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Chapter 4

Author: suzangill
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" Zach!" I couldn’t hear it anymore, I thrash in the chains and he tugs my head back mercilessly to have his nose touch my chin.

A wicked smirk lingered on his lips as he looked into my shocked teary eyes.

" What? It's the truth dewdr-"

" I never intended for this to happen, Zach! Just listen to me once!Please!"

Who would have thought that I, the great Phoenix would beg someone, but then Zachary King wasn't just anyone?

If there was one man who I wanted to believe in me? It was him.

Atleast he of all should know, why I killed those men.

There is a story behind every person I killed.

A dark tale.

No one is born villain. They are made into one. And I was one of them.

I wouldn't give a damn about what the world thought about me. I only needed him to trust me, believe me.

He deserves this explanation.

Hell, he deserves way more, but this is all I had to give to him right now. Words. And nothing else.

Words he is not ready to listen.

" I may have lied to you but all that we felt wasn't a lie Zach. I loved you...hell, I still love you dammit! "

His grip loosened my hair, hope rises in my chest.

Please Zach. Please.

I need to push harder. I need to try.

" This is all a trap, Zach! Trust me! Emerald is lying to you! She may be your mate but she -"

My words die down with a scream as a searing pain hits my thigh and I look down to find a knife rooted in my thigh.

Blood drips down my leg and holding the knife is the very hand, the very fingers that had been inside me few days ago, pleasing me, worshipping me.

My heart cracks.

Zachary's cold eyes stare blankly at me.

" Another word against my mate and the next target will be your heart, dewdrop. "

He seethes each word while twisting the knife. A sinister look has replaced his eyes. And for the first time in my life, I was scared of the man standing in front of me.

Zach would never…,

This can’t be him…

He loved me. I know. He….

He punished anyone who even dared to talk to me in a loud tone, and now he…,

It hurts. It breaks me. He didn't even resemble the shadow of the man who I fell in love with in the last 6 months.

Those dark cold eyes were unfamiliar.

My mouth stays open, head falls back but no scream escapes my lips. Taking in deep breaths, I try to bear with this wound like countless others on my body but somehow this one hurts ten times worse.

Maybe because it was given by the very man I gave my heart to.

Love was stupid…. Unworthy for someone like me.

I should have known.

Blood streams down my thigh like water in a river and a sudden jerk hits my body. My vision starts fading and for once in life I wanted to give up.

Maybe when I die this pain will stop?

Maybe death isn’t that bad.

" You...will regret this..."

My voice comes out ice cold, nothing like the plea of mercy before. The last semblance of my strength displaying.

What hundreds of whips and countless broken bones couldn't do, his one stab did it.

What foreign hands couldn't break, his one line disintegrated my soul into countless pieces.

Congratulations Zach. You office broke me today.

Gasping.

I managed to stare into his cold eyes. And he rubs his thumb on my chapped lips to whisper.

" Oh trust me dewdrop. The only thing that I will ever regret is falling in love with a betrayer like you. "

" The only repent I will ever have will be touching and fuc*ing someone so ugly from the inside like you. "

He was trying to make me feel like filth. To break me with his words if only he knew, broken things can’t be broken further.

I had been shattered.

Ruined.

In ways he couldn’t even imagine.

Giving him a soft smile, I was ready to surrender to the darkness.

My last words hanging in the air.

" I don't.....regret loving you Zach...I never will. These last 6 months...were the best period...of my life. "

" Th...ank you for it. "

Zach's grip loosens on my hair, pain flickers in his eyes.

Good.

Atleast I am not the only one hurt here.

" Shut your bullshit. I won't-"

His words die down when he sees another teardrop fall down my eyes. And then another and another.

They were flowing without permission.

And I let them.

One last time.

" It's fine if you don't want to hear...me out. Maybe I don't deserve it. But..I have a dying wish. "

My lips quivered but I continued to speak. Not ready to give up before letting this out.

I need to lighten this weight on my chest.

He was never wrong.

I was.

And it’s fine if there is no mercy left in his heart for me.

I don’t want him to suffer remembering me, imagining us.

Where there was no us from the beginning.

" Tomorrow after they kill me...I want you to touch me one last time...I want.....I want you....to be the one to lower my dead body into the coffin...your touch is the last touch I want to remember... Zach"

His hands holding me drop down beside him.

" I want you to forget I ever came into your life."

" I want you to move on. Yet to not trust people easily. Especially Emerald. "

" Behind the cold and just King Facade is a boy who cares too deeply for those he loves. And I...I was among those lucky ones to have seen that side of you. "

"You..you are a great man...Zach. A great King. Not everyone deserves you. "

" I never did. "

" Yet....I...still loved you."

" Forgive me...if possible. "

( flashback over)

His cold unyielding gaze was the last thing I had remembered. I thought that was the last time I would see him but it seems destiny had some other plans.

.

.

.

I was still breathing. Alive.

The faint click of the lock turning stirred me from my thoughts. Someone was here.

Darkness enveloped me, until the sudden flick of a switch bathed the room in harsh, yellow light.

The bulb swayed slightly above, casting trembling shadows that danced across the stone walls.

I blinked against the glare, disoriented but didn’t move.

And that’s when I heard it.

A pair of boots scuffed across the floor to reach me.

My body becomes high in alert.

“Good morning Phoenix. I am Raven. From now on I will be your doctor until you deliver safely.How are you feeling today?"

A doctor?

“ You are pregnant. And because a pregnant criminal can’t be hanged. Your execution has been delayed till you deliver the baby.”

I freeze.

Of course. Memories from the execution room hit me like a freight train.

Me losing consciousness.

Pregnant?

My mind freezes as my arms wrap around my torso. I am having a child inside me?

“ You are three months pregnant. I checked your test reports , the baby is doing fine.”

Lub

Dub

Lub

My baby? Tears of happiness fill my eyes. A thousand thoughts swirl in my mind like a votex. Hope, rises in my chest.

Zachary knows… it’s his…. He of all knows.

But then why am I here? Why hasn’t he done anything to get us out.

My eyes look at the woman opening a suitcase and retrieving a syringe from it. What is that? I can’t trust anyone. What if they hurt my baby.

The woman Raven limps, a cane in her other as she crouches in front of me.

" Hey. Relax. I am not here to hurt you. "

As if I will trust her.

I focus my body heat on my palms, trying to light up the flames , but I fail.

Dammit!

My body was too weak.

The woman slowly lifts up my shawl, brings the syringe closer and I react. Letting the shawl drop, I leap on the woman and slam her on the concrete floor with my body straddling her.

The syringe now in my hand hovers dangerously close to the woman’s eye and she gulps.

Afraid.

Good. She should be afraid of me.

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