"What are you doing mother? Why are you doing this?"Mani asked."What can't you see that am just trying to kill myself.""But why. I used to think that you always wanted me to get all the answers to my questions and here you're stopping dad from answering them. I can't seem to understand what's going on."he said."You won't understand anything please. You're still young to question your father like how you're doing."I scolded him."Am sorry mother, please forgive me.""Alright then I forgive you my child."I placed a kiss on his forehead and he smiled."Alright alright. Why did you teleport direct from London to this place? Are there any problems?"father broke the silence."No father, there isn't any problem. Actually I came here to give you something in person.""And what's that?""Here you go."he said handing over something that looked like a card to father."What's this?"father asked before turning it around."Well... My family and I are planning a wedding for me and my fiance. I th
"What are you even saying. I don't understand you.""Stop fooling yourself because I know everything. I know how you went to my house and stole my son and now you're calling him Mani instead of Manu."he said coldly."T-this means my Manu got missing."I breathed. "But who could have done so, Mike was the only one who was after their lives but he isn't alive anymore. I killed him with my own hands in cold blood, could it be possible that he came back to life and he's now taking his revenge? But no, he can't come back since I killed him with the sword that was dipped in the serpent's venom first."I breathed in realization. "What if Miss Cucu got him kidnapped and maybe harmed him out of anger that she couldn't be with Anu? No, she isn't capable of doing such a thing. Then who could take him away and why."I was losing it that I didn't even realize that I had grabbed Anu's shirt's collar as I threatened " if I fail to find my son, you'll face the other side of me which is the motherly sid
I just wanted to let it go but as I was planning to, I happened to overhear their conversation where mother-in-law stated that "I really want Artie out of my son's life for good, that's why am helping you. I just hope everything goes well as per our plan. I don't want anything to go wrong like last time."she said."Last time? What is she trying to mean? What's that 'last time' that she's talking about?"I wondered."Are you threatening me or something? Let me remind you that I know the big secret of yours that you're hiding from your son"the lady threatened."Unbelievable. They're behaving like kids. One hour as good friends and enemies in the next hour. But what's the secret she was talking about? And why did mother look scared when the lady talked about it?"I asked myself. I had to leave since I didn't want them to notice that I was there too.I didn't know why I was sweating so much. Their words kept summoning to my mind. "What secret does Anu's fiance mean? I have to find out about
I started to get worried about Mani when night came and he hadn't returned home yet. "What's taking him so long to come back?"I worried. Everybody had his dinner and went to sleep, others gathered outside as usual to have fun and enjoy their drinks with some dance. I walked back and forth waiting for my son to come but in vain. Still wondering what could have happened to him I saw Anu coming towards me. I knew he would ask for his son so I had to save myself not to let him come close to me. "I should run to my room."I thought and so I did. Reaching in my room I switched off the lights and pretended to be sleeping. Meanwhile Anu started to look for me the moment I disappeared from his sight. "Where did she go and why did she run away? Something's not right."he thought. Walking around looking at everyone's face, he didn't see me.After some time I heard a knock on the door. "Who's it?" I asked. My heart was telling me it was my son Mani while my mind said something else, it was tellin
"I only came to save you and now that father's gone, I will go to gather enough proof."he said."We're very late because the wedding is tomorrow.""Don't worry mother, Manu and I will do our best to stop it from happening that I promise you."he assured me."Thanks my dear."I embraced him with a hug.Morning came with beautiful sounds of the singing birds from the jungle and a heart thrilling scent from the flower garden.My heart skipped a beat when I realized that it was indeed morning. "Oh Lord, please don't take Anu away from me and his child. Give me the courage to tell him the truth about his parents and don't let anything stop Mani from coming. It's very important for him to get here on time."I prayed.( A knock on the door), "who's it?"I asked."It's me."a familiar voice replied. It was Cucu's."What brought you here?"I asked."Will you let me in or I should force myself in?"she mocked.I didn't want to create problems for myself so I got the door for her."Why did you come her
"What are you saying? How could I do something like this?"he asked."But you've done it. Are you trying to say that I called you from your room and brought you here? I guess Agie knows what really happened, you can ask her. Agie dear, tell your husband what you just saw. Tell us dear...""Don't pretend as if you were out of your mind Anu. It's obvious that you don't love me but you shouldn't have betrayed me like this on my wedding day. I mean... how could you?"she said crying."Are you blaming me for what happened too? Don't you trust me?"Anu looked defeated."Of course she doesn't because someone who trusts you would never think of questioning you and here she's doing so, do you want some more proof for that?"I intervened. "It's all your fault. You have crossed your limits today, you've made me realize that marrying you was a huge mistake I have ever made. Am the one who brought you to this house but today, right this moment, am ousting you from this house and my life as well. Am br
**ANU** 😢"What! There's a whole lot of things that I would forgive but I just can't take a liar. I just hate it when someone tries to stab me in the back.. I hate it.. Father.. how... I could you do that to me? Why father why?? I brought my son to you thinking that you looked up at him as your own, I thought that you would shower him with all of your love and that you'll keep him safe in my absence.. but you... you just prayed that I should leave so you could kill him. I always fought the world for the two of you, I treated you like heaven by making you my first priority. I could kill whoever said ill about you. I always thought that you wish me good but I was wrong.. you people never cared about me. At least you should've killed me instead of my son. You didn't just kill him, you killed me too. I can't live after this betrayal. Imagine killing my son, my own flesh and blood just for powers. Did I ever ask you for extra powers? Can't humans become leaders despite having no powers?
