LOGINElena’s POVAfter listening to Rave’s words, I quickly dash through the door and sure enough, I see my sister in front of the house, staring back at me with wide eyes.She almost looks like a shadow of herself. As if she’s been starved since she was taken.My heart drops at this sight. But before anything else, I rush forward, pulling her into my arms with great urgency.She mirrors my movement and we hold tightly onto each other as if the other might disappear if we didn’t hold tightly enough.“My goodness, I miss you so much, Rune. I miss you so much. I thought I would never see you again. I didn’t want to say it out loud but I was so scared. No matter how much I tried to encourage myself, I couldn’t get any sleep. I’m so sorry this happened to you.”She sniffs against my chest. “ Me too, Sister. I thought I would never see you again.”We continue holding on for a while longer until I finally decide to pull back a
Damien’s POV“Tess, what have you done?” Elena calls out as soon as we enter the room. I stand still for a moment, shocked by the scene before me. Tess is covered in blood, kneeling beside her husband with a knife in her hand.I quickly snap out of my shock and run forward, dropping to my knees beside him.“Tess, what have you done? Why did you do this?”I hear Elena’s voice in the background but my mind is far from that. I’m only focused on the man in front of me who is looking like a shadow of himself.“Man, man, wake up. Wake up, it’s me.”Silence.I turn. “Go get a physician, right now,” I yell at Reva who quickly dashes through the door.“Common man, wake up,” I continue.Tess,” Elena calls out again.“Trust me, this was the only way,” she finally replies calmly, staring blankly at her husband.I don’t even know what to say to her and just continue trying
Elena’s POV“Elena, I can’t believe this. I can’t believe this is happening to me,” Tess cries into my shoulder, hugging me tightly.I don’t even know what to say and just hold her close.Every other person has gone, leaving just a few of us behind. The atmosphere is good enough to tell how everyone feels. Completely heartbroken.Damien and Reva hang outside the house while Bianca holds my son, sitting in front of usVale is still tied up on the couch for fear that he might get aggressive again.She lifts her head again, staring at her husband. I understand her and it hurts me that there is nothing I can do. The only option is to keep him alive regardless of what the witch has said.Even if his spirit is no longer with us, we will have to manage. We’ll have to take care of him and just continue to try other healing methods. My father-in-law thinks he has played a good game to keep himself alive.
Damien’s POVAs I look at the man in front of me who is nothing like the man I’ve known all these years, I feel something tightening in my chest. What makes it worse is that I don’t even know how to explain it neither do I know how to control the situation and this realization leaves me feeling worse.“Vale, what is going on? Please… please talk to me,” the whispers come out of his wife’s mouth just a few meters away from me, shattering my heart further.She turns to me, crying profusely. “I knew something was wrong. I knew something didn’t add up. He was acting really strange. All of a sudden, he didn’t know about the matter he supposedly told you about concerning Bianca. To make matters worse, he wasn’t happy about your pregnancy news. Your majesty, none of it makes any sense. I know my husband and I know that if it was the real him, he would have been elated and even tried to throw a party for it but none of that happened. And now, I’m hearing tha
Elena’s POV“What the hell is going on? Why does he look like that?” I ask, the words breaking out of my mouth as I look at the picture in front of me.Reva swallows. “We were going after Bianca as agreed and saw a familiar figure. We thought we were close to catching her but as soon as we got closer, it turned out to be something we least expected.”“What do you mean?” He swallows again. “It was Vale, just as you see him now and was literally beating on Bianca.”My heart drops. “I don’t understand.”By now, Damien is already working forward towards his best friend.He shakes his head. “I wish I could also understand it. I wish I had the right words to explain it but unfortunately, I don’t. We just saw him over Bianca beating her mercilessly.”He isn’t wrong because the corner of Vale is Bianca surrounded by a group of Palace attendants. She is crying profusely and they are trying to calm her down.At that moment, she suddenly turns, sees me and runs forward immediately. “Your maje
Damien’s POVAs I walk into the courtyard, my mind continues to think about the words I just heard.Tess wouldn’t lie about such a thing but I also know it is completely false. Vale we will never do something like that. Not even to a stranger, talk more of his own family.We always talked about how much we wanted our children in the past. Even after I had mine, his desire to have his only heightened so why will he have his own child poisoned?In fact, what reason will make him poison Tess?I’ve seen that he talks about his wife. He is completely smitten by her. Even if they had minor issues, it wasn’t a good enough reason to take such a step.I know what I have to do. After dealing with Bianca's case, I will definitely have to settle with Vale. Something isn’t adding up and it needs to be clarified.“What is it, Reva?” I asked, stepping into the courtyard.“We couldn’t wait any longer and how to follow her,” he says.“Perfect. And did you find anything worthy?”“Y—yes, yes I did, you
As the door slams shut behind my father, I push myself to a corner in the room.The dark and cold atmosphere was nothing compared to the darkness I feel in my heart each time I remember my father’s threat against Elena.After all, I would be a hypocrite to complain about the situation because I hav
Damien’s POV “You have the audacity to show your face here, huh? You have the audacity to come here after what you did?” my brother yells, lunging at me.I know he’s hurt and I want to stand down but the force he’s using to come close scares me so I have to stand my guard in preparation for what
I stand somewhere in the long hallway, watching her look out over the balcony.As the days go by, it does absolutely nothing to calm her down. She still looks as determined as before, and I know she has something on her mind.Perhaps revenge.Again, this was supposed to push me to tell my father th
Lukas’s POVI raise my hand over her head and the aim is to bring it down.I should be able to do this. After all, she has given me more than enough reasons to deserve it.She has. I repeat to myself as I stare down at her, watching her trying to struggle out of the rope she was tied with. She sta







