Alaric pushed open the mansion door, and dust came flying out. He covered his nose in time, but the others were unfortunate and breathed it in then they all flew into a coughing fit.

"Alaric, this place is inhabitable," Bethany said while wiping her tears.

"If you'd just give it a chance, Beth, you will like it," he said as he took the lead to enter the house.

They all followed behind him exclaiming while looking at the wide ceiling with surprise and the decorations and details.

"It looks kind of old, will it be able to stand for long?" Blue asked as they reached the lobby.

"Yes, it's why the inspector was here yesterday," Alaricanswered, knocking on the wall. "It passed the approval."

"Ooh, that was fast. They always come two days after," Bethany chimed in.

Alan also found it weird that they had arrived a few hours just after he bought it. They must really be monitoring the place.

"It's the lobby," he said after they arrived there and he walked to an abandoned chair. "I wanted to get your opinion on the style we should design it…"

The girls got excited after seeing that the lobby was huge, and they could come up with hundreds, if not thousands, of ideas on how to decorate it.

Alaric turned to look at Bethany with a knowing smile. He could tell from the moment she saw the house she had liked it despite her grumbles.

She was just being a little difficult.

If she really didn't like it, she wouldn't have tried to enter and take a look, Alaric though with an amused smile.

"Yes! We'll put a bar there!" June's voice sounded.

"Then we can put sofas near those windows so that guests can get a view of the courtyard," Bethany chimed in on the conversation.

"I want you to put a dancing and singing stand for me there." Blue pointed at the highest pole raised platform at the edge of the room.

Alaric listened to the girls as they planned for the future, feeling happy and satisfied. He had really started the plan.

The next plan would be to get employees since they won't be able to maintain the whole place by themselves.

Alaric took them through the whole house watching as the excitedly planned their future and choose their rooms.

Alaric had gotten the collective vote to take the master bedroom since he was the one who found the place while the others each took from the guestrooms.

They all left the place satisfied with the results and excited. They had to move in in two weeks so after Alaric dropped them off he went to meet the renovators.

Three hours later he walked out of the company he had hired with a signed contract and two hundred thousand less in his bank account.

He breathed a sigh of relief. He had completed one milestone. The company was only meant for landscape and fixing everything inside and out.

The one he had booked worked on changing the layout of the mansion and only modernizing things and painting.

Organizing and decorations fell on the girls side since they were Soo excited.

The body in the store room had already been taken care of. Had ample time to dissolve it before burning anything that could link him to the murder.

He had gone down the mountain bought supplies with cash and brought it back in a duffle bag disguised as cleaning supplies and came to dismantle the body completely.

It had felt like a weight lifted off his shoulders after that. It had been his first murder, and despite acting like nothing was wrong, he had truly been scared shitless.

In the dungeon he didn't kill anyone personally so it was easier to get over the guilt but now he had personally done it even though it was self protection.

He reached the bus station and stopped a taxi and got in.

"The awakeners association."

Alaric looked at the massive building ,it was more than a hundred stories long and just seemed to go on.

People were walking around the front entrance some just sitting there and looking bored while others seemed to be talking with their friends.

The place was a little crowded.

He walked through the huge front entrance pushing the rotating door to enter the building.

Inside looks sleek, luxurious but clinical. It looked too polished like something out of a sci-fi movie.

He walked to the huge reception. It was made to look like a bank lobby, with cubicles lined with more than twenty places to go to.

He walked to the furthest one that seemed to have no people.

"Name?"

"Alaric Theron."

"Purpose."

"Awakener confirmation and purchasing."

The man who was at the teller looked at him, his eyes narrowed.

He then took up the phone and made a call.

"We have another one," he said to the phone.

The man listened a bit, then nodded before looking at him.

"Go down the second hallway, turn right, then you'll find a waiting area. Sit there. Someone will come to fetch you."

Alaric nodded and walked toward the pointed area. He arrived at the waiting area two minutes later. He sat at the corner most chair, from his vantage he could fully see the door and those that came in.

From the looks of it, it seemed that there would be more people coming and he was probably the odd one out.

He had been waiting for a few minutes while playing with his phone when he heard voices and lots of footsteps.

He stopped looking at the phone he had pulled out just to see a group of what looked like students enter.

They all had the same combat clothes and they seemed to be the same age as him.

The one at the front stopped after seeing him before summing him after giving him a once over. They apparently looked at his dressing and lost interest.

The rest of the class filed in each busy chatting. Then at the back of the class he spotted someone awfully familiar. Jezebel.

She was now dressed with the same as them but still had her glasses on and hair messy. Their combat clothes were black military style and a little baggy which ment on her figure it made her pretty unnoticeable.

She was looking down while walking clearly isolated from the others who were in doubles or in groups.

Alaric smiled inwardly. Things were going to get interesting.

He moved his chair and the screeching noise startled everyone.

While doing so, Alaric had his eyes on Jezebel the whole time. She lifted her head like the others and looked towards his direction. The moment their eyes met, she stumbled her eyes widening in surprise.

" Hi," Alaric mouthed to her.

She looked around nervously and noticed that no one had noticed their exchange.

Alaric found her reaction cute.

" Hi," she mouthed back before nervously looking around again. He could see from her reactions that she was nervous.

" Washroom," he mouthed back to her. Her eyes went wide after understanding what he had said.

He could see the gears turning as the fight in her eyes continued of whether to go or not.

He knew she would eventually give in but they were on a time budget.

Then he did the most daring thing inorder to give her a small push.

...

Jezebel was surprised when she saw Alaric sitting in the waiting room. The school had brought them for an official registration since they had all completed their awakening.

At the association they were just there to confirm but it was mainly a disguised way for the association to get first dip on talents before other organizations.

She really didn't want to come for it but it was mandatory and she couldn't come up with a valid excuse.

To make matters worse, she had overslept. She was not really having the best day overall.

When she heard the chair drugging noises, she could feel her anger raising.

She just wanted to see which inconsiderate bastard was doing that.

But when she saw it was Alaric, her mind went blank had she missed a step.

How had he even gotten to the awakened association, she though, and was he going with them or was he just there for a visit.

She was sure there was two days before their appointment so it couldn't be for her.

But when he mouthed for her to go to the washroom, she knew immediately what he was planning but she just couldn't bring herself to do it while in the association to make matters worse.

It just felt illegal or something plus with her classmates around.

She was the top student for heavens sake.

She looked at Alaric trying to tell him no when he took two fingers and formed a circle and brought it to his mouth.

No, no, Jezebel though silently. He started to push his tongue in the middle of the circle mimicking the motion of having sex.

Jezebel turned around and left.

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