Chapter 41: Chapter 41

REYNA

“I thought I would find you here fornicating with the beast and I was right,” Dr. Elizabeth spat, her voice as sinister as a serpent.

Casvan’s growl was guttural, his movement so fast that when a guard suddenly raised her gun at him, he flung her outside the cell and was back in front of me, protecting me.

Mark and several guardians who were standing right outside the dungeon cell with Dr. Elizabeth all suddenly raised their guns, about to shoot, but she stopped them.

“So you knew about us all this time?” I asked from my protective place at Casvan’s back, both of us naked as the day we were born.

I discreetly dragged the key winking at me from the floor closer with my feet.

Dr. Elizabeth looked at me with disappointment and something a lot like disgust.

My stomach knotted up with dread at the hate I saw in her dark eyes.

“You know,” she said, walking fully into the dungeon cell with the guards shielding her, “I convinced your mother, when she was going to flush you down the toilet after she realized she was pregnant with you, that if you were molded just right, you could be one of our best roses and an even greater queen yet.” She sneered.

“You know what she said? She told me she didn’t want to give birth to an abomination and that you’d be as evil as the monster who raped her and spawned you.”

I shook my head, blood draining from my face.

“My father was an honorable man. He was Cassandra’s consort. And my mother would never call me an abomination. Though she was strict with me and didn’t show it, I knew she loved me. I was her daughter. So I don’t believe your lies.”

Dr. Elizabeth smirked, her hands buried in her lab coat pockets.

“Cassandra doesn’t love you and she never will. She tried to, but your face reminded her so much of the monster who raped her that she could never see beyond the resemblance,” she twisted the metaphorical knife deep.

“Stop fucking lying, my father is not a monster and my mother couldn’t have been raped, she’s the queen,” I screamed in denial.

“I told her that the other part of you that came from her and her genes would balance you out. I hated being proven wrong, little Rey Rey. You really disappointed me.”

Her words punched me in the gut, shattering my heart to pieces, not caring how shocked and devastated I suddenly was.

“Don’t listen to the hag, Dar’sen. She’s saying this to hurt you,” Cas said. He didn’t move or take his eyes from the threat in front of us, but somehow I felt this calming energy through our bond.

“You monster, I’m going to enjoy ripping your gut and watching you bleed,” Cas threatened.

She didn’t reply to Cas. Instead, she nodded at the guardians.

“What if she dies?” Mark asked, looking at me.

Elizabeth smirked knowingly.

“She won’t. He’s going to protect her with his life,” Elizabeth said.

Before I could do or say anything, the guardians started shooting at Cas.

He never got the chance to make the first move as gunshots exploded, all firing at Casvan with bullets and tranquilizers.

I screamed, yelled, and shouted, trying to get out from behind him, crying like my heart was being ripped out.

Instead of letting me protect him, Cas whirled and pinned me against the wall as they shot at his back over and over again.

Each shot was a punch against my heart as he snarled and growled.

They didn’t care if he died. They wanted him dead.

They were killing him and there was nothing I could do to stop it.

I was sobbing so hard, clutching him to me, deaf and blind to everything around me except the pure agony inside me and the sight of so much blood on my mate’s body.

Casvan was unconscious, bleeding, dying.

What had I done? I was supposed to free Casvan. I was supposed to protect him from my mother and the evil of this world.

Now I was watching him die right in front of me.

“Why are you doing this? What have I ever done to you? Where’s Cassandra? Where’s my mother?!” I sobbed angrily.

As I hugged Casvan’s body protectively, my voice shook with the devastation I felt inside.

I refused to believe the nonsense coming out of Elizabeth’s mouth.

“I want to see my mother. I can’t lose him. I need Amara, she can save you Cas, please don’t die on me. I need you.”

I glanced up at the devil staring at me with menace.

“Bring me Cassandra, right fucking now!”

“Your mother is disgusted by you. She couldn’t stand the sight of you after I showed her everything you and that abominable beast had been doing behind our backs.

“Allowing that filthy animal to touch you. I’m glad I don’t have a daughter. Because if you were mine, I would gut you myself. But nevertheless, I have special plans for you.”

She turned away. “Take her to the infirmary.”

I carefully extracted myself from Casvan.

Tears blurred my eyes so that I couldn’t see his face, but it didn’t matter because his image was ingrained in my brain.

My heart was aching so badly I felt like it was punctured and bleeding.

I quickly crawled to where I had seen my daggers earlier.

I stood up and flew toward Dr. Elizabeth.

But I was a second too late. Pain sliced through me and I convulsed hard before the ground rushed up to greet me.