Flip the Coin [BL]-Chapter 181. Moon

Henry’s POV

I left the prison and let the driver bring me home while I thought of Kenny and our time together in the room with the double bed.

When I stepped out of the car, I found Sarah running to me. I lifted her up when she came to hug me.

"Are you happy, Daddy?" She asked, rubbing her head against my cheek.

"What makes you think that?" I asked her as we walked into the house.

"Because you are grinning." She giggled.

"Am I?"

"Are you playing with your daughter?" Kenny’s grandma asked me sarcastically, sitting on the couch in the spacious living room while holding two knitting needles in her hands, as if she wanted to use them to stab someone.

Henrietta sat across from her and watched TV, looking absolutely nothing like the crazy bitch she was. All in all, it wouldn’t be so bad coming home like that, if not for Kenny being absent, his grandmother being constantly angry, and Henrietta being... Henrietta. Instead of her, Kenny could sit on the couch, watching TV or cooking in the kitchen while wearing a ’Kenny’ apron or something.

Wouldn’t he be adorable as hell in something like that?

"Henrietta, we have to make a little journey."

I put Sarah down and patted her head while Henrietta slowly stood up to come to my side.

"Is he still alive?" Mrs. Howard looked down at the wool on her lap, as if studying it with interest.

"Yes, he is fine and..." Should I say it or not?

"He now has..." Say it or not? Say it or not?

"A lot more..." I suppressed a laughing fit.

"Tattoos." Ah, I did it.

Mrs. Howard broke both knitting needles in her hands simultaneously before huffing.

"Good. Very good. He can show them to the other prisoners when we go home and he gets locked up again. I have only one grandson left; this gangster isn’t related to me." She stood up and went upstairs to her room.

"She is so strong..." Sarah concentrated on the most important thing and looked at the broken needles on the coffee table.

"What we talked about is a secret, okay?" I told her solemnly, and she nodded with a very responsible look on her face.

The nanny came down from upstairs with the little one in her arms.

"We’ll leave." I notified her and took a bored Henrietta outside.

We sat in the car, and I checked my phone for a nearby forest. I told the driver to take us to a coffee shop nearby. When we arrived, I sent the driver back before going into the forest, Henrietta following me inside.

"What are we doing here?"

"You need to open the portal." I took a pocketknife out.

"Why? What about our parents?" Henrietta asked, looking at the knife in my hand.

"We forgot someone in the other world. I’ll provide you with as much blood as you need, but we need to get her."

"Her?"

"Who is so important to you?" She switched personalities fairly quickly.

"Oh... A command of your master, isn’t it?"

I don’t know how she came to call Kenny that, if she had overheard us talking or something, yet it didn’t matter. There was nothing to be embarrassed about.

"Yes."

"That douchebag is nothing more than a loser. Why are you all so infatuated with him?" She asked loudly.

"Careful, Henrietta." I warned her with a growl.

"Remember that we have the same goal? Get our parents out of the laboratory? We need each other. Just take it as training. You are able to bring us exactly where you want. I know it." Kenny thinks so, so it must be true.

I slit my arm and held it to her. She looked at me intently until the blood started to fall. Then, she stepped closer and began to drink. I looked away, too disgusted with being forced to feed her. Yet the thought of ever again watching Kenny give her blood was far more revolting.

When she was finished, she wiped her mouth and felt around in the air before her before she made a hand motion, and when I felt the air pressure change, I knew it worked.

I made sure to take her wrist, and after we crossed over, I saw the familiar place; it was the same one we had used to cross. In front of the remains of the skyscraper, with the hellhole visible from our spot.

Looking up, I noticed an addition to the undefined sky. There was a very small red moon in the sky.

That thing felt ominous; we had to hurry.

"Close it, then open it again later."

"Are you sure? If we are unlucky, we won’t get back." Henrietta asked with raised eyebrows.

How could I decline after hearing this?

"Then leave it; let’s go to the mansion." I looked up at the sky again.

"Hurry up."

We climbed up the skyscraper remains, finding the discarded ladder there. I took it with me, and we went over the asphalt chunks until we were in front of the familiar building. After crossing it, I jumped down to the plateau and placed the ladder there for Henrietta to use. I could let her wait at the portal, but I didn’t trust her one bit.

At least I could be sure she wouldn’t come at me from behind like last time. Not only because she needed me as a fake commander, but also because I was now stronger and faster than her, combined with the unknown shadow power, which I still had to experiment with.

When we climbed through the window, I yelled for Chelsea. There was no immediate answer, so I brought the ladder inside.

The split second I had hesitated, not wanting Chelsea to come back again and possibly hover around Kenny, I was immediately admonished by my master. For him to be satisfied, I had to bring her back. There was no way I would want to lose my hard-earned favor with him again.

Jumping down instead of taking the ladder, I yelled for her once more. A door opened, and a puffy, disheveled Chelsea came outside.

"Finally! Why did you all leave?" She cried again while falling into my arms. I suppressed the impulse to sidestep her and hugged her back. It would be better if she viewed me as her savior instead of Kenny.

"I’m sorry, everything happened so fast." I softened my voice, but then I stopped it. She could never reach the position I held in Kenny’s heart; there was no need to play the savior.

"Let’s go." Turning back to normal, I put some distance between us. Pointing at the ladder, I told her to hurry up.

"We have to leave now."

Chelsea nodded and looked at the ladder as if it was made of gold before instantly climbing up.

"Hey." Henrietta greeted her coldly, while Chelsea directly ignored her and climbed out of the window.

I followed her and took the ladder with me so that we could reach the plateau. When everyone was up, we hurriedly headed back, though I often needed to carry Chelsea so we could continue.

The small red moon was shining so brightly, reminding me of Kenny’s eyes.

Eyes...

I stopped when we were near the portal. Is that...an eye?

Staring at it in doubt, the longer I looked, the more this small moon appeared as if it would move while looking through this small hole in the sky.

The next second, the red moon disappeared, leaving behind nothingness until something pushed through. I knew I should run, but my body was paralyzed as I tried to comprehend what I was seeing.

It seemed that the hole widened when whatever it was pushed through more, and I recognized a gigantic fingernail followed by the rest of a long, deformed finger.

I snapped back again and speedily jumped down the rest of the debris while carrying Chelsea and also grabbed Henrietta to drag her with me to the portal.

The earth started shaking, and there was a sudden wind as the gigantic finger widened the hole.

Before I threw the three of us into the portal, I saw a massive hand squeezing through the hole, descending from the sky, as if trying to grab us.