"Master, he's back!" Mogrok jumps in joy. "Our Lord has returned from Qeshaya."
Having heard Mogrok's words, Ari rushes out of her room. She runs through the corridors, looking for him everywhere. Where the heck did he go? She stops running and looks at Mogrok. "Where is he?"
"Our Dark God..." Mogrok frowns. "He is in Lady Amara's room."
That room? Ari scrunches her brows. Why would he go there? She heads toward Amara's room. Did sothing happen between Kresi and Adira? That's impossible.
Adira lays Kresi on the bed. He glances at her missing right hand. Holding her wrist, he tries to rebuild her right hand. However, the ehr keeps getting rejected. Adira exhales. It's impossible now.
"Adira!"
He turns around and looks at the woman standing at the doorway. She dashes in his direction and wraps her arms around him, bursting into sobs. "I was scared. I thought that I might not be able to see you again."
See him? He pushes the woman away from him, scrutinizing her face. She has dark eyes and long dark hair. He realizes that the mortal is young, not older than sixteen. The ehr seems to be in tune with her soul. Even the dark ehr favours this woman. Strange! Only gods should have this kind of affinity with the ehr.
Regardless of who or what she is, what is she doing in his castle? Why did she hug him like that? Even going as far as calling him by his na? She has so guts.
"Who are you?" He asks with a solemn voice.
Ari stares at him. There's no familiarity in his eyes. He's watching her as if he has seen her for the first ti. She laughs awkwardly, suppressing the dread in her heart. "Adira, I know that you are mad at because I rejected the idea of marriage. But isn't this too much? Alright! I will marry you now. You can use any thod to make immortal. However, you must not do a dangerous thing."
"Marry ?" Adira snorts at her, giving her a dark look. "Mortal, don't you know your place?"
He did marry a mortal once. That person betrayed him. How could he ever marry a mortal again? He would rather go back to Qeshaya and spend eternity in that prison.
"Why are you not calling by my na?" Ari blinks at him, curling her fingers.
"I don't know your na, Mortal." Adira glares at her. "And I don't care who you are. Tell how you enter my castle. Did they send you here to keep a watch on ?"
He's acting differently. Does he truly not rember her? When she freed him for the first ti, he did lose all of his mories. Ari takes a step toward him. "Adira, do you not rember ?"
"You are still calling by my na." He grasps her chin, looking into her dark eyes. A heavy pressure descends in the room. She feels her blood turning cold, sweating under his chilling gaze. Such unfamiliarity and coldness... He has never looked at her like this -- not even when he wanted to kill her in the cursed sea.
Sensing her fear, Adira laughs at her. "Then again, this is not the first ti when a woman entered my castle like this. However, you are the first mortal who ca here without my permission."
Now, she's sure that he truly doesn't rember her. Qeshaya has taken away his mories of her. He rembered everything last ti. He would rember again. She moves closer to him, raising her hand to touch his face. "I am Ari -- your Ari."
He slaps her hand away and wrinkles his nose in disgust. "Step back, Mortal."
Her heart wrenches in pain. Ari purses her lips. It's temporary. She shouldn't let this get to her. He's acting like this because he doesn't rember. Didn't she do the sa when she was in his place? "Adira, you forgot everything. That's why you are like this. I will tell you everything that has happened. You will rember in ti."
However, Adira is not paying attention to her. He glances at Kresi who is deep in sleep. The soul has taken damage and the body is not doing well. Did the other gods do this to Amara's reincarnation? There's no reason why Amara should be in prison. His heart was taken away before the imprisonnt, but it's back in his body now. Surely, Noras must have returned it. The condition of the world is better. How long has passed?
Cina was also there in Qeshaya. The other gods must have sent Cina for another cri. But why did they send Amara there? Why did Noras release them? Did Amara try to release him and that forced Noras to co?
He clenches his fists when he recalls the betrayal. Amara did it to him because she wanted to avenge the gods. He trusted her so much A mortal tricked a god. It's ridiculous.
"Adira," Ari calls his na with a frantic voice, shaking him awake from his thoughts. "Are you listening to ? Your na was Kyo once. I gave you that na. Rember , please."
"Annoying," He mutters under his breath as he raises his hand to slap her face for touching him. Why is this mortal still here? Maybe he should kill her now.
She widens her eyes, freezing in her spot. His hand stops only a few inches away from her cheek. He fists his hand and moves away from her. He comnts with a low dark voice, "You are carrying a child."
"Your child," Her voice breaks. "I am carrying your child."
"Mortal, you are testing my patience." Adira resists the urge to wipe her out. He doesn't want to kill an unborn life. "I am sure that you know who I am. I ca out of imprisonnt after a long ti. When did I sleep with you? I am sure that I didn't grant any boon to any strange woman."
And then, she loses her temper. Strange woman? Who is he calling strange? "I am going easy on you because you had a hard ti, but you keep talking shit to . Do you know how many tis you have slept with ?" She grimaces at him. "We kept fucking like rabbits. You even said that you were going to do this to until I reached immortality. You lustful god! You dare to act like a saint now. You better rember everything before tomorrow cos or I will--"
Fucking like rabbits? He crosses his arms, wondering whether he should laugh or pull her tongue out. She must have been sent by other gods. Whose child is she carrying? It's certainly a halfling. He can't endure her lies.
"I will smack your head." Ari finishes her words. "I promise you! I will hit your head until you rember everything."
"You really have a death wish." He grabs her arm and drags her out of Amara's room. The girl is resting. This ti is crucial. If this woman continues to scream, the girl might wake up. He closes the door and turns to face the strange woman. "I don't know who sent you here, but I will ignore it since you are carrying a child. Leave the castle now. I don't want to harm you or your child."
"I can't leave." She scowls at him. "I am telling you. This is your baby. I can prove it. Is there DNA testing here?"
What is DNA testing? Adira frowns at her. Is it so new magic? "Do you know the girl who is lying unconscious on the bed?"
"Yes." She knits her brows. He even forgot about Kresi?
"That's my wife's reincarnation, Amara." He informs her, "I killed her, but that doesn't change anything. I love her and only her, and I also hate her. Nobody else will take her place in my heart. I will wait for her to wake up. You should return to the man who is the father of your child. At this ti, you should be staying with him since you are carrying a halfling. The halfling would be born weak if you don't stay with him."
After hearing that, she doesn't know what to say. To see that kind of look in his eyes for another woman Did he go through this pain when she was crying for Tristan? The relationship between her and Tristan was different from the relationship between him and Amara. Does he love her again? But even when she didn't rember him, she still felt sothing for him. Ari places her hand on her belly, staring at him calmly. "You are wrong. Your heart has only . There's no place for her. You made love to and this child is yours. You don't love her. You love ."
Her stubborn declaration makes his heart skip. He narrows his gaze on her. Who is this woman?
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