Love Agreement With The King

"I could throw this knife at you but I won\'t because after a long reflection I realized we are the same, Ethan," Sharon said, moving her hand and the light slightly faded allowing Ethan to open his eyes, she took a step forward him and let the knife drop to place her hand over his shoulder and look at him smiling.

"We are not the same," Ethan replied glowering at her and then at her hand she still had on his shoulder and he shrugged to remove it from his body.

"You had a family who loved you and you destroyed for your egocentrism and your selfish thirst for power. We are the opposite, and that\'s why I deeply hate you and pity you. Because I know how lucky you were to have a good family but you didn\'t think twice before backstabbing Roselyn."

Ethan\'s words didn\'t touch Sharon, she seemed she wasn\'t even regretting for a second what she did to Roselyn and how much trouble she caused to her and her family.

"I think we are very similar instead, we both react following our instincts and our purposes and thirst of revenge and we are not scared to kill- hurt people we love." Sharon rectified staring at him right in his eyes, "am I wrong or did you kill your father?" she asked before smirking.

"He would be buried underground with a decomposed body if it wasn\'t for me."

Ethan growled, feeling his nerves being hit and driving out of patience. He took a long breath, trying to remain calm. Sharon was using her powers to link with him so that she could make him relive his past, trying to make him mad was an attempt to distract him and break his concentration which impeded her to link with him. Yet he kept focusing he didn\'t want to let her win.

He decided to ignore her, if he had to find his answer he didn\'t need her to do so. Ethan had always been on his own, he had grown alone without the need of anyone. And he overcome so many problems in his life that some missing memories were nothing compared to what he went through.

Ethan kept searching in the room opening drawers of bedside tables or closets and anything that could vaguely help him to remember what happened that day.

"You won\'t find anything," Sharon said rolling her eyes and gazing at Ethan annoyed by his lack of trust.

Ethan kept ignoring her until Sharon scoffed and murmured, "alright. Then if you don\'t want to remember you can stay with that regret and doubt for the rest of your life." She disappeared right after making Ethan pause his search to swallow down the lump in his throat.

\'She is just trying to manipulate me.\' He thought to himself. After demolishing the house he gave up and scoffed before finally speed toward the castle to check if his father was fine and tell him about what happened.

When he reached the castle William was talking to one of the maids, chatting about them and probably telling her about Ethan. When he entered William pointed at him to whisper, "See that\'s him." The maid smiled brightly and bowed down.

Ethan felt his heart overwhelmed in joy and happiness, he never saw his father talking to someone about him and that made him feel utterly grateful and glad to have made the right choice by siding with John.

"I was waiting for you to eat," William said gesturing to Ethan to follow him as he headed toward the kitchen when a huge banquet full of food and wine of every kind. Ethan\'s eyes sparkled and his jaw dropped, he never saw all that food. All he ate during his life was eggs or meat, or some berries he could find in the wood.

He didn\'t even know how most of that food tasted like but the scent it emanated was promising it would be very delicious.

"Accommodate," William said and Ethan sat down grabbing the first food he had in front of his nose and eating it greedily.

His eyes widened and he smiled as if he tasted heaven and then proceeded on eating more and more food. William exploded in a laugh as he placed his hand over his son\'s hand, "son, the food won\'t escape. Eat slower and the taste will be even more satisfying." He sugged, Ethan nodded beginning to chew more slowly as he tasted every bit of it.

"It\'s delicious." He exclaimed when finishing the first dish and filling the dish a second time with new food.

After three more refilling Ethan finally recalled he had to tell William about the snake demon\'s attack, he took few sips of his wine and then cleared his voice.

"Two demons attacked John and me today, they were shape-shifting snakes. John deduced someone must have opened the door of the supernatural underworld freeing them on purpose." Ethan said William\'s face became paler and he held his breath in denial. "If they hurt the villagers..." the King murmured, his eyes were wide in shock and fear. His hands began to shake, "I don\'t want my realm to get annihilated by demons."

Ethan seeing William\'s moved facial expression got worried and headed him a glass filled with water, "breath and drink." He murmured. After his father listened to his tip and drunk a few sips of the glass Ethan replied, "We will protect the village, and we will find out who opened the doors of the prison. Don\'t worry." He offered a kind smile but William didn\'t buy his lie and was still deadly worried.

"I promise. I will never leave you as I did before. I will do my best to defend you and give you joy. If defending the village will make you happy and make me a good son, I will do it." Ethan said in a whisper as he recalled what Sharon told him and he realized he didn\'t want to do the same mistake he did in the past.

William smiled, "thank you. I am already proud of you." He went to hold both his son\'s hands together and smiled at him. "I always was proud of you and you always made me happy, I just never found the courage or the way to confess it to you. I am glad that despite our issues and problems we still found a path together."

Ethan smiled back, his eyes filled with tears. He couldn\'t believe in his father\'s words.

"We are a family now.." William finished as he held his hands tighter and wrapped his arms around his son.