Chapter 125
Looking at his face it was like I forgot every word in the vocabulary. He was so close to me yet it felt like a stranger’s eyes that I looked into. His fingers. softly graced the skin around my temple but his touch wasn’t one that I recognized. Now when I looked at him he was soft and caring, his eyes bled with the emotions that I thought he was incapable of feeling and they swam in the humanity that he suppressed for the longest time.
I didn’t see the monster that took me- played with me and broke me apart. The light coming in through the door lit up behind him and the last fog from Zade’s disappearance was fanning out in the room.
“He can come back,” I said and slowly turned my head away from his touch.
My hands pressed against the cold floor and I started to stand.
“I hope he does,” Darian said in a warning and grabbed my hand as he helped me up.
“Where do you think he went?”
Darian paused for a beat and shook his head.
“I don’t know but he’s not close, he fucked up with mark-manipulation. If he goes anywhere inside the Council or speaks to anyone, I’ll know. He’s not dumb enough for that, unfortunately,”
Darian stood close, there were a few inches between us and when he moved to close them I took a step back and cleared my throat.
“How’d you get out?” I furrowed my brows.
“I had help,” Darian answered. He sighed and his shoulders slumped as a shadow crossed behind him and a man entered the room.
“Yo, we gotta go!” Someone called and I stepped away from Darian to see who it was that came in behind him.
I had to blink at least ten times and I dug my nails into the palm of my hands to make sure that i was awake and that this was really happening.
“You?” I gasped, “No- no it’s not possible,” I stuttered as if I was talking to a ghost, which it felt like I was.
The blue-eyed man with the nicest smile and kindest eyes I’d seen stood very much alive, in front of me.
Dressed in the black uniform of the Dark Guard the man who first helped me escape when I arrived at the palace stood breathing and well. But Darian caught him that night, they tortured him, I heard his screams while I was bound to the chair and then Darian had him killed. I heard it.
“But did we see it?” Trixy asked.
And the answer landed in my head like a brick; no, we didn’t see it, we knew what he wanted us to know. I turned to Darian and caught my breath as I glared at his faltering face. He watched me, every scene of the reaction he knew I’d have once this came to light and now he stood like a fucking fool and watched it all shatter at his feet.
“You pretended to kill him?” I seethed.
“Yes,” he answered coldly.
It was pointless for him to try and cover it up and he knew it, everything was slowly being revealed and I honestly don’t know how much of it I can take.
The door slammed into the wall and Gabe stood in the doorframe with someone else covered behind him.
“Are you okay?” He asked me when he stepped inside and that’s when I saw Abby behind him.
“Hi,” she waved.
What the hell was Abby doing here? I hadn’t seen her since the night of the Ball.
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I tried not to look like a confused grouch but I think I failed when I felt how my brows hunched and my nose wrinkled.
“I’m fine,” I spat and looked at Gabe’s worried face.
He nodded and looked at his brother.
“We have to go, the Elder knows you’re out,”
“Where did she come from?” I asked and pointed at Abby, meaning absolutely no disrespect but come on, why did there always have to be a fucking Bell present whenever anything went down?
“She was one of the Bells at dinner but she kept her head down so you wouldn’t blow it,” Gabe said and winked. He watched my frown deepen and flickered his eyes over my face but a rock landed in my stomach and a pressure on my chest was fracturing my ribs.
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