Chapter 54
Sophia
I fall silent when Damian suddenly wraps his arms around me and shushes me. He is drawing soothing circles on my back, and I realize, my whole body is trembling.
I finally let go and break into tears as I hug him back.
“You don’t have to speak if you are forcing yourself.” He murmurs but doesn’t stop running circles on my back or move his hands from the right places.
I thought I was holding it in perfectly, but I ended up crumbling down worse than a castle of cards. Everything was going fine, and the ceremony was dwindling, but then, the moment I saw her approach Damian, all my fears and insecurities popped up like a cork on a bottle.
I went back to that night when I saw her in bed with Austin. The story they told me, his hostile gaze on me the other day and the way he treated me as if we were total strangers.
In a night or god knows how long, Austin has been cheating on me with her. The thoughts that, was he faking it the whole time? Was he seeing Hazel in me or was he just trying to get it over with so he could be finally with her?
Was I so unattractive that he forgot about me in just one night? Or did he ever love me in the first place? How could he be so cold towards me, his own mate when he has been the only person in my life whom I have ever had eyes for? sends me to the deepest pit I had never known existed until now.
I loved him with all my heart and in the end, he cheated on me! He left me for her. His love for Hazel was stronger than our bond for him and then it was there again.
That strange sparkle in her eyes when she approached Damian as if…as if she would make that nightmare repeat! I–I… “Liliana, calm down. We are leaving. We won’t stay here for a second longer if you don’t want to” He wiped my tears and although I can’t imagine what must be going on in his head after listening to me, I sobbed and leaned into his warmth.
He gladly lets me and wipes my tears again. “Don’t cry. Are you crying for that bastard who cheated on you?” he says through gritted teeth and a vein pops in his jaw when he levels his stormy grey eyes on me.
“Are you still in love with him?” He breathes and although his breath, his eyes, and his face are harsh, his hands on my cheeks and fingers wet with my tears are gentle.
“No” My answer comes firm. I do not love him anymore. “I am crying not because of him but for me. I am crying because of the betrayal I received even when I loved him with my whole heart” My voice breaks and I see something ripple on his hard face before I am pulled into his chest.
“Do I kill them? I abhor cheaters. He doesn’t deserve to be on that throne, should I gift it to you?” He rasps and I pull back, looking at him wide–eyed.
“It’s not difficult for me,” He says with an arrogant confidence in his tone, almost ready to walk inside and have his throat. However, I don’t want him to kill any more than he already has.
No one would understand why he did so and will think of him as a rugged barbarian even more, who doesn’t even spare pack with whom he has signed a peace treaty which also happens to be his wife’s birth pack.
the
And more than anyone, he himself won’t care what others are thinking about him and what rumours will fly around if he soaked the carpet in the ballroom with blood now.
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I have indeed had thoughts of killing both of them not just once but now I have something more important to care about. I love Damian and he is my second chance–mate, a blessing by goddess.
I wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to him because of those two. Never.
“No, I don’t want you to endure the burn of it all” I quietly say and get silence as his answer.
“It’s upsetting to hear that you think I will be affected by the burn. It won’t be able to touch me, Liliana”
“No, Damian. I get to decide what happens to them and I don’t want you to kill them. That’s a request, please” He responds with a guttural growl full of disappointment.
He looks like a wolf who is crazy for blood but I am not letting him do that. He is looking in the direction of the well–lit ballroom right now with a seething rage and a killing intent which is the last thing I want him to do.
“I want to leave,” I say and get his full attention again, just as I wished.
He relents and releases a breath shaking with anger. It would emit fire if he were a
dragon.
He nods and we leave the balcony, then the swarm of people, arm in arm to our car. He doesn’t stop even when someone calls his name. I quickly pass a smile to Letty and Sky, my new friends and leave the glimmering room which was making it harder for me to breathe.
A second longer and I might have fallen ill. So much for a fun night like Great Luna quoted but it wasn’t that bad too. Despite everything…I got to hear that I am special to Damian.
And now that almost everything which was troubling me before washed down in tears and melted in his embrace. New troubles took their place but his statement overshadowed everything and is playing in my head like a broken record.
I can’t seem to take my mind off it even when we are sitting inside the car. All, I am thinking about is, ‘I am special to him. I squeal inwardly and then all of a sudden, a gruff voice surprised me.
“Who was that man?”
It took me a second to realize who Damian was talking about. Jeremiah Watts, that weird wizard. I forgot all about him but he was still holding onto him.
“He was Jeremiah Watts, a wizard from Eldergroove. He knew I was a half–witch and offered to teach me magic.”
