Chapter 145: Chapter 145

SAMALAH:

As soon as Dahlia said yes, I put my hands over her eyes, feeding on the power coming through our connection.

My body started to itch starting from the center of my trunk until it reached the tips of my toes and fingers as I feel the fulfillment of our promise.

“It’s done,” I whispered in a half-smile against myself.

As soon as the spell had fully consumed us, I heard Lord Irvan’s mad calling. I pushed Dahlia away from the side of the road by instinct.

Just a second away after this, Lord Irvan descended upon me. He grabbed my hair forcefully that I felt like my very scalp will tear away.

“You b*tch! You dare run away from us!”

He started to drag me back from where we came from. As my body was still weak from the magic that I had utilized, I could only thrash about in the mud.

In the distance, I can positively hear the sound of horses.

“No,” I screamed “Help me!”

Just then, Lord Irvan turned towards me and punched my face so hard that I couldn’t see anything but stars.

“You crazy she-wolf! What are you trying to do? No one will f*cking help you! No one is going to save you from me!”

He continued to rain punches and kicks against me that my whole body was too limp to even lift my own fingers.

Just when I thought his abuses were over, he came on top of me, his burly body far too heavy for my small frame.

“Is this what you wanted, huh? You wanted to die?!”

I tried to claw at his eyes and face, but it was no use. He only gnawed at the ends of my fingers until they started to bleed.

“It’s no use! You will never escape us, you puny girl! Your power belongs to us,” he said as he raised his hand to smack me against the face.

Before his punch landed on my face though, something came from the side and hailed him away from his place on top of me.

I immediately gasped for air and turned to my right to drain the blood off my mouth.

I could barely see what was happening for my right eye had swelled so badly due to the beatings I got, but out of the corner of my eye, I could see Lord Irvan battle out a wolf.

I tried my best to stand from where I was sprawled, but I was too badly injured that it was nearly impossible.

Just then, the wolf that attacked Lord Irvan hurled the vampire lord against a burning tree that the earth began to shake, and the tree started to break from its roots.

I could only gasp as the burning tree began to fall towards me.

Almost immediately, I was immersed into a searing kind of pain as the flames consumed my flesh. I couldn’t do anything but scream.

This was it – hell! I was being burned alive because of my sins!

My life seemed to flash back at me. Memories of my youth started to come to me one by one.

Out of the corner of my mind, I also heard a wolf cry out in painful anguish.

“No, Dahlia!”

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DAHLIA:

I didn’t know why Samalah wanted to hear such a strange promise from me when we were in the middle of escaping from the clutches of Lord Irvan. If this was the only thing that would help me to escape from this hell, however, I shall do it.

“I do! I do,” I shouted at the top of my lungs at her.

As soon as I spoke those words, Samalah put his hands against my face, obscuring my vision. My body started to itch terribly too that I began to scratch hard.

“It’s done,” she whispered.

What exactly did she do?...

Before I could ask her, she pushed me at the edge of the rough road. I rolled to my side in surprise, instinctively covering my belly. Just what the hell was Samalah thinking?

I groaned as I picked myself up, my body all covered in mud. I checked in between my thighs if there was any presence of blood, but it seemed there was none.

Thank the Goddess in heaven! My body was very sore, but other than that, I and the baby seemed to be alright.

I was thrown some distance away from the side of the road that it was far too laborious for me to trudge back to the main road from which I came from.

After a long and agonizing stretch of time, I made it back into the rough road.

I darted from left to right. I was thinking that Samalah or Lord Irvan would be there, but surprisingly, the road was deserted.

Just a few paces away, I could hear the sounds of screaming.

I knew I was a coward and an idiot. I have a hunch that the screams might have been coming from Samalah, but at that moment, I only had one thought in mind.

I must get out of there… I must survive…

Tristan died trying to protect me, and I would do anything for the baby he and I have spawned into life.

With tears in my eyes, I turned to the opposite directions of the screams and began taking steps away from it.

My heart was torn with every scream I heard, for I knew that those screams were probably coming from Samalah. I remembered how hard Lord Irvan had kicked and punched me by the collapsed cave that I almost lost my baby, and to think that I was turning my back away from Samalah as she was subjected to that kind of torture was heartbreaking.

I was a devil!… An absolute and selfish devil…

I wanted to turn back and help her, but thinking that I might lose my child sent shivers to my spine…

I hated myself for being weak. I was a good-for-nothing wolf who had to turn her back away from the person who helped her just so she can survive.

I didn’t know how long I had been walking. With every step I took forward, my eyes spewed tears for the mate I had lost and the person who helped me escape.

Why was the Moon Goddess so cruel to us? What did I ever do to her?

Perhaps it was the exhaustion, the lack of proper sleep and nourishment, and the grieving of my heart due to all my recent losses, or the confluence of all these things that I failed to see what was headed my way until it was too late.

All I remember was hearing a sharp neigh of a horse, and true enough, when I looked up, a horse in a cart was about to trample me down.

I yelled sharply as I swerved my body to the left, the horse just missing me by an inch. I was thrown to the ground completely that I hurt my arms and twisted my foot in the process.

“Lady,” I heard someone scream.

I felt someone cradle me by the neck. I tried peering at the person’s face, but it was dark, and he had a hood on.

All I could see was a pair of viridescent eyes before my body had finally succumbed to a long and exhaustive sleep.