Chapter 99: right person, wrong time

Hendrick’s pov

“why the hell are my men getting executed?” Charles said coming to my office.

I looked at him, “your men?” I said and he realized his mistake.

“they were on my team” he said, and I just shrugged.

“then maybe I should kill you instead” I said, and he seemed confused.

But my threat was enough for him to hold off his high horse and keep shut.

After some time, he looked at me again with his head bowed a little.

this little fucker really has been pretending all this time.

I never really trusted him, but I always thought we had only one goal.

“why are they getting executed?” he asked and this time a little calmer than he previously was.

“because I found out something, from an anonymous source of course” I said.

there is no anonymous source I just want to make sure that when I get to him he is all alone.

I will destroy him until he regrets ever crossing paths with me.

he frowned and obviously wanted to ask what was it that I heard and who told me.

“apparently, your men are killing innocent women and children. I have told you this and I will tell you again. We don’t kill those who can’t defend themselves” I said, and he looked down.

He knew because he put them up to it, he did all this to feed his thirst for power.

And along they way he dragged my name through the mud.

Doing all this heinous crimes in my name and I won’t stand for it at all.

He didn’t reply but was obviously not happy with this.

“no problem, I have somewhere I need to be right now. You deal with this whatever way you feel fit” he said, and I just shrugged.

“it’s not like I need your permission” I said, and he just smiled.

I noticed how his eyes landed on the folder on my desk.

I took it and put it away on a drawer, he looked at me trying to figure out what it is that I am hiding.

“I will go then” he said with a smirk on his face.

I really can’t stand his smug look every time he looks at me.

he then left and I got what I wanted anyways because his men got killed..

he doesn’t even know that I know about him, and I have a plan to deal with him.

When I am done with him then I will go after those who killed my mother.

Everything else after that just repeated itself.

I looked around me, life has become so lonely and so empty that nothing makes me happy anymore.

I feel only anger and hate, eventually these emotions can make anyone feel lonely.

All it has taught me is that anger and hate aren’t good at all.

It is as if they drain the energy out of you until there is nothing left.

That’s how I feel, is that what motivated Grace to do what she did? I don’t think I will ever understand anyone.

Let alone Grace, I stayed with her for months and not even once did I get to know a thing about her.

And I found something to be strange about her mother as well.

that woman didn’t exist anywhere, no matter how much I dug into her I couldn’t find anything.

It is as if she appeared out of nowhere and there is no such thing.

That just means that you disappeared from somewhere before but where and why?

Grace seems to be a on a quest to find answers to all these questions.

I hope that she gets the answers she wants, even though I don’t think that such an answer exists.

I think that answers don’t rewrite the past or even change it somehow.

Even after Grace finds out the truth everything she went through would still be there.

But I do know that knowing the reason behind having to suffer so much can be consolation enough.

I also want to know why my mother died.

I know why she was killed but I want to hear it from those who did this.

I want to look at them in the eyes as they tell me why my mother had to die.

Why they thought that making me watch her die was a good idea?

Why I had to suffer all those sleepless nights tormented by the pain and fear in my mother’s eyes as she died.

I was just a child, why would they do something like that to a child?

My train of thoughts were interrupted by this sharp pain that came out of nowhere.

I felt myself being pulled towards someone and that’s when I heard her.

“fuck, you again” said Grace’s wolf.

What? Grace’s wolf?

Isn’t the mate bond broken?

“I know, I know the person we both should hate and get revenge from” I heard Grace’s voice through the mind link.

She sounded so broken, “how is this even possible?” I asked her.

“I got my humanity back, along with your mark” she replied, and I couldn’t believe it.

I did a lot of research on the kind of magic that was used to get rid of her humanity.

I was looking for ways to get her humanity back but nothing.

There was absolutely no other way to get rid of this spell but how did she?

How did she get her humanity back?

She really is greater than I thought.

How did she win over such powerful and dark magic?

She has such a kind heart that even the darkest of magic couldn’t suppress it for long.

That’s when I felt it, my heart fill up now that I was connected to her again.

That empty feel was gone just like that, as if I imagined it a few minutes ago.

“welcome back Grace, you don’t know how happy I am right now” I said to her.

“I am not really thrilled, but it’s convenient because we can talk through the mind link this way. It will make things easier for us from now on” she said.

she never liked using the mind link and now she is saying it is convenient.

I don’t expect anything from her at all.

I just want her to be happy from now on, and I know that I cant give her than happiness she wants.

I am not what she needs, I met the right person just at the wrong time.

I hope that one day when we are reborn I get to be with her just once.

That’s all I ask for, in my next life can I be mated to Grace again?

This time can we be happy?

That’s all I ask for in my next life.

I don’t want the riches of this world, just pair me with Grace again.

And this time can we get our happily ever after?

Can this time be the right time and right person?

that’s all I will ask for, that’s all I will ever want.

“what is it would you like to talk about?” I asked her.

“the real person that killed both our parents” she said, and I couldn’t believe it.

I killed her mother, then why is she saying all that?

“I know what you are thinking, you are thinking that you killed her.

But you killed her body and not her soul, someone else killed my mother before you did.

The same person killed your mother as well” she said, and I couldn’t understand.

She told me, she told me everything and about her real father being Joseph Grayson.

I mean it explains why her mother would want to disappear from the world.

Even I know Cara Hale and how powerful she is.

But she went after my mother and Grace’s mother as well.

she is the reason that Grace was raised by a mother who would tell her that she is just hard to love.

I will deal with her no matter what, I don’t care how powerful she is.

When I built this army I have now it was for my own revenge and selfish plans.

I just wanted to use them as a way to gain more power so I can make people pay for what they did.

But now I will that army to protect Grace and avenge her.

Even if it means that somewhere along the line I will have to order my own men to kill me.

then I will do so, I will happily pay for my crimes in that situation.

“I will do that, what is the plan? How do we take down someone as powerful as her? The same thing we have planned?” I asked her.

“yes but we need to change a few things, is that okay with you? Are you in?” she asked me.

“I am in, from today on you and I are avengers…” I said and she scoffed.

“avengers huh? Don’t abuse the mind link” she said and then cut it off.

I smiled and looked outside, why is the moon brighter today?