“I know that, and I cannot be sorry enough for that. I can’t stand the thought that I did that to her. Nightmares of her face and every person I killed haven’t left me since. “But Maria…. I need a chance to prove to him that I can be better. I am better.” “That is not something he will understand easily. It’s also because he saw the whole struggle to keep you still and locked in here for the last four weeks. “It’s not something a human mind can handle easily. I had to use wolfsbane webs to bind you and bring you here to this room, and it was difficult for him to see you like that. “And when he thought all was done, and you were getting better. He found that what he had seen you do was just a trailer, Luciano. He saw you in your worst scenario when Erede triggered you. “You know as much as I know what you did next. Can you promise that none of that will happen again? We have spent four weeks back and forth keeping you in control. “You still have a long way to go to accompany us to

Keirah keeps wandering away slowly, with her mouth hanging open. Walking closer to her, something awful has masked all her scents that always hypnotized me. The woman in front of me is nothing like my mate. She has no understanding of where she is. She is so lost that all I see on her face is a dazed expression with her eyelids drooping. “KEIRAH? …… Keirah…” I call out to her, but it is as if she can't hear me calling for her. And she continues to wander around. I am so scared. Looking at her in this state she is in. What the hell is happening to her? What did my uncle do to her? Where is her husband? How long has she been like this? I have so many unanswered questions running through my head. Another closer look at her and I see how thinner she has gotten. She has lost half her weight. Is this a mental issue? Is she suffering from a mental problem? Why is she out here in the streets all alone like this? Why is she not getting the help she needs? Her face is pale. Her eyes are vac

*** I rush to the Cannibal Hospital emergency entrance with worries covering me. Holding Keirah in my arms, her head lolling weakly against my chest. There are a lot of people here in a queue to buy the neutrophil biochips and I wonder why they did not take my warning about the biochips to them seriously. I want to cause a scene and chase them all away but as the nurses and doctors rush to my aid, their faces filled with concern for Keirah as they assist me in laying Keirah on a stretcher. All my concerns are now on getting Keirah the help she needs. She has muscle spasms covering her. Cold sweat is covering her face too. “She has a very high fever, and she has been vomiting on me up to here. She has trouble breathing too. Please, she needs immediate help. Do something. ” “Dru....g….Dru…g.” Dr. Fred rushes over to her and my mind is at ease when I see him beginning to attend to her. “She needs help. He has turned her into a druggie.” “I know…” He continues to attend to her, a

“Can we at least try to save the baby? Do you think you can do that? Keirah asked me right before you took her to the ICU to deliver that request on her behalf. That before anything, I should plead with you to try saving her baby.” Maria speaks. “In Keirah’s situation, I do not think that is possible. From her CT scan, her baby is considered extremely premature and has very low chance of survival outside the womb. “At this early stage of her pregnancy’s development, Keirah’s baby's vital organs and systems are not yet fully formed or functioning. Her baby's lungs are not yet developed enough to support breathing outside the womb. “The chances of survival for this baby are minimal, with the likelihood of survival being close to zero. Medical intervention to support such a premature baby's life outside the womb is not possible. If we get her baby outside her womb now. It will need a miracle for this baby to survive outside her womb.” Maria walks to Dr. Fred, holding onto his hands an

“You are way more delusional than I thought. And whose fault is it? Who exposed me and Keirah out of our hideout? I would have gotten rid of my uncle that day and we would not be in this mess right now.” “ No, you would still be in the mess right now. There is no way you are getting out of it when you are at the center of it all. All I wanted was to get Keirah and my Lana as far away as possible from you. They were not supposed to be trapped in your mess. It is not fair,” Erede cries out loud from the other side of the phone. “It was not supposed to be like that. That world you care so much for could burn in hell for all I care. These two people mean the world to me. They are my world. All I care about is for Keirah's safety. I am gonna take the next flight there. I am coming to take them back home.” “Do not dare...show your face here. Unless you have my uncle beside you and he has the help I need from him. Otherwise, I will forget you are Lana's biological father.” “I am on my