All Chapters of HIDDEN EDGES : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

"Fate?" Miranda asks, bewildered, "what do you mean fate?""A test," Joe answers for Sean, "She'll undergo a test. If she passes, then she's destined to be Queen and if she doesn't, annihilation."Like a knot, my stomach tightens and my breath hitches in my throat. A test? Failure means annihilation? I don't even want to be the queen of anything?! Why don't I have a say in this? I can't be Sean's wife. Not while I still breathe and have control of myself. I'd never love nor marry the man that destroyed me. Never."And what 'test' is this?" Miranda asks again."That would be best kept hidden from the human," Joe says, looking at Sean as if to remind him."Crystal," Sean says, and I look up at him, but he looks at Joe, "She has a name, and it's Crystal."Joe nods his head and Sean continues, "On the third moon from now, we shall gather again for the test. For now, we should prepare for whatever is to come."I just want to go back into my room, but I can't act on my own accord. Damn Sean

"Hey," I hear a voice from afar, but I'm too weak and reluctant to respond."Crystal." The voice comes again, closer. "You have to wake up now." He says, shaking me lightly, and I open my eyes slowly to see Sean sitting by me and smiling."I didn't want to wake you up," he says, and I realize I actually slept. He put me to sleep, and it was a very calm, peaceful one. "I never knew it'd be fun watching a person sleep." For the first time, a compliment from him doesn't seem so strange, infact, it made me smile. Although the sleep definitely wasn't enough to make up for all the lost ones, this definitely relaxed me, giving me back a bit of my sanity. Sitting up on the bed, I take his hand in mine and look at him straight into his surprised eyes."Thank you," I say to him. For what? I have no idea. Obviously, there's still a lot I don't know, but what I know right now is Sean isn't who I think he is. Just like Dylan. I only knew him for nine months and suspected nothing, knew nothing. I j

"Dylan?" My eyes widen in disbelief and goosebumps flood my body as I scamper away from him in fright, my heart beating drumrolls.What is he doing here? How is he here?"Yes Crystal," he smiles, "it's me.""H-how how—" I want to say something, but I guess my brain already disappeared, probably afraid Dylan's a zombie and would want to eat it, so I give up on saying anything."Are you surprised?" He crouches down to my level and looks into my eyes, "You thought you had finished me off already, right?" I look away from him, ashamed and unsure what to do or how to act. If he's here for revenge, I hope he does it quickly. This is just so shocking and unreal. I don't even know how to feel."Too bad you didn't," he gets back up and looks down at me, "but I'm glad I got to see who you really are. After heartlessly killing Jake, you killed me too, and now you're happy to live and be a stupid Queen!" His voice kept getting louder by each word, finally yelling at the end.Enormous guilt and sh

"No! I will not let it slide, Joe. She went too far this time, too far!" I can hear Sean's angry voice from outside my room. He probably doesn't know I'm awake yet, and I'd like to keep it that way for now. I don't want any more noise. I don't know how long it's been since I've been out, but the pain in my arm feels like a hundred needles were placed inside my flesh, the pounding pain in my head so strong and unwavering. I can't move even if I try, so it's best I just lie still like the useless hunk of human junk that I am. Thinking back to the test, a tear slides down my eyes, causing my head to ache even more, but I don't have the strength to hold my tears in, just like I didn't have the strength to resist Sean's hypnosis. It was all a test, and he didn't really say those things, but he did. Those words are engraved in my head and I can't get rid of them. Seeing Dylan again opened up an already healing wound, broke an already mending heart. He's dead, and I doubt it's possible fo

It's been three days since the test and there's not a single scar nor pain in my body from the attack by Miranda. It's almost as if nothing happened, but my reinforced nightmares are sure evidence that taunts me guiltlessly.Sean's been really up and doing lately, visiting often and getting me food frequently. Too frequently I start to feel like livestock for sale. Sighing, I take a look at myself before leaving the bathroom and see that I'm starting to look alive. My face doesn't look so gaunt anymore, and my skin isn't so pale. A small smile plays on my lips and I go into the room feeling very satisfied after taking that long relaxing bath, something my body badly needed, with the scent of roses and the strawberry shampoo I found clinging to me.There's a short wine dress laid neatly on the bed with black flats beside it and I put them on quickly, knowing I spent much time in the bathroom, and he'd be here anytime soon. The sleeves stop a little bit below my elbow, doing nothing at