“What are you planning to do?”
The door banged with the loud mad voice resonating from behind of it. My hands lowered sluggishly whilst my head gradually rotated to face him.
“Some sort of general duties, Alpha,” I smiled casually and waltz candidly towards him now standing afore the slab. “There are few things is wanted to ask. Aside from that, I thought over bringing some allies to help will be a great advantage.”
Diego cramped his eyes and stared at me like he was reading what was inside of my head. I guess I have to thank Edith for teaching me how to block mate links.
“Troops from Sanguine and Daghum, including Mayari’s fourth platoon from Sinandaya will be here any time soon.” From my grip, the flare gun flipped out and on the flat surface of the table between us. “If you would mind considering, Alpha. I would like to request a conference, the first and I hope the final one for the needed counter-attack.”
“Deciding alliance and who to come here is out of your command anymore, Adira.” He hoisted both his arms on the table and leaned his body ahead of me, his face that holds only an inch away from mine. “Don’t you think I would expel you out because of this?”
I retracted back before he does something that could break my walls again. That thing I should prevent happening at any cost. The thing called falling into love’s stupidity.
“They are my allies and not yours, Alpha. Abberant lacks soldiers and it is my duty to pave enough artillery and power as we can,” I answered that he only gave me a timid look from his eyes.
“Still, you are under my command even if you got that place you’re in. If I accuse you of treason for bringing militaries of vampires inside my territory, there is no one to back you up. Withdraw your call and stop them from crossing our borders.”
My jaw clenched and my fists went slamming the slab between us. The stack of frustration and peeve finally reached a maximum level that I saw my hands tugging the Alpha’s shirt, and tacking him on the wooden door.
“I do no longer understand you, Diego!”
By great and vexed force, the door crashed and collapsed down, resulting in for the two of us to stumble down the floor and my hands still not releasing him. His guards and even Edith quickly acted and were about to pull me away from their Alpha when Diego raised his hands, making them stop and step back.
“So am I,” he mouthed with his hands clasping my wrists like they’re just pieces of sticks.
I let him stand up and brush my hands off him, making me feel I’m literally a useless piece of a bug in his eyes with those apathetic looks he’s giving me.
“Why are you turning away from me?” I yelled, my voice echoing across the walls of the now corridor he’s walking in. Chasing and trying to find his side of explanation. “I am tired of seeing you this way.”
My steps began to increase that he was only a few inches away from me. I’m tired of him treating me like this. I am not a fool nor blind seeing he wants to keep problems by himself, thinking he can do everything alone.
“Stop doing this to me, will you?” I forcefully reached and snatched his shoulders as I again pinned him on the wall. Hoping he would give me the answer I wanted to know but those pair of azure orbs again stared at me indifferently… giving me unconcerned motives.
These simple things from him were like blades that slowly pierces and throbs pain. I don’t understand why he has to hide something from me. It was as if I am at the center of the battlefield with the toughest opponent I don’t think I could take down… and that is his perspective that I can’t figure out.
“You told me to trust you, and I did. But how will I further rely on you if you keep on making me feel like someone not capable of understanding situations,” I confronted, not taking my eyes away from his.
But he remained silent again, and I hate it. Those lifeless and insensitive gazes he cast make me want to punch him in the face. However, it seems like my emotions again prevailed that streams of teardrops rolled down my cheeks.
“Tell me what’s making you do this.” My hands creep up to his face trembling though everything my eyes see started to blur. “I already know what the council had decreed, they wanted me out and it hurts me thinking you are also shutting your doors. Diego…”
I closed my eyes and rested my head on his chest. “I want to protect what we have. I am willing to fight for us because I don’t want to lose you but all these actions you are doing makes me think you are giving me up. Why?”
There’s nothing I am expecting from him to do but what he responds to was something unanticipated that caused bolts of electricity to spark from within me.
“I never thought of giving you up, Adira,” his voice resonated inside of my head as his lips smacked mine without any warning. Our position pivoted, interchanging with his built cornering me on the sides.
“Then why are you pushing me away?” I asked when he departed from me. I couldn’t look into his eyes, maybe because I feel like he was lying to me. It made my mind even more confused. “That is what I wanted to know, Diego. Why are you driving me back to Sinandaya when there still lies a way to defend ourselves?”
“The Senate and even the council was not just after Abberant pack. They want us to part. All because what we have is forbidden in their eyes. All of these happens because You and I met again and that is the greatest mistake I have made!”
He yelled and took a step away. The last sentence he blurted hit me that hard that I was left speechless. Bullets of teardrops run uncontrollably, and I can’t move my head up no matter how I tried to. I wanted to see his eyes, and wish this is just a nightmare but I guess it’s not.
“And maybe you’re right,” I heard him chuckle. “I may consider giving up on you.”
My feet seems to be nailed on the ground that I can barely move, not even an inch. And what I can do was to feel the gap between us shifts from rivers to the vast distance of an ocean.
“I treasure you like a fragile diamond, that all I got from your sparkles were enclosed in a special chamber.”
“But what if those sparkles run out?”
“Then I’ll return all that I got, back to you. Adira, I need you to trust me. I have no doubt, I have no hesitancy, what I feel towards you didn’t fade. No matter what happens, I will forever have your name, your memory and everything about you carved in my heart.”
“You are a lady that the years had carved you to be. You will never be alone. Even if the whole world turns their back away from you, even if all doors shut, even if everything crumbles to dust, I will always be at your side. I will always be your shadow, Adira.”
Where are those words now?
Should I also forget them?
I collapsed on my feet when an irresistible pain struck my head as voices from nowhere began to reverberate around me.
“You are the blade, Adira. Find your way back to him, back to where it all started. Head the path that leads to your happiness, choose him this time. Because the fact of never having a second chance is what lies between the two of you.”
“But what about her, Diego? Her pain and ignorance of the situation between you and her. You keep on repeating and forcing that forbidden love imprinted between you and her making Adira the greatest fool in this trap. She may have forgotten the past but it was never lost in history. I know she was again attracted by the link, cut it.”
Those were Edith’s and the mysterious woman in Daghum. Why am I hearing it again? And I don’t remember when did I even heard Edith say that.
“Don’t let go, we have to escape from here,” the lady in a hooded green cloak yelled as she held a man’s hand so clinch. Her hair was dripping water. Her royal-like crimson red dress and the jewels on her neck topped up her aristocratic status.
“But there is no other way out, Adira,” replied a man in simple commoner clothes. Bearing the oceanic-blue orbs and chiseled jaw. He’s all covered with mud and splash of paints and blood.
“The Senate will kill you if we still stay here! And I am not letting that happen, I will not let you die.”
“That’s the exit… we made it out… We’ve made it outside the territory, Gavin!”
Gavin? Who is Gavin? Could it be that—
I stopped the second a thought hit my mind again.
“You are the Abberant Alpha’s mate and loving him is such a defiance that costs great penalty. But you are not the only creature in this world that had committed the same mistake.”
The story that the empress had stated… The curse in Daghum… Those words connected with history and the past… Who exactly am I?