Callox POVI returned to my bedroom to find Rayell anxiously pacing around, I gave her a weak smile, feeling bad for all she had had to face, life was truly unfair, I wished I could just make it all go away, and give her the true happiness she deserves, “What is it Callox”, she asked I took her hands and ushered her to sit on our bed, “It’s just a little bump on the road to our happy ending”, “Well, it doesn’t look like it”, “Your father came”, I finally confessed, “My father? since when was he present at the trusted circle?”, “He- he made some complaints about our wedding-“, the look in her eyes made me stop, it was dreadful to see her eyes filled with sadness, “He tried to stop our wedding right?”, I heaved a sigh “Yes he did, although I think he had the help of my brother, but not to worry, he can’t do anything to stop us from being united, okay?”, I drew her in for a tight hug, She redrew it after a little while, “What complaints did
Callox POVI felt anger swirling in me, this shell of a father was already getting to Rayell, her eyes were filled with shock and fear after hearing Henry lies about her birth,"Hey love, don't listen to him, he's lying", I reassured her holding her hands to provide comfort, "By-but how can you be so- sure he's my father- so he'll know the truth about these things", "He is a liar, you can't believe him, at least if you want the truth, get it from someone honest, he's just going to keep spilling lies to get to you", "I'm not lying, I swear it on my life, Rayell is not my late wife's daughter, I'll show you our old family albums, of how my wife never had any bumps in her stomach and yet still got a child, there were no medical records of her being to the hospital, and I also have the medical reports the doctor gave us about her womb being too weak to bear a child", Henry rambled, and any hope of convincing Rayell against Henry's lies was gone, "Oh dear, I'm a Half Bree
Rayell POVCallox and I were both going through the medical reports in front of us, Liam had gotten all hospital records within the pack from the year she was born, it was an instruction from Callox, Callox believes we could find a led to my birth mother, I took in a deep breath, it has been difficult, today was the second day of searching for my birth mother, and even though I was bombarded with conflicting feelings, I still had to keep looking through the medical files, Callox had been helping me, with the record and dealing with my feelings, and honestly I just couldn’t wait for these to be over with, Callox had also made Liam his trusted guard help in reviewing the reports, so far nothing about me has turned up, and we were almost done checking them, part of me felt relieved that I may not have to deal with a stranger who is my birth mother, and part of me felt sad that I couldn’t get answers to my questions, I felt so lost and confused,Callox has been trying his best to be ther
Rayell POVMy head felt heavy, and I could hear voices, mostly ones I couldn’t recognize, I tried opening my eyes, but it was too heavy, and it felt better to keep them closed, but when I felt hands moving on my body, I immediately opened them, but not wide enough for me to make out who it was, I could only tell by the firm hands that it belonged to a man, and I could tell he was naked, as he kept hovering over me, he was touching my face, my hair, and my breasts, and his hands was everywhere, it felt so strange, this wasn’t Callox touch, Then who was touching me? I tried to move my body to find out, but I felt weak, I couldn’t even move my lips to protest, it was like my entire body had turned off, with only my brain slightly awake, “Please don’t touch me”, I wanted to say, but the words ended up in my mouth, I couldn’t even remember how I got here, The last thing I remembered was walking out of the mansion, after learning about my birth mother, and walking on bluebonnets street,
Rayell POVI was lying on a bed, but I didn’t recognize it, and my body was paralyzed, the room was extremely dark, I called out to see if anyone was lurking in the dark, but I got no response,Except for the sound of voices and footsteps, and the closer they got to the bed, the louder their voices were, they were all echoing the same words,“Filthy, impure,”, over and over, I tried moving from the bed, and when I finally did, a man in a mask jumped on me, I woke up screaming, sweats were all over my body, my heart pounding heavily,“What is it”, Callox asked, worry written on his face,I hugged him, as though it would take away the frightening dream,“Please don’t leave me, don’t ever leave me again”,Callox hugged me back,“I won’t love, you must have had a nightmare, it’s okay, I’m here, you don’t have to fear”, I soaked in his smell, wanting to forget the bad experience so badly, We went back to sleep, my nose attached to Callox's neck, as it felt comforting,I woke up to Callo
Dustin POVI was still in my thoughts trying to figure out what the hell was wrong, and drunk Elijah didn’t seem to be helping much, he wasn’t taking the situation as liberal as it needed to be,“So you’re not going to tell the circle”,“I want to be sure this- the situation is an advantage for me”,“If it’s not?”,“I’ll deal with it, now can you stop being an irritating drunk, and help me figure out what we can do with the body”,“We can eat her”, his suggestion made me want to bawl his eyes out, I truly hated drunk Elijah,“Are you crazy, you know the consequences for that, we don’t eat the humans”,“Yeah yeah, the moon goddess curse and all, I get it, but how do we sneak a dead human out of the palace”,“Firstly we are going to clean all this blood”,“Can’t you have one of your servers do that?”,I gave him a hard stare,“Just get me the cleaning towels and antiseptics”, I ordered, as Elijah dropped the liquor, heading towards my bathroom, I dragged the dead body away from the blo
Callox POVThe next day, I did my morning routines with Rayell, which were the wake up, shower, dress, have breakfast, take a stroll around the garden, and back to our bedroom.Rayell was still acting distant and reserved, at breakfast avoided my eye contact, and kept fidgeting now and then, and when I got close to her, she puked and flinched, as if she was scared I would hurt her, It was getting harder and harder to deal with her, which is why I was determined to find out what happened the day she went missing, but I didn’t press her on the matter, for I was determined to find it out my way, so when she fell asleep for her afternoon nap, I left her, but I wrote a note that I had to attend to some royal duties, for when she woke and I wasn’t present, Unfortunately, Rayell wasn’t my only responsibility, I had been pulling it off to take care of her, making Marcus deal with the issues, but now it seemed I couldn’t anymore, for my presence was needed, Marcus said something about how i
Dustin POVI walked down the stream of the rivers near the cloven hills, following a very discreet Dave starling, I learned his name from the head of the guard, and also the fact that Dave was the son of the tailor, so that may explain why he recommended the shop to his girlfriend Emily, however, Emily made no mention of it, which was weird, cause if she were to be his girl?, he sure as hell would have told her about his family, the head guard also let me on a secret yesterday, about how Dave never liked to talk about his family, said Dave had practically begged him not to speak to anyone in the palace about it, I found that strange too, and so when I saw him leaving the palace walls today, I decided to follow him, and turns out he lead me to exactly the location Emily said was the tailor shop, I had chosen not to interrogate him yet, as he could always deny my accusations, probably say the clothes got stolen from the tailor shop, If he truly was involved in the blood scene in