AIDEN BAHEDIA We stand outside of the door waiting for my cousins arrival. I haven't seen them for six years. I got a call yesterday saying they would be coming today to stay for awhile. I am excited to see my cousin Ashie. We used to be really close before she moved with her family- they stayed within the reach of the coven. She married two years ago and gave birth a month ago. Their car drives into the compound. Sasha is standing by my right, on my left hand is Seb, Alex. Ashie Cadio steps out of the car carrying a child in her hand. She hasn't changed much and her hair seems shorter. Her white curly hair, the length of her shoulder, doe eyes, a neatly done micro blading, small pointed nose, grey eyes. She has four piercing on her right earlobe and none of her left earlobe. She is wearing a black palazzo trouser on a blue long sleeve crop top, her wolf and dagger tattoo on her stomach are visible. I shake my head and smile. She hasn't changed one bit. Her Russia
Sasha Vahemir POVI open my eyes and try to stretch, my whole body aching. As I attempt to sit up, the pain intensifies. Glancing around, I notice the room in disarray, a broken window with debris scattered all around. I search for Aiden but he is nowhere to be found."Did a war happen while I was asleep?" I mutter to myself, gathering my thoughts.I try to stand up, but a migraine kicks in before I can fully get up. Taking a deep breath, I rise through the pain. While walking towards the door, I notice it's slightly ajar. I hear voices from outside—it sounds like Aiden and Davil. Is Davil here to see me? Filled with excitement, I take a step outside but halt after catching Davil's words."I can't come. We are still ther-" Davil says, interrupted by Aiden."Still there? What the hell, Davil? Your sister is sick and needs you, and you're taking forever to put the damn ring on her finger. Slipping a ring onto a woman's finger takes less than two minutes, yet it's been da-""Don't yell a
AIDEN BAHEDIASeb and Beatrice are cuddling each other as they play with each other's fingers. Ashie is sitting beside her husband, her back against his chest, and she laughs as he whispers in her ear. Alex and Andre are arguing about something, while Sasha is playing with the wine in her hand, her eyes glued to the fire before her. Laura walks in and sits beside me, her face facing mine.I hear Sasha's phone ringing and turn my head to see her still doing her thing. Andre taps her, and she doesn't budge; she must have zoned out. Andre applies pressure, earning stares from everyone. After a while, she sluggishly tilts her head to face Andre, wearing an emotionless expression."Your phone?""Anything else?" She turns her head to the side, and Andre shakes his head.The call ends, and she doesn't bother to ask. The phone rings again, and she still doesn't answer. She gulps down the entire glass of wine and pours herself another one. The call ends, and her eyes are still fixed on the fire
SASHA VAHEMIRI don't have a moment's peace as my mind is fixated on Aiden. Can I trust him to keep his word? How careless of me not to wear the lens; I didn't expect him to wake up. When I finally reach the bed, Andre is already fast asleep.As I descend the stairs, my heart races. A hand pulls me against a familiar chest. I recognize the scent of Davil's perfume. I step back, meeting his eyes, while Victoria Darc stands excitedly nearby. The room's attention is on us, except for Aiden and Seb. Did Davil exclude Seb to talk about yesterday?"Excuse us," Davil commands, studying my face and body for signs of abuse.Everyone disperses, leaving just the two of us."You too, kokobean," Victoria nods before leaving the room."What happened?""Why are you here? Leave, Davil—""Your anger is valid, Sasha. I'm sorry. I needed you there. I needed my only sister, my emotional support, my rock. We thought it was right to let you bond with your husban—" I interrupt, pointing to the stairs."Husb
SASHA VAHEMIR "There is nothing to talk about", I walk into the room and he scoffs. "I knew you won't oblige", he sighs and stands and walk towards the door. I run after him and pull him back. I push his chest and he doesn't bulge, his facial expression is emotionless, therefore making it hard to guess what he is thinking before reading into his mind. "You don't want to talk, maybe you will talk to other p-" "Don't play that stupid game with me. I don't need counselling", I shoot back. He shrugs his shoulder, "Who knows you might need severe counselling. For all we know you have daddy issue, maybe because he never returned with the mil-" "You know so much about daddy issue- oh wait, of course you would. You have a perfectionist as a Dad. Maybe my dad never returned with the milk but he left behind a legacy but what did your dad leave for you, burdens. So please let us talk about our father's short coming, I am down for it ", I and Aiden are having a little staring competition an
Aiden Bahedia We are in Sasha's private plane, Sasha has her eyes turn towards the window, her headset above her eyes. She has her head made in a big Didi. I look away from her and look out my window. Sasha has been unusually quiet and is strangely unbothered by everyone being back at home. I guess she doesn't mind this trip after all. The trip to the city of love was quiet and comfortable. I steal glances at her on every occasion, she on the other hand doesn't care if she is on the plane with someone other than the crew. Sasha steps down from the plane, the guards guiding her with his hands. I follow closely behind her. We walk to our convoy and zoom off. Sasha never for once took her headset out of her head or spoke to anyone. **** "One bedroom great" Sasha grumbles and finally removes her headset. Mrs El Mushacr rented the entire hotel just for Sasha, the guards, the cook and I. Anyone who doesn't work for the coven directly was relieved off t
