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

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

“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

I can't believe what I am seeing.Here, in front of me, is my dad whose face looks a decade older than when I last saw him, just a month ago. I wonder what happened between him and Phillius and why he is here on the turf of his late wife's brother.His head hangs low as we sit in the receiving area of Uncle Sam's humble home. He couldn't meet my gaze and I don't know what to say to him either because my mind is full of questions right now that overwhelms me. I just watch his hands clasped together as if in prayer."I'm baffled to see you at our doorstep, Edmund. What happened to you after Phillius took over the clan? We have never heard from you since then." Uncle Sam asked when silence fell upon me and my father. His head is still bowed low like he's ashamed over something that he cannot say to me or his brother-in-law. "Tell us what happened, Dad. Why did you let Phillius do all these unacceptable things! He even left me in the old Manor to die!""That is the reason why I am here,

Kelly…I can’t believe she’s here!Wishing that I could somehow connect to her mind to ask what the hell she’s doing in this place, exposing herself in front of Motley and my former squad members whom she’s also a part of. But since I am now stigmatized as a Rogue, I can’t communicate mentally with any of them because Phillius had already severed my connection with his pack.I have no idea what came to her mind, why she suddenly appeared when we had both already agreed to meet at the port area. I glanced at my wristwatch. The glass has broken but it’s clear that I am already an hour late from the anticipated time.No wonder she’s here looking snarling like mad behind me.“Hey Kelly, I’m sorry I had a situation. You didn’t have to come,” I apologized to her without turning my head to look at her reaction because I could feel she was really upset for making her wait that long. I was expecting that she’ll shift back to her human form and pretend that she has no connection with my plan bu