Ensnaring his Dark Moon-Chapter 173: He survived...

In the next moment, a glow illuminated the room as a woman stepped inside while holding the candle, ’It’s you...?’ The candle dropped from Adeline’s hand when she saw the gory scene on the bed.

It took her some time to realize that.... her sister-in-law and the child had been slaughtered.

Marilyn was disappointed that she could not kill Adeline as people rushed to the room hearing the noise but at least... the child was dead.

With a satisfied smirk on her face, she extended her hand towards Adeline, a black thread seeping out of her finger, aiming at Adeline’s heart.

Blood spurted out of her mouth.

’She will die,’ Aunt Greta told Marilyn, ’No one can save her.’ 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Marilyn opened the portal and disappeared from the place as the people rushed in.

But what she did not know at that moment was that instead of killing Adeline’s son, she had killed King Alexander’s son along with his wife.

The Queen of Visteria also gave birth to a son along with Adeline.

And because Adeline was feeling uneasy, the woman had insisted on sleeping in her chambers.

King Alexander drowned in the grief of losing his wife, child, and his elder sister but no words spread outside about the incident.

Even Maverick was unaware of what happened on that gruesome night.

All that people knew was that assassins broke in and killed the queen, the princess, and the ’princess’s newly born child’.

Nobody knew that it was not the princess’s child who died, it was the Queen’s child, their true prince.

And the boy Princess Adeline gave birth to was still surviving.

He was the boy whom King Alexander introduced as his son, the child who was born with a weak constitution and looked like he could die at any moment.

He was named Aleister.

The King warned his subjects that no one would mention the late queen or the late princess in the kingdom or their tongues would be ripped out of their mouth.

The dread spread when he really stuck to his words and punished them accordingly.

No one was aware of the origin of the child that Princess Adeline gave birth to except for King Alexander.

Both the brother and sister shared a close bond and hence the former was aware of everything.

Despite the shock in his heart, he believed his elder sister’s words at that time when she told him about it.

And hence when he took Aleister in, he knew he had to keep everyone’s attention away from him. The more the people underestimated him and cornered him, the better it will be.

On the other hand, things did not go as smoothly for Marilyn as she had expected.

As soon as she returned from the mortal realm, she found her husband standing in front of the portal.

The look in his eyes told her that he knew what she was up to.

And the corner of her lips tugged up when she realized that he was still the same man she fell for.

He was manipulative and cruel.

It did not take her much time to realize this was a trap.

All these years, he did not go back to his lover just so he could trace the person who meant her harm.

But unfortunately, he did not make it in time.

He was slow.

Adeline Daven was dead and so was her bastard son.

Atlas strangled her and Marilyn smiled through her tears, slowly raising her hand to stroke her protruding stomach.

She was thrown into the dark prison where she gave birth to her child.

Her son... who only belonged to her, unlike her husband who was never just hers.

Her son... who would only love her.

She knew they would snatch him from her hence she cast a spell on him.

Without having his mother around, he could never have one peaceful night of sleep or a sumptuous meal. He could never be happy nor could he breathe without her.

To live the life that everyone desired, he must have her by his side.

He must see her once in a while.

He must never go against her.

He must only stay loyal to her!

Despite snatching him away from her, the Death God was bound to protect his only Prince.

He could not see his blood going through all the pain and when he looked into her body with his divine powers, he found knots of Marilyn’s spell.

If it was any other spell, he could have easily destroyed it but Marilyn cast this spell using her blood, a piece of her soul, and a part of her lifespan. If he harmed it then his son will die along with his mother.

Atlas allowed his son to visit his mother once in every full moon and Marilyn was content watching her son growing up in front of her own eyes.

Days passed into months and months turned into years, and all this while, Atlas kept sending his messengers to look for Adeline, unaware of his lover’s death.

’He did not even know about his newborn child who died. I made him just as pathetic as he had made me. I was satisfied but that was until....’

That was until Marilyn vomited blood one night.

The witch who has never been sick since her birth found herself weak at that moment.

When she closed her eyes, there was a golden glow... a familiar golden glow that was eating her up from inside.

When she opened her eyes, there was blood.

Her body, her senses, and everything around her turned chaotic.

And that night, she circulated her black magic trying to find out the reason behind her current condition.

What she discovered was an old spell.

A spell she was very familiar with. The one she had cast on Adeline’s child.

’He survived.... How?’

Marilyn ripped off a few strands of her hair and she blew on it.

As soon as her breath touched the hair strands, a black wisp enveloped them.

By the time the black wisp disappeared, the hair strands had turned into a sharp dagger.