trouble." He sounded much glowered at him.

"Czar, don't change the fucking topic! Where is Eva? How is she? How did she get in? Take me to her right now! I wanna see her! I wanna see her with my own eyes!" Panting quite heavily, he tried to get down from the bed on his own voluntarily moving his injured limbs and looking extremely terrified.

"Have you gone crazy? What are you even doing?" Immediately Czar pounced on his bed groping him hard by his broad shoulder, and trying to stop him from moving further. "I knew you would be such impatient brat once you hear about it! Calm down, nothing serious has happened--"

"Where is she? Czar... you can't understand...You can't have the slightest idea what kind of turmoil I am enduring inside! I...I am feeling that I may die right now if something happens to her... You know how brutal our mansion is...especially towards humans...I...I can't even imagine..." His deep intense voice crooked in apprehension as he was swirling his pupils wider.

"I know about it very well! In fact, no one knows about the brutal side of The Romanos better than me! I obviously couldn't let her turn into a lump of flesh devoured by our pack with the unbelievable naive act that she committed by coming here. So... I protected her all along here." Sounding much dense and profound, he slowly removed his arms away from his shoulder.

"You...what?" Zeus stuttered in surprise, hearing his words.

"Yes, I protected her all the way in the mansion. I know it may sound unimaginable to you like all along till now, I never intended to show a bit of kindness to anyone, especially to humans... But... today I couldn't resist helping her. If I didn't, she would have been brutally massacred by our guards..."

Listening to his resonance, Zeus stayed all silent, intensely glowering at his grimace without interrupting him. Czar was seated beside him holding a frown eloquence, with his gaze fixed at downwards while speaking. 

"I won't lie, I threatened her at first quite crudely to retreat back from the mansion...but... she becomes quite courageous when it comes to you, Zeus." Slowly raising his gaze up, he stared at him straight in the eye while conversing.

"She stayed stubborn and even pounced at me back arguing harder that if I want, I can kill her after she gets to see you one last time. Her persistence and the helplessness that I saw in her eyes, somehow reminded me of my own lost self. And hence, I agreed to help her to sneak inside just for a day. Also, I have clearly mentioned it to her, if she ever tries to commit the same thing like today, I would be the one who will slit her throat apart! But for today, I have guided as well as guarded her safely both in and out." His voice sounded a bit mysterious, with a small dubious smirk on his face.

"I...I am still in disbelief, Czar... You...You helped her risking your life? I just can't--"

"Ahhh, don't overthink stressing your brain, big brother. Though I have become all heartless now, I did have a heart long ago which was forced to turn completely ruthless and full of hatred. Thanks to your family, I have become a corrupt villain now. But this life is far better from rather than staying as a generous fool! Relax, it was just a one-time favor that I acted on little duckling as she looked freaking ugly while crying too hard. And sadly, I can't stand ugly kinds of stuff. So, I helped her just to get rid of that ugly duckling!" Holding a mystic creepy chuckle, he blurted out his answer in a spree standing up slowly from his bed.

"No matter, how much you try to portray yourself as an antagonist, I know...you still somewhere has the kind heart you bore a long time ago, Czar." Lowering his eyes down from his face, Zeus took a deep breath while wondering on his own. 

"Th-Thank you for...for keeping her safe here... I...I owe you a huge favor, Czar... First, you saved my life, and then you saved as well as guarded Eva's life too... I don't know even I can thank you enough expressing my gratitude..." His voice grew heavy carrying a lot of emotion.

"Ahh just don't thank me only. Save up some of your gratitude and thank Ivory too." He promptly replied to him back.

"Ivory?" Frowning his eyebrows, he tossed him back.

"Ahh, that was such a turbulent moment! Ivory suddenly barged into your room and caught Eva red-handed. Too infuriated and provoked, she was almost about to stab her to death but somehow I managed to save little duckling from her wrath--"

"Wait a moment!" All of a sudden, looking all intense and troubled, Zeus rolled his pupils and interrupted his answer viciously. "You...You mean...Ivory knows about it that Eva was inside our mansion? She found it?"

"Yes, and she even helped me keep the secret concealed. Of course, she did it to save you from any uninvited trouble. You should be glad to have a person like her, for always having your back. But...why do you look so troubled? Did you guys have a fight?"

"Fuck! She protected us and...Why did I treat her so harshly? Darn it! I committed a huge mistake..." Zeus cursed himself inside, looking extremely traumatized.