My tears didn’t help at all, no matter how much I asked her to stop, or if I begged, she continued to spank me. "You should have stayed out of my way! I warned you that if I saw you today you would pay." "But was Daddy who found me." I whimpered, hoping that after she’d hear that I hadn’t going to him, she would stop hitting me, but that never happened. "Shut up! Or I will beat you even more!" the leather belt cut the air before hitting my back and I cried even more. "You shouldn’t have been born, you’re a mistake, a stone in my way, messing everything up, ruining my life!" I didn’t understand why she didn’t like me, mothers should love their children, right? But I don’t know what that word means, maybe my father loves me a little, but he’s almost never here, there’s always someone who needs your help, so he lives traveling. I like it when the elders called me to class about our history, it was the only way to spend more time with my father and the farthest from her. I had
Things were going from bad to worse, Quanah had not come back and unfortunately Nikolai was right, I wish a lot so that he was wrong, especially after a day that Quanah did not give news, I tried to think positive, hopeful he was on his way back with the answers. But reality hit me after two days, Peta was already organizing a search, I had to insist that he would not lead the group, my fear was that no one would come back, because if they had managed to disappear with Quanah, they would have no problem doing the same with the others. Peta agreed to stay and let Denah lead the first group, but after they returned without answers I could no longer hold him, Peta led one group while Denah led another. If they let me go I would certainly also be helping in the searches, but I was forbidden to put my feet out of the house, and I was really complying, I did not want to risk and put another person in the hands of my father. Today was making a week that Quanah had disappeared, Nikolai h
I was inside the meeting room, the elders were slow to give in and let they get in there, but finally I was facing Nikolai, Kalina and Alice on one side, while on the other was Blanca, Agnes, Flora and all the rest of the witches and wizards who had arrived. Nikolai wanted to help and was the right one, I needed to do that, but all the others insisted that I should not get involved with her, Kalina, according to Blanca mess with black magic had a great consequences, not only for our body, but for our soul."Send this woman away from here, we can fix this." Agnes said again. I was already tired of that incessant conversation that was leading nowhere. "If you could then why haven’t you done it yet? Why have you left all this time pass, with Quanah captured and she suffering here?" Kalina spoke before anyone could speak. "The answer is you all know that this kind of magic only I can do, and I will say more, that they are happy for..." "Kalina, you really don’t know when to shut up, d
Shock was the word of the day apparently, I could not think straight, even less give an answer to everything they had told me. After what Peta told me, Nikolai decided to open his mouth and speak at once what he knew of my father, swearing that this would be a plausible excuse for me not to face my father, but I was their best chance, they would not leave me behind and I would never allow it. No witch of my clan accompanied us, as much as Alice wanted to come Blanca forbade anyone to follow me and I could not let my friend be in danger, each one who was there was already a disadvantage for me, because I would be more concerned with the well-being of all, not to mention Quanah. "How are you?" Flora approached Peta, who carried me on his back, as he marched in his wolf form. "I’m fine." It wasn’t true, but I didn’t want to worry everyone again. Every time Hades invaded Quanah mind my cry took the silence of the night. I was trying to stay firm and avoid screaming, but the pain was
"There you are!" Hades spoke with a smile on his face after he had just woken me with a blow. "Thought he would sleep all night? No, no. Look, gods don’t need to sleep, so why would I waste time watching you sleep?" "No need, just kill me and get it over with." I was tired, I didn’t know if it had been weeks or months, but certainly there hadn’t been a couple of days in that hell. "And risk my daughter being heartbroken? You know what people are capable of after a deception, imagine a half-goddess witch. It’s the same as signing my death." the mention of Bridget made an alarm ring in my head, I had seen her. "As long as she’s hopeful of finding you and keeping everyone else busy searching, I’ll be happy." "Searches? Others? What are you talking about?" I wanted to ask how many he was talking about, send our best hunters away and leave Bri alone was a mistake, a mistake I hoped Peta hadn’t made. I shook before his silence, no longer caring about the chains burning my body, my conc
Seth! It was the only word that was repeated in my mind as the image of him being impaled by the sword of fire. My blood boiled in the veins and at the same instant all the fire that Hades had use was extinguished, while a turmoil was created within me, I could feel something powerful and dark growing, as well as the sky moving above us. I couldn’t say anything, I stared at Quanah holding Seth’s now inert body, the cheerful boy now had no more life, his eyes so bright were now dull and paralyzed. It was looking into his eyes that I raised my left hand and closed my fist, the earthquake of the earth increased as I concentrated my power at the base of the mountain. Seth didn’t deserve that, none of them would be there if it wasn’t for me, and now he’s dead. I opened my fist with this realization and the mountain exploded into hundreds of pieces, just as I was going to do with that bastard who said to be a god. I held my arm high, keeping the shield invisible over everyone who was st
I was still facing the small army that now obeyed Bridget, she had succeeded despite not having so much training time, put the mountain down, ended the vampires at once and made Hades run like a scared rat. Unfortunately not all of them made it out well, apart from Seth another two were killed in the fight against the vampires. "Let’s get out of here, he can come back with more people and we are not prepared for another attack!" I said gathering all the forces I had. I held Bri’s limp body against mine, I might even be injured, but I wouldn’t stop taking care of her, I’d carry her if was necessary. "Bridget! Are you okay?" the voice of that worm invaded my ears and I wishy it to be a hallucination or some nightmare, but I saw just face to face, him was walking straight to us. "What are you doing here?" I growled my words, but it didn’t seem to shake him at all. Nikolai stopped beside Bri and held her face, touching her as if to prove that she was okay. But that lasted only the s
"You don’t seem to have missed me that much." I muttered as we went up to the room.I needed an urgent shower, needed to remove that dirt and clean those wounds that did not heal. But not as much as I wanted to understand what had happened between her and that sneaky creature."I didn’t know you were that jealous." Bri smiled, trying to lighten the mood, but no joke would be able to make me laugh after seeing them so intimate.I entered the room quietly and placed her on the floor, before turning towards the bathroom.I tore off my shirt, which was a pile of dirty rags at that height and the pants. When I raised my face I was frightened by the man I saw reflected there.My eyes were faded, the gold that reflected in any light was now lifeless. Around the eyes were two purple spots, showing how little I had been able to rest that week.My arms and torso were marked by the burns of the chains, just as my body was filled with dust from the battle and Seth’s blood.My wounds should have h