Madonna was stunned to get an invitation to meet the Lord alone in the woods. She was busy taking care of some of her personal affairs from past few days and getting a message to meet the Lord in secret threw her into thinking what had happened that the Lord himself sent his loyal butler to fetch her.

She was very occupied to even accept a meet with Knox Garrick when he requested few days ago. Knox had tried several times to meet her but Madonna had no time to waste it for anyone else. She had to complete her personal affair before the end of full moon.

Now that she was thinking about it again, was it a coincidence that both Knox and Lord Knight requested a conversation with her?

She hoped Knox hadn't done something foolish again. If it was again one of his foolish act that cause chaos, then she was done saving him. She took Knox as her friend, though not a very close friend, he was there with her for several years providing her with everything she needed to practice sorcery.

So she kept on saving him from pits he dug for himself several times. Hell knows what was his agenda to meet her.

"Madonna." She heard Lord Knight's brusque voice from behind and stiffened.

She could detect the danger oozing out from his aura and trouble hinting in his voice.

She turned around slowly covering up her tensed eyes with her signature sultry look. She couldn't let him see that she was affected with the aura he was producing. His eyes looked solemn and red indicating that something had gone utterly wrong.

What might it be?

"My Lord" She bowed slightly in respect and returned to look into his eyes with temptation all over them. Though she was not the least interested in the man standing before her, she knew through experience in life that a woman can only keep herself safe in men's world by playing along with their weakness.

"You must have heard what happened, didn't you?" The Lord asked her underhandedly to know if she was truly involved in Knox's murderous affair or was she innocent.

He did believe that the witch is not a part of Knox's attack on Ella as he made it certain to tell the witch who was more powerful in between them a long back ago.

She was wise enough to not cross him, but he do not know if she was now completely trustful or not.

"In fact, I do not, My Lord. I apologize I was occupied with something from past few days to put into practice my nosy habit." She answered look nonchalant and truthful through her sarcastic comment. The Lord sis not react much to her comment and just nodded curtly.

Lord Knight could tell lie apart from the truth and he was now aware of the sincere ignorance of the recent episodes in the castle.

"Well, I suppose I have no other choice to believe you." He nodded and walked forward from shadows into the bright moonlight. "Lady Ella was attacked." He announced slowly expecting shock from the witch.

"Um hmm. and?" Madonna answered casually to hear out the whole story. If Madonna was anything, then she was not a person to freak out. She was always too confident and too composed that often people around her could misunderstand her as the reason for many uncommon incidents.

"Someone shot a venomous arrow bounded by a spell through the venom to consume the soul inside her." He explained briefly, "The venom was taken care of but the spell –"

"The spell was a hard to break." Madonna completed nodding her head in understanding the situation now. No wonder the Lord was expecting to meet her in such urgency.

"Do you know who performed the spell, My Lord?" She asked carefully hoping it was not Knox who did it. She did not want to go against him and if it was really him that did it, then there was no going back. She would need to put an end to their acquaintances.

"That is none of your concern. All I need is a way to break the spell before it consumes her completely." And she knew it was Knox who did it.

Knox was the only person who has practice in some of the basic magic performances.

"Ah I suppose the person had done a good job to end the Lady's life with a simple yet a dangerous spell then." Madonna feigned a chuckle to dissipate the tension travelling in the air but a low growl from the Lord helped nothing to ease her nerves.

"I do not have enough time to have a amusing rows with you, Madonna. I need a solution and that was the reason why you are summoned here." He said perturbed with the worry to save his wife.

"Alright then. The spell that was used on Lady Ella can be used by anyone with a good concentration, My Lord. If ever he was involved with even a little use of magic or performed the rituals as a second person, he can do it quite easily." She explained.

"Then it should be simple to crumple it then. Isn't it?" The Lord asked with a steady voice though the little hope he was starting to see was quite evident in the quiver of tone.

"Certainly not. You see, though it is simple to perform, it is not simple to reverse it because the method to reverse the spell is different for every victim." Lord Knight knitted her eyebrows in frown at what he was hearing.

It differs from person to person?

"What do you mean by that?" He demanded from the witch. The Witch's once sultry look morphed into one with pity.

"My Lord, the same spell was performed on a man in the western part of this region. His parents did not know how to save their son nor can any witch could help. They did not knew what to do to save their son and approached many magic wielders for help and performed many things in a hope to save him but all in vain. The boy was almost taking last breaths when his parents holy water on him to send his soul to heaven praying for an easy death. With the holy water, the boy woke up from his almost death. And the same spell was used on a woman from another province and holy water did not work on her and finally lost her life after fighting for life for many days." Madonna said, thinking of ways to help the Lord.

She knew what the Lady meant to him and even though she was partly responsible for Ella's misery, she did not want that to continue anymore.

Madonna looked at the disheveled emotion running in the Lord eyes and felt bad for not being able to him.

"But I believe you can save her, My Lord. Your union with the Lady was a unique one, a legend that never happened till date. You are just needed to try everything that shows your love and devotion to her. I do not know what helps the Lady so I suggest you put everything in you and try all the bizarre ways. I know only you can save her." Although the witch's words were a help, the Lord was too anxious to learn that he has no definite cure for his Ella.

What was he supposed to do now?

What can he do to bring his Ella back to him?

He cannot look at her unconscious person and not feel guilt swamping over him for not taking better care of her. She was his life and he let someone to hurt her. She couldn't look into her eyes ever again.

"What should I do? Tell me and I will put my life into it to save her. You know I am more potent than you so I just need a source." Madonna, for the first time saw the Lord vulnerable and felt sorry for his predicament.

"Power is not the tool to achieve something every time, My Lord. This time you need to use your heart, brain and devotion to help her rather than your paranormal powers." The witch's words put the Lord through another trial of vulnerability.

If it was just the matter of powers then it would be easier but the Lord doesn't know what form of his love is accepted to save his wife.

Heavens, he had no time to stay weak. He need to rush to his ailing wife and do everything he could. That was the only way.