BLOODY LOVE'S
Chapter 69's

Marco needs to know about this. He had already told his men to watch over and spy on Wallace. Krip has even been told to unpack Wallace's personal data, ranging from family background, history of the disease, even to the issues that circulated about him. Any issue. Marco needs to know everything, up to anyone the man meets every day.

Krip promised to report immediately. The bald man also said that he had just submitted a report about Sir William to Jose. Report that has been edited. The unedited version was just sent to Marco Krip.

Marco was reading the report this morning, thinking about how to educate Jose and drag him slowly to become his successor ruler in Bjork. It was necessary to give the young man a lot of training, one of which was, not to trust anyone.

Jose seems to trust Krip a lot. Even though he knew that Krip was Marco's direct subordinate.

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The black ghost he saw might indeed be related to the fog. Nolan had been thinking about it all night, and he decided to find out for himself what exactly was behind the river in the forest.

The river stretches around South Bjork, separating the residential area from the dark forest where all the trees grow very tightly. Nolan estimated the time when leaving home. The fog sometimes comes suddenly without being expected, but there are usually special times where the fog must come. Nolan avoided a fixed schedule, estimating he would be able to return in time if he ran from the forest.

After having dug through shrubs and young trees, Nolan got to where he used to fish. The river was only two meters wide. He can cross it by swimming or down the river bank looking in case there is a bridge. But the second option will take time, while he is racing with the time the fog appears.

Nolan chose to swim. He had just unbuttoned his uppermost shirt when his elbow was pulled back. Nolan squealed in shock.

"Soundless boy!" a voice behind him. Nolan turned his head, smashing into the dark black eyes that were staring at him furiously.

"Jose?"

"What do you want to do? Swim there?" jose asked annoyed. The man's black hair was messy due to the wind. The tip of his coat is simply feet dirty from the mud. "Are you crazy? You said yourself that the river is deep and the current is swift, right?"

"You ... why come here?" Nolan is confused. He alternated between the river and Jose, who now stood around his waist beside him. "Kok you're here?"

"I saw you running like a demon chased towards the forest, so I followed," Jose explained guiltlessly. He saw Nolan's expression go from confused to upset.

"You're following me?" snarl the girl. His cheeks were red. He had almost undressed in front of Jose.

"I'm just worried, I think you're being chased by something" Jose said. "Anyway, don't act rashly! I don't know what you want or what your habits are. But obviously, swimming in the river in this cold weather is definitely not a good thing."

After Jose said it, Nolan only realized that his fingertips were cold. He only wore thin clothes because he was determined to swim across the river earlier.

"Aren't you hungry? Want to eat crepes?" Jose is still trying to persuade. He remembered Nolan liked the crepes he bought first. The man stuffed both his hands into the pocket of the coat, enduring the cold. "I'm hungry. Come on, accompany me. I'll buy you a lot of crepes if you want to accompany."

"Do you have any other friends?" Nolan snorted, now no taste of crossing the river.

Jose smiled as he shook his head. "No. I don't have any friends, you don't pity that I eat myself like a lost child?"

Nolan knew it was a lie. While several times with Jose in the North, he saw many people greeting the man and chatting him up. "If you're hungry, you should just go with Miss Garnet!"

"Marya?" Jose frowned hearing the name called. "You want us to eat with Maria?"

"No! I mean you!" Nolan clenched his feet in annoyance.

"You want me to eat with Maria?"

Jose laughed, he ran after Nolan.

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Gladys and Sana were still screaming while running away. The sound of dried leaves and twigs being trampled filled the head, filling the eardrum. Sana herself did not actually want to run too far, but Gladys was always a meter in front of her, making Sana unwilling to stop.

“Hei!” sana screams as Gladys steps faster. Breathing snorted. His heart is beating so fast. They entered the forest instead of the settlement. “Hei, Gladys!”

Gladys slowly stopped. His breathing is still regular. Sana stumbled behind him with her back covered in sweat. His wrist was still held by Gladys.

“Why are you running so fast, anyway?!” snapped Sana while rubbing her forehead.

“Sorry, I'm so scared! White-white what was it, anyway?” Gladys.

“I also don't know.” Sana shudder. He looked around, seeing that there were only large and rare trees towering upwards, forming a natural canopy. The roots and bottom of the trees were mostly mossy. “But it just felt terrible. My feet automatically run. After all, you were the one who screamed first.”

“Not, but you,” accuse Gladys.

“You first!”

“You!”

The two of them stared at each other with bulging eyes, then finally just laughed awkwardly.

“We both did run very fast,” Sana raised one hand as a gesture of surrender. He looked around again, this time more alertly. The feeling was uncomfortable, it felt like someone was watching him. “Maybe .. I don't really remember, but it was just white, right? Probably garbage.”

“I think so too,” Gladys said slowly.

Sana smiled clumsyly. There was something strange about Gladys today. The girl spoke very slowly and strangely, but she quickly shook her head. “We're back, yuk. I'm not comfortable surrounded by trees like this.” He pointed towards the open road, where they had just fled. The tree trunks form the gate as in the story in the fairyland, revealing a little field where they were chatting earlier.

Sana intended to hold Gladys back, but the girl was glued to her place.

“Don't come back first,” whispered Gladys slowly.

“Why?”

“Company me for a minute.”

“Where?” Sana's getting restless. His eyes stared in wonder at the position of their hands. Gladys clasped his wrist tightly, but the girl's hand was cold as a marble. “Where are you going?” ask again because there is no answer.

Gladys looked at him, then said in a voice more like a whisper, “After there, across the river, accompany me there for a while.”

“What are you doing there?” ask Sana again. He knew that the river Bjork was turning to separate the settlement in Bjork in the South with the forest . No one lives there. After the forest, there was only a steep high cliff, then the mountain died. He had no idea what Gladys wanted there, but the girl did look different than usual. The girl's face was flat like a mask.

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