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CHAPTER 142: KIDNAP

Author: Lizzy Fash
last update Last Updated: 2025-04-10 23:59:46

FLORA

The air was heavy with the scent of damp earth, mixed with the acrid smell of burning incense. The flickering candle flames cast menacing shadows on the stonewalls, elongating and twisting like agitated spirits. I was in the centre of the room, watching as the runes I wrote in blood seemed to radiate power. The magic coursed through my veins, reminding me of what I had sacrificed to return.

David was by my side, his gold-coloured eyes filled with barely restrained excitement. So ready to charge into the storm without fully comprehending its strength. His interest in Hailey had clouded his mind, but for the moment, I needed that instinctual loyalty.

"You're positive this will work?" he asked, his taut-with-tension voice.

I gazed at him, my expression unyielding. "Of course. Ryan is Hailey's greatest weakness. If we take him, she'll disintegrate."

David's lips curled into a slow, ravenous smile. "And Jaden? Will he finally see Hailey for what she truly is?"

"Jaden will follow wher
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    JADENIf there is one thing I hate worse than public appearances, it is public appearances in the human world. They all stare like we are made of unicorn tears and glitter. I mean, we are beautiful—thanks to my mate and my genes—but really, have they never seen models before?Today, we’re at Jadakiss’s college matriculation. Yes. Our daughter. Our fourth child. Our only daughter. And frankly, I’m shocked she’s even choosing college. With her power, she could’ve ruled a kingdom or two. But no, she wanted to study psychology.“Because people are so strange,” she had said. That’s my girl.I walk with Alexia, my hand fitting comfortably in hers. We're low-key by supernatural standards—a simple black-on-black suit for me and a sleek evening gown for her. Still, humans around us gasp and whisper, camera flashes erupting like we're Brangelina 2.0. Even though we haven't aged in more than two decades, so really we're more like immortal enigmas."Did you see that?" Alexia leans in, low-voiced

  • CLAIMING HAILEY    CHAPTER 207: NO HIDDEN KIDS

    HAILEYThe very moment my boots touched the stone floor of the Council Hall, silence fell like snow.It had been eighteen years since the attack and eight years finally free from depression. Seven days of whispers, sidelong glances, and cautious steps around me—as if I were made of porcelain dipped in fire. And maybe I was.I hadn’t aged a day in eighteen years. Not a wrinkle, not a grey strand, not even a single line near my eyes. The flames that had engulfed me hadn’t burned—they’d refined. Whatever Audacus had tried to break in me had only made me harder.And now, as I stood before the full council, dressed in black fitted robes with silver threading that shimmered like starlight, I wore my power like a second skin.Ryan stood tall at my right. Quiet, unreadable. But I could feel the tension in him. Serenia was to my left, eyes gleaming with something venomous and desperate.And then she made the annoying remark.“There is one matter still left unspoken,” Serenia said smoothly, ste

  • CLAIMING HAILEY    CHAPTER 206: THE WARNING

    LOGANSerenia is nothing but trouble. There's nothing she's not willing to do to have Ryan but unfortunately she's betting on the wrong tree. Yes, Hailey did hit depression for more than ten years but she's better now and the queen I bow to is no spineless coward like Serenia whom she was kind to is boiling a whole nest of trouble she would not survive because Hailey hates ingrates and trouble makers.The peace we've enjoyed for years now is going to be blown away, I could feel that as I made my way down the lower corridors to the war room. The guards did not look me in the eye. The staff ran around but whispered. Whispers spread faster than truth in this castle.I did not need to ask what had happened.I knew exactly who had opened her mouth.Serenia.I found Ryan alone in the war room, arms crossed over his chest, jaw set, eyes storm-dark as he scowled at the huge map on the wall. Not even looking at it. Just beyond it."She told you," I said, shutting the door behind me.He didn't

  • CLAIMING HAILEY    CHAPTER 205: JEALOUSY

    SERENIAThe candles filters and glows dully, they cast shaking shadows on the old stone walls. I crouched in the side passageway of the infirmary, frozen as a sigh, holding my breath. My shoulder rested against the chill wall, I listened to their soft voices—My mother and Isaiah—whispering what nobody else knew. Two children. Born of Hailey. Living.My heart jumped. Not so much at the gravity of what they said, but at the name… Hailey. Her name always wrapped in my chest like a snake, constricting with each pulse. All those years of pretending, smiling when I want to yell, being friendly to Ryan when I wanted more.I hadn't meant to eavesdrop.But fate had a sense of timing, didn't she?I had come looking for Ryan. I could always find myself searching for him these days. Even when I didn't want to admit it. Even when I told myself it was respect. Or concern. Or loyalty. Lies. All of it. The thing was, I loved a man who would never be mine.Ryan.Even now, thinking about him ripped me

