Anything For You
Chapter 186

"I can't locate it. It's all either so bright or too... dark." Dankein muttered under his breath when he had tried to locate The Heavenly Book as Evanora told him to. The lady was looking out of the window. It was dark. How many days, weeks, months, years...perhaps Anger rose, surfaced in her body bathing every cell of her being and she clothed the iron bars of the window tightly. She had her gaze fixated on the moon. The shining seminar moon. She felt as if the celestial body was mocking her. Was it?

centuries have passed. She had been lying in a coffin. Cursed. Cursed! Punished, for what? For desiring to be powerful! Didn't everyone desire that?

She realized. She had to gain her powers. She needed to recover from that centuries-old rust, and that was possible only if she consumed someone else. Someone else! Her thoughts came to a halt when she heard Dankein calling her with raspy and shaking breaths. Evanora turned to face him.

"What happened to you...!" She muttered. She wasn't concerned. Simply curious. Dankein looked like a mess. He had been trying to locate the Heavenly Book for the last one hour and all he got was...nothing.

"I...I am exhausted. I need a break." He sounded tired. He indeed was. His face was considered as if he couldn't comprehend what just happened.

"Valor, something must have happened. You are nose-bleeding. Tell me." Evanora helped him take a seat over the chair nearby and handed him a cloth to wipe the blood off his nose. Dankein was surprised. His eyes held a paled expression as if he was hearing something new. Something he hadn't encountered ever.

"I was trying to find the book. But all I got was either much brighter light or nothingness. Darkness. And then...I was pushed." Dankein said, holding his raspy breath.

"Who...who pushed you?" Evanora had suspicions. She wanted to confirm before reaching any conclusion. This was going to be bad. Her eyes held worry. For the first time. And Dankein supposedly had seen through her worries. After a short span, Dankein calmed and said,

"I don't know. It was like a shock wave hit my brain. I didn't know what happened! Do you?" He looked at Evanora through his nodded tired eyes, and exhausting look. Evanora just hauled and moved away from his seating figure.

"This is bad, Valor. The book is either with Emerald or with Scarlet. You need to find the owner and steal it. We need that book. I wish it to be with Scarlet because grabbing it from Emerald would alert him. And we. Can't. Afford. His. Suspicions. Right. Now." Evanora said word by word. Her voice held a warning. Dankein nodded.

"I must go back to the university. Only then can I find out about the book." Dankein suggested and Evanora hushed him immediately. She wasn't going to take any risks. Not again. She was already living on borrowed time and before she finished making the weapon, she couldn't go back to sleep for another century in that coffin. How she wished to destroy that bloody coffin. It moved her. Mocked her persona, her existence, and everything else, she worked hard for. All her life.

"Stay for two-three days. Then go back. Act like nothing happened, Valor. Scarlet must have been warned by the Wolf. She would be hesitant with you now." Evanora said. She was aware of the ways people guard to guard their loved ones. Although she never had a chance to encounter Scarlet, the piece of her skin was enough for Evanora to judge her character and partially Emerald's too. All thanks to his lingering scent.

"I need to go back to the valley now." Dankein hauled up grabbing his coat. It was windy outside and the sun was almost starting to show behind the horizon. Dawn was close.

"No, go back to the Human world. But not the university. Keep an eye on Scarlet and her surroundings. Find the book. Only the book can help us to make the weapon we desire. You desire. You have always."

"What if Scarlet doesn't have the book?" Dankein questioned. All set to leave and his mind was half occupied by his horse. That poor animal was alone in the deserted place for the whole night. It must be edgy after now.

"Then force her to take a hold over the book from Emerald. We can't capture it if it is in the Werealm. Do whatever you have to, Valor. You have only four days." Evanora had always been a convincing lady. Back then, she relied on her charms, but now, she didn't need that. It was a war. She intended to win. At any cost. Whatever it takes.

-THREE DAYS LATER~

"Professor Cosh, you are back already!" Eva stopped Dankein when he was on his way to his office. He had already spied on Scarlet in the past two days and was now certain that the book was with her. The interesting fact was...she didn't even know. Yet. The only way for her to hand him the book was...standing in front of him. Eva.

Dankein passed a soft charming smile to Eva who blushed hard. Flirty girl. He killed the distance between them, "Eva, I have learned some magic tricks in the last four days and much more." His words were a whisper. Eva heard him and her eyes sparkle. With enthusiasm, thrill, adventure, and of course excitement.

"What? Can you show me?" She insisted. Dankein smiled. Pointing his finger at her branded purse, Dankein lowered his hands, "Your bag has two lipsticks: one Peach, and other a nude shade, some tampons, a comb, a mirror; round of course, and a cell phone." He wanted to make it look promising. Guessing the contents of her bag were going to do the trick.

But Eva contorted her face. "Anybody can guess the stuff in a girl's bag. Tell me something nobody knows." She straightened her back. She was proud. She knew some hidden secrets. But the man ahead was not a thirty-year-old professor. He was something else. Something she could probably never understand.

Dankein's smile widened. He towered over Eva making her blink her round kohl eyes. Leaning closer to her right ear, he let the words slip slowly, "You...have a boyfriend named Sammer Azure. And...he is a werewolf. What say? Am I right, Evangelica Michelangelo?" His voice was dark. She presumed. Dankein straightened. The smile never left his lips.

Eva glared at him first, then softened. She looked here and there. Her eyes held questions. Questions like, how do you know? What else do you know? Do you believe in this? Did you tell anyone else?

"I know. I know more. Yes. And No." Dankein responded. Eva scrunched her brows drawing them together and adding more to their sharpness. She didn't understand his words.

"I answered all your questions. You can tell Scarlet to see me in my office. I have something related to the scholarship for her." Dankein said and made his way to his office taking slow steps. He acted like he was the coolest person alive. Eva balled her hands into fists and stomped her foot. Her heels blanket with the hard asphalt. She huffed and went in search of Scarlet.

"You called me, Professor?" Scarlet knocked and stepped inside Dankein's office where he was sitting over his black office chair. His back was rested leisurely and his hair looked a bit messy but sexy. He had been working with some papers.

"Yes. Take a seat, Scarlet." Came his raspy voice. Scarlet peered at him and hesitatingly took over the spot. The moment she sat over the chair, Dankein realized he could hypnotize her. Evanora had given him a powder to find out the strength of Scarlet's powers. According to the witch, if the girl was a bit weaker, she could be hypnotized for sizing the Heavenly Book. She was right.

The powder started acting immediately, and so did Dankein. "Scarlet..." He called her. The girl nodded absentmindedly as if she was under a spell.

"I need The Heavenly Book." He ordered.

"I don't have it, Professor," Scarlet replied dazed.

"You do. It's in your house. Somewhere in your room. I need you to go home, now. Find the book. Cover it. Bring it to me." He said. The magic powder was working, but it wasn't going to last for eternity. Dankein needed to finish it soon.

Scarlet got up and nodded. Again absentmindedly. She was about to leave when he called her, "Scarlet if anyone asks you anything...tell them you have forgotten an especially important assignment and will be back in some time. Understood?" He questioned. His eyes were determined, focused, and lingering. "Yes, sir." Scarlet sounded.

"Go." He ordered lastly. The girl left and the man rested his back against the soft leather chair looking at the ceiling contemplating his next move.