"Anu please, she's your mother."I reminded him."Let's go from here."he said grabbing Mani's hand.."follow me."he added."Hold on a second."Katie stopped him from leaving. "What is it now, if you're going to ask me to stay, you better keep your opinions to yourself because I won't listen to what you have to say."he said looking nervous."I won't ask you to stay because I also don't want you to stay with these people anymore. They've hurt you enough but not anymore.Actually I wanted to give you this. It will protect you from any danger."she said tying the black threads on their ankles. "How about me Katie?"I asked with a questioning look."You can take care of yourself."she said."I guess you've forgotten that Anu is more powerful than me currently."I pointed."Enough! Shut up Artie!"he yelled all of a sudden. "What's the matter Anu?"I asked worriedly."No one should talk about my useless powers... it's because of these extra powers that I lost my son, my Manu was killed in exchange f
My heart jumped with joy and happiness after reading the letter. I couldn't wait to see my father again. I couldn't find sleep since my mind was very busy imagining how the surprise would be like..It was approaching to four o'clock in the morning when my heart skipped a beat and my mind went blank. I thought that maybe I was very excited to share the news with the family so I had to wake up and make noise through singing so that everyone's sleep could be interrupted and it really worked. Everybody woke up with a frowned face because they were angry with me at the moment."I have good news for you all.. I meant to say that father has called us all. He said he wants to surprise us."I said with a big smile."What's wrong with you? When did you see him?"Anu couldn't believe."Read this. I don't have to meet up with him in order to communicate with him, we're demons after all."I sighed."Read it for us Anu. Am sure Artie isn't joking about this, right Artie?"Nikki said."It's true Grandpa
"But who had possessed you and why?"Nikki asked."I'll tell you later. What's very important right now is to conduct this ritual and let them inside first."she said."Alright then. But how will you do the ritual when the holy water isn't enough. I meant to say that there are only five Jerry cans of holy water yet they're....."he pointed."I think we'll have to seek help from the witch's tree once again."she looked to be lost in thoughts as she spoke."What are you waiting for then."Mother then tried to summon the witch's tree but in vain. We thought that maybe it was because of our presence and she had to walk away from the crowd but again the tree didn't show up.A minute later, a twig came and fell on my head and turned into a rocket immediately. It was the same rocket that Carlos gave me. I had left it at the ocean bank hoping that he'd one day collect it from there because I had no hopes of seeing him again. Moreso I didn't want to keep it as it would remind me of the best momen
After some time, the other three woke up too. Mani immediately recognized me however his brother Manu just stood there, staring at me as if I was a stranger. "How are you mother."Mani hugged me. I couldn't answer because I was driven away by thoughts and sorrow. "My own son doesn't recognize me?"I breathed deeply before looking him in the eye. "Manu dear, don't you know who I am?"I asked politely. I didn't want to force things."I know you very well. I know how you left dad and I and disappeared. You don't love me at all. Dad might've forgiven you but I... I will never forgive you for neglecting me like that. You're the reason why I went through all this."he said and for a moment my mind went blank. I didn't have what to say to him or how to explain things to him. I just stared at him, speechless."Manu dear, it's not like how you think. Your mother loves both of you equally. I agree she left us but trust me when I say that she did what was right at the moment. She wanted to save y
On opening it, I couldn't stop crying because of what was written there, ' best friends forever'."You'll forever be remembered my dear friend."I said.The girls did their best to put me in good mood but my worry for my family was too much. "Don't worry ma'am, am sure that cousin of yours will help you and very soon your family will come back."Remi comforted."I don't think he'll, after all he's a horrible person. He's a murderer remember and I don't trust him at all."Rema pointed sharply."How can I explain to you that Carlos is only a pure soul and he would never think of killing someone no matter what. He only took the blame for my sake."I thought. "I think we should trust him once, let's see if he can do something good for anyone."I said."As you say madam. And anyway ma'am, do you mind if we call you auntie because to me you're like my real auntie.""Of course I won't mind at all. You're my little angels and angels should only be loved and nothing else. It's okay you can call me
