Azora turned to her and chortled “wouldn’t it have been better if I allowed you join your ancestors and languish in the grave you stupid girl? I gave you a mission, a very simple mission but you just couldn’t even carry it out effectively without trying to get yourself killed on the process.”
Carmella gasped “what exactly are you talking about? The… the last time I checked I… I.. went to Diana’s house to do exactly what you asked me to do, then I came out and…. I started choking on something” she said looking very confused though she kept stammering in between her statements.
Azora shook her head “you still don’t get do you? You are just so foolish, I thought you were a smart girl Carmella, we had an agreement, I sent you to do something that would benefit you and make you the next queen of your village, it’s not like using your real face to meet your sister wasn’t provoking enough d
Azora chortled on hearing her words, it was loud enough so Carmella heard her clearly, she turned staring blankly at her then sighed out loud on a second thought, after all she wasn’t the one who almost lost her life all in an effort to eliminate her kids sister, she bit slightly on her lips narrowing her eyes in pain at the thought of Diana, getting rid of her have become so impossible, she have become a thorn in her flesh, not like it just started but it has always been like that ever since they were children, she left belittled when it comes to Diana, the villagers always praised her for her beauty and good character, she always felt swallowed up in Diana’s shadows as a child, unable to express herself or be heard by anyone, as far as she was concerned when Diana was around, no one saw, noticed or even heard her voice, it was always Diana this and that, she got so jealous but couldn’t do anything but to hope that she some day gets married to Joshua whom she had
“Everything Carmella, everything is definitely wrong about your suggestion, you think I am not aware of love potions before we agreed on getting rid of Diana? I am aware of that Carmella but sorry it won’t work” she informed.Carmella gasped, she couldn’t understand what Azora was saying, what exactly was she driving at? Wouldn’t it have been better if she made it obvious that she doesn’t have the power to make such potions other than telling her that it won’t work? She thought to herself staring at Azora who looked away with both of her hands placed on her laps.“Why won’t it work?” Carmella finally asked, she was really getting uncomfortable as their was nothing else she could think of.Azora scoffed and turned to Carmella in amazement “aren’t you aware that most of this potions don’t work on royalties, they don’t work on male alphas especially this very love potion you are ask
Zara wrapped her hands across her chest looking pissed and at the same time worried, she sat at the edge of her bed looking like one who had seen a ghost, the night had gone slowly, her eyes looked puffy as she barely blinked her eyes or tried to sleep all night long, Carmella didn’t come home the previo itus night and this got her very worried, earlier in the day she had seen her hurrying off looking like one who was being chased by a beast, when she tried to confront her about where she was going her response was cold and that left her unsatisfied, for some reasons she felt that something was going on and Carmella was up to something, but whatever it is that she was up to, she couldn’t press a finger on it. The room was cold and her candle was still burning gently at the corner though she could see tiny rays sharing it’s self into her room through the slightly open bamboo window, she brushed her hands across her hair licking her lower lip while she dwelled in her
Carmella lifted her eyes and caught her mother glaring at her, she gulped hard acknowledging the fact that she was truly in deep trouble, she ran her hand across her face wondering why she didn’t make up a story on her way home on what to tell her mother when she gets home, she sighed shaking her head in silence, she wouldn’t blame her poor brain after all, she was just more worried about getting Joshua and the fact that she almost lost her life all because of Diana, she just couldn’t get the words of Azora off her head and the fear that Azora might have decided not to help her or have anything to do with her was really eating deep into her, she looked up at her mother, the glare was getting heavier with each second that swept by and what scares her the most is that she wasn’t saying anything, she have been waiting for her to yell and ask questions and hopefully she might know exactly where to come in and try to answer her so many questions but no, Zara was j
Carmella still choked longer, she rubbed her throat over and over again while trying to clear her voice, she could feel a heavy bunch of mucus gathered at the edge of her throat and this caused her to vomit again, Zara walked back into the house, she needed to get her a cup of warm water hoping that this might ease the pain but deep down she felt really scared and worried, how was it possible that Carmella got poisoned? Who could have done something as horrible as that to her daughter? She thought in silence moving straight to kitchen, previously she felt horribly weak and all she wanted to do was do the house chores, take a nice bath, eat something and have a long rest but seeing her daughter that way, strength that she couldn’t explain were it came from was already flowing through her veins and muscles making it possible for her to be able to pull down a building just to stabilize her daughter, she quickly filled a cup with water and went straight outside to Carmella who had
Carmella looked up at her mother and smiled brightly, from her childhood she have always known her mother to be good with kind words especially when it has to do with her emotions, well it really worked this time around in calming her down as she felt a lot of peace within unlike before when she was very scared and almost got herself strangled by her own mother “thank you mother and I am very sorry that I did not come home but trust me, I would never want to keep anything from you, I can’t do that mother and you know it, you just have to trust me, I am still your daughter.”Zara nodded “I know but now I am even more worried” she fixed her stare on Carmella.She shrugged looking confused, she could place a finger on exactly what her mother was driving at, what could be bothering her now when she already explained to her that she actually went no where, she wondered looking like a lost child in a desert, she still had her hands wrapped acros
Azora said nothing, she was just as silent as the cold water flowing down the river but her eyes implicated her, it proved that their were words beneath her tongue that she just couldn’t wait to utter, her eyes was moving at every corner of the room despite the fact that she was just in the mirror, she just wanted to make sure that the room was empty, like they always say, the walls have wars. Carmella wrapped the towel tight across her chest folding them properly, her body was still very wet and she really needed to dress up cause she was equally feeling cold but how was she going to tell Azora to disappear and reappear later to tell her whatsoever she had in mind? Of course she couldn’t do that, it hasn’t been up to twenty four hours since she last saw Azora though she feared that she might never be able to see her and perhaps Azora must have dumped her after she carelessly poisoned herself instead of Diana and just didn’t want her lurking around her house
Zara shook her head slowly taking a proper look at Carmella from the crown of her head down to the sole of her feet, her body looked too dried up for someone who was just coming out of the bathroom, what exactly was going on with her daughter, she could tell that something was really off and she had heard her talking to someone but whoever it is she couldn’t tell or was she going mad already cause their was no one else in the house aside the both of them, she shook her head twice at the thought of the fact that possibly her daughter might be loosing her senses to madness, she was getting even more curious now to know exactly what she ate in the woods, their is no herb or fruit she didn’t know, deep down in her heart she prayed it wasn’t what she was thinking “your body looks too dried up for someone who is just walking out of the bathroom and besides, I think I heard you talking to someone, who was that?” These questions sounded weird to Zara even