Episode 12

Paradise-Regained.
Jasmine is sitting on her sick bed while examining her wounded stomach, Scar was equally standing in there gazing at her.
"You have slept for so long Mistress, thank God for our amazing doctor," Scar said referring to one of the girls who was standing beside him.
Then Jasmine gazed at the girl and looks away without minding to appreciate her.
Then the door opened and Zara steps into the room.
"I can see that you are getting better already," Zara said as she approaches and sat beside her.
"Umm..." Jasmine moaned as she picks up her clothes and put them on.
"Jasmine, what are you doing? you're not fine yet you cannot go home now" Zara said as Jasmine breathes out heavily after putting on her clothes.
"Zara just think about being away from this sanctuary for as long as I have stayed in here. how would you feel?" Jasmine asked as Zara kept on looking at her.
Because both of them obviously understand what she's trying to say.
"You understand that right? we all have people we need to protect, staying out of my sanctuary for this long makes it defenseless"
"I have to go now" Jasmine responded as she began looking around searching for her boots and found them behind the servant doctor.
"Help me with that..." Jasmine ordered the maid and without hesitating she brought the boots for her.
"Jasmine, you have to equally understand that you going back to your sanctuary it's not making it defensive but creating more responsibility for your love ones"
"You look weak, you can't fight with this condition," Zara said as she opens Jasmine's shirt and examines the wounded part again.
"It was more like that arrow was infected with poison, it is weakling you, you still need medical care from our doctor here," Zara said and Jasmine waves her head.
"Well, I don't really care about my own life but for my people just like you" She responded and then looks at Zara with a serious look on her face.
"But who are those men that actually attacked us and why were we attacked?" Jasmine asked.
"It was Amelia, who was trying to trick us to our death, but I fear that she must be so foolish to think that ordinary Men will make a better trick for her," Zara said as Jasmine stared at her wound again.
"Hmm? Where I think it actually did, if you were in town around that could have made a good trick for her" Jasmine replied.
"Well, what why are you telling me about CX back there at the Matrix Garden?" Jasmine asked as Zara wanted to answer but she interrupted.
"Before that, could you please tell them to leave us" Jasmine requested referring to Scar and the doctor.
Then Zara stared at the doctor and she left immediately without hesitating.
"And what about him?" Jasmine said looking at Scar.
"I trust him" Zara responded as Jasmine gazes at her.
"How deep? because this discussion is not only about CX?" Jasmine asked and Zara nodded.
"Very well" Zara responded and Jasmine gazed at Scar once more and nodded her head "Okay then"
"I want you to stand beside me with Scar, so we can visit CX in Sanctuary X at DCD and kill him and his armies, the three of us" Zara requested as Jasmine looks at the ground.
"Just because of David? you're still going to kill him yourself why not just let him die?"Jasmine asked as Zara stares at Scar who was busy gazing at the both of them.
"I don't know if you actually understand what David means to me, I know I have to sacrifice him for the ritual but not now," Zara said while Jasmine concentrates on her dressings as she picks up her bangles and put them on her hand.
"You are not saying anything, Jasmine?" Zara asked as Jasmine reacted unhappily.
"I don't know what you want me to say that I haven't said before. you have been saying that you will sacrifice him but not now for over how many years now"
"And now he has grown up to be a man! and very soon he will threaten your life" Jasmine responded as Zara waves her head.
"Jasmine, how I wish you can understand," Zara said.
"Understand what!?" Jasmine asked with a harsh voice.
"That I cannot kill him" Zara responded and that statement left Jasmine staring at her in surprise.
"Yeah, I just have to open up to you once and for all that I cannot hurt him, he is now like a child to me, I feel like a mother beside him, I can't..." 
"And I'm sorry to let you know that you are not allowed to ever remind me of that again" Zara responded with a weakened and low voice while touching her fingers one after the other.
Jasmine slowly gets to her feet and waves her head.
"I am not allowed to ever remind you of what you must do?" Jasmine asked as Zara get up from the bed too.
"It's my decision to make, I created that ritual and I can equally destroy it, David is not going to die" Zara responded as Jasmine stares at her being filled with anger and bitting her teeth as if she is about to engage in a fight with her.
And just in tears streams down her face "So you know that it was your decision to make and you can destroy it? and you forced me to sacrifice my child, my real blood that is not adopted"
"Child, that I went through hard labor to give birth to? you sacrificed her and now you cannot do the same to an adopted child! after forcing me..." Jasmine was still saying and Zara interrupted.
"Point of correction I did not force you," Zara said.
"But you asked me to do it!" Jasmine replied with a harsh voice.
"And you did it! Did you refuse and I forced you? this is a choice I allowed you to make on your own, yes I know that I told you to do it but I did not force you Jasmine, you needed wealth" Zara replied.
"And you couldn't give me even as much as you are so rich? but sacrifice my baby?" Jasmine asked with a low bittered voice.
"I could have given you money if you had wanted but you just want to be on the same level with me" Zara replied as Jasmine swallows her saliva with her heart boiling like hot water then she approached Zara.
"You have started a war that will never end Zara... you see that adopted son of yours...?" Jasmine said and Zara shrugged her shoulders.
"Point of correction, he is my son and not adopted one," Zara said.
"I don't care, but any day he does crosses my path and any day I did set my eyes on him, I will kill him myself and wait for you!" Jasmine threatened and pick up her sword beside the bed walking away with so much anger invested in her.
And immediately he left Scar approached Zara "Mistress, are you not sensing something?" Scar asked as Zara stares at him and waves her head.
"And what is it that you are sensing?" Zara asked.
"It's about David..." Scar but still yet to complete his statement and Zara interrupted him with a deep voice.
"Don't dare!!!" Zara said as Scar moves backward.
"No, Mistress I'm only trying to talk about his safety," Scar said as Zara calms down and gazes at him.
"You saw the way she spoke and David had not been this long outside this Sanctuary, I think I am beginning to agree with you that he may not be okay..."
"And I think Jasmine could be a suspect, you should monitor every move of her statement, she is so desperate of killing David," Scar said as Zara gazes at the door trying to figure sense in what he said.
"No... Jasmine has been a good friend, I doubt it but I still think that David is not fine but am counting on you Scar, go out there"
"Search for David and bring him back safely" Zara ordered as Scar bows for her.
"Yes Mistress, but what if after searching around the city and he was nowhere to be found?" Scar asked and Zara nodded her head.
"Then I will believe that Jasmine has an explanation for us" Zara responded and Scar nods and left the room immediately.
Getting to the car park, he didn't use a normal car this time, he chose the one that has no roof at all.
It was built like a tractor, with four big tyres and red in color.
He started the car and reverse it as the guards opened the gate for him and he left the fort with speed.

Book Comment (94)

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    John Ford Almanzor

    I'm very hard moment

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    Kadzraifal Damsik

    Pwde na nice story

    04/09/2023

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    Akhesia Abria

    lovers Zara and Jake but she the restaurant

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