7 Mystified

At dawn.

Sei was sitting like a tyrant prince inside a dim, quiet room. He was looking at the moon outside the large window, emotionless, holding a mask in his hand.

"So? How was your first night with her?"

A man suddenly uttered behind him, breaking the impending silence.

"Disaster."

"Pfft! Hahaha!" The man couldn't help but laugh. He was amused with Sei's one-word description about his first night with his wife.

He walked closer to him and the light of the moon made his face visible. He was that bodyguard Davi called, Mr. Chen. However, the moment Sei saw his face, he instantly gazed at him with a sharp deadly stare.

"Yeah yeah, I'm taking it off now."

The man touched his neck then after a while, he took off something that appeared to be a… mask. In a short while, the soldier looking guy suddenly turned into a man with a breathtakingly beautiful face, pale as sheet of paper, as if he was a… vampire. His skin and facial features were exactly vampire like that anyone who saw him might think vampires were real and he was their long lost prince.

"Your wife was so comfortable with this face though, she even called me 'Mr. Chen'," he sighed while looking at the mask in his hand. "So? How is she? Did you guys talk normally?"

"She's strange. Yes, she asked if I was gay."

"Pfft! Hahaha! Seriously? She said that? Wait… you didn't hurt her because of that right?!"

"Strangely, I couldn't get angry at her...at all."

Sei's answer made the vampire looking man speechless, in a good way. He looked like he was happy and proud of himself.

"Tell me Zaki, why did you chose her?"

"Well… Uh, because of her looks… of course… my instinct told me you would definitely like her."

Zaki's answer was an obvious lie. Sei could tell that he was not willing to tell him the truth. He knew that Zaki would never hide anything from him without a serious reason.

"If you still refuse to answer me the next time I ask you that, I'll kill you."

Sei's voice was like a frozen stone. Heartless and cold. But Zaki still smiled mischievously as if he was already expecting every word he'd say.

"I got it, I got it. I will tell you at the right time."

….

Sei was already gone when Davi woke up. The men she met, Ryou, and that teenage boy named YiJin were also gone, along with that bodyguard she called Mr. Chen. It was as if any traces of their existence suddenly disappeared, along with them.

Davi was mystified. She couldn't believe that she slept soundly and comfortably the whole night alongside her mysterious and cold husband. She expected to be sleep deprived from now on since she always had trouble sleeping in an unfamiliar place, much more sleeping with a mysterious person she just met. Yet, the opposite happened. Was it because I was just tired?

Everything about her husband, Sei, was just too intriguing, but she could only wear a quiet, complex expression on her face.

"Young miss, this was left by the young master for you."

The old butler, Mr. Gou was the only person left in the huge, gray mansion. Davi stared at the elegant looking, glass-like, black card in his hand. She slowly took it with her brows knitted.

"This is…?" she stared at the old man, curious.

"Ah, that's… you can use that for your personal expenses, young miss. You can get anything you want with that." The old man's face was pleasantly bright as he smiled at her.

"Uhm… thank you. But where is he? I mean the m… S-sei?"

"I'm sorry, young miss, but the young master already left hours ago."

Davi could only press her lips tightly upon hearing what the old man said.

"When will he come back?"

"I'm afraid I can't tell when. Even I don't know where he went and when will he come home again."

The old man looked apologetic, making Davi feel a bit awkward. But she tried to show him that she was totally fine with it, which made the old man feel visibly relieved.

Davi was then led by the old man, to a large dining table full of luxurious delicacies as if was meant to serve a princess. She could only blink her eyes as she sat on the chair alone, while the butler and a maid stood motionless on the corner, as if they were wallflowers.

She tried urging them to eat with her but she noticed right away that it was futile. Thus, she ate her breakfast alone, feeling deeply saddened, feeling like she was alone in the world.