Hellbound With You novel Chapter 915

Chapter 915 Tonight

The next morning. After washing up and making sure they were presentable, Alicia and Zeke headed to the dungeons where Sebastian was being imprisoned.

As they approached the thick and protected bars, Alicia felt Ezekiel's hand tightened around hers a little. The boy beyond the bars did not come at them like how he did the first time that Alicia was here.

He was just there, silently kneeling on the ground, his hands chained to thick restraints that were reinforced with demonic magic to keep him there. The sight of him was breaking her heart. It was just unimaginable how this boy had been just locked up here like this for so long. It was not just years… but hundreds of years, in fact! Alicia could feel hot tears pricking the back of her eyes as she stood there with Zeke, not moving nor speaking.

Looking over at Zeke, Alicia silently squeezed his hand in encouragement. She knew that it must be agonizing for Zeke to watch his own brother being treated like this for almost seven hundred years. She could not even imagine the torture and suffering for both Ezekiel and Sebastian during these long years.

"Seb," Ezekiel called out to his brother softly and the boy beyond the cage opened his eyes. His animalistic grey eyes stared at them through his dark, damp and messy hair.

Even after almost seven hundred years, Sebastian did not seem to age. Ezekiel said that Sebastian's appearance never changed since that fateful day, and that time seemed to have stopped for him since the day he drew that demonic power into his body. And that was why, until now, Sebastian still looked like an eighteen-year-old boy.

"Tonight… I will finally free you." Zeke added. "Forgive me for taking so long, Seb." He gripped the thick bar and still tried his best to stay as composed as he always was on the outside. But Alicia knew, she could feel, that Zeke was in turmoil on the inside, every time he looks at Sebastian.

The boy did not speak nor responded to Zeke. He kept his seemingly deadly gaze trained on Zeke for a long while before shifting his gaze to Alicia.

"Who?" he finally spoke. His voice was creaky and rusty as he had not had any reason to speak for long periods of time. Though only one word, but it was clear he was asking who Alicia was as his gaze was directed at her when asking that question.

Ezekiel held Alicia's shoulder and pulled her closer to him. It was as if Zeke was trying to show Sebastian that Alicia was someone very important to him. "Meet my wife, Seb."

Sebastian simply stared at Alicia, unblinking in its intensity. His dark aura and the madness that swirled within his eyes seemed to calm a little. A touch of sanity seemed to have returned to them.

"And you're going to become even weaker?" Alexander asked the question that was on everyone's mind but did not dare ask. His gaze was scrutinizing and piercing as he looked directly at Ezekiel, not avoiding the man's own sharp gaze.

Silence reigned at Alex's words while Alicia just clenched tighter onto Zeke's hand a little. She had been feeling it lately. What Alex had mentioned. The closer they got to the D-day, Ezekiel seemed to be getting weaker and weaker. Today in particular, was the worst. It had declined to the point that Alicia had felt a slight fear clutching at her heart when she woke up this morning and noticed it. Of course, the reason she could sense it so clearly was due to the special connection that was between them.

But now, after Zeke had just used more of his demonic power in strengthening Sebastian's cage earlier on, he had weakened even more, that even Alexander was able to notice it. And that was a worrying fact.

"Yes." Zeke replied without the slightest change in his tone. "This is necessary for the ritual tonight."

"I see…" Alexander nodded but it did not escape Alicia's notice how his brows creased a little. It was not normal for Alexander to look so doubtful when it comes to Ezekiel's words. It was because of this, that made Alicia feel a little tremor shaking her already unsteady heart.