Previously on Avenging Angels
Rosaline found out about her mother's true killer.
TWENTY-ONE
I hear a wild groan from somewhere. Then I open one eye to find myself on the floor, it soon all came back rushing to me.
She killed my mother.
I hear another groan before I realise it was only coming from me, pushing myself to sit up ,I see I am in the exact spot I had passed out.
A rush of pain throbbed my head and I had to use my hand to hold it from uprooting off my neck. My entire body ached, I blinked severally to adjust my eyes to the light.
Using the iron cabinet as support, I hoist myself up and began to move slowly towards the door. My entire body dragging down from exhaustion.
"Fuck" I let out a sharp curse.
When I finally reached the door, I rest my head on it to catch my breath, my entire body worn out from that little walk or rather crawl.
I checked my watch to see it's already eight pm, I have been out for five hours.
Shit!
As I step out of the office, I try my best to avoid anybody and head straight to my room and as soon as I close the door behind me, I fall.
I rest my head on the smooth, cool surface and stare at the drawer directly in front of me.
It start.
I see my entire vision being blurred with tears, a drop falls and before you know it, an entire fountain falls out and into my clothes.
I couldn't keep it inside me, I tried but I couldn't.
Past the years, whilst preparing for this revenge, I never let out a sign of weakness to anyone, I always bottled it up.
I became someone so strong and confident because of the difficulties I faced in life. But I couldn't keep that facade up anymore, at least not now, I am mentally and physically exhausted.
A few sobs hit my chest and I have to take deep breaths to breathe properly again.
She killed her, I can't believe it. Father told us that my mother died right after giving birth to me due to some complications.
But that was all a lie, she was murdered, brutally murdered by the one and only Avalor.
Did father know about this?
More tears fall out as I grabbed my hair in pain, trying to figure for what reason she would do this to us.
Father always described the way I cried as a lake, quiet and serene. I don't make noises or shout when I cry. The tears just fall, you can only see me cry but you can't hear me cry.
I miss him so much.
Then I let out a loud cackle. It started as tiny as a whisper before I began to laugh till the point my stomach hurt.
Avalor killed my mother. My mother didn't die because of me.
Do you know how traumatizing it was to be told that your own mother died while giving birth to you?
I felt a gush of guilt kick me whenever father would sit alone in the living room, clutching mother's photo while wiping his wet eyes.
I felt I was the reason we didn't have a mother to pack our lunches or braid our hair before going to school.
I felt like I was the reason we didn't have a mother to tell when we first saw our period.
I hated myself.
I hated myself for stealing a part of our family away.
I always blamed myself for that.
But not anymore.
My mother didn't die because she chose to give birth to me.
She died because she was killed.
I started coughing, my chest heaving up and down till I coughed up bile.
Then the tears rushed down my face one more time before I heard the opening of a door.
I turned to see Chloe.
"Oh my gosh, Rosaline. What happened? Are you OK? We have been looking everywhere for you, where have you been?" she ranted as she kneeled next to me.
"C-Chloe" I choked out and she quickly hugged me.
She rubbed my back and my hair, whispering assurances into my ear that it will all be fine.
But she was wrong,
It won't be fine.
It won't be fine until she pays for what she have done.
I came into this house to avenge my father's death but I swear on my sisters' lives, I wouldn't leave until I avenge both my parents' death.
*****
Chloe finally slept after she forced me to take a bath, eat some soup with bread and take some medicine.
She promised the medicine would make me sleep well in a second but it didn't.
I looked up the ceiling, sighing for the umpteenth time, not an ounce of sleep in me.
I kept on replaying what she said in my mind but I didn't feel anymore pain nor did I cry again.
I was numb.
It was the only way I wouldn't kill her nor do something stupid that may jeopardize the plan we had constructed for mare than five years.
I haven't told any of my sisters what I found out, I needed some time to process it myself and besides I didn't have the opportunity to tell them.
I felt like I was in a pool of darkness where hopelessness, loneliness and despair filled it to the brim.
But I won't go down alone, if I were to go to the pits of hell, I would make sure I dragged Avalor with me no matter what.
I perked up when I heard footsteps heading this way.
Light but sure.
I then see a shadow lurking behind the door, in a swift motion, I brought out my electrifier which Mi Tonto was really kind to gift it to me as a birthday gift, and I jumped out of the bed and hid besides the door.
As soon as the intruder opened the door, I attacked only to feel my wrist being dragged and then I was pressed against a body with my back resting on his chest.
I was about to rack my elbow into his stomach when I felt his body.
A very familiar body.
"Christian" I whispered.
He drew us forward to close the door, I ripped myself out of his hold and turned to see indeed the blue eyed dork.
His blonde hair was as messy as ever and he was putting on a simple black sweatpants and hoodie but that only seemed to make him look more hot.
The moonlight that shone through the window accentuating each and every of his chiselled feature that the heavens blessed him with.
I tried not to stare in awe at his beauty.
"Hey, Angel" he smirked.
"Are you insane? What are you doing here at the middle of the night?" I whispered harshly and dragged him from his hoodie away from the door.
"I just felt your inner wolf calling out to me in desire, wanting to feel me badly" he started but when I glared at him, he sighed.
"Christian, this us no time for jokes. What do you want?"
"I couldn't sleep" he admitted in all sincerity and I took note of the black circles around his eyes.
"And judging from your eyes, I am safe to say you couldn't either" he looked up at me.
"And so what? Do you want me to sing you a fucking lullaby?" I snapped but when I saw him startle from my tone, I sighed and rubbed my temples.
"Look, I had a rough day, a really rough one. All I want to do is curl in my bed and sleep it off. The last thing I needed was someone coming up my room past midnight" I sighed.
"It's already past two, if you wanted to sleep, you would have a long time ago" he said and I looked down and sighed, making no move to deny it.
I contemplated wacking the electrifier across his name but got rid of murderous thoughts on my head
"What do you suggest we do then?" I asked after some silent moments.
"Well, if you like, we could go on a drive, get some fresh air, you know" he suggested.
"Drive at this hour?"
"Don't worry, I will be there to protect you. No harm will come to you" he smirked.
"Protection, my foot" I scoff and he glared, amusingly.
"What do you say?" he asked.
Sit alone in the room and keep on staring at the ceiling or follow the dork to a drive and receive some fresh air.
I would prefer the latter.
"OK, let's go" I said and he kept on staring at me.
"I said let's go"
"No matter how much I love looking at you in that sexy dress of yours and no matter how much you would love to show me more, it would still be better to change before you catch a cold or something" he smirked and a tinge of red filled my cheeks.
I looked at my rather not decent black, lacy nightgown which exposes about seventy five percent of my body and scowl.
"Give a minute" I mumbled and slapped his arm when I heard his silent chuckles.