**AIDEN BAHEDIA**The curtain opens and I groan. Why does she have to wake up only after I wake up? I use a pillow to cover my face and sit up a few minutes later. My hair is all over the place. I look up at Sasha who has her headsets over her ears. This early morning, Sasha."A little time change. We are dining with them this morning," she says before heading to the bathroom.I lie back on the bed and groan even louder.*******She stands in front of the mirror. The maids leave the room, leaving her to admire herself. She looks as beautiful as she does every damn day. She wears a red blazer suit that blends with her hair color. Her makeup is heavy; fixed lashes, nails of different colors. The makeup artist did an amazing job mixing beige with red for her lipstick. Her hair is curled and clipped neatly, making it full. She looks at her reflection and smiles at the beauty before her. She opens her lens pack, glances at me through the mirror, and fixes her lenses. She puts on her red he
SASHA VAHEMIR "She's fine, daddy," I hear Aiden say from the window. I open my eyes slightly and catch him shirtless, wearing black shorts and sandals. He has his left hand on the window, his right hand holding his phone against his ear. He turns around, and I shut my eyes and pretend to be asleep. After a few minutes, I open my eyes again and find him seated on the round chair in front of the bed. Sweat is dripping down his abdomen, the lines of his muscles clearly visible. His biceps and muscles - damn. I had forgotten just how magnificent he looked. "Yeah, yeah. We'll have the time of our lives. Tell Alex to call me and please keep me updated," he looks up as if he wants to glance at me, and I quickly shut my eyes. I could have sworn I heard him chuckle. "Hell no. Why do I have to be the one to tell her?" he complains. Maybe he didn't notice me looking at him. "Davil should call his sister and break the news to her," he gets up from the chair, running his fingers through hi
SASHA VAHEMIR The page flips and end at a certain page, and I understand. It is the evil presence in my room trying to communicate with me. "The individual conjuring the spell must make a pact and sacrifice something they love to ensure the wicked of evil spirit don't possess the body", I translate to English as I read it aloud. "What do you need?"I ask no one and every spirit around, and the page flips backwards, and it stops at a certain page, and the subheading is written 'HUMANITY'. "If I come back in one piece, I'd give you more than my humanity" I promise, and the candle lights on its own. The page flips to the page of reliving ones memories and life history. Why am I making pact with the spirit? I am seeing things that are ikely to happen as a newborn or while mum was pregnant with me. And I am staying longer than usual, so many evil spirits roam and search for an available host, and I need a little backup...... more like a little protection. Do I trust the
AIDEN BAHEDIA Ever since Sasha's appearance the pack as been in disarray and it is hard calming everyone one downing seeing as the person we are going to war with is the coven and Sasha Vahemir. With a threat like hers it shouldn't be taken lightly. Would I have the heart to fight against the woman I love? The answer is no but love is never enough. We must fulfill our duties to our people now. As I walk to my parents room to talk to my dad, I hear my parents argue. I halt to hear what the fight is about so I know how to tackle it. "You knew?", Dad asks in utter shock and disgust. "Oh I knew. They needed to dethrone her and her father won't bulge. Her dad would have been a big threat to our revolution so we used his daughters discovery against him and it worked. They promised me security, he promised me things and he kept to it. They waited patiently until she was old enough. But they made sure we started breaking her as she got a little older. Do I hate her personal? No but
SASHA VAHEMIR There is laughter, jubilations as we feast because of Tash's new born. He has been carrying his child. He refuses to let the child feel the warmth of another. Abigail has been smiling but with a glint of sadness or is it.....regret? She has been brewing with laughter as she stares at her husband and her son. She must be proud of Tash. She really hit a jackpot. "It will be me soon", Tasha's excited voice whispers into my ear from behind me and I spurn and hold her in my arms and she laughs. "You are in your feels. Not bad Sasha. Not bad", I push her away lately pretending to be angry and she comes back into my arms, she uses my hand to wrap around her herself while I act all stubborn and non chalant. "Come on. I am your only sibling. I should be given special treatment", I lock my hands with her at my middle. She is the split image of the woman in the limbo but alot younger. Why is that so? Someone nudge me and I tilt my neck to the side and I see Victo
