Chapter 50: Witch girl
“Isn’t that enough now? We have a war to fight” Claudia said when she noticed the uneasiness in Elaine’s countenance.
“I’m so sorry, it’s just been so long since we saw each other and I’ve missed having him in my arms like this” Rachael said as she wiped off some of the tears in her eyes.
“Let’s get to work” Claudia said and Rachael turned to face the outer wall and began to murmur some spells.
Elaine watched Edgar as he never removed his eyes from the girl, he was just so lost that she couldn’t believe that the man she loves can be so lost in the thought of another woman other than her.
“All done, it’s out of their radar now” Rachael said and turned to face Edgar with a small smile on her lips that widened when she saw him smiling at her with pride in his eyes.
“Rachael, get back to your room” Claudia said when she noticed what was going on.
“We’ll talk after the war, we have some catching up to do” Rachael said as she gave him a peck on his cheek before disappearing into thin air.
“That was one hell of a witch” Elaine said glaring at Edgar before sheb walked out of the room.
“Where did you find her? I thought she died that was why I never went looking for her” Edgar said following Claudia closely behind.
“I found her in the woods on the borders of your pack lands” Claudia said nonchalantly.
“It’s been so long I saw her, I missed her so much more than I ever thought I would” Edgar said sounding very excited.
Elaine walked in front of them and heard everything they were saying, Edgar had suddenly forgotten that she exists and is now totally obssessed with the witch girl. It was so abnormal and she intended to find out how it happened.
“Get yourself together Edgar!!!” Elaine screamed when she was tired of hearing him blabber about the witch girl all the way from the dungeon to the watch tower of the front gate.
“Don’t you dare yell at me woman” Edgar said raising his voice too, something he had never done to her since she met him.
And she stood there staring at him with an expression of complete shock and disbelief, what was wrong with him? She said to herself in her head. But before anymore drama, she put her emotions in check this wasn’t the time to handle this, she had a war to fight.
“Your majesty, we’re all set” Brandon said walking in.
“That’s good Brandon, take a few men to the back gate, just in the case Skylar plans any funny movements” Elaine said as she walked out but Edgar stopped her squeezing her arm so tight.
“Come back here, I’m not yet done talking to you” he said with uncontrolled rage in his eyes.
“Get your hands off me” she said with a cold, icy tone that sent shivers down his spine and he did exactly as she said after a few moments of confusion in his eyes.
“And the next time you hold me in that manner, I’ll prove to you that I have the power to kill you with just a snap of my finger” Elaine said to the man standing before her, the man she knew wasn’t Edgar and wasn’t the man she loved. There was fear in his eyes after she spoke and even if he tried to conceal it, both Elaine and Brandon saw it.
“My Lady, sorry to ask but what is wrong with Edgar?” Brandon said looking very disturbed as he also noticed that when he and Edgar’s eyes met, there was no form of recognition or “Hello brother” telepathy they always used to greet themselves.
“Tell me Brandon, who is Rachael?” Elaine said and Brandon abruptly stopped.
“Don’t tell me she’s back again” Brandon said looking petrified.
“What about her?” Elaine said getting more curious and wanting to know why this witch girl was so much of a big deal to everyone.
“She’s the witch that killed Eddy’s mother” Brandon said plainly and they continued walking.
“What do you mean by that? If she’s the one why is Edgar so familiar with her?” Elaine said.
“How is he familiar with her? He killed her with his own two hands” Brandon replied.
“He’s been acting like that since he saw her and hugged her” Elaine replied feeling very angry and disgusted.
“How did she even get here? I thought we killed her that night” Brandon said looking confused with furrowed brows.
“What really happened back then?” Elaine said stopping at a point because she needed to get the story clearly.
“Edgar’s mother fell sick after being poisoned by Rachael, her intention was to poison Esgar but poison can’t kill him so she poisoned the mother instead” Brandon said and paused for a while.
“We tried all we could to help her but nothing was working, not even the antidote to the poison. All the time his mother was sick, Rachael placed a spell on him that made him fall so in love with her that he always ignored his sick mother. He would spend lots and lots of hours with her in the woods with her.
I realized something was wrong because the Edgar I knew loved his mother too much to ignore her. I told my father about it and we found out about the spell, we tried breaking it with what we saw in
books but none were working” Brandon paused for a while.
“So we let him be, on the day of his mother’s death when the news was broken to him, he knew that he was spelled, he was so enraged that he lured Rachael to the woods and stabbed her to death” Brandon said and Elaine stared at him with horror in her eyes, she never knew anything of this sort happened.
“Thanks Brandon, now get the men to the gate” Elaine said with a straight face.
“My Lady, what do you plan to do about it?” Brandon said.
“Nothing. I have a war to win, and a people to protect, this Edgar’s situation is a distraction and we cannot risk everybody in the four lands to save one person. Can we Brandon?” Elaine said without an expression on her face as she planned to forget about the events that just played out with Edgar.
“No, my Lady” Brandon replied.
“Let’s get going” she said and they both walked towards the gates.
Elaine was so frustrated with the new happenings in her relationship with Edgar. This might be a stumbling block or just a way of the universe telling her not to continue pursuing her love for him. That aside, nothing was going to stop her from entering into that battle ground and killing those bastard hybrids like she thought she would.