Chapter 93
POV: Lamina Darkwood
A loud crashing sound of a broken wine glass resonated in the entire room.
Her heart began to beat so wild inside her chest that she knew something bad had happened. She weakly sat down as she felt her hands trembling unconsciously.
Lamina swallowed hard as she heard Merelos enter her office. Her forehead creased as she saw his expression pained, agonizing, and melancholic. It was like something bad really happened, but she needed to pull herself together.
“M-Milady …” Merelos called her in his shaking and gruff voice.
Her eyes squinted at him as she tried to contain her trembling hands.
“What do you want?” She seriously inquired.
“M-Milady …”
But Merelos just called her once again.
Her face hardened and her aura darkened.
“What the f*ck do you need?!” She angrily snapped at him.
But Merelos just flinched, but his expression remained.
Then, she felt her world crumble down as Merelos finally found the courage to tell her the news. Her ears seemed to feel as if a bomb suddenly exploded just in front of her.
Being shocked was an understatement.
All that she wanted was to hope that she had heard her beta’s words wrong.
“M-Milady…” Merelos shakenly called her.
But her heart was beating so loudly now, what she felt a while ago was becoming more sensical. The reason why she suddenly felt like something was wrong. And the pain that suddenly attacked her senses.
“Tell me a-again…” She lowly whispered as her gray eyes turning into their darker shade never left the beta, who was already trembling in fear just in front of her.
“M-Milady… y-your children-”
She gritted her teeth as she gave him a death glare.
“Why? Are they here? Let them come in.” She tried to settle her emotions and the ideas that kept on rushing into her mind.
She even looked at the door desperately hoping that her children would follow him in, but nothing came.
Merelos swallowed hard.
“M-Milady…”
“What? You know what? Just keep this straight to the point.” She impatiently stated.
“M-Milady… y-your children… in the m-meeting room…”
Merelos stopped as he pursed his lips together, as if he was suppressing his own emotions.
“What the hell are you talking about?! Are they in the meeting room? Why don’t you ask them to come here instead?” She finally yelled at him.
“M-Milady…in the m-meeting room… y-your children… their c-corpse-”
Merelos repeatedly told her, but he couldn’t just finish his own sentence again.
“What c-corpse? What the heck are you sh*tting about?!” She seriously yelled at him.
“Y-Your children, M-Milady. T-They’re d-dead. Their c-corpse-”
Before he could even finish his sentence, Lamina had already thrown the sharp dagger into his forehead causing him to meet his instant demise.
She couldn’t just take what he had told her.
“You’re just a f*cking beta. Who do you think you are to tell me those things?” She angrily spat.
But Lamina was just so in denial that she sighed heavily as she tried to contain herself.
She clenched her both hands into balled fists as she gritted her teeth.
“Y-Your children, M-Milady. T-They’re d-dead. Their c-corpse-”
It was like a broken stereo in her ears sending chaotic ideas into her mind repeatedly.
“Y-Your children, M-Milady. T-They’re d-dead. Their c-corpse-”
Her entire body began to tremble unconsciously.
No.
This wasn’t happening.
Not Leah and Aeron!
All of those were running through her mind so restlessly that she didn’t even know how she ended up being in the meeting room.
She couldn’t deny the fact that everything that she dreamed of had befallen in her very own eyes as she saw her two lovely children lying on the floor, cold and lifeless.
Their pale faces had confirmed that they wouldn’t be coming back anymore.
However, her heart was still hoping that this was just a dream for her.
“L-Luna…” Elder Courdamus’ gruff voice called her, but she didn’t care nor give him even a swift glance.
“Get out of here, now!” She furiously demanded, but everyone was stunned that they couldn’t move an inch.
“B-But L-Luna…” Elder Courdamus shookly called her again.
Her eyes turned into thin slits intense fury was burning into her eyes and that Elder Courdamus could even taste her own heightened wrath.
“Should I repeat it again?” She ominously warned everyone, and in just a snap, they were instantly gone out of the room.
Even Elder Courdamus, who even tried to talk to her about what happened.
She didn’t know whether it was a good thing that everyone was already gone or not.
The melancholic and cold atmosphere had taken over the place, and it was just intensifying the brokenness that was lingering in her every vein.
