Chapter 264: Chapter no 94

'In the end, all I could say was that you guys were the best thing that has ever happened to me, my beloved children, Nathaniel, Persephone, Cinzel and hopefully it will be a boy, so, Alastair,'

Closing the diary, Nathaniel was in a faze, eyes widened taking a moment to fathom what the hell he just read.

"Nathaniel...?"

"Huh?"

"Are you okay?"

"Y-Yeah, I need a break. I need time to think," He breathed out, too stunned to react after listening to the whole tale.

"Shall I come with you?" She asked vaguely.

"No, no, you stay, I need a moment,"

"Okay, take care,"

She waited for him the whole day and when he didn't return, she was lying on the bed, still worried about his state.

But knew he needed time to sink things in and it took hours for him to embrace the truth of their lives.

Later at night, he returned, plopping behind his beloved and wrapping his arms around her, kissing her neck, staring with a gloomy tone.

"Zariah," He murmured on her neck.

"Oh, you are back. You are late, I was waiting for you. Are you okay now? Did you have dinner?"

"Hmm,"

Wrapping his hand around her side, he shifted the other under her head, pressing her firmly against his body.

His lips brushing against her ear, sending a satisfactory sensation to her core, brimming a smile on her lips.

"I love you, I love you so, so, much, I promise I am nothing like my father, I am not-"

She held his hand firmly, bringing them upwards and kissed them for reassurance.

"I know. You don't have to be worried about anything. It was their time, their love, their tale... and it has become history now,"

Shifting slightly, she held his face in her palm tenderly, vanishing his sorrows by one gesture.

"You and I live today, our love, our time, our tale matters, okay?"

"Yeah... you are right,"

A brief silence came in between as they remained peacefully in each other's arms.

Knowing this closure was all they ever required and must live by from now on.

"You know what...?"

"Hmm?"

"If we have a son, can we name him Alastair?" Nathaniel asked playfully, kissing her neck.

"Sure, but what if we had a daughter? I had a name for our daughter for a long time,"

"Really? What is it?" He chuckled.

"Persephone."

Pausing, he blinked to check if she heard right or not before cracking a joke.

"Why are we naming our kids by my late sibling's name?"

"I don't know, so that we feel more attached. Did you not like it?" She shrugged.

"No, no, I uh, I thought... about Alessandra,"

"I like Persephone more," She grinned that lifted his mood, grinning back, he hugged her tightly from behind.

The slightest imagination of sharing a happy family with her warmed his heart. To say he was felicitous would be an understatement.

"Then Persephone or Alastair- Ah! I can't wait to go home and marry you again and have our baby! This will be the best day of my life!" He beamed, pecking her lips from excitement.

"Mine too, but, I am really sleepy right now, love,"

"Ah, right, right, we should sleep,"

Giggling, holding each other, they both went to sleep, dying to go back and remarry.

The following week, since De Villiers was gone, his work had trouble and he had to make arrangements to return to America as well.

Humming to herself, Zariah was looking through the pictures on the wall, gleeful to imagine that she is going to replace their previous marriage's image with the current one.

As she was lost in imagination, she received a call from Amanda.

"Hey, Amanda, how are you?"

"Zariah... I am feeling terrible. Can you please come? I am at the hideout, I think I need to go to the doctor,"

"S-Sure, I am coming,"

"Thanks,"

Panicking, she got worried if she was not having a premature delivery due to stress and rushed to the hideout.

Zariah texted Nathaniel about her arrival and went to see Amanda worriedly.

The second she entered the hideout, she only found Elton who was checking on the list and turned to her when she came.

"Oh, what are you doing here? Boss isn't here, he had some shipments to check up on. He just left,"

"I came to see Amanda, is she okay?"

"Amanda? Why are you asking me? She is in her apartment for days,"

He shrugged his shoulders, unaware what was happening outside the second Zariah entered-

"Go, there is no one at the hideout and I doubt that Elton's presence would matter,"

Elton and Zariah were perplexed at what happened, "Really? She must have not-"

Zariah was about to assume that she did this accidentally and was about to leave but Elton saw some people ambushing them and pushed her back.

"Zariah, watch out!"

"Elton!"

He growled, passing her a gun as well to fight those who dared to attack them.

He knew Nathaniel kept him away from this and he might not be able to perform better.

And unwillingly, despite her condition, he had to trust Zariah with her flairs who shot the guys who dared until they released a smoke bomb.

"Dammit, I should have known the moment you started behaving strangely." Elton snarled.

Slamming his hand down, covering Zariah from behind who tried to get out from this smoke cautiously. Flawlessly killing anyone who dared to come in her way.

Back then her leg was shot, she was injured but in her best form, she was immaculate when it came to obliterating prey.

"You are..."

"A killing machine? I know," She smirked dryly, grabbing his wrist.

Leading him to the cabin so they could be away from the smoke until it is cleared instead of being reckless due to her condition.

But, they are caught by Amanda who growled and shot her but Elton came in between as the bullet grazed his arm.

"Argh!"

"Elton! Are you okay?"

"Yeah.. it only grazed,"

Snarling, Zariah glared at Amanda, "What the hell is wrong with you, Amanda!?"

"This is all YOUR fault and seeing you happy when my life is ruined once again is unbearable!"

"Bitch, we all know how much Boss had suffered for her. How can you betray him after calling him a savior!?"

Elton made a futile endeavor to induce the realization of what she was doing.

"What is wrong with you, Amanda!? Snap out of it!"

"SHUT UP! WHAT DO YOU KNOW?!"

But, her mind was consumed by grief.

"It was before De Villiers. He showed me happiness! She stole him too! She should have been dead!"

"Have you forgotten how badly Boss had chanted her name, yet you tried to steal what he cherished the most from him!?" He yelled back.

Hiding behind the desk with Zariah, shooting those who were daring to enter senseless, thinking they might be able to assassinate them.

"How could Amanda?! Why!?"

"Why!?" She snarled.

Taking cover and targeting Zariah to end her, considering her the starter of troubles, not being able to forgive her.

She had gone too far in hatred.

"De Villiers was the only good thing that happened to me in my miserable and stupid life, he was my only happiness and that bitch stole him too,"

"He did all this for his happiness as his brother and you became selfish," Zariah whispered, hoping she would remember his last moment.

"My heart is not as big as his! He died because of her! Her deal with Zoran got us into trouble. It's better if she dies!"

When she screamed, Zariah knew she had to take a risk again before they both lost their lives and pulled Elton down by his ankle.

"Ah, fuck, I never thought I would do this," Elton growled, taking the other side.

"Amanda, I have a gift for you,"

Zariah flashed a dark smirked, keeping her in rage as she was only good for torture not fighting anyways.

"Wha-"

"Why don't you say Hi to De Villiers in hell?"