Chapter 98
POV: Lamina Darkwood
Being shocked was an understatement.
She was certainly astounded as to its deeper sense. She couldn’t believe that she was hearing everything about it.
“Just like your father. I am very proud of you, Cessair, and I bet your father would have been very proud of you. You are as manipulative and as sly as he is.” Elder Courdamus cynically commented.
“He should have said that to me. He should still be here with us. If not for Lamina’s father! That Lomero is truly much more cunning and treacherous.” His voice became so dangerous and firm.
She pursed her lips together at the mere mention of her father’s name. Her heart was clenching inside her so hard that it was making it hard for her to breath.
“Good thing that you ended his life. His daughter had compensated for everything that he should be doing for us.
Lamina’s wrath towards the Royal Blood because of her blinded and unrequited love for the late King Reeve and for her thoughts that they had killed her parents had made everything easier for us.” Elder Courdamus sardonically revealed causing her body to shake in tension.
She couldn’t believe that all this time, it was her whom they had manipulated. It was she whom they had used.
Lamina thought that she was the one holding the game. She thought that she was the one leading their pack.
But she wasn’t all along.
From the very beginning, it was her whom they had been using for their own plans.
And what?
Cessair killed her father?!
She felt her legs wobble with the possible truth.
“Stop speaking about her unrequited love, Courdamus. It is I whom she loved. It is I whom she had choose. And it is I whom she married.” Cessair evilly claimed using his cold and menacing voice.
Lamina clenched her hands in balled fists until they were already become pale paperwhite.
It was Cessair and his clan that had manipulated our clan so she would direct her wrath towards the Royal Bloods?
She wanted to shout the fury building inside her, but she wanted to hear more. She wanted to fuel her anger more. She wanted to know more about the truth.
Lamina couldn’t believe that her long-awaited revenge for her clan should have been directed at the man that she married in the first place!
Elder Courdamus let out a hearty laugh.
“Oh, you’re right, you’re right, Cessair. It is you whom she married anyway. At least you have her now you have been so in love with her since the moment you laid your eyes on her. She must be very grateful for that. She might have died that night. King Reeve was trying to protect her though. But she was just too blind to see it.” Elder Courdamus smirked at his own words.
“But I already had Lamina. But those f*cking sons of Reeve were stopping every plan that I made. I am the one who is supposed-to-be leading! I should be proclaimed the Alpha King of All Wolf Borne! That Hades isn’t good enough. He is only a Royal Blood, but he is useless! If he had only married my daughter, I could have also manipulated him and made it easier for me to ascend to the throne. But he is a goddamn sh*t falling to a mere Sacred Emissary!” Cessair angrily snapped, and she heard something’s broken.
She may have assumed it was a glass or something. But her mind was already drifting away ignoring what it probably was.
“It’s okay, Cessair. We already have the upper hand. Just make sure that Lamina gives you Kage’s blood. We need that for the elixir.” Elder Courdamus stated.
“She is too blind and so hurt in our children’s death. Besides, that bastard son of hers didn’t have any value to her. He was just a mistake to her.” She could hear Cessair’s smile while saying those words making her wolf growl inside her.
“Who is it?!” A loud booming voice from Cessair resonated in her ears.
She couldn’t believe that the liquid she had drank a while ago was enough to hide her scent just to know the truth.
Lamina smirked without humor as she slowly stepped into the room leaving the shadows where she was hiding from.
“L-Lamina…” Elder Courdamus whispered.
They were both surprised as they saw her enter the room with an unreadable expression on her face. She truly was a great actress for hiding the seething anger that was building up inside her.
“How long are you staying there, dear? Why don’t you enter?” She could hear a bit of reluctance and ambiguity towards Cessair’s voice different from the one that he used while talking to Elder Courdamus.
Lamina couldn’t stop herself from laughing to her heart’s content humorless and full of sarcasm.
Yes, she might have left sanity just a few moments ago.
How couldn’t she not be?
After knowing all of those truths?
She wasn’t a saint to just ignore all of it.
“Well, let’s just say that I love listening to your voice from the other end.” She simply stated as she instantly got one of the daggers she had been keeping on her thigh and threw it at Elder Courdamous’ forehead without thinking twice.
“What the f*ck!” Cessair shuddered as he blurted out full of shock.
Elder Courdamus’ blood immediately scattered on the floor as he slowly fell. He was already dead on the spot with his eyes still open and filled with disbelief.
“Are you really out of your mind, Lamina?!” Cessair unbelievingly shouted at her, but she never flinched.
She just watched him coldly.
“You just killed the Elder! What will happen to his allies?! They will get mad at us!” He furiously screamed at her.
Lamina just gritted her teeth slowly unleashing the pure resentment that she truly felt.
“So, you have been using me all this time, huh? I can’t believe I trusted you!” She ruthlessly yelled.
Cessair just stared at her with no expression on his face. He wasn’t stunned or anything at all.
