Anything For You
Chapter 188

"What happened in there? Tell me everything. Now, like nowww. And I must tell you something." Eva h liked the cat.

"Is it something sneaky?" Scarlet wiggled her eyebrows knowing fully well that if Eva was adamant ab "What happened with him?" Eva tucked on Scarlet's arm and pointed towards Dankein's office. "Nothing," Scarlet replied plainly.

"What nothing? Did you gift him something? What was in your backpack? And what did you bring from parted her lips to say something, Eva punched her with another question.

"Hold. On." Scarlet said. She took a long calming breath. Eva's eyes kept analyzing Scarlet's movement "I forgot an assignment that professor Dankein asked us to submit today. He told me to go bring it. It And...I snuggled Alfie, too." Scarlet briefed everything. She wasn't aware that she had been under the "Ooo...you bitch, you snuggled that cute furry-purry creature! Wait...did you say something about an a Scarlet nodded.

"Why don't I remember anything about that? And professor didn't ask anybody else except you for the "Leave it. Let me tell you the sneaky thing. I met professor Dankein before you were called in his office "Professor Dankein showed me magic tricks and...he knows about Sammy being a werewolf," Eva said "What? How could he? Did you..."

"No, no, no. I swear I was also shocked like you. Then he asked me to send you to his office. Then we s you too." Eva kept on muttering whatsoever her mind processed.

"Eva, I think something happened." Scarlet's hands gripped Eva. Eva stopped talking and drifted into t "Wh...what happened?" Eva's voice trembled a bit, thinking something bad. What could it be that Scar

round when Scarlet just stepped out of the office of Dankein leaving Alfie tucked in a comfortable spot after the cat fell asleep in her arms snuggling. She ing something, ninety-nine percent of the time, it turned out to be sneaky. Eva nodded like a child. The look in her eyes was suspicious.

Wait...why do you go back home in the first place?" Eva bombarded Scarlet with her questions giving the girl no time to say anything. The moment Scarlet

last day. I got it and submitted it. Then he talked about my scholarship, and I have the leverage of getting selected because I work on designs part-time. nd vomited out the words Dankein fed her. ent?" Eva raised one of her eyes suspiciously.

ment. It's strange!" Eva muttered in an inaudible voice. Scarlet was busy dusting some of the furry hairs of Alfie that got stuck in her clothes. uess what..!" Eva's eyes searched Scarlet's face. The girl had no idea what Eva had been talking about. She made a questioning face. hispering into Scarlet's ears.

going home and coming back. We called you but didn't respond. And now...you are acting all normal again. For a moment, I felt like he had spell blinded

king zone. talking about?

"I remember going to his office. He told me to take a seat. We talked and then he asked me to go home.......Oh, No. Shit." Scarlet cursed and rushed towards Dankein's office. Without caring to knock, she barged in followed by Eva. "Where is he?" Scarlet looked here and there, almost everywhere. No signs of Dankein and Alfie. She was getting impatient.

"Maybe he is taking some classes," Eva suggested hoping for Scarlet to calm down. She was thinking something bad. She had some strange and weird thoughts regarding Dankein since the moment he made it clear to her that he was a wee of Sammy's werewolf identity.

"Alfie doesn't tale any classes, Eva. The cat was always here. She is missing too. We need to find, Professor." Scarlet announced giving Eva no time to rephrase things while shuffling everything in the drawers of his desk.

"Babe, what exactly are you looking for?" Eva asked and fumbled through some other drawers too, not knowing what to look for.

"A book," Scarlet mumbled in the middle of her insane search. All the papers, pens, books had been scattered here and there. She was rummaging everywhere.

"What book? What are you saying? What book?" Eva was going insane. She had never seen Scarlet this worked up and now they had been murdering their professor's office, no, the handsome professor's office, and that too in his unexplained absence in search of a book that they didn't know anything about.

"I don't know. I just remember that he asked me to be a book, an old one, an old-antic type book from my house and then...I was something hypnotized. I gave him the book. It had a dagger. I remember, there was a dagger in that book. He asked me to drag it out and then he kept the book and dagger here, in this drawer." Scarlet was speaking non-stop making Eva even more confused.

But Eva chose not to question much. "Is it sort of museum stuff? I mean important?"

"Yes. And Yes. Because if it wasn't, he wouldn't have hypnotized me." Scarlet replied.

"Can you describe the book? What does it look like? Was it your design book? Oh my God, Scarlet. Don't tell me that fuckingly handsome professor stole your designs. It's theft. It's a forgery. It's blasphemy. It's..."

"Eva, Eva, Eva... calm down. It wasn't my design book. I remember the book cover. It was way too ancient. You or anyone else wouldn't have seen anything like that ever. I can bet it. And it was important. It is important. Jack warned me. Shit. How can I be stupid? I should have seen through him. He knew everything." Scarlet was running her hands through her hair and occasionally rummaging her pockets to fetch her phone.

Eva kept looking at her friend like she had seen a ghost. Her eyes were blinking. The only thing she knew was that...they were in trouble and that, unknowingly, Scarlet had f****d up.

"Hello, Jack. Where are you? Have you seen Professor Dankein?" Scarlet already was talking to Jack on the other side. He grew alert immediately. He had been called in Werealm by Emerald the other day when he reported Emerald about the King of Dream-catchers being spotted on the university campus.

"Luna, I am with Alpha. I am not in the university. What happened?" Jack was mentally killing himself thinking about the bad and odds.

"Where is Emmy? Put him on the line." Scarlet almost yelled at Jack who instantly put the phone near Emerald's ear. The man was working and was peeking at Jack now and then.

"Love!" Emerald asked softly.

"Emmy, it's f****d up. I f****d up. Professor Dankein. Jack said that he was the king id Dream-catchers, but he...I think he hypnotized me and stole the book. Technically, it's not stealing because I had handed it to him. He took the book and dagger. He is nowhere. The cat is also gone. I don't know what to do...!"

"Easy, easy. Scarlet, Breath. What book? What happened?" Emerald asked Scarlet and gestured Jack to prepare the car for University who obliged instantly.

Scarlet briefed everything. How everything happened. The moment Scarlet mentioned the book, Emerald's brows drew together hardly forming a frown. His mind darted back to the last days and he replayed the conversation with Aunt Carol in his mind.

"I

I guess I need to talk to Aunt Carol," Emerald said and moved to the room where Carol had been staying for the time. By the time, he entered, Carol had been sitting on the ground knitting something. She hauled up finding Emerald and was about to greet him. He spared her the manners, the phone still tucked at his ear and Scarlet at the other side.

"Aunt Carol, could you describe the cover of that book you asked me to find the other day?" Emerald threw the question at Carol.

Carol huffed and narrowed her eyes. She inspected Emerald's face and his phone. This was serious.

"The book is incredibly old. Ancient. Like it's the first book in the world. So old. The size is huge too. Empress used to keep it over the mahogany table. There is a dagger tucked in the cover smeared with some blood that is dried. But Empress never touched it again. There are some patterns of golden lines everywhere and rose. The rose is dried, but it is fragrant. It..." Carol was still explaining when Scarlet yelled from the other side,

"...it's the same book, Emmy. He took it." Her breathing hitched.

"F**k." It was all Emmy said.