SASHA VAHEMIRI stare at the card in my hands and everyone I love are circling me, everyone except Davil. I don't know how to feel about any of these. I don't know why I can't feel anything. It is like I have lost my ability to feel. It is like the pain became to much for me to bear so my brain shut down my ability to feel. Tasha is sitting beside me as she holds my arm. They all stare at me with pity in their eyes. He is marrying his mistress two days after I signed the divorce. I don't know how I should feel about this. "If you don't go I won't", Tasha rest her head on my shoulder after speaking. "Say the word and we will all stay back", Tash utters. I should go. I will attend the wedding. I want to know how quick it is for him to throw everything we both shared out like it didn't happen. I want to know if there will be any trace of guilt in his eyes when he says his vow to the woman he had sex with right before me. "I will attend the wedding", I place my han
AIDEN BAHEDIA I knock at the door. My chest aches so much and I know it isn't from me. It is from Sasha. The door opens and Sasha's eyes are red like she has been crying. She just opens the door and walks towards the bed, no hug, no kisses, nothing. "You okay?", I ask and she just ignores me and sit on the bed as she bites her lips as tears fall. I look at the tiles and I see the test result and I sigh. She saw it. I kneel before her and hold her hand and she shakes her hand off mine. She is angry. Please not now Sasha. Please. "I told you we can't have kid-" "Did you ever want a child? Because that is the vibe I am getting off you", she spits out and I lose my cool. "That is harsh. Yes I want kids with yo-" "Oh stop those lies. You heard I couldn't give birth and you stopped trying. You didn't ask if it could be reversed. You left me to mourn our child on my own. I begged you to stay, if you had stayed I will still be carrying our child. I wasn't important
SASHA BAHEDIA I wake up in the morning to an empty bed, body pain and a cold weather. I rub my eyes and stand up and I stretch before leaving the bed. I don't see Aiden around. Did he just leave after having an aggressive sex that felt so much like a goodbye? I just sigh and check my phone incase he sent a message. I check and I see a message from him, it reads; I went out for some urgent work and I won't be around until later today. The maids are at your service. I called Tasha to keep you company. I love you so much and take care of yourself. I walk to the bathroom to take my bath. I come out of the closet wearing a black short on one of Aiden's big red shirt and my slippers and I bump into an excited Tasha. She hugs me and then pull away. She draws my hand towards the bed and we both sit down. "So I have something fun planned for us. Today is for just us. We get to talk and catch up", Tasha squeeze my hand and nod. "So let us get going", she stands up and drag me
AIDEN BAHEDIAAs my wife waltz in, she runs into my arms and hugs me so tight and I know something is wrong but I don't ask. She would tell if she wants me finding out. I lead her to our room and all we do is cuddle in my arms until she fell asleep. What did you do Taet? "Baby? Let us try to have another baby", her voice is low but catches me off guard. "Baby gir-" "Please", she holds unto my chest and the straddle around me as she plant kisses over my face. I gently push her off me and lay her down beside me. She sits up and arch an eyebrow waiting for an explanation. Why these sudden behavior? She came home sad and disturbed and now she wants kids. Did she forget when I said we can't have kids? "Stop please. I am not having sex because I want kids. I can have sex because you want it or I want you. But for kids that is nonesense talk. Stop making it hard to accept that I can't have a kid", I feel my anger slowly rise and I stand to my feet and turn my back
SASHA BAHEDIA "This isn't the Darcs castle", I speak up when taet and I enters my room. We are at a hotel. At the outskirt of Dahmatra. I spurn to Taet as I wait for an explanation. "There is a protective spell hovering around this hotel so no word said here gets out. We can't take the risk of talking about this when people are around. We don't know who to trust. So I suggested this. Don't worry we are not staying in the same ro-", he walks down the hall and opens a door. I walk behind him and he opens and say under his breath in Italian, "Un solo lavoro Veda, un solo lavoro" I laugh when I see what she did. I and Taet will be sharing the same bathroom. Taet couldn't even look at me and I just smile. "It is fine. We just have to knock whenever we want to use the toilet", I try to calm him down. "We will meet back in your room in five minutes", he shuts his door and I hear him cuss and I just smile stupidly.**** His room is very simple just a bed, cen
SASHA BAHEDIA I open the door of our room and look out the window and I see both men turning their back against each other. Aiden speaks and then walks towards the building. Davil swirl and looks at Aiden and smiles at him. He is proud of him but I wonder why. Davil looks up and I wave and Davil waves before entering his car. I watch his car leave and my chest aches. He didn't think I needed comforting, is it because he wanted me to pick up myself with any help from him. Is it because now isn't the time for some pity party? Is it because he is happy he took a little of his pound of flesh and didn't see the need to pretend? I really want him hugging me and assuring to bring the culprit the justice but he can't because that involves bringing himself to justice. Do I want that? I really hope this makes you feel better because it is does I will gladly watch you ruin me. "Sorry I took l-", I feel Aiden's hand wrap around my waist his head on my shoulder and he kisses my c