*CAIN ARIUS*Sighing I entered Dad’s office tiredly as I slumped down on the vacant chair in front of his desk and informed him, “I, myself placed the moonstone in the water carefully in the temple so you can rest assured that it will be safe. Besides that, I have also stationed a guard to guard the Moonstone twenty-four seven in a rotation. They are all the best and most loyal guards but even then neither of them is aware of the Moonstone being placed inside the bowl or the purpose of it, all they know is that they have to guard it well.”Listening to my rant I noticed Dad look slightly more relaxed than before as he stopped his pacing movements from in front of the window and came to a halt behind his desk. Leaning his hands over it he tapped his fingers and asked, “Are you sure that everything was perfect?”I had never seen him this stressed before. There were winkles visible on his clear skin and his eyes had sunken in. Today my father looked especially weak and helpless. Not used
*CAIN ARIUS*She was struggling in my hold as I refused to let her down from my arms.I was scared.I was scared that if I let her down then she would run back to Clay and I wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.It was only when we had entered our room did I let go of her and almost instantly she ran away from me to the other corner.“Do you know how humiliating it was to have you carry me all the way here!” she shouted pointing an accusing finger at me.Her attitude pissed me off, I couldn’t understand her reasoning behind those words and I am sure my incredulity didn’t hide from my face.“And you didn’t find it humiliating to walk hand in hand with another man that was not your mate?” I asked my voice matching hers and I could see her guard fall for a second. Still unlike before it didn’t phase her and scowling at me she repeated her excuse of only getting help from him to walk.“Then if he helped you then what is wrong with my helping my own mate? Why would it be embarrassing t
*CAIN ARIUS*“Come on in. Why are you both so late?” Mom asked as soon as she opened the door for us. She had a wide smile on her face which contradicted my state of mind. “Are they here?” I heard Clay’s voice from behind her ask and turning around to give an affirmative answer she left the door open for us to cater to ourselves as she went back in. I am sure if she had paid close attention then she would have noticed the awkward tension that Asa and I had between us and though partly it made me sad I was also happy to evade any sad questions on this night of celebration.We stood silently together for a few seconds listening to the laughter inside and then sighing as if annoyed at me she walked in first without a single glance towards me.“How dare you be late for your sister’s celebration?” I heard Leia shout on Asa’s arrival and when I walked in I saw her pulling Asa in a headlock making her take a seat beside her at the dinner table while the younger sister shouted out strings o
*CAIN ARIUS*“What do you think you are doing? This is wrong you know? You can’t just force me to do something,” she shouted looking at me incredulously as I shut the door behind us.Pinning her with a glare I shouted back at her in a voice louder than hers to make her shut up as I said, “No, what you are doing to me is the wrong thing, Asa! Did you really think I would be alright with seeing you happily flirting with Clay in front of my eyes?”I could feel Dion pushing in my head to let him out but I controlled him for the time being. I wanted to have a talk with her I didn’t want to scare her away like the previous times when I was dealing with her with my insecurities and jealousy reigning over me.“I did no such thing,” she again denied like she had back home and I couldn’t believe how insufferable her attitude had become to take me as an idiot who would trust her again and again. What trust? I don’t even know the meaning of that word.‘Let me talk to mate! Let me show her that s
*CAIN ARIUS*“Save me, Clay.”That was the first thing she said with dread-filled in her voice as if she had just escaped from a villainous figure that was after her life.“What’s wrong?” Clay asked worriedly bunching her in his arms as she sniffled and cried there looking at me with accusation gleaming in her bright emerald eyes.No, don’t look at me like that! I didn’t do anything to you!I wanted to shout at her that she didn’t get to play the victim when I had equally suffered because of her but hiding her face in his chest Clay comforted her by rubbing her back as he whispered warm assurance to her.“You don’t need to be scared anymore, my dear Asa, I am here for you. Please don’t cry,” he said as he passed me a glare while patting her head with his other hand that had her wrapped in his hold.“Take me away from here, please. I can’t stay here any longer,” she said and in a swift motion and a passing smile, Clay pulled her out of my room and towards his.I was stunned for a secon
*ASA TRINE*“Who do you love, Asa?” he asked again as if to taunt Cain more and without any control, over my body, I turned around to hug him as I replied in a bright and happy tone, “You, Clay. I love you!”I felt happy hugging him but at the same time, there was something wrong with this situation. I couldn’t pinpoint what it was exactly but a gasp that resonated at my words made my heart constrict painfully. My nails dug into Clay’s back as I continued to hug him and looking down at me with a fond smile he said, “You know you make me the happiest man alive by saying that. I love you too, my mate.”‘No!’ There was agony in that voice that cried inside me and it shook my body from within as my head panged at the roaring voice echoing in the depths of every crevice of my brain.‘Asa, don’t do this to Cain, he is our mate!’Pulling away from me Clay looked at my lips with a fond smile and then turning me around he said, “Look at him, Asa. He is such a loser, begging at my feet to get
*ASA TRINE*Breaking away from the kiss I felt air fill my lungs again as I heaved out a heavy breath and smiled with fresh tears in my eyes as I realized that Clay had given up on me.I was free.“Asa?” Cain’s voice trembled as he waited for me to gather myself while a hint of disbelief still affected the warmness that it should have held.“Have you really come back to me Asa?” he asked again and fixing my green eyes on his beautiful golden orbs that had been distinctively displaying the cracked pieces of his broken heart I nodded my head and kissed him again to assure him.He sucked in a fluttering breath, trying to control his tears from sprouting out again and chuckling myself to stop me from crying as the tears slipped past my lid I said, “I am back Cain. I am only yours. I only love you, my mate.”“Say it again,” he said, his voice on the verge of begging as he let me wipe his tears away but not once did he close his eyes.“I love you, Cain,” I said my voice firmer to make him b
*ASA TRINE*Everything was not alright.I can’t believe how stupid I was.Fuck!“Will you stop feeling guilty for him? He deserved every bit of what is happening to him,” Cain grumbled from beside me as the two of us walked down the familiar hospital corridors and to the private cabin.My eyes fell on Sofia’s body first but she was not who I had come to meet today and shifting it to the bed beside her I noticed Clay’s sleeping body resting there with a tired and withered look on his face. Clay had slipped into a vegetative state or unconsciousness just like Sofia.Unlike Sofia, he looked like he was in a worse situation with a face as pale as paper and just as thin for the nerves below his skin to be visible to me. “Asa!” I heard my name being shouted even before the door had opened and bracing myself for another terrorizing news I looked towards the door to see Luna bursting in through them. She looked fervent in her movements as she clambered inside. Her frantic blue eyes seeming