Mr. Rivera cleared his throat and put down the bottle on the table gently, his exuberant mood suddenly changed after he saw the distress in my eyes. But the smile is still on his lips is still there, trying to ease the anxiety in me while he continued the conversation with Phillius.“I have heard that you stopped the operation for a month, Phillius. Where is Xeno by the way? He’s the to be in charge of it,” Mr. Rivera asks, looking left to right as if he would find Xeno if he did that. His mouth arched downward and he put both of his arms up, leaning his head and waiting for Phillius’s answer.I look down on Phillius with so much hatred in my eyes. I am aware that my expression is too obvious but it’s too hard for me not to react because I know he’ll make another lie to cover all the awful things he had done since I came here to this mansion. His selfishness and his lies are beyond forgiveness but I couldn’t act against him. With my power sensing Felrim’s life force inside the dungeon
It's been just ten hours and I feel like it has been forever since I was tied with chains here in this dungeon.My body hurts all over and I feel like my arms are going to be torn off my shoulders for staying standing for so many hours without being able to sit or rest. Every thirty minutes, Phillius men who I knew from our training days come here to torment me by kicking and punching me wherever they desire. Motley, the one who raped Hazel, Sapphire's poor maid, has been enjoying hitting me since I got imprisoned and chained. The physical pain is the least of my worries now. It's the agony of knowing Sapphire is in the hands of Phillius and I knew him better enough that she's not safe with him. I feel terrified to think of any possible way that Phillius would do to Sapphire and all I could do is just scream my lungs out here in anguish, knowing she's vulnerable, just like the Fae I am with here, the ancient Felrim who's imprisoned by my family a century ago.The horror of my family
I woke up with a splash of water on my face. Some entered my nose I cough as I try not to breathe, filling my lungs. The effects of the painkillers that Kelly brought me are starting to fade and the soreness and sharp stings on my back are coming back to my senses again and it got worsened when the water dripped down from my hair down to the wounds. The burning feeling of my would almost make me lose my consciousness.One slap on my face and the sting it made took me back to my consciousness. I could only see the blurry, ugly figure of Motley in front of me as the water dripped down from my eyelashes. Just how long did I sleep? I am not sure of the time because since the pills started making the pains numb, I drifted into a deep sleep right away.“Wake up! You don’t want to miss your twin’s wedding, right?” Motley’s irritating gruff voice echoed in the dungeon and I heard the clanking of chains from the other cell where Felrim is. Motley’s yell must have scared him.“Pray I won’t get
Cold. I feel something cold pressing on my forehead, on my face, and down to my chest. I opened my eyes and was baffled to see Sapphire smiling at me so sweetly.“S-Sapphire?”“I am glad you are finally awake, Señor. How are you feeling?”My brows met at once.That’s not Sapphire’s voice…I blink my eyes twice and my vision, as if covered by a fog, cleared and an unfamiliar young face of a lady come into my view. Confused and disappointed, my body moved to pull myself up when the realization came to my senses and the pain gradually emerged, making me wince from the stabbing, throbbing, and searing feeling in every part of my body. I am not supposed to feel them anymore if I could regenerate normally but the poison seems too long to get out of my system and the option I have now is to endure them until I am completely healed. I feel like every movement of my muscle is an agony to me and I just fall back on the bed and lie still on the soft bed.“Y-You shouldn’t move too much, Señor, yo
“I’ll leave now, so you both can discuss the matter privately.” Ava excused herself as I followed her with my eyes while she made her exit from the room.When I turned my attention to Uncle Samuel, I saw his eyes squinting at me teasingly and I just frowned at him and pushed myself up into a sitting position, grunting as I felt my muscles aching in unison.“Tell me what you find out, Uncle. I didn’t think anomalies are happening in New York that are beyond my knowledge. I’ve been defending that city for two decades already and I couldn’t believe something like that could happen under my watch." "I can't blame you," Uncle Sam tried to sympathize with the disappointment I feel in myself. "But this is not your fault, Xeno. Phillius used you to fulfill his own desire and now that he has a Fae, we have no idea what else he could do just to satisfy his hunger for power." "I know… but I still let him do it. And I have to fix every mess he made. I just wonder where he took father. No matter
It’s almost midnight and I feel like my regenerating ability is going back to normal and the speed of my recovery is getting better.The need to get some fresh air drove me to walk outside my room and look at the stary sky above, wondering what is happening now at Sapphire. No matter how badly I want to go to that place, it would be a bad idea because I know Phillius would surely kill me at his first sight of me. He is my twin but I feel like he’s a different person already. He’s not the brother who used to protect me whenever my father used to lash out painful words because I grew up being so incompetent, unlike Phillius who enjoys all the attention that every people gave to him.The wind is blowing softly on my bare skin. I didn’t take time to grab a shirt from the closet because I have no idea if any of them would fit me so I walked toward the wide garden of Uncle Sam’s bungalow house and tried to remember this place from the last time I have been here. Nothing much has changed tho
Just to not hurt her feelings, I agreed to have a drink with Ava and she begged me that we stay in her room because my Uncle's wife, Aunt Victoria would check on her if she was in there. It made me a little suspicious why my aunt would check in on her in the middle of the night but I guess they are just as strict as that especially since teenagers nowadays are a little bit liberated and always looking for fun.But I don’t think Ava is that kind of girl at all. She’s timid and gentle and she always talks in a formal way. I also find her too polite to me and it makes me feel like I am so old when we talk. Well, I’m just a young one for the shifter’s family but when it comes to looks, some would think I am in my late twenties. Mostly because I always look strict and gruffly while Phillius looks so younger than me. He’s always the bright one, the smiley face, and the popular guy. I preferred hiding in the shadows because I always hate when people compare me to him.Her room is adjacent to
“XENO!!!”The loud shout startled me as I made an attempt to get up from the soft bed I was lying. The first thing that I felt was the excruciating pain in my head that made me grimace and the blinding light from the open window struck my eyes. I had to squint to look clearly at what was going on.Pulling myself into a sitting position, I felt something heavy on my left shoulder and saw Ava, sleeping and embracing me with only the white blanket covering our naked body.F*ck!My eyes widened upon realizing what is happening. Then when I turned to look at the door, my Aunt was already there with my two other cousins. All their eyes are wide with surprise with my cousin’s heads poking out from my Aunt Victoria’s shoulders.And then I feel like the blood in my body drained, petrified and confused, remembering what happened last night and when I came back to my senses, I look at Ava with disbelief in my eyes.So this was her plan!“This is not what you think it is, Aunt Vicky!” I frantical