SPELLBOUND

When Gideon reached Vera's room and saw Kione and Azrael standing by the door, his pace slowed down. His face remained blank as though he was unbothered as he approached them in an unhurried way. 

Then without asking a thing, even though he looked like he wanted to ask, he walked past his two friends and opened the door. After which, he just strolled into the room as if he was supposed to be there the entire time and pushed the door closed, leaving the other two on the outside.

As soon as Gideon closed the door behind him, Kione sighed helplessly and shook his head while Azrael leaned against the wall, an eyebrow raised as he tracked his friend's movement into the room without saying anything for a while. 

"I feel like everything is heading into a complete turn around since Gideon abducted the light fae queen don't you think?" Azrael muttered and Kione followed in his footsteps as he also leaned back against the wall as well. A disbelieving smile was now plastered on his tanned, good looking face.

"Don't tell me that you've only noticed that now?" Kione replied, shaking his head and then sighing. "Let's just hope that all these things are weaving a better path for him, and everything will be alright in the end." Kione hoped with his whole heart that it would be the case as his friend have had such a miserable fate when related to his personal relationships. As he looked at the closed door, he truly wished that it would be different this time.

…

Inside the room, Gideon remained standing just inside the door as he watched Evie and the female dark fae maid tending to the red haired lady he had brought back with him. 

Evie immediately noticed his presence the moment he had entered the room and proceeded to inform him about Vera's condition.

"She's burning up." Evie's voice was tense as her hands never stopped moving in carrying out her task.

Gideon tilted his head slightly as his gaze fell on the red-haired girl. "Burning…?" he echoed. The questioning tone in his voice told Evie that he did not quite understand what she had told him.

"She has a terrible fever." Evie explained clearly to Gideon.

His brows creased slightly and Evie could only sigh, knowing for sure that he did not have the faintest idea what a fever was. "Just come over here quick and I'll show you what a fever is." Evie snapped at him a little irritably.

Gideon did not move immediately until he noticed that the girl was trembling. It was then that he flashed himself over to the bed. The moment he stood next to Evie, Evie suddenly grabbed his wrist and placed his palm over Vera's forehead. He frowned when Evie did that, not seeing why she had to grab him and pull his hand down.

And his ever so composed expression finally cracked as his gaze flew to Evie when his palm touched the skin on Vera's forehead. 

"That's fever. She's burning up and her hands and feet feel cold to the touch." Evie explained to him. "My magic is not working on her so we can only help her relieve the heat. It must not be allowed to increase too much. If not, it might cause her to be delirious."

"You mean… there is no cure for this?" Gideon turned and asked Evie.

"Correct. It will eventually subside, but she needed to be tended to and watched over at all times in case her temperature rises even higher. That would not be good." Evie's brows creased as well.

There was a short while of silence as Evie scrutinized Gideon's expression. She already knew that Vera's fever was due to the side effects of the medicine she had put on her earlier on. Leon had told her before he left that the medicine would make the human suffer from a rise of temperature, but that was about it. Actually, the medicine working on her very well. But she decided not to tell Gideon that Vera was not really in actual danger. She snickered in her heart.

Evie purposely wanted to make Gideon worry. She wanted to see how he would react once he heard about Vera running a high fever and that there was no immediate cure for her condition. 

"And what if that happens?" Gideon questioned, a slight trace of worry tinging his voice. 

Evie stared at him and purposely chose not to respond for a while. She looked at Vera and let out a soft sigh. "She could be in grave danger." She murmured then she took a wet cloth from a basin set nearby before wringing out the water and continued wiping Vera's forehead, trying to cool her off. 

After some time, Evie stood and faced Gideon. 

"I'm going to get some rest. I'm leaving her care to you for now." She informed him before sweeping out of the room, not even giving Gideon a moment to respond, much less to object. 

Left alone with Vera in the room, Gideon just stood rooted to the spot, the farthest spot away from the bed. His gaze lingered on her, and he just stood there quietly for an immeasurable amount of time.

Until Vera began to softly moan in her sleep. He straightened when she did not stop moaning and moving. It was then that he finally moved from his spot and approached the bed. 

And in a deliberate and extremely hesitant way, Gideon reached out and touched her forehead, remembering how Evie had done it earlier. He froze at the feel of her blazing hot skin against his own cool one, and he frowned at that sensation. 

In the blink of an eye, he disappeared from the room and in the next moment, he was back in the room with the same female dark fae beside him. He then ordered the woman to wipe her forehead as how Evie had done. 

Once the dark fae was gone, Gideon relaxed again and stood in that same corner as though he had turned himself into a guardian statue. 

However, not long after that, Vera began moaning again. Once again, the statue moved and the moment he touched her forehead, he disappeared and materialized before the female dark fae. 

"My lord, the light fae queen told me we cannot do that to her over and over again." The female dark fae said in a hesitant and intimidated manner. "She said not to do it more than twice."

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