Authors pov
Serenity looked at house in front of her. Hidden inside the dark Jungle where lights hardly reach. Covered by lush green bushes.
Her leather boots creaked on the wet stony ground as she walked towards the main door.
It was silent but she can hear the birds chirping and animals sounds from the forest.
The house was two story, in a good condition and beautiful. Nothing royal or rich.
She knocked on the door as there was no bell.
She waited for few minutes, ready to break the door if no one opens it.
But to her surprise door got opened. Serenity wasn’t expecting the woman to open it. She has short blonde hair, yellow eyes, young but tired.
She stared at serenity confused.
“Yes?”
Serenity looked around trying to find someone else.
“Serenity”
As soon as she heard her name, that woman gasped and stepped back in fear. She tried to close the door but serenity was too quick to enter inside.
It was warm tidy house, fireplace was lit. She can smell the freshly cooked lunch. Sweet and delicious, It was like home.
“He is not here…”
That woman was on verge of breaking down.
Serenity frowned at her.
“Who are you?”
She asked in Stern voice. She didn’t answer.
Serenity’s head snapped towards the couch when she heard crying baby, who was around three months old.
The woman sobbed, she rushed towards the baby and picked it up.
“Don’t hurt us… Albert is not here…”
She pleaded.
Serenity didn’t say anything. She was just trying to assist things. Home, woman, baby?
This is not how she expected Albert’s house.
That woman tried to run away with the baby, she was too slow for any supernatural. She stepped on a toy and slipped. She hold loosened on the baby and she struggled to hold it.
Serenity quickly grabbed the baby before it hits the floor.
“Are you okay?”
She asked the lady while giving her hand to stand up.
“Please don’t hurt her…”
She pleaded looking at the baby.
“She is safe… Stand up…”
Serenity said and walked towards the couch.
“You don’t have to be scared of me, Linda…”
Serenity looked at her.
Linda was still looking at the babygirl who was in serenity’s arms.
“Sit down… Let’s talk”
Serenity suggested.
Linda hesitantly sat in front of serenity, scared and worried for her child.
Serenity caressed baby’s cheek.
“She is beautiful… So pure… What’s her name?”
“We haven’t named her yet…”
Linda’s eyes watered.
“But i call her Angel…”
Serenity smiled bitterly.
“My daughter’s name is also Angel… I was living with a lie that i killed her, just to realise that she is alive after a century…”
She didn’t take her eyes of the baby.
“Angel is a beautiful name, isn’t it?… It suits her”
Linda was sitting there nervously.
“This is your 98th child, Linda…”
Serenity looked at her while Linda looked at her shocked.
“You lost your all children and you know you will lost this Angel too…”
“Don’t say that, please.”
Linda broke down.
Serenity can feel her pain. She lost her one daughter and she was mourning for hundred years and the woman in front of her has lost 97 children. She can read her like a open book, weak, defeated and vulnerable.
“I am not saying it, Linda… Nature is saying it.”
Serenity said with a sigh.
“We tried everything but we couldn’t save them… This is my last chance to become a mother. I can’t become a mother after this…”
Linda sobbed.
“Ofcourse you can’t win against a curse…”
Serenity replied.
“You have to sacrifice something in order to gain something from the divine… Albert gained his powers but lost his fatherhood… It’s because of him…”
“But you have the same powers… It’s not happening to you…”
Linda questioned.
“I didn’t desire these powers… I was forced to take it… My grandmother was real owner and she lost everything just like Albert is going to lost it…”
Serenity replied.
“I have to kill him, Linda… He is consumed by the darkness..”
“He is innocent… Please, i don’t have anyone other than him.”
Linda pleaded.
“LINDA!”
They heard his furious voice and Linda flinched.
“How many times I told you, keep the fucking door close…”
Albert stormed inside and glared at her.
“This is not how we treat our mate, son…”
Serenity looked at him and Albert’s face paled.
“You?”
He looked at her and the baby in her arms.
“Thought, i should pay little visit… Nice house, but you couldn’t keep it hidden from me…”
She mocked.
“Your sweet Dianna couldn’t last longer…”
“Linda go upstairs.”
Albert clenched his jaw.
“Baby?”
Linda panicked.
“GO UPSTAIRS!”
He roared on her face. She flinched but didn’t move. She refused to leave her baby alone.
“Shh… She was falling asleep… You are scaring her.”
Serenity cooed the baby.
“Sit down Linda… You shouldn’t leave your baby alone.”
Albert glared at Linda but she listened serenity.
“I won’t leave her alone, Albert… Not this time”
She said and sat on the couch.
Albert rubbed his forehead and started laughing.
“How long you are here?… You already influenced her…”
He sighed dramatically while sitting beside Linda.
“You think this will scare me?”
He pointed towards the baby.
“You know you can’t kill me… There is no use of doing this…”
“You are very calm for a father who’s baby is in enemies hands…”
She raised her eyebrows.
“Either you are too confident or you don’t care about your baby.”
“You are right…”
He nodded.
“I don’t care about her… Anyway she is going to die.”
“Albert”
Linda looked at him shocked.
“What?”
He glared at her.
“I am not a fool like you to think that she will survive…”
“You are just like your father…”
Serenity shook her head disappointed.
“Don’t take his name from your mouth… You killed him”
He gritted.
“I didn’t kill him for fun”
Serenity glared at him.
“He tried to kill me and my children… He killed my family… I tried to warn him, he didn’t listen…”
“You had no right to kill him”
Albert accused.
“And who gave you the right to torture my daughter… Hundred years, Albert!… She was innocent”
Serenity growled.
“You did what?”
Linda looked at him in disbelief.
“Stay the fuck out this”
Albert spat at Linda.
“Yes i tortured your daughter…”
He looked at serenity.
“What you gonna do about it… You can’t kill me.”
He challenged.
“I have no weakness… Like you!”
“You have a family too…”
Serenity stated.
“Kill them, i don’t care… Anyway, they are of no use.”
He spat and broke Linda’s heart.
“Albert”
She looked at him with glossy eyes.
“Shut up”
He looked at her angrily.
“You can’t even give me one son… You are useless.”
“You are disgusting.”
Serenity looked at him disgusted.
“You know it’s your curse… She is not the one to blame…”
“And you think you are a good soul.”
Albert mocked.
“Does your mates know that you are using them…”
Serenity’s jaw clenched at his words.
He chuckled at her reaction.
“I thought you are smarter than this… I just moved one Pawn and you lost the game… Dianna didn’t mean anything, i just sent her there to mess with you and you thought I am planning something… Does Nicolai know that you let him fuck you just to make me believe that you are together again…”
He mocked.
“It must be hard for you to fuck him with so much hate in your heart… I know, you haven’t forgive them yet… Dad used to say that serenity can do anything but she can’t forgive easily, She is not a emotional fool.”
“You don’t have to care about my life… You think you will escape from the death by using that spell… I just need to find it and you are gone, Albert… You still have a time. Give back what you have taken from the nature and save your child… This is not a child play…”
She warned.
“Don’t end up like your father…”
“You will end up like my father…”
He replied.
“By the way… I hope you have answers ready for___”
He said and tilted his head towards the main door.
Serenity’s heart skipped a beat when she saw Nicolai standing at the door.