Love Grows In The Dark by Eli Lowe (read books for money TXT) 📕

“What is it?” I asked again quite frustratingly as I was done with all those question-answer game.

But surprisingly, uncle just smirked without giving me any answer, and said, before going out of his office in no time,

“Later, Summer. I have other works to do.” Uncle Benjamin went out of my sight after slamming the door behind.

The banging of the door appeared quite harsh as if life was on its way of closing each and every door of opportunity for me so that I could never let myself free, instead, it was more like I was left to suffocate inside the closed room, with no mercy at all.

I came outside the packhouse as there was no reason left for me to stay inside any longer, among all those glaring eyes.

The bright and shining morning which I saw before going in, was not the same any more as the whole surrounding turned into dark and gloomy in no time, even when it was still morning.

I looked up at the sky.

A dark massive cloud came in no time to cover the entire vastness, casting the darkest shadow ever, to engulf the entire area, depriving each and every ray of the sun, from coming to our earth to brighten our lives, not even for a little bit.

A storm was coming.

As if the whole universe was trying to aware all of us about some cruel conspiracy which either already happened in the past or was yet to happen soon.

But, this time I knew what I had to do.

Yes, I was determined not to judge anyone based on one's words only. I was never going to do the same mistake as Kazan, for which I might have to regret for the rest of my life.

For now, I need to do only one thing. I need to look into the past to know what actually happened that night, without accusing anyone at first.

For now, the truth is more important than anything else to me.

With a lot of determination and new promises that I made to myself today, I went straight to the school together with Kaith after picking up Jenny from her place.

It was the same routine which I had to go through once again.

But something else happened at school, which blew my mind completely, causing me to be left all confused all over again, announcing the very fact that my life was never going to be that easy at all.

What happened?

Well, you will get to know soon.

It was again the time for my part-time work at the school library and I was busy as usual with arranging books, checking the detailed records of all those books which had been issued recently, and few other things. And it was exactly when I got his smell.

Yes, my mate's smell.

I could not see Kazan anywhere at school after he rushed out of my house this morning till now. But he got time to find me here at last?

Even though I realised that he was coming to see me, I did not bother at all to stop whatever I was doing to find where he was right now.

The smell was getting closer and closer with each passing second and in the next moment, I felt that Kazan was already standing just behind me at last.

“How did you find me here Kaz... Markus?” As soon as I turned back to look at him, I became completely shocked as my eyes almost popped out and my mouth was left agape.

How could this be even possible?

The confusion which had once started with the very same smell of my mate, again came to mess up my mind completely, even when I was already preoccupied with whatever uncle had said this morning.

I was completely taken aback realising that Markus was smelling like Kazan once again, strangely. But even then, something was odd this time which I just could not point out yet.

“Are you all right, Summer? I mean, why will I not know where you are? Remember, we have pretty much the same schedule. And I also know that you work here during your off periods. Did you remember anything?” Markus made fun being totally unaware but only I knew what was happening right now.

“Yes, I remember. You do not have to brag about your sharp mind.” Again I went busy with my work while Markus did help me whenever needed or whenever he was not reading anything.

My mind got entangled with a lot of things in no time. So many new puzzles were created to solve all over again. And I kept thinking about what lead I should follow first.

So, without bothering myself much, I decided to ask whatever comes to my mind first.

“Markus?” I called him in a low voice to know if he was busy reading or not?

“Yes?” He looked up at me instantly, conveying the fact that he was not, giving me the courage to proceed to clear few of my doubts. But one at a time of course.

“I was wondering what happened to Adrian. Do you know anything about him?” I asked cautiously, without giving him any clue that I was really anxious to know about them, about Kazan especially.

“Ah... Yes. After Kazan took him away, Adrian was kept in the dungeon for a few days and was tortured by him for whatever he did until he acknowledged whatever he did wrong.

I tried to stop Kazan from acting like such a ruthless but he never listens to anyone when it comes to his own judgements.

Kazan was even up for declaring him rogue or killing him with his bare hands but the fact that Adrian did not belong to Blood Bay pack saved him greatly this time. As Kazan had no authority to declare someone a