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Kaya’s POV.
“You bitch. What the fuck are you doing here?” Jared curses at me, his teeth gritting, and I raise one of my brows.
Wow. I’m surprised. I know he’s got a big mouth naturally, but after what he has just done to his nephews, he has acquired a very big mouth at that.
He doesn’t seem to have any remorse or something of the sort. He looks perfectly okay, and if I hadn’t appeared here, he might still be flashing his teeth as the triplets walk one step closer to their deaths.
“You don’t seem bitter at the fact that your nephews are dying?” I say as I shift my eyes to them. Kade’s body has weakened like the other time when Chester and I saved him from the hands of Olivia and the other alphas. His eyes are reddened from being strained by the poison.
It must have been a strong one, and I wonder why Jared would be keeping such poison all this time just to get rid of the last ones he could call family. I don’t expect less since he was even the one who killed their mother, and I shall make him confess every bit of that.
“And you don’t seem like you’re going to sound the alarm so a physician can come and check on them.” I add, and he squints his eyes at me.
He gnashes his teeth at me, showing his fangs, and says, “you know what? It’s good that you’re here. I’d just end all of you at once.”
“And why is that? I can understand why you want me to perish, but your family-why would you do such a thing?” I ask, and he laughs.
He is still laughing, and the reason why is obscure to me. I’m just narrowing my eyes at him, my palms ready to cast a spell in case of any shocking event he might have in his head that’d surely lead to my death. With the way he’s daring his eyes at me, I can tell he wishes to kill me where I stand right now.
And I mean, when you think about it, I’ve actually been a pain in his ass since the first time I appeared in this kingdom, and he can’t wait to get rid of me finally.
“I don’t need to answer your questions. It doesn’t change the fact that I’d crush you where you stand right now.” He begins to walk close to me until suddenly, his left leg drags behind him, and he trips. He almost falls to the ground, but is quick to pick himself back up.
He grunts and shakes his head, blowing out air through his mouth as he blinks rapidly. “What’s…”
I didn’t allow him to finish his sentence. Well, to be very honest, he doesn’t have many sentences to finish, so I would rather be quick with this. “You’re the fool here, Jared. You think you’ve got it all figured out, and well, maybe you did, but you failed in the end. Let me tell you something. I say and get closer to him. He has fallen to one knee now, and he can’t move his hands anymore, so he can’t attack me even if I’m to close all the spaces between the both of us. “I see through you right from the start of your mistake. You made the triplets the monsters that they became; you ruined everything, and I believe you have a lot to tell us today.”
I hurry to Kade and pat his cheeks. “Kade. Open your eyes.” I hit him hard on the cheeks, but he’s barely holding on, as is Kieran. On the other hand, when I check Kyle’s breathing, he can barely move his chest. The poison has reached deep into his heart, leaving me with confusion on how he’s the most affected. Anyway, that doesn’t matter. I must reverse the curse.
“What did you do to me?” Jared shouts into the air, his eyes bleeding at me with such glaring stares that it frightens not even a strand of my hair.
“You think you’re the only one who can poison? The funny thing you didn’t realize is that witches have more knowledge of the right poison to do the job than a werewolf like yourself.” My lips spread into a smile for a second before I go back into a serious mode and take a few steps back.
I spread my hands into the air, making sure that the back of my hand faces me while I conjure the strength within me.
Jared crackles up a snicker, calling my attention back. “You can’t reverse the spell, stupid girl! It was made out of concoctions cursed by witches from the old religion. You’re not worth its power.”
No, he’s wrong. My mother was a part of the old religion. I know that after I fully connected with the light part inside me, my witch part. She showed me everything, and I am the last generation of witches, bearing the power.
I can do this. And I shall do this.
“Watch me.” I wink at him, scoffing, and suddenly, everything drifts into silence as I reach deep inside me.
“Redeo ad vitam.” I cast and feel the energy sucking out of me, but it doesn’t do anything to awaken the triplets.Content rights by NôvelDr//ama.Org.
Jared laughs, his eyes telling me how much of a failure he counts me as.
Breathing in, I reach deeper. “Impero terrae, audi verba mea, et adhae-rere omni petitioni meae. Hanc maledictionem averte et innocentem sana.” Dragging my sentences, I lay emphasis on each word, making sure that my intention is well understood by the air.
When I finish the spell, my eyes glow brightly, telling me how much of my energy the venom sucks just to get the triplets back to a healing state.
“I told you it wouldn’t work.” Jared laughs when nothing significant has happened yet.
Oh, he doesn’t understand what is about to happen, and I shall explain with a full chest. “I am a woman, Jared. I have lots of wits, and I know better than you can ever possibly imagine. And not just that alone; I am a witch and one who has felt the pain of losing her babies before they were born. I would do anything. I would be strong at anything just to get to the end of the darkness that aims to clang me into ruin. And I won’t let you be the end of my mates.” After finishing, Jared looks shocked. His eyes have dilated, and he’s weakening more.
“You have poison inside your system. It’s eating you from the outside.” Oh, now the venom is starting to do its main job. Jared’s body is turning into flakes, deteriorating little by little till he becomes a skeleton, then blows into the wind like ash. “If you confess all of your sins, I will reverse the curse, just like I did with the triplets.”
He looks back at the triplets, who are now awakening, and his eyes widen in shock. “Impossible. He whispers.
“Time is not by your side, dorkface.” I honestly don’t know why I actually insulted him. Maybe it’s because he’s dying, and I need him to tell me the exact truth. I already know who he is, but I also want to know what he did.
“Reverse this curse now!”
“What was your relationship with the clone? What was that you were hiding behind the bookshelf?” I scream at him so much that the veins appear on my forehead and on my neck.
His face welcomes a painful expression as he speaks, “she took my throne. I was supposed to earn it after the death of our father, but he gave it to their mother.” His face shifts to the triplets. “I had to do something, and that’s when I came across the witches of the old religion. In return for gaining the throne, they’d rule this land. But then, the triplets were so stupid to have attacked when they captured their mother, and they cursed them. It was also helpful to me, bringing forth the plan to make a clone of Emilie’s after I killed her.”
I look over to the triplets, seeing as they break into pieces. They are healed from the venom of the poison, but I can tell that they are weakened by something much more devastating, and that’s the betrayal caused by the one they thought was their last family.
“Why curse them?”
“The kingdom was dying then. Hunters were attacking us. We needed a ravaging monster, and that’s what I did; I turned them into that.”
So, he is just a lazy dimwit who wants the throne to himself without having the strength to maintain it.
“And my babies?”
“Please, stop..” He furrows his brows right after his nostrils began to draw blood, streaming down both his eyes and his ears too. “please…”
“Tell me everything I need to know!”
“What do you want to know?”
“Did you hit me that night?”
“Yes. Yes, I fucking did that too. And I sent Aiden to end you too before the stupid fellow befriended you instead, leading to his death. And yes, I also worked with the other packs to destroy the triplets when I noticed how much they invested in you. I poisoned everyone, and I had my reason. Our father caused this. He could have given me what was rightfully mine from the start. Now, what the heck are you waiting for? I have confessed. Give me the antidote.”
“And what will you do when you heal? Leave only to find a way to destroy us? No, you’re dying.” I say, my voice breaking as I can’t hold back the pain anymore.
I just run and keep running till I am out of that room.