Chapter 47 Untitled Chapter
“No!”
Rina wasn’t even aware that the scream had tore from her own throat until she heard it but the king didn’t even pause.
His hand continued its murderous descent to silence the crying babe once and for all.
But then something unexpected happened.
When the king tried to kill the baby, suddenly his hand slammed against a magic shield covering the little baby, sheer but strong. It pushed him back with immeasurable force and the babe landed on top of the dying witch, unharmed.
The king gawped at this strange turn of events but the woman just laughed, soft and satisfied.
“Miranda knew you were capable of this so she put a safety spell on her daughter so that neither you or any of your cursed descendants would be able to touch her in any way.” Her tone was triumphant.
“Irks, doesn't it? Your greatest enemy right before you but you’re unable to do a thing. May this child be your doom, Kyrian, you and your seed.”
“SHUT UP!!” The alpha king screamed but the woman had already gone, the light leaving her eyes.
Abruptly, Rina was yanked back to the present, and she collapsed to the ground, unable to grasp the few hard truths in that vision… memory.
Miranda, that name… wasn’t that the name Samorah had called her mother?
And if what she’d seen in that vision was the truth, was Rina that baby and her mother a witch?
And the alpha king had tried to kill her when she was just a baby in diapers.
How heartless could that be? What was her crime at that tender age? Because she was a hybrid? Was this the reason why the king had seemed to despise her right from the beginning?
A hybrid abomination.
She was barely aware of the rain that had started until it dropped down her cheeks, mixing with her tears.
Samorah had implied that her mother was dead. If that was true, who had killed her? Was it the alpha king?
Rina had said she wanted answers and now, she’d finally gotten some. But it tasted like bitter ashes on her tongue.
When Rina got back to her room in the palace, Sara was still awake, and clucked over her like a mother hen, changing her drenched clothes to something warm and boiling hot tea to quell the cold.
But the chill inside of Rina couldn’t be banished that easily.
The next day, Rina woke up after a restless, dreamless sleep with dark circles under her eyes, only to see brown eyes staring directly at her.
“Kai!” Rina came instantly awake. “You’re awake! How are you feeling? Have you been up long?”
Kai put her head to her head, groaning. “Take it easy. I just woke up though if you’re going to keep questioning me like that, I might just go back to sleep.”
Rina snorted, happy to see that Kai didn't seem that traumatized by what had happened.
She squeezed her hand. “But how are you feeling, really?”
“A bit sore like I got hit by a thunder bolt and my brain feels like someone stepped on it.”
Hesitantly, she asked, “Do you remember anything from last night at the dancing beauty tavern?”
Kai’s eyes blinked, her eyes wide. “Remember what? A tavern? Did we get drunk?”
Rina’s heart thudded. Could it be…?
But before she could say anything, Sara walked in with a tray loaded with what must be every treat in the world.
“Good, you’re both awake. I thought you might be hungry when you wakened, so I went and prepared breakfast!”
Rina looked at the hot, brown sandwiches filled with tomatoes, jam and pickles. On another plate, there was boiled potatoes and onion sauce and scrambled eggs, and on another light, feathery small sized cakes glazed with honey and cinnamon. Rina's stomach grumbled just from inhaling the smell.
Sara grinned, satisfied. “Help yourself. I cooked enough for everyone,” she urged, pouring hot sweet tea into two mugs.
Rina and Kai dug into the little feast with obvious sign of enjoyment, complimenting Sara on her chef skills.
“But how did the kitchen matron let you cook in her kitchen?” Rina asked, remembering that when she’d still been a kitchen slave, the matron had never let the younger omegas near her stove.
Sara blushed looking down. “She didn’t know. One of the omegas let me in when she wasn’t there.”
Rina shook her head, wondering what Sara must have had on one of the omegas, to let them risk the matron's wrath.
“This is really good. Thank you Sara.”
The girl beamed and after warning them to stay in bed until she got back, went back to return the tray.
Immediately she left, Rina flung the bedsheets aside and stood, sore muscles and bones creaking tiredly.
Although her body felt tired, Rina felt alive, revived. She wondered if it was because of the power that she’d unlocked inside her but still seemed to be sleeping peacefully inside her.
Today, she was determined more than ever to somehow get Lyon to forgive her. She wouldn’t rest until he did.
Just then, Kai said from behind her. “Wanna go for training?”
Rina turned, surprised to see Kai on her feet. After the night she’d had, she deserved to stay in bed a little while longer.
Rina couldn’t hold her surprise. “You want to go for training?”
“Yeah, I’ve got some tension to release, don’t you?” Kai shrugged offhandedly but her tone was off. And her eyes flashed like she withheld a secret.
Rina’s eyes narrowed but she knew not to pry now. Any minute, Sara would come and make her feel guilty with her big doe eyes until Rina agreed with everything she said.
Kai would tell her what was bothering her sooner.
In the meantime, she would use this training as an avenue to lessen Lyon’s anger a little and get closer, to bridging this gap that had formed between them.