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
Damien’s POV“Are you sure you want to do this, Man?” Vale’s voice lingers into my ear for the third time.And for the entire time, I reply to him without a stutter. “Yes, I am. Now can you stop killing me with the questions already? I have a plan to set up,” I say, spreading the map of the palace
Elena’s POVArrrgghhh!” I yell, this sound ripping out of my chest like something torn loose, raw and broken.I quickly sit upright feeling a burn in my lungs and my hands clawing the sheets beneath them as if they are a shield meant to keep me steady.“No, no,” I said repeatedly, my eyes looking
Elena’s POVI am deep in my sleep still trying to recover from the stress of the day before when a rather urgent knock sounds on my door. “May I come in, your highness. It is I, Shanna.”I jump up quickly, feeling the weight of the urgency in her tone.“Of course, you may come in, Shanna.”She pus
Elena’s POVI push the door open without waiting for a knock.“What are you doing here?” He asks but you can tell with the expression in his eyes that he already knows what I’m doing there.I notice the elders in his office but I don’t even pay them any attention even as they bow their heads slight







