The Devil's Cursed Witch novel Chapter 138

“Tell me what is wrong,” were his next words, sounding sharp and impatient, and she flinched in his arms. She looked at him with teary eyes and shook her head, as if she decided she didn’t want to tell him.

Draven wanted to hit himself. This person was his mate and not one of his subjects who he could order around. He was not used to being gentle but he had long realized that acting as he usually did to his servants wouldn’t work on his mate.

‘She’s not below me but my equal. I do not want her to fear me.’

He realized he should be softer to her, and today, he scolded himself that he should try harder in order to get her to trust him. As he thought of those, he once again removed the black gloves from his hands and tenderly held her face, wiping the tears from her eyes with his thumbs.

“I mean… you should tell me what happened so I can help you,” he said while idly putting her loose hair behind her ears so he could see her expression better. He struggled to put his honest thoughts into words she could understand. “If you are hurt, I will make you feel better. If you are confused, I will try to answer your questions. I want you to trust me. Let me help you.”

She stared at him for a while before hesitantly opening her mouth.

“…purple eyes…” she mumbled._.

“Purple eyes?” he repeated after her. “Did you dream of someone with purple eyes?”

“Yes. I saw a woman with purple eyes…she…I don’t know who she is….” She once again clutched her chest. “It’s confusing…I don’t know what it is…I feel like something from me has been snatched away… I feel empty as if what was taken away was very important to me …It hurts…It feels empty here…I don’t know what it is but I want it back…”

Ember kept clutching her chest, like she had lost something precious to her and the act of remembering her nightmare was causing her physical pain. She continued to cry while burying her face in his chest.

Draven could not understand what her dream was about, but all he knew now was there was a purple-eyed woman who caused her pain.

‘Is that her enemy?’ he wondered. ‘If that dream is a memory similar to mine, then does that mean that Ember’s memory is sealed along with her powers? Will she remember more if the divine seal is broken?’

Once Ember had calmed and returned to her right state of mind, he decided to ask her properly.

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Meanwhile, after leaving Ember in Draven’s care, Morpheus returned to his residence in Redcrest, the land ruled by the feathered race. He was still shocked by what he had seen. He doubted what he had sensed from that human, but he was just beside her. His senses could not be mistaken.

‘Then how could she possess such a strong power of the fire attribute?’

He lay in his bed and stared at the ceiling of his nest-shaped home.

‘How can a human have powers?’

He felt like he had a bad dream and wished to erase it from his mind.