Monster Academy - The Blood of Mermaids - Chapter Nineteen

Castle of Myths
Darren couldn't believe it. She looked exactly like her. But then a thought struck him. The book in class, the daughters of Triton, he had remembered seeing her...This was Alex's older sister. She was the one that was nearly 500 years old. He stared for a few seconds, she sure didn't look 550 years old.

Rosary chuckled and smiled a sickening smile. She saw him run his eyes up and down her. "So what brings you here honey?" She asked Darren stood speechless but then he got some sense into himself.

"Uh....Hello..." He couldn't hold back his surprise. She was so alluring, he instantly forgot what he was going to do.

"You mind helping me, big boy?" her voice sounded like honey, he couldn't help himself. So he picked up her bags, "Sure," and then they walked off.

Alex looked at her now empty side of the room, The only thing left were the fish and the giant bowl, but she didn't want to. It hurt to much, it only brought her the reminder that she had to leave so soon. That Darren didn't care anymore. That she was all alone now.

She shivered remembering the sorcerer, she had met him when she was 13 years old and he was around 18 or 19 maybe then, she couldn't remember. But he frightened her then and he still frightened her now after all those years.

She remember he grinned at her, but not a good one. It was sadistic and cruel. He also had a sparkle in his eye and as if he knew something she didn't, as if she'd find out some terrible secret sooner or later, maybe this was it.

She knew he had also taken an interest in her, but she had no idea what he had in mind was marriage. By the time Alex was in the courtship age of 15, she was already off at school...

It horrified her that she wasn't marrying Darren but someone, much, much, worse. Someone who would literally made her life a living hell.