After a long night, Ray and Ellie left Mal to go to sleep. She got up from her bed to change into something lighter. Suddenly, she saw something glowing at the moon's light, on the ground.
She bent down slowly, holding her waist to ease the pain; she picked the small object and checked it better in the light coming from the balcony: it's the button Ellie found.
Mal sat down immediately on the bed trying to remember where she saw it but nothing come to her mind.
After changing and brushing her teeth, she got between the silky sheets felling relaxed, as her daily habit she took her necklace and looked at her gem laying between her fingers. She then held it in her palm and closed her eyes drifting to dream land.........…..
In a dark room, two figures were talking, she wasn't far away from them but she couldn't heard what they were saying as a black and white movie, she tried to recognize their faces to find out that they were Kieran and Rosaline.
Suddenly, Rosaline slapped Kieran and he said something to her before he grabbed her throat to choke her. Mal gasped and tried to interfere but something was holding her back, mucking her unable to move.
She got on her knees, crying none stop, Rosaline tried to push him back but she was too weak in front of him, she caught the sleeve of his shirt but end up tearing a button away. Rosaline tried her best to stop him but she knew it was the end, so she gathered the rest of her energy and tore up her silver bracelet to put it on the prince's pocket before her hands fall down…lifeless.
Malin cried her heart out, yelling and screaming at him to stop but this was a memory not the past or the present to step in and help her…she felt pathetic, sad, angry, guilty… a bag of mixed emotions and what made it worse. Kieran standing up in satisfaction, looking at his work and then opening the window forcefully till the glass broke with her heart too.
She felt dizzy, losing consciousness to wake up second later at a glowing smiling face staring at her: it was Rosaline with her angelic features holding her hands.
"-Rosaline I am sorry…I should have…
-shhhhh…it's not your fault dear. All I asked for was someone to love me for who I am but I guess I asked from the wrong person. Thanks Mal, thanks for everything…I want just one thing, please never forget me." With that she left Mal crying unable to move or say anything........
Mal woke up catching her breath, her heart pounding aggressively between her ribs and some drops of cold sweat formed on her forehead.
She drank the glass of water before throwing her head between the palms of her hand rocking back and forth to realize, that she is still holding the necklace in her hand with something else: the red button.
A train of different thoughts crossed her mind, driving her more crazy.
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"-it's pretty…Where did you find it?
-it was under Ray's bed."
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"-Why is the button of your sleeve torn up?
-I guess when we ran away it got torn because of a branch."
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"His highness maybe flirty and annoying at sometimes; but he have a big loving heart. He can't hurt an ant."
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"-that's way I sensed death in energy when you entered. I am sorry for your friend's death but the spell work perfectly, unless you got an incubus in.
-we are all humans.
-or maybe a cambion barged in.
-what's a cambion?
-he is half incubus, half human. But that's rare nearly impossible. And on my mom's grave, my spells works perfectly."
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"-well he is not that bad; he is my childhood friend after all. We spent time with each other since we were young…he got my back and protected me from anything that could upset me. He is my best friend and now I have to stand by his side."
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"-please…please Malin…please end my miserable life…I beg you…PLEASE KILL ME…"
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But the drop that spilled the glass was
("-that's refreshing!") She got up from her place and looked for the bracelet the same bracelet in the dream, and torn up. She stood there for a while, organizing her thoughts but the more she think about it the more she got mad and her rage growing up.
She opened the door of her room to find a guard standing near the frame. The man felt someone starring at him to find Mal looking at him with a dark gaze.
"-Miss Chace why are you up at this hour? Do you need anything?
-Go and inform the prince that I need to talk to him now and don't be late.
-Miss it's late now and the prince is…
-you'd better go now or the one who will end your life will be me… ok.
-another thing, don't tell anyone and when he came you leave.
-but the king told me to…" she didn't leave for him the chance to answer before slamming the door. The guard knew that it wasn't the best time to negotiate.
Kieran was sitting in his balcony admiring the clear sky with the full moon and the glowing stars, thinking about Malin.
But the knocking on the door broke his fantasy.
"-what do you want?
-your highness, sorry for the bothering but Miss Chace asked you to come to her room to talk to you about something and don't go late to her.
-she didn't tell you anything else?
-that's all what she told me your highness." Kieran nodded and told the guard to leave. He felt happy that she called him but suspicious at the same time. Nevertheless, he was rushing his pace to meet her, not knowing what is waiting for him.
He knocked the door before hearing a get in; he stepped in the room and closed the door, looking for Mal to find her facing him with her back. She was in the balcony looking at something in her hand.
"-Can I know why you called me for?
-to talk…
-About what exactly?
-a lot of things…but let's start how you are a pathetic liar Kieran." She said facing him with a broken bracelet dangling from her hand...