(From Blue's Perspective)
"I get an odd feeling from him," Cyan said.
"From who?" I asked.
"Your husband. It feels like sothing is wrong with him."
"Just say you don't like him, Cyan. He won't mind," I sighed, rolling my eyes.
"Not that. I'm serious. It feels like sothing is inside him. Sothing that's hidden, even from him. Maybe even he doesn't know it's there," Cyan said. "It's not like the feeling I get from Demian. Demian's power, although unknown, is straightforward because he just need to awaken his power to use it. But about your husband, it's different. I feel creeped out sotis when I am near him."
***
I woke with a start. I had been dreaming about Cyan saying sothing to , although I could not rember exactly what. I found myself tangled in sheets. The temperature was just right and I had been sleeping like a log.
My head hurt. What happened? I rembered trying to follow my intuition to find Azure, then… then everything went black. I could not rember anything else after that. When did I lose consciousness? Who brought in this room?
I could not see the room I was in because it was too dark. In fact, it was pitch black.
But I knew one thing. I was here because Azure brought here. I could feel him close.
I felt no pain anywhere. I was not hurt, just tired. How was Demian? Where did Azure keep him?
Dem would be so angry. But what was I supposed to do? Abandon my child?
I thought about Ava. What the hell did Azure do to my sweet niece? She was the sweetest girl and now… She was all grown up and probably did not recognize . Did she forget about ? Or was she forced to forget about ? Either way, it did not feel nice to be a stranger to soone I considered my daughter.
I tried to rember my conversation with Ava. But everything was slightly foggy. I could not rember the details even though it might not have happened long ago. Then I rembered talking to Evan, but what did I tell him?
It did not matter. I might have told him sothing that actually mattered, not so bullshit.
Ti passed. For so reason, I could not muster the strength to get down from the bed. I simply sat there, under the sheets.
So ti later, I did not know exactly how long, a door opened from my left. It was Azure who entered.
"It's been long, my dearest daughter," he said in a cheery voice. It did not suit him at all.
"Where is my son?" I asked.
"Oh, my grandson is safe and okay… for now. Let's see what happens next," he said. "And in case you are wondering, I did not bring him here. In fact, he ca here on his own accord."
I wanted to disagree, but I could not. It was possible. I knew my son. I knew he was soone who could do it.
"You have a dutiful son, don't you? He made promise to not bring you here. I promised him I would not bring you here and hurt you. But you ca here on your own accord as well. So, I can do whatever I want, can't I?"
"What do you want to do? Torture ?"
"Oh no, I was just joking. Why would I do that?"
"I don't know, Azure. Why would you?"
"I just want one thing from you."
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"Another grandchild."
"What…?" I was shocked. I did not expect him to say this. "You know I can't get pregnant anymore, right?"
"You can if I want you to. You are immortal because of . I can bend a rule. In fact, I got soone who can bend that rule."
"My husband is not here. I need my husband if I am to get pregnant," I said.
He laughed. "Don't worry. I will manage that."
"Manage what? Bring my husband here so we can make a grandchild for you? You are fucking sick!"
He did not say anything. He simply went out of the door and closed it.
***
He probably put sothing in that room to make feel sleepy. I was not too worried. I needed to play his ga to get my son. Damien might have gotten into the problem himself, but I was not ready to abandon him.
Azure would not hurt or my son. Or at least, he would not kill us. Hurting was different. He branded , after all. He let soone almost rape . He could do anything, but he would not kill us. He needed our power. Besides, he could not kill . I could resist even the mist in the room, but I decided not to. Why not? Well, that was because I wanted him to think of differently. I could understand Azure a bit. The want for power. I felt it for a while too. Even so days, I still felt it. The need for more power. The need to kill. There was a thirst inside that was sotis hard to ignore. I never told Dem about it, but he read my mind. He must know. He never brought it up thinking it might cause emotional distress.
I had children. I ignored it as much as I could. Even so, I did so bad things I never acknowledged.
One night, I woke up naked and bloody in a forest cabin. One of those cabins ant for full moons. I had blood all over my hands, legs. There were splatters even on my face. I rembered screaming before I noticed Dem. He had a bucket and a fresh white towel in his hands. He told it was nothing, but I forced it out of him.
I had killed soone.
Not just that, I drank that person's blood. I asked Dem who it was, but he never told . That was right after I gave birth to Bree. My theory was that to recover my body, I needed sothing. I did not know I needed blood for that. Possibly, I took that person's mana inside and it healed . After that, I was better. After giving birth to Bree, my body was in a terrible shape. It was a long ti before I stopped bleeding. There was pain everywhere. Bree hated to be held by . Sotis she would refuse to even drink milk which was weird for a newborn. I was exhausted physically and ntally and ended up killing soone. I was not making any excuse for my behavior. I felt terrible.
It happened again and again and again. Every ti, Dem found sohow and I ended up with little to no mory of what happened. He would silently clean and take back ho. We would not talk about it. We would pretend like it never happened.
How long could we ignore it? Tonight, it all ca back to . Azure knew about it. I could see it on his face. Besides, he knew everything that happened in my life.
I killed. Azure killed. What was the difference between us?
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