"Why won't you dear?"he asked politely."Because the woman you're going to propose to is already married.""Ohh! You're right about that but you've forgotten that her husband is dead now which makes her single."he lied."Why do I have a feeling that you're lying to us? My mom always said that when someone is telling a lie, he can't look you in the eye and that's what you're doing."one of them pointed. This made me notice something about the two of them, one was introvert and the other was the opposite. She was so talkative I must say."Where's your mom's corpse?"I asked them."We're sorry madam. We conducted the last rituals by ourselves. We knew you were going through a lot that's why we never came to bother you.""I don't believe you, someone else must have helped you because I don't think you could do all that alone.""But we did madam."she said raising a brow."What made you disappear after healing my husband's wound. I didn't understand."I wanted answers to my questions."Am not
"No. I refuse to believe this. My Anu can't be dead. I know you've taken him somewhere. You have to tell me what you've done to him, tell me now."I grabbed his arm with all my strength."What are you doing Artie? I know this is hard for you to believe but am afraid it's the truth... your husband is dead now."he said.I couldn't stop myself but to slap him so hard on his face. "Shut up! Do not say another word about my husband, do you hear me?""I won't say anything if that's what you really want. I think I should leave you and your problems alone because am tired of explaining myself to you that I'm not a bad person and my intentions are good yet no one is willing to believe in me. Am sorry if I troubled you in any way."he said and vanished.At that time I didn't care at all. I was only worried about my family. "Would they come back?"I kept asking myself. All I had to do was to wait for them with hopes that they'd surely come back.Some days elapsed with no sign of their return. As a
Mother had to leave and go back home. "Artie, keep my words in mind."she said before disappearing."This woman also! Why can't see that all this is happening because Anu wanted to keep his powers and this decision of his is stopping my children from coming back to me. I need to do something, but what?"I thought. We couldn't speak to each other for two days although Anu tried to cheer me up sometimes.On the third day of the second week, the old man in my dreams came and appeared before Anu and I. "I've been watching you and I really like your patience. You still have hopes that your sons will come back even after all these days. Wow, keep it up."he said."Who are you?"Anu barked at him."He...is the same old man I told you about.""Old man?""Yes, he's the one who always come in my dreams."I explained. "What brings you here."I asked."I came here to help you after seeing how much you both love your sons."he said smiling."How are you going to help? And who called for your help?"Anu sh
I then took her to where I had left Anu. The moment we came very close to him, I started to see some improvement. "What kind of magic does this girl possess?"I asked myself."Here he is."I said."Oh! He's my uncle."she jumped in excitement after looking at his face."Your uncle? How? I mean do you know him?""Yes, he's the same man in the picture that mom used to show to us. She said we should call him uncle, that's why. Oh, am so happy but..."she couldn't complete."What?"I asked curiously."I don't understand one thing, my mom used to tell us that uncle doesn't have a wife that's why he wanted to marry my mom so how come you're claiming to be his wife?""My worries are slowly coming true, Cucu's blood is haunting us."I breathed deeply. "Well...we married recently, that's why."I lied."Let me heal my uncle first but before that, you need to hide somewhere because my magic can't work when someone is watching me.""Alright then I'll go and hide. You'll call me when you're done, okay?"
It was almost coming to midday and our kids hadn't returned yet, there was no any sign of their return the thing that caused locomotion in my stomach."No, the old man's words shouldn't come true."I prayed inwardly. I was getting worried and restless that I thought of summoning my mother. I felt like sharing the weird dream with her. I knew she could interpret it for me but no... she wasn't allowed to come see me at the moment as only Manu's parents and siblings were accepted."What should I do now."I didn't know that I said it loudly. "What, what do you want to do?"Anu asked."It's nothing."I lied."Still worried about the dream, right?""Ahhh no. I mean am not worried at all."I said giving him a plastic smile. "Am here, nothing is going to happen to our sons I promise. They'll have to come back for us no matter what."he assured.I always loved the courageous version of his. It always got me fall in love with him over and over again. "I love you Mr Anu."I said coming closer to him an