Chapter 57: Chapter 57

Chapter 56

Elena Claw Wolfs ~

“Clever girl. As clever as her father, too bad his cleverness couldn’t save him fro me. I take it that Sofia here has told you who your actual mother and father are?”

My father!

“…He killed the lycan king and in accordance with the decree of the goddess, took his throne alongside the hearts of his people…”

“You killed my dad? You killed my dad!!” I said boiling with more rage in my veins instead of blood.

I wished I could just appear where he was and just snap his neck.

No! I’ll make him suffer first. He has to suffer first. A lot. He has to pay for causing all this to be happening. Death is by far too good for him.

“Only because I wanted his throne. I can’t deny the fact that Leonard was a great guy judging by the few moments I spent with him before I ripped out his heart and crushed it.” “But that’ in the past. Let’s focus on the present while we still have it at least while Alessia is still breathing.” Cassius said and the screams began once more having a hurtful effect on me.

“I told you to stop!” I yelled looking straight into the lycans eyes.

I can’t believe how he spoke of killing my father with so much ease almost like it meant nothing. Of course, it meant nothing to him at least not like it did to me anyways. If only he knew how much I have begun to hate him.

If only he knew.

“Stop! What I want is simple. You!” Cassius said not like I expected less of a request.

Why? Why all the trouble just to kill me? Is this about me being the heiress to the throne?

“You have by my time, half an hour or rather, I rather be generous as it’ll be our first and probably last meeting, quarter of an hour to get just you, no one else to my castle or else,” the guards tortured her once again but this time, they left the glass blades deep in her so she wouldn’t be able to heal making her pain more agonizing.

“Her freedom depends on you.”

“You better not be doing anything hurtful to my mom!” I threatened with a burning gaze at the lycan.

“I won’t bet on that. See, I’m going to leave those in her until you get here and just so you know, I’m damn serious with every word I’ve said, dearie.” Cassius said almost like he knew I was seeing the blades.

“Hurry up! Here, the sun would be up in an hour or two and you know what that would mean for her, now don’t you?” he added with an evil laugh following his crooked look at me.

“I will. Just don’t hurt her!” I said.

“That depends on you dearie.” Cassius alleged in a descending voice. “Stop breathing!” Cassius casted from the other side of the possession spell.

The lycan suddenly began to jerk continuously for what seemed to be a few seconds before he gave up.

“What’s wrong with the dude?” Gar asked Sofia pushing me behind him like the lycan was some sort of bomb that was about to go off.

“I have no idea but for one thing, Elena isn’t doing anything to him through the containment spell or are you…” Sofia gestured turning to me with an arched brow.

“I did exactly what you said I should and just that. Except you’re hiding a secret behind that spell as well as…” I said walking out of Gar’s shadow to face my mom in an increasing tone.

“Now, Elena don’t…” Gar stopped me before I said anything I was going to regret later on.

When the lycan began jerking, the containment spell was broken. Gar walked towards the lycan’s body on the ground when he observed no motion from him and he had turned back into human form. He looked unconscious but maybe he was even more.

“Elena, Sofia, Charlie? I think he’s dead! There’s no pulse not even a feint one!” Gar said with his fingers on the lycans neck.

“So you killed him?” I asked folding my arms at Sofia with intense looks.

“Why would you say such a thing? How could I have done that when I have no access to magic here and why would I have wanted him dead? He has information about the happenings in the supernatural world and I haven’t been there for so long.” Sofia said in a calm voice obviously trying to make me feel guilt for indirectly raining down my rage on her.

I had said things that I shouldn’t. Why shouldn’t I anyways? She’s the one who started this whole secrecy nonsense sixteen years ago and who knows? She could have been in the business for maybe more.

“Well, considering the fact that you’re pretty good at lying to me and god knows who else? Everyone? Maybe, and you have such an awesome reputation for keeping secrets, who knows? You might have been the person who killed him.” I said and unintentionally, a tear went down my cheek.

I couldn’t hold back my emotions any longer. The tears that I held back when she confirmed not being my birthmother came falling down without control and before I knew it, Sofia had engulfed me in a hug. That was exactly what I needed at a time like this.

A hug.

Both anger and comfort were mixed in my heart and I was pondering on which to feel but I ended up taking in both. Why did the truth have to hurt so badly? Is it meant to hurt this much? Years ago, the woman I took to be my mother made me believe that my dad had died in a fire accident. She made me believe that he was a fireman and he died saving a lot of people in a building that was on fire and now, here came the truth about him.

Considering the fact that he was royalty, preferably of the highest order, the king of a kingdom of a certain supernatural creature, I should have some joy in that, joy that I was royalty but it wasn’t enough to heal even the tip of the iceberg of the pain that I’m feeling right now in my heart.

The person I grew up with calling ‘mom’ is actually not who claimed she was and I had to find it out from a lycan.

“I’m so sorry!”