Her body trembled as she was left dumbfounded on the floor watching her son and daughter on the cold floor. Her eyes instantly welled up as she felt her heart crushed inside her chest.
She thought that her parents’ death was the most painful part of her life. She thought that she was done mourning and that she was done encountering death. She thought that she already had the upper hand.
But all of those were just thoughts-thoughts that have now been proven incorrect.
Lamina’s tears fell, but her mind was still in chaos.
Because she was wrong.
She was certainly wrong.
This hadn’t even crossed her mind.
No.
She wouldn’t believe that this would eventually happen.
Lamina gritted her teeth as her tears slowly fell from her eyes as she walked slowly towards her own children.
She held them in her sobbing pain and agonizing lamentations.
Lamina felt her entire strength just leave her as she finally let her heart out free to cry and grieve.
She thought of their smiles, their banter, their voices.
She thought of the times she could still hold them realizing that she hadn’t done enough for her children. Because she was just too busy with her own revenge, she was too busy thinking about her own desires, her own beliefs, her own dreams.
Now, everything was just too late.
But then her mind was too clouded with the pain that she wanted to pour out, and that it was slowly directed towards the person who had caused it to her children.
She wanted to take revenge for everything to ruin everything that had taken her children from her and for doing these things to her.
Her inner wolf was starting to unleash inside her with the overflowing wrath that wanted to take over her.
Lamina cried to her heart’s content with her children lying on her arms as if she could still do something to wake them up when a loud banging sound of the open door suddenly made her stop her tracks.
Cessair’s stunned body stopped at the mere sight of their children.
“W-What… What the f*ck happened?!” He loudly inquired using his furious voice.
But she couldn’t give him any answers.
Her mind was blank.
She couldn’t just think straight.
And besides, before Merelos could ever explain it, her ruthlessness had taken over her and killed the poor man.
Together, they mourned for their children’s lifeless and cold bodies.
“I swear, I will avenge your deaths.” She mumbled with pure determination in her voice.
For she would make sure to make them pay whoever had caused this to their children.
“I know that you are thinking the same thing as I do.” Cessair’s voice was full of resolve, as was hers.
“Let’s do it before the bloody moon. I will make them pay for this.” Her husband’s cold voice had sent shivers down her spine intensifying the emotions that they both felt.
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POV: Tamika Aibek
She weakly sat on her bed as she saw Shanaia’s eyes widen in both shock and gratitude that she might have woken up already.
But that wasn’t on her mind for now. She was more concerned about the King and his possible actions after seeing things from the future.
“W-Where is the King?” She worriedly inquired.
Shanaia just shook her head.
“Stop thinking about that, Tamika. You still have to take a rest.” Shanaia concernedly reminded her.
But she was more concerned now.
Her visions had become so literal and rapid that she hadn’t had time to explain everything. She was just too exhausted after telling them her visions.
But everything about it might be so crucial and too important that she hoped she wasn’t too late.
“I… I have to talk to the King…” She tried to put her feet on the floor when Shanaia stood up at the side of her bed to stop her from doing what she wanted to do.
“The King had already gone out to save Tamara in the woods just like what you told us a while ago.” Shanaia seriously informed her, but her forehead furrowed.
That might be why she was acting so weird.
Her eyes suddenly widened.
“N-No…” She lowly uttered.
She was already too late. She was already too late to explain it to them.
Tamika shook her head.
“N-No…” She repeatedly stated.
“W-Why?” Shanaia curiously inquired.
“Yes, they should save Tamara, but they should make sure that no one gets hurt. Because Tamara isn’t just the one to be saved…” She blurted it out ambiguously.
But before Shanaia could even inquire about what she was blabbering about, Kage entered her room with his unreadable expression.
Agony flickered in his eyes and she just confirm that she was already too late.
Because it wasn’t just Tamara whom they should save.
The two people that would be the root cause for the war to intensify had already befallen. And they must get ready for the bloody war.
Because no one could ever stop the heart that was already too thirsty of revenge.
No one could ever stop the soul that was already full of resolve to get even.
No one could ever stop the mind that was in chaos and directed into one thing: an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.
And this was all that she had hoped not to happen.
However, what’s done couldn’t be undone and she must prepare for the worst, because it was already yet to come.