Fated To Three, Betrayed By All… Until She Rose.-Chapter 301: Actual dark magic.

Kael.

"Again, that’s for you to wonder and for me to know, Alpha dearest," she drawled in that shrill voice that never failed to grate against my ears.

I recoiled instinctively like I’d been struck and took a step forward when she continued to walk out of the room like I hadn’t just spoken to her. Like I didn’t exist.

"Stop!" I yelled, hating the way she ignored me like I was nothing.

"I command you, peasant! Stop fucking moving!"

As soon as those words left my lips, she stopped and turned around to face me in that lazy self-appreciating manner that irked me to no end.

My eyes trailed from her face to the still empty syringe in her hands and I seethed; "What was that?"

She smiled, lifted the hand holding the syringe slightly and shrugged. "It’s a little something to keep her in place... at least until we find something more... effective."

"Effective for what?" I hissed angrily, "...and who is ’we’? What the fuck are you doing to Lani?"

She tilted her head to the side as she watched me closely then cooed. "Aww, Lani... that’s sweet." And goddess, that... that irritated me too. "Anyways this is the part where I remind you that it is for you to wonder and for me to know."

Bloody Hades, that was it. Those were the exact words that finally broke the camel’s back. My eyes flashed in rage as I stomped over to her but just as I tried to grab her by the neck, a sudden strange kind of heat flared up inside of me.

I froze.

"You do not command me or touch me, little Alpha... you don’t get to exercise your strengths with me like you would with everyone else."

My blood was boiling, and no, it wasn’t in the way that you may think. It was indeed boiling. I was scalding hot everywhere, sweating under the extremely cold temperature and I could not understand how she was possibly doing that to me. The corners of my vision blurred and cleared. Then did that all over again as if to mock me.

I croaked out; "W-who are you? W-what are you doing to me?"

"You wanted to give her both of your kidneys right?" She snapped instead, ignoring the question I had just asked; and even amidst this pain, I still managed to nod. I whispered;

"Yes."

"Then let’s see what good you can do when you’re as good as dead as well."

"W-what?"

*Crack!*

A loud scream tore out from the back of my throat when the sound of my bones breaking filled the air and my ears.

Red hot pain sizzled through my body, causing me to convulse so badly, I feared I might die.

But I didn’t.

I simply fell to the floor, unable to move with my limbs twisted in angles that were too grotesque to look at and my warm blood seeping out from places I couldn’t even name.

The lady smiled, crouched so low to kiss my lips and muttered; "I would’ve killed you but I was paid beautifully not to. Have fun, knight in dead armor!" She sassed, and with that, stomped her foot in my face, causing me to black out so fast you’d think someone had turned off the lights.

Then her footsteps echoed down the hallway.

—

Zevran.

For what felt like an eternity, I stood there, clutching my phone against my ear after witnessing what sounded like my brother’s death and some stranger who I do not know confession.

My heart raced with both fear and apprehension as I slowly removed the now cold object from my ear and set it down on the table so carefully, you would think it was a time bomb.

But it wasn’t.

It was just something that I’d heard my brother’s agonised scream come from. It was something that I’d heard the eeriest conversation to ever exist from.

I rasped; "Kael is in trouble." And then, he looked up, his eyes swirling with emotions I couldn’t quite name.

I watched him set his book on the table in front of him, his look one of pure dishevel-ment as he asked; "What has happened to him?"

"There is some girl in the hospital. From the conversation I gathered, she’d just injected something no one knows into Leilani and hurt Kael badly. The last thing I heard before the line went dead was his screams... and they were... they were..." I trailed off, shuddering when the memory relayed itself in my mind, "...agonizing."

Caelum turned to flash me a look, looking equally as stunned and afraid as I was. And with a voice barely above a whisper, he said slowly;

"Let’s go?"

It sounded like a question and at the same time, a finite statement.

I trembled slightly, still visibly shaken from what I had witnessed or heard and shook my head. "Yeah. No... I mean, okay, let’s go!"

Caelum cast me a knowing glance as if sensing that I was on the verge of a breakdown— which I was by the way. And even the heavens know that I may have completely gone crazy if it wasn’t for the fact that I could still feel Leilani and Kael breathing steadily through our bonds.

We stumbled through the house and got into Caelum’s car and not long after, he drove off, seeing as he was a lot more stable than I was.

I didn’t know what to expect as we went. I didn’t know if I should be on edge or mad or afraid, but by the time we finally arrived at the hospital then at Leilani’s ward, we froze.

Why?

Because the sight before us was nothing short of grotesque.

It was the ugliest, scariest, most twisted I’ve ever seen anyone’s limbs go. And it was none other but my brother, Kael.

I gasped in horror, stumbling back until my back hit the wall.

His eyes were shut tight as if in death and Leilani... she was a different case entirely.

Her face was blue and looked like it had completely lost its light. Her lips were purple and torn as if it had been chewed off... but none of these could compare to the color of her skin. Or worst still, that of her hair which had completely lost its shine.

I stumbled backwards as if physically struck and whispered to Caelum. "This isn’t science... or some weird synthetic drugs..."

"This is magic. Dark magic." He hissed under his breath and I nodded, hating the way my heart began to pound against my chest.

What in the actual hell??