CAHIR’s POV.I have looked for her for as long as I can think of but I have not gotten any glimpse of her yet. It’s been a whole day and yet, I haven’t seen her. I have searched all of Drakesworth and its environs, I have looked for her in places I shouldn’t and still yet.I rake my fingers through my already disheveled hair, I am slowly losing my mind. Where the hell is she? Is she fine? Did heartfyre do something to her? Is she eating? I have a whole lot of questions but no one to ask, no one to even run to. I shouldn’t have let her go, I should have stopped her at all costs. Now who knows where that dragon has taken her.“Cahir?” A familiar voice calls behind me and I turn my head abruptly to see Xena coming towards me, a concerned look on her face. The last thing I want right now is for anyone to pity me. I want them to fucking find her and not pity me. Why the heck won’t anyone fucking listen to me?“Why are you here?”“I have come to check on you, Cahir” she says, “you have been
CAHIR’s POV.She is seated there when I get there looking so different from the last few hours that I saw her.She isn't wearing her usual pants and corset top but now she is putting on a black dress, one that looks so beautiful on her and it compliments her red hair. From where I am standing, I can see she doesn’t look happy, she has an expressionless look on her face. Did Hearfyre do something to her? Why does she look so lifeless? Why does it look like she has a lot going on in her mind?Letting out a sigh, I massage the back of my head lightly before I start walking towards her.As soon as our eyes meet, a small smirk which doesn’t quite reach her eyes.“Adele” I call out to her gently, lowering myself beside her. Before any of us say anything again, I pull her into my embrace and bury my face in the crook of her neck. Gods!! I miss her, I missed her so much just In a few hours. How can this be? The way she slowly crept into my life and made me become so soft for her is so alarmin
ADELE’s POV. As soon as his lips come in contact with mine, I throw all reasoning out of the window and allow him to slide his tongue deep into my mouth.I snake my hands around his neck and he pulls me closer, his hands cupping the small of my back.Fuck, I have missed him so much and I know I should try to convince him about the land of dragons but right now, the feel of him against me supersedes everything and I just want to remain in his arms like this forever, nothing else. I have fallen so madly in love with him that I feel like I am going to lose my mind if I am ever away from him again.I gently pull away from him but my hands are still around his neck, both our faces staring deep into each other.“I missed you, Adele” he whispers into my ear, “I missed you so much and I didn’t know what I would do if I didn’t find you. Thank you for coming back to me, my love” he tucks a few strands of my hair to the back of my ear and flashes me a smile, “I love you”“I missed you too, gene
CAHIR’s POV,I am pointing a sword at her, I shouldn’t be doing that but this is the only way for me to keep her, I don’t want her away from me, I don’t want to stay without her but she clearly does not understand what I mean.“What are you doin, Cahir?” She asks me, her face expressionless and devoid of any kind of emotions, “are you pointing that sword at me”“I need you to listen to me, Adele”“And you are pointing that at am?”“You are not listening, I have been looking for you since yesterday, I can’t let you who again. I won’t be able to live without you”“I am a fugitive, Cahir” she yells, clenching her jaw together, “your father has given orders for me to be killed if I am found and you want me to go back with you to the barracks. What do you take me for? You want your father to kill me? Do you think I want to die yet? Do you think I don’t love my life? Why are you doing this to me?” She pauses, her eyes still on mine. She looks hurt, very hurt. I don’t want to do this but thi
ADELE’s POV.The moment I climb off heartfyre’s back, I crash to the ground as my legs give away. He held a sword to my neck. Cahir actually held a sword to me and threatened me. He didn’t want me to go, I understand that but did he have to threaten me like that? We spent such an intimate moment together, how could he not think of that? He loves me and I love him too. Was he planning on taking me to the king? Did he want to take me back to his father? Did any of what we shared mean anything to him?“There is no need to wallow in self pity, cadet” hearfyre tells me, “you knew this would happen sooner or later”“Cahir would never do that to me”She huffs, letting out a stream of smoke alongside that. I can see the look in her eyes, she looks upset and frustrated. Are dragons allowed to do that? Is she allowed to be frustrated and upset in this way? I am the one who is hurt here, no one else has the right to get mad and especially not her who put me in this situation in the first place.
