Chapter 104

**Tzalmon Point of View**

"You are Mrs. Winters, yes?" I asked narrowing my eyes a little.

There is no doubt she is Mrs. Winters. Eblilis has some of her clear features so one can tell she is indeed her mother or most possibly a very close relative.

"Yes I am. However, you are mistaken about something, young man; I don't have a daughter. I and my husband only have a son." She said patiently.

And she was not lying. She said what she meant.

But the question is how come they don't have a daughter? That's impossible!

"I apologize for asking you again but you are Mrs. Amber Lucy Winters, wife of Marcus Winters, right?" She was not annoyed by my incessant questioning instead she was very patient in answering them.

"That's right." She nodded. "There must be some kind of miscommunication, young man. This is indeed Winters family house but the person you are looking for cannot be here." That's impossible!

"Who's it, honey?" A man in his mid fifties came from inside the house and one look at him; I can see a few features that match well with Eblilis.

This is her father; but for some reasons not her father too.

Looking at it, there should be two possibilities; one, Eblilis must've been cut off from the family and two, Eblilis is indeed not a part of this family to start with.

And both the cases are impossible because Mrs. Winters wasn't lying when she said they don't have a daughter at all. I could sense the truth and when I asked her the second time to confirm, I used a bit of hypnosis power.

If what she is telling is true, then Eblilis cannot not be a part of this family because even a blind can see that Eblilis is the product made by these two people.

"These two young men are looking for a young lady and mistook her to be living here." Mrs. Winters turned back and little explained to Mr. Winters with a smile.

"Who are they looking for?"

"Someone with name Acacia Dawn Winters." Mr. Winters face creased into a frown as a small light went past his eyes.

"How strange." He mumbled for himself.

"Strange?" Mrs. Winters raised a brow.

"Honey, don't you remember? At the time when you were carrying Liam, we decided that if the baby was a girl, we were going to name her Acacia Dawn Winters. You remember?" Mr. Winters spoke softly, expressing his astonishment.

This caused me to be stupefied too. Puzzled at what he said, I and Eelk exchanged a look and understood that something is definitely wrong here.

The Winters are not acting strange but the whole issue with Acacia's relation with the Winters is completely strange.

"In that case, Mr. Winters, do you have anyone with the same name in your extended family and relatives?" I asked in anticipation however, deep inside I know that the answer will not be something I like.

"There is none, sir. May I know what your relation with the said lady is?" Mr. Winters asked politely, displaying the patience and calm of an elder.

"She's my wife. There was a catastrophe which led to us losing contact between us." It must be because they saw my worry, desperation and truth in my words that they did not doubt my words.

The lead that I got is now not useful anymore and it gave a sense of bad premonition in my heart. Something is definitely odd and it is a bad kind of odd.

Giving the circumstances a thought, I nodded and gave the old couple a small polite smile before pulling out my business card and handing it over to them.

"This is my card, if you perhaps know of anyone with the name Acacia Dawn Winters among your relatives or friends; please call me on the number on the card." Mr. Winters gave the card a good read and nodded.

"You came long way from Tucson to look for your wife?"

"Yes ma'am. My wife and son are somewhere struggling without me with no way to contact me; I cannot sit still until I find them." I said a white lie making my situation as vague as possible.

"Don't worry, young man, you will find them. If we know anything about her, we shall give you a call." I nodded gratefully and left not wasting any of their time.

The moment I and Eelk got to the hotel room, we completely lost our cool, I lost my cool while Eelk was rather highly petrified.

"What the hell is happening?" I roared, destroying the glass table in a fit of anger. "No I need to get a confirmation again."

I called the Captain and requested him to look for household registration details of Winters family from Charleston. He got to the work right away and in about fifteen minutes, I got a mail with details I asked him.

Marcus Winters and Amber Lucy Winters got married for twenty seven years now and it was only after several years that they had their only son Liam Earl Winters. The family registration certificate had no mention of any other child, dead or alive.

Unlike back in my realm, unless the child is not related to you by blood, you cannot take them off from the family record no matter what the case might be.

"So the couple indeed has a single child, a son. What about Eblilis then?" I mumbled as wave of ache spread through my head.

Eelk who has been silent all through this time just stood by the window silently as he was in his own thoughts.

"Majesty," He called out a few minutes later when I was sorting through all the things I just learned.

"The reason why Lady Dawn did not go with the parents from Italy must be because of this." Eelk said softly with a hint of pity in his voice.

"She should've learnt that her parents did not remember or better put, her whole existence was -" Her stopped himself from saying anything anymore.

He was in a trance and the look of sympathy was expressed clearly. He was feeling bad for her and so do I.

The family that was her strength, the family she loves so much has nothing to do with her right after she arrived back to her world. She must've -

She certainly endured and struggled a lot.

"Eelk, get someone to find out more about Acacia from her friends. She had a set a of friends who shared same passion as her." Eelk nodded. "And get it as soon as possible. I want to know what exactly is the case with Acacia's identity."

"Yes, Majesty. I will get right at work." After Eelk left to make a call, I thought over everything again and decided to stay in the town for few more days to investigate a little more.

Since the Winters family is in this town, given or not she was a part of the family now, she must've been from the this town as well.

If she attended the university here, then finding her friends is not a tough task. Staying here for a short while more might help me find something useful.

Say, there was time dilation in our case and Eblilis got here three to four years ago, this shouldn't have caused the change in her identity.

"A few of our people who we recruited through Normann are now following an investigation on her friends as we speak." I nodded and asked Eelk to call room service to clean the broken table from the room.

Once the room was tidied up, Eelk came to me and stood in front of me looking hesitant to ask something.

"Tell me what you want to say." I was reading the extra information that Captain has sent to me about Winters but seen Eelk was acting strange, I put it aside for a minute.

"I actually want to ask you something, Majesty." I nodded, encouraging him to talk."I might - what I'm going to ask might offend you but the answer to the questions we are looking for might lie in what you say."

I raised a brow and looked at him coldly. I was an inch away from punching him to death for his audacity but hearing that my reply may answer our questions, I swallowed my anger back and nodded with a scowl.

"Majesty please stay calm and think about the time when Lady Dawn floated to our island for the first time. From the first day she came, did you -" He stopped himself, struggling whether to say anything further or not.

"Did I what?"

"From causing the ship she was traveling to sink to floating her to island and lure her to the castle, it was all done by you. In the midst of everything, from the day she came to the day she left, did you anything else, intentionally or unintentionally?" When he ran through the words he wanted to say he left a sigh.

"Do something like what? Be clear commander Eelk." I asked not knowing what he is getting to.

Eelk hesitated once more before he finally gathered his courage and asked something that pulled the ground beneath my legs.

"Something like wiping out her existence in her world?"

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