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Kaya’s POV.
“Percipe essentiae meae existentiae. Olivia me reperi per aerem. Veni ad me. Praesent tristique in mi nec iaculis. Auxilium tuum peto.” I call into my palms where I have allowed the pendant to relax upon before I cast the spell.
Right after the glow in my eyes, the bracelet resonate with a low hum, inaudible to anyone without magic. I’m still sitting on a footstool, in front of the kitchen counter except finished with the pancakes already.
There’s no space for me to run away, so I hope that Olivia can hear my message and come for me. I’ve never thought I actually needed her this much until now.
I can hear the whispers of those ass whip, while wondering exactly what it could be they are discussing about me. I’m not very interested anyway or I would have casted a spell for that.
Finally done with the chit chats, they come back to join me at the counter and I stand up. “I demand to leave.”
“Kaya, please.”
“You can’t stop me.” My voice is thick and stoic and that’s a very good job I’m maintaining regardless of how much my heart shatters in fear of what the triplets are capable of. Although, considering how much I’ve affected them too in the past and even as at now, I can stand up to them.
“You’re right. We can’t, but why are you demanding then? Why haven’t you casted a spell to drain our energy or better still take off our heads or maybe just make us a living dead when you have all the chances in the world and then leave with your vengeance accomplished?” The brothers question with their eyes peeled at me. It makes me want to take a step back in my head and actually think of why I didn’t go through with all he’s said.
Still, I must maintain my fierceness. “and your stupid reasoning thinks that I cannot go through with it, does it not?”
He shakes his head. “No, I think you can but before this time, you’ve chosen not to hurt us.” He pauses, takes a deep breath and when he exhales, he continues, his voice etching with suspicion. “That doesn’t matter, anyway. There’s something we want to show you. It’s quite far from here, but it’s worth it… only if you’re willing to come along, though.”
Curiosity kills my cat as I couldn’t help myself. I stare at the brothers for a while, waiting to see if there’s any reason for me not to follow them but when I don’t see one, I nod my head.
Then, I step forward with such dazzling and precarious gait. “If you for once think that you own me or you could command me, then you’re wrong. If you think that you can trick me like before, I promise you won’t see the tomorrow’s first light. I’ll make this life a living hell for you if I cannot go through killing you off. I swear on my life.” I may have exaggerated too much, but is it not worth it?
Ugh! I’m such a disaster.
In the next few minutes, the carriage is ready and I’m following the triplets out. Wait, come to think of it, the last thing this happened, I am still a slave that they misuse and punish. Fuck, I really did suffer a lot and they will suffer too. And it’s coming soon.
My alter ego is chuckling so darkly that if the brothers can actually read my mind, that is, I hadn’t blocked them since the mate bond allows of it, they’d be running so distant from me right now.
The moment I enter into the carriage, the fingers of my left hand touch the body and I whisper without a sound to be heard, “listen to the winds; track this carriage.”
My ears pick up on the sound of the whip right before the whining from the horses and we pull out of the parking space. My eyes are focused outside the windows. I watch the small buildings that we pass by, the fall of the beauty in this kingdom as I once know of it.
I wanted to look away at once but I allow myself see the damage that I’ve caused. In the distance, I watch as the ocean crash with such heavy wave. A tornado forming atop it as the atmosphere just above the ocean has turned into fog. Up in the mountain, the waterfall has dried up.
We are passing through the town where the pack members reside and all I sniff is disaster. I see no happiness in anyone’s eyes, and that’s when a pain hit me like a gust of wind which I kept within.
I won’t appear weak. They are simply suffering from the sins of their master. They know who the triplets are and how much they’ve made a lot of people suffer, so why should they not suffer too?
They have decided to pledge their allegiance to the triplets and I’m here to make them realize how much of a mistake that is. However, on the other end, when I think of it, I notice that not only the ones who pledged their loyalty are the ones suffering.
The slaves, the innocent ones amongst them. I understand that they aren’t any different, too, but on the larger scale, there’s always an explanation for why they had ignored my pains the way they all did when I needed comfort. Like the other day when I lost my babies.
Everyone had acted like I was dead, like they couldn’t see me but maybe they just couldn’t help because if they did, they’d be punished?
At the same time, I’m wondering if I’m supposed to be making up excuses for their offense. What matter is that they neglected my pain, so I must do the same thing.
What about Pete? What about Helda?
My heart feels so much weight. Darn the good within me. Why can’t I just be so cruel so I can achieve my vengeance on everything and everyone?
I am so lost inside my thoughts that I did not know when we’ve moved past the town and we are now into a silent road. The street is dead and I can see the beauty of nature once again unlike the kingdom which is already dead of any life or growth there.
The drive passes across many field of lands until my brows start to furrow at the recognition settling in.
“Where are we going?” I ask before we have never neared the spot.
I hope it’s not what I’m thinking. With each seconds that passes, I lose more of my equilibrium.
“Someplace we should have taken you when we made our first mistake. We are you going back to the beginning of everything?” Kade says with such solemm voice.
The drive ends and we get down. I look around the field, recognizing it so much. How many months has it been now since I was here?
I’ve forgotten how beautiful it used to be and now beautiful it still remains. It hasn’t turned into a wildling of forest. The flowers still grow in peace and the forest far in the distance still gives me the calmness I feel whenever I stare at it.
My whole body is shaking to the very core and as I move closer to the cottage, I find myself losing my hold against the tears threatening to fall down.This belongs to NôvelDrama.Org.
My wall of defense is crumbling down instantly and I’m not retaliating. I suddenly feel weakened.
In front of the cottage, I see that it remains just exactly as I left it that unfortunate afternoon. This is where my fate changed, exactly here did it all happened.
This is where the whole table turned against me. My memories flash back to when Williams, father, and I lived here in peace before these monsters come.
Just then, I turn to face them. “Why have you brought me back to the beginning, to where my suffering began?”
Regardless of everything remaining the same, the cottage looking exactly like I had left it, which calms my mind that perhaps someplace, my parents and my brother remain in bliss too, I want to understand exactly what I am doing here. Or even how it would help me see any change at all.
“Look, Kaya.” Kieran points to the side of the cottage and shifting my gaze there, I gasp.
Hurriedly, I run to a graveyard that I hadn’t noticed. There are four of them and when I read the name scripted into the sculpted stone placed atop the land, my lips move.