BASTIAN’s POV.I grab a hold of her hand and push her against the wall. The only reason why she is still alive is because she is my father’s wife and I can not kill her yet but this is her fault, the fact that Adele is nowhere to be found is her fault and I will never forgive her no matter what. I don’t care who the person is but whoever hurts Adele is my enemy and I won’t hesitate to hurt that person.“What the fuck do you think you are doing?” Desdemona yells, pushing me off, “how dare you touch me like that?”“Where is she?” I ask her, “and I am not even joking about it. You sent her to prison when she didn’t even do anything to you. It is your fault that she is missing and has been labeled a traitor. What did she ever do to you?”“Don’t be stupid, Bastian” she grits her teeth together, “you and I know I hate that cadet with all of my heart and what did she do in return? She tried to steal Cahir away from me. Do you think I will sit and watch her take him away from me? With each p
ADELE’s POV.I wake up with a slight headache, it feels like my head is going to fall off even though it doesn’t hurt that much. I rest my head in my palms, closing my eyes and wishing the headache would just go away. Today is not the day for me to have a fucking headache. I had a lot on my plate yesterday and now..Letting out a sigh, I pull my body off the bed before making my way into the washroom but no matter how much the hot water settles on my skin, the headache won’t just go away.Finally, I step out of the washroom and get dressed in a simple dress. Morgana is standing by my door as usual, a smirk on her face.“Good morning, my lady”“Morning Morgana” I flash her a little smile, “did you sleep well?”“You look pale” she says, “are you okay?”“I just have this headache that won’t go away and I feel like throwing up”My eyes pop open, like she has just seen a ghost.“Is everything okay?”“Are you perhaps with child?” She blurts out and my heart skips a beat. What the heck does
ADELE’s POV.For the rest of the day, I chose to stay in my room with idrid’s voice still ringing in my head. How could he ask me if I wanted to keep the child? My child? This is the link between me and Cahir, this is the connection that we both need the most.It is annoying that he will ask me to get rid of my baby. Not like he said it technically but that’s what he meant. Asking me to kill my child is like asking me to end my own life and there are some wishes that I can never fulfill and that’s it.A knock jolts me out of my train of thoughts and Morgana steps into the room.“My lady” she bows lightly, “I brought you some tea”“I am in no mood for tea, Morgana” I tell her, “i just want to be left alone”She goes silent but her gaze remains on me, I can see the care and concern emanating from her. For a moment, she reminds me of my sister, the one who never cared about me and thought I wanted to steal her husband to be. How in the gods name did she think I want that man? Someone who
CAHIR’s POV.With a little grunt, I slump down on the bed beside her. I can hear her raspy breathing. Leaning closer, I pull her naked body into my arms and press a kiss on her bare shoulder.“Are you okay?” I ask her, pressing another kiss on her back.“My body is shaking” she says trying to stifle a smile but she can’t, her face breaks into a huge smile, “but I am fine, thank you”“I can see it,” I tell her.I rest my head on her back and close my eyes again. I want to be in her arms forever, loving her and giving her the world. I want to give her a world where she doesn’t have to care about anyone or anything else. Where we will raise our child without being scared of the prophecy coming to pass. A world where there is no Bastian and no king Taurus. Just the two of us loving each other without any care in the world.“What’s going on in your mind?” She asks me.“Nothing princess”After kissing her again, I gently pull away from her and stand up from the bed.“I need to see the king”
ADELE’s POV.I don’t know for how long Cahir has been gone this time but when I open my eyes from my sleep, I see a familiar figure seated on the chair away from me…Desdemona. How did she even get in here? How did she..“Did you enjoy your sleep?” She asks mockingly, “because after all the mayhem you caused, you are sleeping peacefully”“Is that why you sneaked into my room when you shouldn’t?”“Oh spare me the trash!” She backs out, “you are the reason why Cahir is in this state. He gave up the throne because of you, he has become the enemy of the king because of you and you think it is okay to stay and sleep? How dare you even think of closing your eyes when you have turned the whole kingdom upside down?”“You..The door bursts open and Cahir saunters in, his eyes darkening as he steps into the room. A cold air settles in the air, he is upset and he is not even trying to hide it.“How dare you come into my chambers, Desdemona?” He growls, his jaw clenching together and his face beco
CAHIR’s POV.As soon as I step out of the room, the smile I was struggling to contain comes bursting out of me. All that was needed was just a simple conversation and we caused a lot of trouble because of that. I have missed her, I can’t even lie about her. The gods know how much I wanted to pull her into my embrace and tell her how much I love her. I thought she deliberately chose Bastian over me time and again. It turns out it was a miscommunication on our part. I am never letting that happen again, I am never letting her go away from me again no matter what.“Cahir!” Someone calls behind me and I come to halt, I don’t bother turning because I already know who it is.“We need to talk” she says again, “and I mean a fucking conversation”“I don’t have time for you” I tell her, “I have a lot I need to do”“You destroyed your father’s ice dungeon and you abdicated the throne. I thought you wanted it, Cahir? What is going on with you? Is it because of that lowlife”“She has a name, Desde
