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“I know I messed up. I’ve known that for a long time but you know me, Aysel. You know I cannot leave a mess I created. I was desperate to fix things and Skylar took advantage of that desperation ”
“I don’t know you,” I cut him off. “You stopped being my friend and you changed but even then, I never expected you would do something like that to me.”
“It was not supposed to be like that! You were never supposed to be hurt. They were just pictures, I swear, I never I never did that to you. They were just pictures and Skylar swore you would never see them. We knew Valens would leave once he saw them. I knew you would be hurt but I planned to comfort you. I am sorry, Aysel. It was never supposed to be like that. I am sorry,” he ranted.
“Am I that predictable?” Valens asked, his voice grave.
“It is what I would have done,” Lucien said.
“I am nothing like you,” he snarled.
“It’s pride, isn’t it? Whether or not you are like me, it’s pride that drove you away,” Lucien said, confident.
“It wasn’t pride,” Valens turned me to face him. “Pride had nothing to do with it. I was stupid not to trust you but it had nothing to pride.”
“I understand,” I smiled at him though my l!ps had trouble stretching. “Your wolf’s anger frightened you.”
“Thank you.” He squeezed my shoulder. “Are you not done with him yet?” He asked. I looked at Lucien.
It was never my fault. I knew that and I told myself that every time but there was always a part of me that wondered if I ever gave him the wrong signs, if I led him in any way to believe that I wanted to be with him. I used to wonder if I ever gave him the impression that if he tried harder, we could be together. I never gave him such an impression. He deluded himself and that was all on him. I was just the unfortunate object of his attention.
“I never wanted you. I told you all the time but it didn’t matter, did it? What I want never matters because you’re nothing but a selfish person.” It took too long for me to see how self-absorbed he was. “And you don’t love me, Lucien. You only want me because you can’t have me. Somehow, you created an image of me in your head, one in which I am your property, but I am not.” I had said these words to him multiple times but it was the first time he actually listened to them.
“When I say I hate you, Lucien, I mean it with every fiber of my being.” I looked him in the eye and I was satisfied to see the shock deep within his eyes.
“You ” He stuttered, his mouth agape.
“Yes, I was never pretending. I was never playing hard to get. I hate you and wish you the worst possible luck.”
“You you are your hands are on fire!” He exclaimed, horror on his face. I looked down at my hands, startled by the startling fear in his voice. My hands were really on fire and the fire was spreading, inching up my forearm. I shook out my hands while Lucien panicked and Valens tried to stop the fire on my left by suffocating it with his jacket.
It caused a racket that drew more people than I would have liked. A guard rushed in with a fire extinguisher but before he could use it, the flames died down. No, as I watched, the flames seemed to sink back into my skin. The three men who had rushed in to help me looked on with horror painted their faces.
“Are you are you a witch?” The man holding the extinguisher, still poised to blast the fire, asked, his mouth opened in what could have been a comical way if I hadn’t just been exposed.
“You are a witch!” Another of the men said and there was no missing the accusation in his voice as he took a step back. He reached for his holster but he wasn’t armed.
“Get out. All of you,” Valens barked at the men who were frozen, looking at my arm which had been on fire a few seconds ago. Valens grabbed said arm and laced our fingers together. “Come on, Sagira.” He started to pull me out after the men scrambling out of Lucien’s cell.
“Wait, please. Wait!” The force of Lucien’s yell stopped us in our tracks. “I will do everything to make amends. I can’t be in your life. I understand you hate me but I would like let me make it up to you, Aysel. I don’t deserve it but but for the sake of the friendship we once had please “
“We lost our child because of you,” I turned to him. “We never got to meet them because of you and your little friends.”
“I You You were pregnant?” He looked wrecked. Utterly destroyed by that single news.
“You are on death row, Lucien. Make amends with the goddess.” We left his cell with whispers trailing after us from the guards in the dungeons.
“How do you feel?” Valens asked, his grip firm on mine as we walked out.
“Strong enough to see Alpha Zavier.” He almost stumbled with the abruptness with which he stopped walking.
“No.”
“We are here already. I might as well see him. He knows where his daughter is,” I said with a shrug that I hoped hid my shiver.
“Aysel ”
“After all this is over, I want him publicly hanged the same way he did my parents.”
I didn’t need to be led by the hand to where my worst enemy was being held. My wolf sniffed him out from the numerous scents in the dungeons. Valens grabbed my forearm as I walked away from him with all intentions of finding Zavier.
“The people know about you, now. I suggest we go home. We can do this another day.” The expression on his face made it clear that he’d made up his mind and he had no intention of backing down. Unfortunately, I too had made up my mind. After seeing Lucien, I would not rest until I saw Zavier.
I wanted to see him in the most humiliating position. I wanted to see what he looked like defeated and on his knees. How did he feel knowing his legacy would end with him? There was no chance for Skylar. Their lineage ended with them which was a shame really. Centuries of ruling Redville and the entire lineage of what used to be great men would end with them.
“We can do this another day but I want to do it today.” I tried pulling my arm from Valens’ grip but it was too strong. “I’d appreciate it if you let go of me,” I said as I turned to him. “You said you let him live for me to decide his fate. He cost me my child, Valens. I want to see him now.”
“They were my child too.” His voice went quiet. “I lost my child too, Aysel. It’s fine if you insist on seeing Zavier now but don’t forget we lost a child. They were mine too.”
“I ” I looked away. “I never said I’m sorry if I made it seem you weren’t hurting too.” I felt something awful in my guts when I realized I’d been doing that all along. I’d made it seem as if I’d created the child alone.
“Good, because I am. I have waited for a child for over a hundred years.”
“I know that. I am sorry.”
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