170 BLUE
“Ms. Williams, I am sure that the young girl is out there, I left her at the gates.” The young man took July to the gate to show her the girl, who asked for her. “She is a shifter. A werewolf, I guess.”
July looked at the huge and tall metal gates before her eyes, but couldn’t see any young girl or any other being there.
“What is her name?” July asked again, she looked around her, but still couldn’t see anyone there.
“Her name is Zuri, she said her name is Zuri,” the young man explained. “At first, I thought she is one of your fans, who managed to find out about this place, but she said she is not.”
Most of the guards who worked for July were the men from Knox’s organization, who were still loyal to him, even though they knew that he was a non- human being. The news shocked them, but then they could care less about that fact and the war between the shifter and human beings.
They worked for July now, since they knew the importance of this woman for him.
“What does she look like?” July asked, as they walked back to the manor. Though in her early thirties, July looked no older than when she was in her twenties. She still looked amazing and the sudden news about her early retirement from showbiz shocked them all, especially her fans.
July indeed retired as an actress, but she took over Knox’s organization and became their new boss. It was such a big move for her to handle those men, where most of them were too brusque and cold- blooded people.
“She is so young, beautiful and has shoulder length hair...” but then the young guard flicked his finger, remembering something more significant. “She has white hair. So white like snow and a pair of hazel eyes.”
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“White hair?” July furrowed her brows, she only knew one person, who had such significant white hair. She met her eight years ago when she came to this manor for the first time.
“Yes, white hair, she...” But, before he could finish his words, July had run toward the manor. “What happened to Ms. Williams? Something is wrong?”
July waved her hand while she was running. “You don’t need to follow me, go back to your post,” she said. It was because she knew where the girl was.
It didn’t take a genius to know where she was right now.
However, it seemed July didn’t know her quite well, because when she entered the room, which belonged to a little girl with white hair years ago, she couldn’t find her there.
“What happened?” Anne approached her, as she saw her running in the corridor with such an expression.
July bit her bottom lip and then spoke to her hesitantly. “I think Blue is here. The guard told me that a young white haired girl was looking for me, and she happened to be a shifter.” She then waved her hand to the inside of the empty room. “But, she is not here and the guard said her name is Zuri, not Blue.”
Anne was surprised to hear that Blue was here. The little girl that she had to leave behind, found her way back to this place.
Zuri. So it was her name.
“I know where she is,” Anne said with so many emotions in her voice, as she turned around and walked toward a different direction.
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Zuri was about to track down Anne and July inside this huge manor, but then she was distracted when she smelled something familiar, a scent that made her feel like home.
It was the smell of the books in the library, the place where she used to wait for him to return from wherever he had gone.
There were a few changes here and there, as the last memory of Zuri of this place was when it was attacked by The Hound and the vampires that night. That was the last time she was here before Knox took her away to a safe place.
As it turned out, the safe place that he intended was not as safe as he thought.
Zuri ran her fingers along the spines of the books, walked toward the fireplace, which looked so old and out of the world. Once you entered this library, you would feel like you were in a different time, since everything here seemed like it couldn’t be touched by the modern world.
She knelt down in front of the fireplace and looked at the empty spot, where the dry wood should be with the fire lighting it up brightly.
Out of instinct, Zuri hugged herself, she felt like time flew very fast and everything that had happened to her was like a nightmare that she didn’t want to remember at all.
Zuri was too engrossed with her own thoughts, until she didn’t realize two women had entered the room and were now looking at her in disbelief.
“Blue...” Anne called out to her when she was standing right behind the girl.
Zuri’s body stiffened when she heard her name being called, she didn’t need to turn around to know who it was.
It took Zuri some time to stand up and face the old woman, who once in the past, she thought of as a figure of a mother for her.
Several feelings ran through her body when she saw Anne, she looked much older than her last memory and frail too.
“Oh, my god...” Anne covered her mouth when she saw her. “Blue...” she mentioned her name with a trembling voice, as she walked closer to reach her.
Meanwhile, July, who was standing behind Anne could only smile slightly at her. They were not close and only met a few times in the past, but she knew this girl’s importance for the McKeltars.
But then, Anne stopped walking when she saw Zuri backing away from her with repulsion flashing in her hazel eyes.
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