  • CLAIMING HAILEY    CHAPTER 204: DOOM

    ISAIAH The scent of smoke and lilies fragranced the air as I stepped into the chant room—my solemn santuary now. What had been a sanctuary of solitude and bitter truths was now my haven, my fulcrum, my anchor. The candles flickered with fierce flames though there was no breeze. Something was stirring.Lilith's scent still lingered on me, her warmth remaining near my skin like a memory that I never wanted to forget. We had peace, for all that. After centuries of wars and visions that wrought havoc, the Moon Goddess had seen fit to give me a mate. Her. Feral. Damned. Beautiful. Mine.But peace, for men like me, does not last long.My hands trembled as I cut the knife across my palm. Blood welled up at once, pooling in my palm. I let it drip into the obsidian basin, heart racing as the shadows in the room hissed and writhed.The fires died.My knees buckled.Darkness took me whole.The world reset.I stood upon a soil that I did not know. The heavens were a thick, unhealthy green, boili

  • CLAIMING HAILEY    CHAPTER 203: OBSESSED

    AKAELShe doesn't see.The way the world moves toward her. The way people—mortals, immortals, even Father—pause when she speaks. Akasha moves like a whisper in a tempest, silent but unsettling. Like power in silk. And no one sees it better than I.They gaze at her and see our mother. The indisputable queen Hailey whom we've heard so much about and seen many worship.I gaze at her and see all I was never meant to crave."Focus," I muttered to myself, striking the practice dummy repeatedly, until the magic stone exploded. My knuckles were bleeding, but the pain was a relief—it was a reminder that I was still human. Half-human, anyway.We were less than two days out of the open and already the venom of freedom was taking effect, getting a hold of her. She smiled more. Walked more. Laughed. She thought I didn't see her watching the skies, breathing in the world like it belonged to her.But she was mine.The world wouldn't understand, I know she's my blood sister, my twin I shouldn't think

  • CLAIMING HAILEY    CHAPTER 202: RETURN

    AUDACUS Eighteen years have passed, and the world no longer mentions my name with the same trembling reverence. But I have not been idle.I watch from the manor's balcony perched on the edge of the Obsidian Cliffs. The air is cool and fresh here, with a hint of distant storms and salt from the ocean far below. My daughter, Akasha, is practicing with her twin blades under her brother Akael's watchful eye. They are seventeen now—sharp-eyed, intelligent, and beautiful in ways that remind me of her. Hailey. She has no idea that she has two kids with me whom I've tailored to fit my preferences and would help me take over the world itself and not even Hailey herself can interrupt my plan, she'd be too busy trying to recover from the emotional blow I'm about to deal her.I am not oblivious to the irony. The Queen I tried to destroy lives on through their blood, in the determination of Akasha's jaw, in the fire that blazes behind Akael's eyes when he defends his sister. They are her very ima

  • CLAIMING HAILEY    CHAPTER 201: FLAMES

    TURTELA I stare in silence at mother as her regal presence is maintained despite the tubes tied to her due to her state of comatose. How did we even get here? The infirmary had never been so still. Antiseptic and grief filled the air, and the pale gold glow that always comforted us with its presence seemed now too cold, too still.Mother is simply stone cold, a flaxen strand of what used to be her living part, body swaddled tightly in white blankets like she slept. But we knew better. She had defended us with her power—but it cost her something.I leaned against her beside, her fingers limp in mine. I hadn't let it go since they rolled her in."Her pulse is stable," Lyna whispered from behind me, as if tougher words would shatter the fragile line between life and. the other side."But she's not responding from her brain," Marissa continued. Her arms were folded across her chest, but not defiance. It was protection. Fear.Lilith, herself weakened but standing watch by the door. Her f

  • CLAIMING HAILEY    CHAPTER 200: AFTERMATH

    ALEXIAI woke up with a metallic taste in my mouth and the smell of blood thick in the air. My lungs hurt with each breath, but I didn't dare move. Something pressed on my chest—not physically, but emotionally. A weight I couldn't get rid of.Hailey.My last memory had been of her scream, of the way her power burst forth like a star. It engulfed everything—the Legion's commander, most of his men, even the battlefield itself. I remembered the fear in his eyes when Draco dived. Then nothing. Just darkness."She hasn't woken up."I recognized Turtela's voice. It was rough with worry, but there was determination in it too."We have to do something," Marissa said. "She's the Queen. She can't stay like this."My eyes fluttered open, and the brightness of the infirmary nearly blinded me. White walls. The scent of herbs and steel. I turned my head slowly, my every muscle protesting, to see them all gathered around another bed.Hailey.I sat up, ignoring the tearing pain down my ribs. Lynn was

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