CHAPTER NINETY-THREE
AVA’S POV
I sat on the kid’s bed, staring at Nikky angrily. The little girl acts like a witch, and she has some similar traits to Harley.
I know Harley is a witch descent; her mother was a witch. Although Harley isn’t a witch, it can be passed to the next generation.
Catherine, on the other hand, is an orphan, and I doubt if there is any history of witches in their family’s lineage. I don’t know why Nikky behaves like a witch; I have seen her do some spells even if she isn’t up to ten.
“Don’t drink that tea,” Nikky said, hitting her brother’s tea to the ground.
“What the fuck Nikky? I made that fucking tea,” I yelled at her; I would have slapped her on the face, but I don’t appreciate hitting children; I am capable of murder tho, but hitting children is against my personality, besides if I do anything, she will tell Burke about it.
“Watch your language, Aunty Ava, don’t forget you are talking to kids,” Nikky retorted, scolding me like a child; she is even way worse than her mother.
“Why did you throw his tea to the ground?” I inquired, standing up from the bed.
“The tea is poisoned, and the poison would give us the Affliction and it would slowly kill us. I heard that is how our grandfather died,” She said, smiling at me.
I was dumbfounded because she wasn’t far from the truth, how did she know about that, I had been poisoning their tea so that would have the Affliction, and it wasn’t working out, I even had to increase the poison, not knowing that Nikky had been spilling all the teas to the ground, intentionally.
“So you have been spilling all the tea you have been making?” I asked, to be sure, as I went closer to their little dining table in the middle of their huge room.
“Oh yes, this is the first time you are watching us eat, so you might not know, I have been spilling all the tea to the ground because all have been poisoned,” She stated, stuffing her mouth with some loaves of bread and making some crumbs fall to the ground.
“And you think that should have been your next line of action? What if your assumptions are wrong?” I yelled at her, trying to keep my countenance in place.
But deep down, I knew Nikky would be a hard nut to crack just like her mother. I thought Killing Catherine would have been enough to get what I wanted, not knowing she had a replica of herself.
“That shouldn’t be the question you are supposed to be asking, Aunty Ava. The question that should be popping into your head is, who wants us dead?” She stated, giving me a deadly stare as if she knew all the crimes I had committed.
“I… I… I don’t know,” I stuttered, not able to look at her eyes as she stared at me with questions in her eyes.
“And this is not an assumption; I know our tea has been poisoned, and the poisoner has the power of the Alpha,” She continued talking as she stared at me. Her stare felt like she was throwing accusations at me, but I tried to keep my cool.
“How do you know and who do you think is trying to kill my niece and nephews,” I said, trying hard not to stutter.
Nikky stood up from her chair and came closer to me without taking her eyes off me. When she got to my front, she smiled.
She could barely reach my breast because she was way smaller than she was; she took a chair and stood on it to attain my height.
“I think I should be asking you that question Ava,” She whispered to my ears, and she called my name without adding any form of respect.
“Are… you,”
“Ava is something we need to talk about,” Harley said, instructing me as she bagged into the kids’ room without knocking.
I felt my heart at peace seeing Harley because I was already speechless; Nikky made me speechless.
“We were in the middle of a conversation before you bagged in on my brothers and me, Harley,” Nikky scolded Harley, and Harley looked at her surprised; I wasn’t surprised, though.
“Is she talking to me?” Harley asked a rhetorical question, looking at me and I shrugged my shoulders.
“I don’t think there’s two of you, which is one of the wisest things the moon goddess did,” Nikky said, rudely, stepping down from the chair and walking back to her chair to eat her food.
“Watch your mouth, little girl; I’m going to be your stepmother soon; you don’t want to get on my bad side, do you?” Harley scolded Nikky, and Nikky just smiled at her, showing the dimples on her left cheek; she got that from my brother.
“You can never be my stepmother, except I’m six feet under the ground,” Nikky sneered at her.
“Harley, let’s go out and talk,” I intervened before Harley lost her patience and did something drastic, ruining our chances of making Burke Marry her.
Harley rolled her eyes at me before we left their room.
“I think Nikky is a fucking witch,” I stated, after ensuring we were in my room.
Harley burst into a round of laughter, thinking I was joking, but when she saw how serious I was, she ceased her laughter.
“Think Ava, both of her parents are wolves, how would she be a witch?” Harley said, stating the obvious.
“That got me thinking, too; there is more we need to dig into about Catherine. Even if she’s dead, her daughter might ruin us,” I said, sitting on the edge of my bed.
I remembered how scared I was as Nikky spoke, the authority her voice carried for a little child. She is a witch, and she knows something about my crimes.
“Why are you so bothered by the child? She is still grieving her mother and would do silly things, Ava,” Harley said, still not understanding my point of view.
“No, Harley, she is more than a child; she knew their tea had always been poisoned, and the poison would give them the Affliction; she looked at me like she was accusing me,” I said, fidgeting, remembering our conversation made me scared as hell.
“That’s creepy, but I don’t think that matters any longer,” Harley said, trying to calm me down.
“It matters, Harley; I can’t lose everything I have ever worked for because of a little girl,” I whined, and Harley just smiled at me.
“It doesn’t matter, because Burke is going to get married to me,” She said, grinning from ear to ear.