"Grrrrgrrrr." Came Laila's struggled voice from under the water.

"What did you say, sweetie? I can't hear you." Jasmine said before pulling her head out of the water. ​​

"So you are really Victoria. I am right, ain't I? You are just fooling everyone. No matter how much you torture me, I'll expose you sooner or later." Laila coughed.

"Oh sweetie, can't you see the condition you are in? You will expose me? Dead souls don't speak, baby. It's a goodie goodbye for you." Jasmine said before pushing her face into the water again.

Seeing that this Laila girl was about to lose her consciousness, she pulled her face out of the water before throwing her aside like a ragged doll.

"Why do people bother to make me angry if they can't even bear with my punishment?" She pouted before moving into the red rose garden of the main garden.

Stepping her foot inside the garden, she smiled as she smelled a soothing whiff of roses.

"Roses, red roses, you tell me, am I cruel for playing this game of hide and seek when I have multiple mates that I need to get accustomed to? Is it wrong that I like amber-eyes but my eyes are searching for a particular turquoise one?" She rhymed, sighing loudly.

"Turquoise eyes? I know you are watching me. You know what I am doing and what I am going to do next, but when you'll show yourself to me? If you don't come in front soon, I swear I am going to marry Damien, and once I become his, I won't have anything to do with you." Jasmine said.

"You won't do anything like that, understand?! You are mine!" Suddenly she heard a velvety voice filled with anger.

Just like she had guessed, he was indeed watching her.

"I don't belong to anyone turquoise-eyes. I don't even have your name so far. You know me but I know nothing about you. What do you expect of me? All I've seen so far is your eyes only and listened to your velvety voice that soothes me." Jasmine sighed before speaking again.

"You know, everyone here compares me to this girl called Victoria which is Damien's ex-girlfriend or mate, I don't know. Can you show me her face? I know you know about it. I try to remember my past, but I don't seem to have a gist of it." Jasmine huffed again before sitting on the bench.

"Don't play with fire, Jasmine. Once you'll know who Victoria is, you'll lose your worth. She will come back again, and if she comes back, you'll have no worth and virtue, and you'll just be what you were, a power of hers."

"What are you saying? Power? worth? I don't understand anything." Jasmine said, holding her head as it started to pain.

"Let time take its course. You'll know everything once the right time comes. Till then, just serve your purpose of being here, which is to not let anyone call Victoria back.

You know your grandma Azrael had been hiding many things from you, and one of those things is your worth and your strength. Someone is coming this way, I'll take my leave now, but before I go, let me tell you my name, sweetheart. I am Daniel. Daniel Neptune. You'll know about me as the time will pass."

"Jasmine? What are you doing here?" Daniel asked Jasmine as he saw her sitting dazed on the bench.

"I was just enjoying the smell. What is it, Danny?" She asked as soon as she came out of her dazed state.

"Nothing, I was just taking a break from my work. Let me ask you a question, and I want the truth only." Daniel said, making her nod, already knowing what it was about.

"I took a break from my work because I heard a commotion outside. Laila, the council member's daughter, was found in the ground in a half-conscious state. Her face is brutally bruised, and her ribs had been broken. Her lungs had a lot of water in them. Tell me, was it you, who did that?" Daniel asked with patience, confusing Jasmine.

It was true that she had argued with Laila, but she didn't do anything that he was saying.

"No, Daniel. I didn't do anything. She was indeed saying something about me acting and being Victoria, but I came here after that without responding to her. Why would I fight with her and bruise her like this? It would be much easier to just kill her. One swing of finger and I can break her neck, then why would I-"

"That's enough. I got your point." Daniel said, cutting her off.

Now the question was, if Jasmine didn't do it, then who the hell did it to Laila? Jasmine wasn't the one to lie, and she had always spoken the truth even when she had killed people. She won't be lying about bruising someone.

She was right about the last part too, she has never taken the pain of torturing someone. She would just snap their neck or throw them away like in the case of Tiffany, thus, it was clear that Jasmine didn't do it. But since the incident took place just after they came here, everyone will be suspecting them, especially her only.

Sighing loudly, he ruffled her hair before holding her hand.

"Let's go inside. My angry piggy must be hungry, ain't she?" Daniel asked, making her chuckle forgetting about his accusations immediately.

Turning around, she looked at the cloud disappearing that had formed when that turquoise eyes spoke to her. Daniel Neptune. She'll unravel this mystery sooner than he can imagine.

Meanwhile in the vicinity of the Himalayan mountains where nobody goes, inside the cave at the very top of the peak, a person was sitting at -50°C temperature.

"Jasmine, Jasmine, Jasmine. You are making my wait harder than it already is. I want to come to you and take you away and stop the process here only, but I know nature will take its course, and even if you won't like it and it will hurt you, she is bound to come back.

She is bound to come back for me. So that the history can be repeated.

However, I don't want history to be repeated. Damien might only love Carla, but I've fallen in love with all your forms, be it Victoria, Carla, Jasmine, joy, or the one who is going to come in the near future, the ultimate power that will be challenging Christopher for his throne to become the queen of the witches.

You are so powerful that you yourself don't have my gist of that, and I am intending to keep this powerful innocent woman to myself.

I have waited for you for 600 years, and the wait was worth the while. Even the thought of you being in front of me arouses me, and I know it'll have the same effect on you too because baby, I am your destined mate.

Wait for me, Jasmine, I'll show myself to you soon." Daniel Neptune said with a bright smile on his face.