Chapter 64: Chapter 64

Skye's POV

Clark was buried and I and the others returned to the pack house. There was merriment everywhere. Everyone was jubilating at the death of the demon king. I looked around the multitude for Ava but she was nowhere around. I ran up the stairs racing to the bedroom but still yet, I couldn't find her.

I walked down the stairs back and I saw Camila. "Where's Ava?" I asked her.

"No idea alpha. I haven't seen her since the pack returned." She replied.

I tried not to panic. I walked amongst the crowd and saw Anna. "Did you see Ava?" I asked her.

She hesitated for a while. "She went to the pack house." She finally said.

"Crescent woods?" I asked her, giving her a puzzled look. She nodded. I turned around and walked briskly towards the door.

"Alpha Skye.." She called after me but I ignored her. All I wanted was to get to the one my heart beats for. I got into the car and turned on the ignition and maneuvered out of the pack house surrounding.

I got to the crescent's house and alighted from the car. I rushed in and I was granted access to Ava's room. Turns out the enmity was fading. I opened the door to her room and it creaked and her full attention was on me. She was standing in the middle of the room in a white flowing nightdress. I walked over to her and pulled her into my arms, my heart in my throat. I held tightly to her and never wanted to let go.

"Why did you leave?" I asked her in a whisper. She remained motionless and said nothing to me. I pulled out of the embrace, my fingers around her arms in a grasp.

"Ava?" I called her name but she stared blankly at me. "Are you okay?" I asked her.

She pulled her arms away from my grasp. I could see tears shimmering in her eyes. "I'm fine." She said plainly and turned away so I wouldn't see the tears that welled up in her eyes and threatened to fall. What's going on with her again? Was this about the death of her father? Was this about losing the demon qualities in her? That shouldn't be what was making her feel this way. So many thoughts ran through my mind.

"You don't look or sound fine Ava." I persisted.

"I'm fine." She said, a little more with force and tears choking her voice. I stared at her turned back against me and swallowed. "Then tell me, why did you leave?" I asked her.

"Because I wanted to." She said.

"Why?" I asked her.

"What do you mean by why?" She asked turning sharply at me. "What else is there to do Skye? The demon king is dead." She said. I had a hint of where she was heading but I wanted to play dumb to it despite knowing it was going to break my heart.

"What do you mean?" I asked her.

She placed a finger to wipe the tear at the corner of her eye. "The reason why we both got married in the first place has been achieved. The demon king is dead. Of what use is this marriage then?" She said and I felt my heart break as I recalled those actual words I said to her.

"Don't say that," I said, my voice coming out in a soft plea. "This cannot be the end of us Ava," I said feeling devastated.

"It is Skye, this is the end road for us. We've come to the part where we have to go our separate ways." She said. The more she spoke, the more I felt my heart ripped apart. Wasn't she feeling any of these too? How was she feeling saying these things to me?

"Ava," I said reaching out for her. She turned her back against me again so I won't see the tears flowing down her cheeks. It became clear to me that she was breaking inside too. Then why was she doing this to me, to herself, to us?

Ava's POV

"Don't make this difficult for me," I said, my back still turned against him. He held me from behind and I felt my heart breaking the more. Why was he making this difficult for me? Couldn't he see I was breaking and this isn't easy for me?

"Ava," his voice came out in a soft plea. I turned around in his arms.

"Don't you get it, Skye? The reason why we got married is dead. This marriage is void."I said to him, trying to hide my emotions but clearly, I was failing.

He shook me and I felt my head spin. "How do you expect me to keep living without you?" He asked me.

"The same way you've always lived before you met me," I said in defiance. He shook me more irritated by the words I said. "How do you expect me to move on without you, tell me." He demanded, his voice breaking.

The tears I fought so hard to hold back slipped from my eyes. "This is it, Skye," I said.

"What about the moments we've had together? What about the love we've shared between us?" He asked, this time lowering his voice.

"A few forced intimacy between us is not love Skye," I said to him and he stared at me and the look he gave me wanted me to wish I never said anything about breaking apart.

"You really want us to go our separate ways?" He asked me staring at me.

"Yes, Skye," I said trying not to feel guilty.

"Damn you, woman." He muttered as he looked away. "Damn you for using me." He said and looked at me. Could it be tears I saw in his eyes? He said nothing as he walked out of the door.

I crumbled down on the floor and cried my eyes out, letting the tears flow freely without holding them back. How cruel was I? I didn't even tell him he was going to be a father soon. If I had did, he wouldn't have let me walk away. What was wrong with me? What was this piercing feeling I felt in my heart? "Please make it stop." I pleaded to no one in particular as the pain in my heart increased. "Please." I kept pleading but it surrounding my heart, cloaking it and making it ache.

Skye's POV

I drove out of the crescent territory and parked my car close to a bridge.

"Ahhh!" I yelled out in frustration as I got out of the car kicking the car wheels. I pulled my hair and yelled into the empty space. I was heartbroken. No one told me this was how it felt to get dumped by someone you love. My heart was shattered into pieces.

I stood staring at the hills before me holding back the tears that choked me in the throat. How could she comfortably do this to me? I was dumped. Usually, I was the one who does such kinds of stuff to ladies. I have never been dumped in my life and here I was and I couldn't take the pain. I crumbled to the ground unable to take it anymore and I felt my heart breaking the more I remembered her words.

Fernandez's POV

What made me return to the pit the demon king was buried, astonished me. I couldn't tell the force that kept pulling me in while I was there earlier before. Now I was there again staring at his grave. I noticed something glistening in the dirt and I picked it up.

It was a ring. I toiled it round in my fingers and then I had the urge to slip it on my middle left finger and I did. I felt different turnings inside me and then my eyes reflected flaming crimson red.