ADELE’s POV.As soon as he says those words to me, it’s like my world came to a fucking standstill. He let Bastian go? What does that even mean? Why would he let him go when he knows the kind of a criminal his brother is?Once again, he has shown me that he will choose others over me. What the hell was I thinking? He has always had his things all planned out and the people he cares about are at the top of the pyramid.I scoff at the reality of my relationship with him, I was the only one having a second thought. He never cared and he would never.“Give me an explanation” I ask after a while, my jaw grinding against each other, “why would you let him go?”“Maybe to spite you” he scoffs, “does it hurt?”“How dare you, Cahir?”“You kept choosing him over me!” He yells, his voice reaching the roof, “every single time when I wanted you to choose me, you always chose him like I mean nothing to you. We are married, we are having a baby but yet you always chose him over me Kirk I mean nothing
ADELINE’s POV.I didn’t expect him to come for me the moment he woke up but here he is, carrying me out of the ice dungeon despite how own injury. I purposely allowed the king to capture me because that was the only way for me to see Cahir when he woke up. I spoke to hearfyre and idrid about it and they agreed. It’s not like I forgot what Cahir did to me but I couldn’t bring myself to leave when he was still unconscious. I was the one who stabbed him, I was the one who put him in that position so it was okay for me to wait until he was better. Father didn’t teach me to break relationships unnecessarily and I am not going to do that.As for Bastian and my family, I have let them be for now. I am going to take my revenge later in a way that the three of them would be sorry for what they did.Now I have to stay alive no matter what, I can’t let myself die yet.“Put me down” I force myself to tell him but he ignores me and continues on his way. He is so stubborn and that’s one thing that
CAHIR’s POVBlood..fire…the dagger. She took his hand instead of mine and I promised to take my revenge on her. She chose him over me, I should take my pound of flesh and make her pay for not believing in me.“General?” I hear my voice from a distance and I gently turn around to see her standing behind me.“Even in my dreams. You are here” I manage to force the words out of my mouth.“Why? You don’t want me?”“You chose my brother over me, this is what you get for being what you are”“You speak like you don’t understand the severity of things, general” she starts to walk towards me, “you think you are one hell of a man but you are worse than anything. Do you think the prophecy is a joke?”“Are you instigating me to kill?”“You can’t change what has been written, general. You can only do what is necessary”She comes to a halt in front of me, my huge frame towering above her. Now looking at her, she doesn’t look like my Adele. They have the same face but different temperaments and way o
BASTIAN’s POV.From the window, I watch all of them battle her and I know deep inside of me that they are no longer a match for her. She has evolved in a way none of us thought was possible. She was now someone we couldn’t afford to mess with and that’s why laughed at Desdemona when she sent that useless assassin after her. I bet everything I owned to the fact that Adele will come back unscathed and she did. Now Xena under the command of the mint has refused her entry but i know my best friend. She doesn’t back down from a fight and I admire her for that.“For someone who is about to be killed by her, you really have a happy look on your face” Caroline’s voice rings in my ear as she comes to stand behind me, “shouldn’t you do something?”“I already have all this figured out”I tell her, “now you wait and watch what happens. I am not going to let my best friend become a stranger to me”“She is not stupid”“Well, let’s see how this goes”Pulling out my sword, I make my way out of the roo
ADELE’s POV.I let out a light groan as I lower myself on the rock, pulling out my water container, I take a mouthful, letting out a huge sigh. Finally, I have gotten all the medications and it’s time to get going. It has been hell of a day and right now I genuinely want to lay down on my bed and take a nice nap.A frog jumping at the side catches my attention and somehow it reminds of Bastian and the horrible things he has done. I took him as my own family and this is what he does to me. He killed my father and pretended about it for years, making me believe the dragons did it. How could he do something like that? How could he look me in the eyes all these years whenever I told him about my father? He has no conscience, I can see it now. The fact that he pretended to be my friend for years while being my father’s killer says a lot about him and everything I have ever believed in.“You can’t continue sulking here” hearfyre’s irritated voice rings in my ears, “unless you want your husb
BASTIAN’s POVAs soon as she disappears out of the room, I turn my gaze to the unconscious man on the bed. The urge to grab a dagger and thrust it into him envelops me but I can’t do that, not when the physicians are both here and the king is just outside the door.What the hell Cahir? Why did he have to show her? I have kept that secret for a long time but somehow he managed to find out and even show her the evidence. I didn’t know Cahir had mastered that magic art, now I was taken unawares and it would take the grace of the gods for me to be able to talk my way out of this one. Adele always believes everything I tell her, but I have a feeling she won’t believe any kind of lies that I tell this time around.“You should leave now, my prince” one of them tells me, “we want to clean him up”With one last angry look at him, I make my way out of the room stopping when I come across my father and Desdemona.“How is your brother?” He asks me frantically and I scoff. I have never taken him a