Clenching her fists tight, Alicia bit down on the insides of her lower lip. Before she came here, she had already formulated a plan. She was going to watch and follow after Ezekiel from here on, 24/7, until these two months were over, and the seven hundred years deadline was up. And if while tailing him, she sees even a hint of him trying to break the curse or starting to remember any of his suppressed memories, there was only one thing left for Alicia to do... and that was...

She closed her eyes in concentration and stepped back. In the past several months, Alicia had been spending all her time researching on everything that she could find out about Ezekiel. There was not much that she could dig out but there were some, though on their own, they do not make much sense alone. However, she had tried her best to connect all the dots on the information that she had found about him and also from the information by the previous queen’s memories in the hopes of discovering on how to stop him in the case where that dreadful day would come.

Being in spirit form now, helped Alicia move ahead tremendously with her mission a lot. She had learned quite a lot of important things that would have been just impossible for anyone who was alive to find out. Because of her special circumstance, she was able to uncover some secrets about Ezekiel and what that could possibly be something that would be able to take him down.

Alicia grumbled within herself that this man was annoyingly flawless in everything. One could not even imagine in the first place on how anyone could even take him down. If she had not died and become a spirit, she knew she would never have been able to ever find out that this man actually had an Achilles heel as well. The fact that he even had one was so surprising! This is his one and only possible vulnerability. She was so shocked that she took quite a long while to process her findings about Ezekiel’s secret.

It was something she had never ever expected to have been able to discover no matter how optimistic she was. And to think that she still had a lot she did not know about him.

He was an intricate puzzle she might never be able to fully uncover and comprehend, even if she spent all her remaining time in trying to figure him inside out. She had accepted that fact since the very beginning and that was the reason why she had chosen to focus on one aspect about him for the past several months. She had told herself that she should concentrate on just one thing, the most important thing, she wanted to know about him and get to know about it as best as possible, rather than to scurry about searching for many things and ending up with nothing at all.

And who knew it, but her decision was right! For the many months of searching, she was able to only find out two things that were certain about him. First, was his weakness, and the second thing was the exact date of the end of that 700-years mark curse on him.

Alicia had not told anyone about these findings of hers yet, not even to Zeres. The information came in too suddenly that she still was reeling from the impact of that knowledge. She then came to Zeres’ apartment to tell and update him about the secret on these crucial two months before the time limit of the seven hundred years. But somehow, looking as how it did not go off too well when she interacted with him, in the end she just could not bring herself to say anything regarding that matter to Zeres at all.

Now that she had left Zeres’ place, Alicia thought that it might be a really good thing where she was not able to bring up and tell anything to Zeres yet. Because there was still a possibility that nothing would happen at all after that time limit. If the curse does not break within these two months, Ezekiel will no longer aim to do anything to the witches, and that would also mean that there is no need for anyone to find out about these secrets anymore.

If nothing out of the ordinary happens within these two months, then these secrets that were kept hidden might just stay hidden with her, alone and disappearing along with her one day...

That thought made Alicia smile a little sullenly and made her non-existent heart ache, but she quickly erased whatever emotions that had flashed in her eyes and focused her gaze to Ezekiel’s face.

She moved a little closer to him again. Her eyes traced along the tattoos that were decorating him, all over his torso.

"Are you really just going to sit there? Huh? Ezekiel? Or are you planning to sleep in the chair like this?" Alicia muttered. She had just realized that what if Ezekiel just stayed put like a statue this way for 24/7? Well, she had never imagined that a man like him was even living like humans but... he would not just be sitting and staying still like this all night, right? He should at least be doing something that would give her a clue on what he was thinking at least. A little is better than nothing! Otherwise, how would she be able to find out if he was already up to something or already realized that he was cursed and trying to figure things out?

Alicia sighed and moved closer to the window when that flesh and blood statue did not make even a tiny movement at all. Staying as still as a statue was truly impressive in its own way.

She stared out the window helplessly as she observed and appreciated the vast, beautiful view of the city below them.

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Hi hellbounders! Thank you for still being here. I will try my best to keep updating 2 chapters daily for this whole month so we can open the hellbound badge again. However, we need to reach top 3 in classic privilege rank to be elligible for the badge and also have more than 20k privilege unlocks.. I hope you guys can support through buying privilege even if its only the first tier. Let us do this hellbounders!