"You..." She pointed her finger at him but was unable to say something.

She stomped her foot on the floor and turned around and left.

She found a maid on the way who helped her to go back to her quarters.

In the evening she saw a few ladies who had come to participate in the competition and were eliminated in the round, leaving quite sadly.

But there were few who were stubborn like Gwen. Since the king has allowed them to stay till the summer festival most of the ladies have decided to stay. And who knows? Maybe by the time they can turn around the situation somehow and get in Prince Donovan's eye.

"I don't know what is wrong with Gwendolyn's head, even after losing she is behaving so haughty," Mira who was standing beside Silja spoke as they were looking at the three Nobel ladies sitting at their home.

"Language, Mira," Silja gently scolded.

No matter what Gwen was still a lady. Calling her without a title was rude. Not that Silja personally minds it but if anyone sees it then Mira might get punished.

Mira opened her mouth to say something but she also realised that it wasn't wise to run her mouth recklessly in the foreign land. She didn't want to cause trouble for Silja.

Other than the three ladies going home, everyone has decided to stay for the summer festival which is going to start in a few days.

This festival was one of the biggest in the north and was celebrated with much enthusiasm.

It runs for the whole week and the whole nation has already started to prepare for it.

Even the castle was hustling and bustling due to that.

Before the dinner, all the four ladies who passed the third round received a notice from Queen Abrielle that all of them will leave for the hunt with prince Donovan for the upcoming summer festival.

It was a kind of opportunity to spend time with prince Donovan so he can interact with all four of them and get to know them better to decide his future wife.

The festival will start in the next week and thus they will set out for the three days hunt.

During that time Donovan will try to get to know them and whoever will be able to win his heart will become the wife of the eldest prince of the North.

Thankfully they can take one personal maid with them so they can attend to noble ladies during the period.

It was known as auspicious to hunt for the summer festival. All the prey they hunt during this time will be used in the big feast during the festival.

Silja looked at Mira who had just finished reading the latter.

Only the last step and everything will be alright.

Silja took a deep breath and consoled herself.

That night Silja went to bed early. She has spent the whole day just thinking about what happened in the corridor.

His lips were on her and the sensation of his tongue inside her.

Silja was sitting in front of the mirror, Mira was helping with the accessories she has worn.

But suddenly Mira's hand stopped as she saw Silja looking in the mirror and tracing her lips gently.

"My lady?" Mira asked in surprise at Silja's odd behaviour.

Silja instantly came out of trance and cleared her throat.

"What?" She asked with a straight face.

"You are acting weird my lady?" Silja said suspiciously.

"What weird? It is your head that is weird," Silja refuted and stood up from the seat.

She then flick Mira's head and started to walk towards the changing area.

She fanned herself as she walked away and scolded herself for being so stupid.

Just the thought about it made her go all red and her little maid was worried the whole day that maybe her delicate princess was suffering from a fever. She even prepared the bitter medicine for her and it took Silja a long time to persuade her that she was fine and she didn't need to drink any medicine.

Making Mira stop nagging her, Silja decided to end her day early and went to sleep. Well, they were setting up for the hunt in the early morning so it was a perfect excuse.

But it seems like the fairy of sleep was offended by her and the sleep was nowhere near her bed.

In the end, Silja spent her whole time tossing and turning in her bed as the night passed.

Finally near midnight, she found some sleep.

The woman was sleeping in the room while the moonlight was falling on her face.

In the end, she finally found some peace in the name of sleep but that was also disturbed by the dream of the same man. One time she was on the terrace sitting on his lap as he had his face shoved in her neck. On the next second, she found herself pressed against the wall as he kissed her forcefully. Silja's face was burning red with all the scenes she was experiencing in her dreams.

Her bright red face was glowing in the moonlight.

But suddenly the light falling on her face was hindered by the shadows and the dark clouds hover over Silja's face.

The dark aura surrounding it was so strong that Silja couldn't help but feel it in her sleep.

Her forehead creased as she slowly fluttered her eyes open.

Silja was sleeping facing the balcony and as she woke up groggily in her sleep she looked at the bright light entering the room from the moon outside.

Her vision was blurry and slowly becoming clear.

Since it was the start of summer, the north was hotter than Atlanea.

Silja, who was habituated to sleeping in the cold breeze of the ocean, found it a bit hard to endure the heat.

Thus the nightdress she wore was very thin and she had barely covered herself with a quilt.

The thin sheet slide down her body as Silja sat up rubbing her eye. Her head is thinking about the dream she has just seen.

Don's face and the name were just like a second word for Silja by now. She couldn't help but think about him and every thought of her made her go crazy.

"Ahhhh..." Silja pulled her hair in frustration.

This was bad...very bad...

She thought in her head and sighed loudly.

She then turned on the bed to go grab the glass of water.

"Ahhh..." But as she turned around a Shriek left her lips and she stumbled backwards.

Her Hazel eyes looked fearfully in the dark corner of the room at the shadowy figure standing not far away.

The black smoke emitted from the figure as its eyes shone brightly.

Silja froze in her place as both their eyes met.

And suddenly the figure extended its hand and Silja's eye widened. Slowly the figure moved out of the shadows and walked to her.

The figure came out of the shadows and Silja now could see a man-like figure.

The man has a thin body and long structure. Two deer-like tentacles on his head in the colour black.

His face was a little blurry due to smoke evaporating from his face. Silja felt her heart drop in the pit of her stomach looking at the demonic figure moving towards her.

Her lips opened and closed but no sound came out of her lips.

The man wriggled the bony fingers of his hand signalling her to come closer. The hand moved closer and closer to her. And Silja was unable to move.

'Nightmare...it's just a nightmare..." Silja started to chant in her head.

But when she noticed the bony hand of the demonic figure just inches away from her face her brain malfunctioned.

She wasn't that weak but seeing the weird figure instilled an unknown fear in her. Seeing it something dark inside started to get triggered. Something so powerful that she couldn't control it.

As the cold bony fingers touch her face Silja's hazel eyes rolled up and then the dark black colour started to flicker in them.

And her whole being started to fall into the dark abyss. Something powerful was awakening inside her pulling her to somewhere far.

Just like a possessed person Silja let her guard down and stared at the figure with the black tint flickering in her eyes.

The smoky face of demonic face arched in a smile as he retreated his hand.

And just like a switch was flip Silja came to her senses. Her body went limp and she fell on her four limbs.

Silja's defence mechanisms kicked in and the fear took over again. This time with more force.

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