*LEIA TRINE* This was my mistake.I didn’t care what anyone says but it was my mistake that my sister had been forced to take such a step.She was burning herself alive for fucks sake! What did I do?“Asa! No!” I cried out running towards her but she took a step back warning me to maintain my distance or she would jump of the cliff and then there would be nothing we could do to save her.I was so dejected, so exhausted and completely ruined by this point as I fell to my knees bringing a protective hand to my stomach wondering in what state of mind had I said those cursed words to her before.‘Sorry Mom, Dad, I couldn’t protect Asa, like I had promised I would. I have been such a bad sister.’“Leia, hey please stop it, your body still hasn’t recovered properly, don’t make such sudden movements,” Michael said worrying about me but right now I hated his worries towards me that should all be targeted at my sister.“Water. We need water,” Cain cried out getting up from beside me as he m
*ASA TRINE*A warm embrace and a gentle calling was the first thing I recognized in the eternal darkness that I had felt myself submerged in.“Wake up, Asa.”Those words had been repeated to me for a long time before I could differentiate it from the buzz that had been overtaking my head.“Asa?”There was another call and recognizing the voice I couldn’t help but feel hope glimmer inside me at the prospect of myself being alive.But the sooner had I felt happiness the quicker I realized that my sacrifice to the goddess mustn’t have worked and that meant that I had been unable to help free the world from Ephialtes.“Everything is alright, Asa. I am sorry for how I behaved.”Those words made me yearn to open my eyes as I carved to see the face that must have been holding a frown on it.But was everything really alright?Suddenly I felt a tingling touch near my eyes as I heard an increase in sounds from around me as Cain said, “Why are you crying, Asa? Are you in pain?”There was some mo
*ASA TRINE* “Are you sure you feel well enough to sit here with us?” I asked Leia where she was once again sprawled on the sofa of dad’s office.“Just go on,” she muttered as she rolled to face us where Cain and I had been sitting opposite her on the other sofa while Michael occupied a single sofa chair close to her head from where he massaged her head every few minutes in.“So far what we have come to know is that the only way to defeat Ephialtes is by using this dagger,” I said pointing at the white dagger that if we went with the lyrics of the lullaby is made from a part of my soul. Pointing the finger now at myself I said, “The second point is that only I can defeat Ephialtes using it.”“Precisely,” Michael said and taking out a finger he said, “Now we need to know how we will find Ephialtes,” Bringing up another finger he said, “Secondly, when will we fight him? I am sure there must be a right time for this.”“Till now every clue that we have got is from the lullaby so let’s see
*ASA TRINE*Before I could respond back I was suddenly strictly pulled back into a familiar touch as my face was pressed against a warm chest and hid away from everyone’s view.“Who the fuck are you?”In my protection and defence everyone rose at once in guard as they came to stand in front of me. Pushing to turn around as I tried to look at the others I saw my pregnant sister get off the couch and then waddle to come and stand in front of me too.This sight was comical to me and looking up at Cain to tell him to let me go I felt him being reluctant but then slowly free his arm around me to turn me around and face the new visitor we had.The man, now standing straight and tall was someone who looked older than all of us, maybe in his late twenties? I am not quite sure but he held a calmness that came with maturity and age as he fixed his gaze on me and then brought his attention to Leia where his eyes widened again very subtly but then a smile blossomed on his face.“I am so happy to
*CAIN ARIUS*“I am very sorry about my son,” Ross said as he bowed before us, worried about his old bones I was about to tell him to not worry about it when Asa immediately got up and placing a hand on his shoulder, she said, “Please Ross, you are someone very respected to us you don’t need to apologize to us about anything.”Joining Asa, Leia bunched her brows and said; “Besides he only helped Asa so we should instead be thanking him.”“Still it was rude of him to come in uninvited and without any former notice,” Ross said bending to apologize again but this time firmly holding onto him Asa brought him to the lone sofa chair and forced him to sit down.Seeing his father so tensed Devin got up this time and facing Asa he said, “I am sorry if I seemed rude in my actions before, it was no intention of mine to have hurt you two ladies in any matter.”His particular attention to the Trine sisters was bothering me but more so when I found him looking at Asa more than Leia.It seemed like s
*ASA TRINE*Somehow there has been an increase in a tension in the air than what it had been before. It almost felt suffocating to stay in the same room as Cain and Devin.“What is wrong with your man this time?” Leia asked as she looked at me watching the two of them running around as if competing to see who could fill the trunk of the car first.“He is jealous,” I drily replied back as I massaged my back that had taken the brunt of this situation all night long last night.“Even after that session that you both had in the wee hours of morning?” Leia asked giggling as she sat down on the step beside me making my eyes widen in embarrassment. Did she hear us?Hiding my face I looked away as I asked, “Were we too loud?”“No you weren’t but I was crossing from in front of your door last night and then I could hear it,” she continued to laugh at my expense and finally sorting her smile she said, “But still is Devin really the reason why Cain seems so on edge?”“It seems so,” I sighed m
*ASA TRINE*I wanted to play the music in the car to dissipate some of the anger that Cain was feeling but I had already tried to do that twice and each time he immediately shut off the radio. I was scared to try a third time in case he was to claw out the whole system in itself.I wanted to say something to him to get him to calm down but Devin wasn’t making it easy for me making me glare at him.The two seemed to be fighting even now as we were driving back to our pack. Looking out from my passenger’s side widow I saw Devin driving side by side on his motorcycle looking at me every few seconds in and then looking past me from the passenger’s seat to the driver’s seat to taunt Cain as he would give him a two finger salute and then rev up the engine speeding up ahead.Doing that again Devin took off ahead and even though I couldn’t see his face I had a feeling that he was smiling inside the dark helmet that he was wearing. I had thought of him to be a mature and older guy but he turne
*ASA TRINE*A thrill such as this I had never experienced before.My nerves were still crawling all over my body from the excitement and a never wavering happiness that came with every acceleration of his motorcycle.“Are you enjoying yourself?” Devin shouted his voice muffling from the helmet and the wind but thanks to my wolf ears I was able to catch it. Smiling in agreement as we zoomed past some more vehicles skillfully scoring the road in a patterned manner making me sway my body one side to the other as the beautiful slender machine guided me.“Yes!” I shouted back to let him know of my over crazed mind and free spirits that hadn’t felt this liberated in a long while. I was sure that Devin had been driving more than a lot over the speed limit but I could care less about that in this moment.‘Do you trust him that much?’ Xara’s voice echoed in my head making me feel slightly disoriented and surprised having heard her voice after a long time. Her question made me wonder if I actua