An Unlikely Ally

Seraphina's POV 

My heart raced as I thought about all of the things Lycan Fabian could already know. The fact that I was a spy was one of them. Was he going to kill me? if he already knew, why did he still keep me close despite what I might reveal to my father?

“Fabian doesn’t know anything,” she affirmed, leaning forward in her seat. “For now.”

I instantly I went on my knees despite the pain in between my thighs. “Please, don’t tell him,” I pleaded. “He will kill me… and my family. Please, I’ll do whatever you want.”

She drew me up to my feet then softly moved me to sit on the bed. “Did I not tell you not to get up?” she sighed. “You are still healing and moving around too much might do more harm to you.”

I sniffed. “I – my family… they are relying on you. I have to do what I have to do. for them.

“Why do you still watch about them after all they did to you?

She looked at me like I was stupid. “You don’t have to do anything for them!” she snapped. “The moment you envisaged

 that, the better for you.”

 She seized a deep breath in, taking a step back as if being in the same proximity as me was pushing her to do commodity she did not want to do.

“Why do you still watch about them after all they did to you? Indeed now, you know they will discard you as soon as they're done using you but you did not suppose doubly about helping them. Are you indeed allowing about yourself?”

It still astounded me that she knew a lot about me indeed though I told her nothing.

“They’re my family, ” I answered, lowering my head t the ground. “ I can’t just abandon them at a time like this when they need me the most. They've no way really demanded me, and now that they do, it makes me feel special. ”

She sighed, irritated. “Seraphina… I don’t see you as stupid, so don’t act like it. I may not tell Lycan Fabian about who you are but don’t think I won’t rat you out if I suspect you are going to be a threat to him.”

My eyes widened at her words. How foolish I was to think that she was on my side just because she was nice to me. I clamped my mouth shut and nodded my head.

Sighing warily, she leaned forward and tucked one of my curls to the back of my ears. “You truly know nothing about yourself, silly girl. I’ll advise that you stop thinking about others and focus more on growing yourself.”

I swallowed. “Will you tell Lycan Fabian about me?”

She looked at me for a long time before answering. “I won’t. you have my word. But I do think you shouldn’t be the one here. That miserable child you are trying to protect should have been here instead, not an innocent girl like you.”

I swallowed as I thought about Kristen. If she was to live half a day in the life that I’ve had to walk for years, was she going to survive it? I highly doubted that. Which was why the responsibility fell to me as her elder sister to protect her.

Even if she had no idea and even if she didn’t want it.

“She wouldn’t do the same for you.” The woman said, her eyes filled with pity as she looked at me. “She would never give herself up to protect you. Never forget that,”

I looked away. “It’s the only way I can be useful to my family. I have to do something.”

“At the expense of your own life?” she laughed drily. “You have no idea the amount of hatred Lycan Fabian has for your family, do you?”

My heart raced. Of course, I did. I knew just how much that man despised may father. He had killed my step-brother in cold blood and them murdered me. he was a heartless monster whose vendetta was purely revenge.

She sighed, pointing to the tray she brought in earlier. “Eat. You’ll need it to replenish the energy you lost.”

I looked down at the tray filled with different varieties of dishes and my stomach whined, When was the last time I had tasteful meal to eat? My life had gone from being a slave who was being punished to becoming a monster’s punching bag so fast that I barely had time to put food in my stomach.

Scuttling closer, I picked up the chicken wings and took a bite from it. It took everything in me to keep my eyes from rolling to the back at how delicious it tasted. I had never tasted anything so –

I looked up to find the woman staring me with a merry expression on her face. Heat flooded my cheeks and I dimmed my head.

“Thank you very much,” I said, tears filling my eyes. “I am very grateful, ma.”

“Call me Ingrid,” she smiled. “And it is just food. Eat and rest o you can get your strength. I’ afraid your journey hasn’t ended. Lycan Fabian has been waiting for you to recover so he can be on his way.”

Her eyes glittered with tenderness

 as she said his name and once again, I wondered what kind of relationship she had with him for her to talk about him with so much familiarity.

“He is a very impatient man.”

As if hearing his name brought him, the door opened and Lycan Fabian stepped in. although it’s only been a week – well, now that I thought about it, it was long enough – seeing him again made me feel like we had been apart for too long.

For a minute, I had forgotten just how handsome he is and with him standing so close, looking like a perfectly sculpted god, my heart soared in my chest, hammering againt the wall of my rib cage.

He frowned as he looked at me. his eyes darted to Ingrid’s face and his expression softened.

“You didn’t tell me she was awake.” He said softly, with a kind of voice I never thought him capable of. He was a completely different man with than he was around me and that made my heart constrict tightly.

Ingrid’s eyes strayed to my face and my cheeks heated. Did she just see my thoughts?

“She woke up not too long ago,” she said, in answer to Lycan Fabian. “And I wanted to make sure she was fine before I came to you.”

His mouth tightened unpleasantly but he wasn’t frowning. “And how is she?” he asked, as if I wasn’t even in the room. “Can she travel in her state? And what was wrong with her?”

I knew that despite the fact that he was asking all those questions, he didn’t really care about me. all he wanted was to leave this place as quickly as possible and I was hindering that.

Where were we even? I guess this was where Ingrid lived and he had stopped here because of my health. If I hadn’t been sick, would he have come? The two of them surely looked like they were more than just friends.

The thought of him being intimate with another woman suddenly made me feel like I was going to puke. What was this feeling?

When I looked up, Ingrid was giving me a look I didn’t understand and I looked away.

“Can we talk outside?” she said to Lycan Fabian. He grunted, then led her outside, closing the door behind them.

CHAPTER 011

The Prophesy

Fabian

As soon as the door closed behind me, I heaved a sigh of relief. I had no idea why I was tense but I was. Perhaps, it had something to do with seeing her al