At some other point, Lamina would have been scared out of her wits, but not this time. But her heart, mind, and soul had all gone together to support her anger and pain.
“How could you, Cessair? How could you do those things to me?” She brokenly inquired.
Cessair just let out a humorless smile.
“Why? Wouldn’t you do the same if you were in my shoes, Lamina? I bet you will just do the same thing as I did or maybe, even worst. We are just the same.” Cessair evilly continued but her mind just wanted to shut him up.
“Shut up!” She firmly stopped him, but Cessair just chuckled.
“Why? Are you afraid to know that I’m right? Your father was the one who came to us begging for help. And my father just extended his help towards your father, who wanted out the moment he almost completed his invention. That is certainly out of agreement and the friendship that we had.” He ominously added.
“And you killed my parents?! Am I right?!” She angrily accused him.
Cessair nodded his head in agreement.
“You’re right. My father did ask me. And that Reeve just killed my father, so, I killed him, too.” He finally admitted giving her the shock of her life.
“W-What?” She weakly whispered.
Cessair clenched his jaw as the veins in his arms suddenly contracted.
“Why? Are you still affected by him, Lamina? Yes. I killed him. He isn’t the main target, though. It was Hadia, but when I thought about it, if Hadia was dead, you would have a chance to be with him again. Especially that you are bearing his child. So, since he was trying to protect the love of his life, I decided to just kill them both.” He finally explained.
She couldn’t believe what she had heard. She couldn’t believe that the man she had married was far more worst than her nightmares. His revelations had really shaken her to the core.
“Anyway, let us just move on and get to the main point, Lamina. I will forgive you for killing Courdamus, and let’s just go on and take revenge with the Royal Bloods. They were the ones who killed our children, remember?” He seriously said as if it wasn’t just a big deal.
She looked at her as if he’d sprouted new heads on his neck.
How could this man think in this way?
She couldn’t believe that she didn’t really know the man that she had married in the first place.
“You are insane.” Lamina spoke her voice filled with pure hate and disgust.
Cessair violently held her arms making her shriek in pain. His elongated nails were digging into her skin.
“I am almost reaching out for my dreams, Lamina. I will immediately make you the Queen. Don’t you want that? I have everything that you ever wanted.” Cessair tried to convince her, but she was just so broken and appalled by him.
“You have killed my parents. You have manipulated me. And yet, you still want me to be with you. You’re sick, Cessair! I hate you!” She yelled with such venom that Cessair’s eyes turned bloody red.
“No! You will not do that! You are mine, Lamina!” Cessair angrily snapped, but Lamina was fast enough to get her dagger and swung it at Cessair bruising his arms.
“F*ck! You b*tch! You’ll pay for this!” He yelled like a madman.
Lamina had never seen him like this like he had already lost his sanity for good. She knew that she had no match for him. She knew that in the end, she would still lose especially since the elixir that he drank was still in his system.
However, she wouldn’t put up a goddamn fight!
She would fight until the end.
Lamina swung her dagger once again and bruised Cessair’s face this time. She smirked at her. She still had time to shift to her restless wolf form and ran away from this man.
She would be planning her next step. She would seek her revenge and kill him the most painful way possible.
But because of too much thinking, she hadn’t dodged Cessair’s elongated claws digging deeply into her stomach, causing her mouth to bleed with blood. Her breathing hitched.
Even Cessair seemed shocked at what he did.
“Oh, no! No! L-Lamina…” He called her brokenly.
But before he could even hold her, she instantly stepped back. Cessair watched her with his widened eyes.
No. She wouldn’t let this man end her life. She owned her life, and she would decide her fate.
She wouldn’t let him hold her with his filthy hands the ones that had killed her parents and the ones that manipulated her, used her, to his advantage.
With that thought in mind, she held the dagger tightly as she hit herself with it.
She gasped and breathed heavily.
“No!” Cessair shouted as he held her in his arms.
It was a mess as she heard Cessair call someone from outside, but she didn’t care less.
If this was the end of hers, she would gladly accept it. At least she would finally be with Leah and Aeron the only happiness that she had while she was with Cessair.
She suddenly remembered her father her parents. The legacy that she was hoping to have from the very beginning, something that she had treasured the most, was just an illusion.
Because it wasn’t pure, and her heart wasn’t true enough to make it possible.
She never thought that she was holding too much to a broken legacy when she forgot that it was already hurting her deeply.
At least now, she had chosen this path where she could be free. For the last time, she had the chance to choose her own path the way she wanted to end her life.
Not by any other person who wanted it to be done, but by her own will and at her own pace of time.
She was hoping that the Moon Goddess would forgive her and gave her the justice that she had truly wished for from the very beginning.
That was the only thing, she had been praying for even if she got her life right now.
Lamina coughed hard as she felt her body becoming colder. She couldn’t hear anything anymore which was a good thing for her.
She wanted to be at peace for the last time no pain, no tears, no anger just the serenity, the light, and the acceptance.