“Offered to teach magic? Why would he offer to teach you magic?”
He was angry…very angry which made me think whether I should tell him about the dream part or not.
“He said he dreamed about me,” I said each word carefully and goodness, I think I heard a bone snap because he was gnashing his teeth so hard that I was afraid he was chewing on them.
“What the fuck did he just tell you?” He was trying to express incredulity but all his face had was a spine–chilling anger.
He was furious and I…am I crazy if I say, I did not hate it?
“I didn’t believe him at first as well. I thought he spouting nonsense but then he told me about one of the incidents he should have no way of finding out” I quickly say and from the tapping of his finger on his knee, I can tell he is growing impatient.
“After that, Liliana? What happened after that?”
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Yikes! “He told me about the night of the sacred moondial and he said it was intentional,” I tell him and for a second his face blooms with another emotion, contemplation, maybe? But then, in a second everything cools into a hard cold seriousness.
“How dare he see you in his dreams? He was spying on you this whole time?”
I stare at him surprised when he boils with anger. Was that all he deduced from what I told him? Why isn’t he talking about great Luna?
“He said he had the gift of prophecy. He had prophetic dreams about me which have stopped now I ease up his anger and his chest rumbles with a snarl.
“I don’t believe him. How the fuck can he see you in his dreams? Why are you the only person on whom his prophecy is working?”
“I couldn’t believe him either but then how could he know about the night of the festival?”
“He could be one of the men that old hag sent your way. She knew about the night of the festival, didn’t she?”
I
pause
and let
brain my
process
what he said for a moment.
“I don’t think so. He didn’t appear to be like that” Sure, he was eccentric, suddenly coming to me and blabbering stuff like that but he didn’t appear as one of the great Luna’s men.
“Oh really? Is he your type as well now, like Richard? That you are willing to trust him?” His cold words dig into my skin and I shot him a glare.
“What are you talking about? I already told you Doctor Greens is not my type, well no one is and the thing about Jeremiah is that I didn’t think he was lying when he told me all that”
“What is your type then?”
I stare at him, speechless. How does this man pick out the random subjects and topics from my words? Which have nothing to do with the whole meaning? Somehow!
“I told you, I don’t have a type”
It’s you but will I tell him that? NO!
“Oh, I know. You like men who have good bodies, know how to please you in bed and what else? Maybe who has a fucking harmless smile like Richard”
Oh god, what’s with him obsessing over Doctor Greens?
“I think you are the one who is obsessed with Doctor Greens because I told you that he is not my type and yet you are bringing him into the conversation repeatedly” And I don’t even want to think about the other two traits he thinks I am into!
“Then why don’t you tell me clearly? Who are you interested in?”
What is…What is wrong with him?
“Why do you want to know? What has gotten into you?”
“Because I am your husband, is that answer enough?”
Oh my god, I am getting so angry. Fine.
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“Then whom else will I be interested in? Of course, my husband, also you, dumbass!” I huff and he looks as if I have hit him with something. He has that stupid surprised look on his face.
No, he appears to be stunned.
“Damian?” I call his name cautiously and his finger twitches as if I was waking him up from something.
“What did you tell to that bastard then?”
For a second, I was too stunned to speak because weren’t we talking about something else right now? Like who I am interested in? So, don’t I get to ask who he is interested in first?
“I told him no”
I didn’t tell him my real reason for saying no. Although he has accepted me as half–witch and half–werewolf, I have yet to accept myself. Damian doing this has given me a lot more confidence and strength about myself but I still need to work more if I want to love that part of me.
“Good girl.” He rasps, sounding pleased and my heart flutters like a butterfly trapped in a cobweb. “Because we still don’t know who that bastard is. That old hag can go to any extent.
She can easily scheme with someone and send him your way. I swear if I had caught that bastard, then he would have been dead”
He seethes but I don’t lose the focus from the most important point.
“However, Damian, in all of this, did you think, how did great Luna knew I was not a pureblood? It was something only I knew and my pack”
“She has planted a spy in CrystalMoon. Killing that bastard and destroying that pack was a good decision after all” He spat out and I held back a groan.
Why does he think killing and finishing the existence of someone off the face of this planet is the only solution?
“That’s not the solution, Damian”
“Then you tell me, what is? Accepting that bastard’s offer and getting lured into their trap willingly?”
“Why are you angry with me? It’s not like I wished to meet him!” I say, feeling hurt from all the acid he was throwing my
way.
“Because, Liliana, you shouldn’t have stayed there even for a second on that balcony when you noticed there was a man there and yes, I am jealous and getting fucking possessive. Because the beautiful you is all mine”
