Chapter 156: Chapter 156

Stay away from me...

Why? Eren asked himself for the millionth time, and was still unable to find an answer for it, everything was so perfect and then, out of the blue, his fair lady was acting as if his mere proximity was stabbing her right in the heart...

Stay away from me...

Those foor words, they were not spoken with hatred nor disdain, if anything, Sara seemed shaken, broken, and sad beyond words, her eyes held despair and pain, one that ran deeper than his understanding, one that cut his breath the moment he saw it, and he knew, even without her admitting it, that he was the source of that pain, and the thought of not knowing why was making him madder each second...

But that wasn't all, Eren thought as he jugged his glass of alcoholic blood, for he had seen something else in her beautiful eyes, something he was so familiar with, anger at the world, it felt like her eyes were cursing anything that ever existed for some reason…

What reason? What was there to be so mad about?

And the answer was right there...the Gods!

Were they in her head again?

"My Lord?" Closing his eyes, Eren resisted the urge to snap and unleash his anger on Andrea once again, the demoness has been doing her best so far but he was just angry, and her next words made him angrier...

"We searched all the locations you mentioned, we couldn't…"

"Find her! I don't care what you have to do! Don't fucking show me your faces unless you find her!" Jumping back to the door, Andrea swallowed her sob before nodding and fleeing the room, her Lord was going mad for the hybrid girl and it was dangerous to even be around him, his destroyed study was the living proof of it...

He was heartbroken, and she wished to get her hands on the whore who caused it and break every bone in her body, bit she knew she will be killed by non other than her Lord if she even spoke that thought out loud...

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Life was such a manipulative and cruel bitch, Sara thought as she watched her demon from afar while he drowned himself in alcohol and pain inside his favorite room in the dark tower, it was a devastating sight to her devastated heart and soul and she wished for nothing more than to go there, apologize to him, comfort him, and kiss every inch of his pained face, her arms itched to be around him and her chest felt hollow without his head resting on it while she weaved her fingers in his silky black hair, she wished she could be with him for one last time, feel him, kiss him, and tell him how much she loved him but life, the cruel and manipulative bitch, had other saying in the matter, dooming her fate and their love...

There will be nothing but more tears with that one more kiss, just more pain, more suffering, and more memories to morn...

She had to stay away...until the time of leaving comes, Sara told herself while looking at the darkness in the horizon, unstable and threatening, and knew she didn't have much time left...

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Sitting at the foot of the bed with her knees pulled next to her chest, Nara allowed the tears she was holding to break free, without anyone around to see as she cried once again, the princess allowed herself to break, once again she felt useless, powerless, and of no use to the people around her, especially her youngest sister who mysteriously went missing after her encounter with the shadows' lord in the king's forest, her little sister looked as if she has been drained out of life, scared and lost and terrified, nothing like the shining diamond she was at the beginning of the ceremony, and nothing like the fierce woman she knew her to be, it was a pitiful sight that alarmed everyone, including Henry and Rima who had to miss their wedding night to deal with the mess the Gods' arrival caused and the rumors about the dark lord's betrayal and the shadow demons' invasion.

But even after hours and hours of searching, nothing was to be found, her little sister, who ran away from the sight like a meteor, leaving behind a stunned audience and a wounded lover was not found despite all the efforts of the humans and demons.

Her sister disappeared, taking with her all the reasons that explained her actions, the way she pushed the shadows' lord and told him so brokenly to stay away from her, and all the answers, what the Gods wanted, What happened in the King's forest, no one knew but her and she was no where to be found...

"Please be okay, Sara!" Not having anything else to do, Nara whispered in the darkness praying to no one in particular for her sister's wellbeing, but what she didn't expect was for her hushed pleas to be answered.

"That is a hard thing to ask, Nara..." Jumping up on her feet, Nara scanned the room to try and locate the source of the voice, it was dark moonless night and none of the candles were lit in her room which made her task harder, but not for so long as a hand touched her face softly.

"Relax, sister, I am here." Sara whispered in the darkness, grateful that her sister wasn't able to see how messy and broken she was, she did not wish to be seen, if anything, she wished she could just be erased from all memories but she knew she needed to let someone know, that someone being her sister, "But I won't stay for long..."

"What? Why? And where have you been? We have been so worried about you! Especially Lord Eren! And what do you mean by hard thing to ask? Is something wrong? Are you feeling unwell?" As Nara bombarded Sara with loads of questions, the half goddess swallowed her bitter tears, wondering how she was going to break the sad news to her, or how was she going to put such a massive weight on her delicate shoulders...

"Lord Eren... You love him, don't you, Nara?" At the unexpected question, Nara took a step back while the words clogged her throat..

"W...what a...are you ta...?"

"Don't deny it, I know you love him, and I know it hurts you to see me with him, you think it should have been you by his side, the legitimate princess and not some nameless bastard, it would have been a fascinating story indeed, one that could be told for generations..." Sara tasted the bitterness on her tongue as she spoke the words, imagining them as reality, and it indeed created a beautiful image, her sister was too delicate for Eren's dark side but maybe her delicacy was the key to numb that darkness, it was a beautiful picture indeed, without her to ruin it for all of them, "You can have him, he is all yours..."