Raphael is mad. Valerie is too scared to ask him to slow the car down. Because she is feeling like they are flying in the air rather than driving on the road. His sleek black sports car is designed to drive faster, and now it's the owner is using it to his full advantage. Finally, when she is beginning to think that he is not going to stop, he did. He parked his car on the edge of a cliff, narrowly missing the fall. Only an inch separates the car from the steep fall. He got out of his car and shifted into his dragon form and took off into the sky. She looked at his dragon in awe. She never got a chance to admire any dragon from this close. His wings are slashing the wind, showing his bad mood. She unfolded herself from the car and sat on the cliff with her gaze trained on the huge black dragon with orange stripes on it's surface. He looks huge and majestic. She heard that dragons will be huge, but never thought that they can be this huge. She couldn't move her gaze from his mesme

Valerie ran after Raphael, who walked toward a section of the palace that she never got a chance to visit. After a few minutes, she lost him in the maze of unfamiliar corridors."Prince Raphael?" she called for him when she realized that she lost her way along with him.But she didn't get a reply from him. She didn't find anyone around either. This part of the palace seems like it is rarely used and the guards and maids are absent. "Is anyone there?" she asked loudly, hoping that someone might tell her where Raphael went. But she only heard her own voice which echoed back to her. She understood that she might not find him. She looked around and tried to find the way she came from. But to her horror, all the corridors looked the same and she got confused. She roamed around aimlessly for a few minutes, but she came back to the same place again and again."What is this? This feels like a maze" she thought to herself."Prince Raphael?" she tried to call the prince following whom she ca

Raphael and Valerie are standing in a section of the forest that is darker than the rest of the area and it looked strange. It has taken them four hours to reach there, and Valerie is sure that the house is here somewhere."Are you sure this is the right direction?" he asked her. He is feeling a strange kind of pressure in his head. It began slowly when the forest began to turn darker. He is feeling like someone is trying to pry inside his mind and he is not allowing anyone to enter his mind. That is causing him a headache.Valerie looked around the forest, which is pitch black. If not for the torchlight she is holding, she wouldn't be able to see anything. "I am sure that house is here somewhere. But i don't remember coming across this kind of darkness. This section of the forest is strange and my skin is feeling weird and itchy" she said with a deep frown marring her features. When she mentioned that her skin is feeling itchy, he began to notice that her skin is turning red and sc

By the time Raphael came to Valerie's room, it was empty. The guards outside her room are oblivious to the fact that she is missing. Whoever it is, they know everything about the hidden doors inside the palace. "Shit" he cursed and pressed the wall beside her wardrobe. His fingers touched a movable brick. He pushed the brick inside and slowly the wall began to slide aside, opening a narrow tunnel, which is dark and cobwebs can be seen everywhere. But his senses are stronger than everyone, so he can see the pathway without any light. 'Valerie, are you alright?' he asked her as he made his way inside the hidden door. But she didn't reply, which made him worried. He ran through the narrow tunnel as fast as he could, but he is forced to stop when the tunnel split into three directions. He doesn't which direction the intruder has taken Valerie. But every second he is wasting here might cost her life. So he is forced to decide faster. He observed the three tunnels and choose the rig

"For what?" he asked without looking at her.Valerie became sad, thinking that she is repulsing him."For dragging you into this. If not for me, then you wouldn't have been stuck here like this" she whispered while looking at her open palms.He is quiet for a moment."If i didn't bring you to the Raven palace, then you wouldn't have been in this situation, to begin with. I don't know why Cedric is doing all this when I clearly told him that you are innocent. But still, he is hell-bent on hurting you. I will deal with him after we figure out how to get out of here" he reasoned.She turned to look at him sadly. His earlier reaction is still fresh in her mind. She ran the scenario of never meeting Raphael or Irina in her life. She might have never known that he is a very good man. The thought of never crossing his path and lack of his intense attention over her made her feel strangely empty."If i never came here, then i would have missed the chance to meet the raven prince and her highn