Chapter 23
The water was painted red from the blood coming out of each of my wounds, after what seemed like hours, I got out of the tub, the clinking of the metal of the chains rubbing against the marble of the tub was the only sound besides my breathing in the whole place, I turn to look at the door of the bathroom.... Aradia, even thinking about it gives me chills, the first witch in history is behind the door.
The water drips in small drops down my body, I arrive here naked so I look around the place for some clothes that I can put on, I approach a closet where there is a change of clothes, I take it distrustfully, it is loose clothing that is very easy to put on without causing pain when rubbing against any of my wounds, I make a grimace when I raise my arm to put on the shirt, I feel better, more revitalized... But no less dirty.
I can't stay here any longer, I have to leave, I walk towards the door and hesitate before turning the knob.
What I see is her looking out the window, deep into the forest.
— ¿Are you better? — she asks me even without turning around.
I nod but remember she's not looking at me.
— Yes, I'm better — now a little recovered I can feel my wolf, but I appease it when I see who I have in front of me, she turns around to see me, sits on the bed and signals me to follow her by sitting next to her, I do it with distrust.
— ¿How long have you been in those chains? — she runs her fingers over them, caressing them.
— I don't remember — I say in a low voice, when being a weight less on my wrists I see that there is nothing more than the wound of the chain rubbing for so long.
— Take off your shirt — I get up abruptly from the bed leaving the greatest distance between us — Don't be scared, I don't want to hurt you — now I remember.
— ¿You don't want to hurt me, you say? ¡You were the one who gave me to Abrahel! ¡You made me murder my parents! ¡Because of you Morgana can never love me now! ¡Because of you I'm dirty! — she remained unperturbed by my claims — I need to get out of here, now — I try to open the door behind me, I pull hard on it but even with my strength I can't move it an inch — I freeze in place when I hear a deep laugh.
— I thought you would have forgotten, after so many blows it's normal that one forgets things — I was so focused on his voice that I didn't hear when he came closer to me, he put a hand on my shoulder making me tense — Don't grudge me, this is not with you, you are just an object to fulfill an end — he says this with a chuckle at the end and then he gives a hickey on my neck making me sweat — ¿You know? I thought to heal your wounds, they look very painful — she passes her hands over my chest caressing me — Especially this one, it looks painful and a little dangerous — she gives a strong squeeze on the wound on my side and I try to shrink, but she doesn't let me, sticking her body to my sword pressing me against the door — ¿Does it hurt? — i don't answer her because the lump in my throat doesn't let me do it — ¡I asked you if it hurts! — he sticks one of his fingers in my wound and this time I let out a scream, I feel the metallic taste in my mouth and I can almost be sure it's blood.
— ¡Yes, it hurts! — she removes her finger and pulls away from me allowing me to fall to the ground grabbing my side to try to lessen the pain, I look at my hand and see blood, even more than what I saw the first time, I'm sure it got bigger.
When I look up to see where she is she has returned to the spot in the window.
— It won't be long before she arrives, but not so soon that I can't tell you a story — her tone of voice may not have changed, but her eyes screamed, rancor — Ariabel or Morgana as you know her, she must have already told you that I've been following her for a long time, ¿right? — she comes closer to me when she sees that I don't answer - ¡No! - she asks while she gives me a strong kick in the stomach that makes me spit blood.
— Yes, she told me about it — I barely answer her.
— It's good that we are in tune, as I was saying, I have been following her for a long time, from country to country, all over the world. From the beginning when I told you about me, I suppose I told you I didn't know why I was doing it, ¿did I? — I didn't answer her, I just nodded my head — Well, you are a very lucky woman, if you get out of here you can tell her that her aunt has been looking for her all this time and that the culprit of the death of the love of her life is her father's fault, my brother, I clarify it in case the lack of blood doesn't let you think well, her real name is and listen well... Ariabel Metheniss Luzbel — the last thing she said makes me look up with a jerk — Do I have your attention? That's good — a laugh starts to come from the bottom of my chest, it starts to get louder as the seconds go by — Ah, it makes you laugh — I ignore her words and keep on laughing.
— It's unbelievable — I say when I finally manage to — It's unbelievable that she, being the daughter of the devil himself and that her blood runs cursed blood, is a better person than you, ¿do you think it's going to change anything in me that you have revealed this to me? ¿What does she want? ¿Power? Recognition? Oh, I know, someone wants her little brother to listen to her, you are pathetic, a witch who calls herself the most powerful is nothing more than a girl who seeks affection from her brother, not even the lord of darkness loves you so you pay for it with his daughter, pathetic witch... — my words are cut off when I feel a kick in my side, all the air out of my lungs because the noise I heard I'm sure it was one of my ribs breaking and so one kick after another.
— I see that you don't have much sense of self-preservation, because when you open your mouth you just make me want to beat you to death, enjoy these few laughs you have left, because they may be the last ones.
The kicks one after another make me start to lose my senses, I don't know if it's the loss of blood or the continuous blows, I close my eyes with the arrival of Morgana as my last thought.
"Morgana."
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I could finally see it, after what seemed like hours I had the house in front of me, I looked at the now darkening sky and the moonlight illuminating the place, I looked at my hands still in Cameron's hair and I could tell for sure what I didn't feel ready, I didn't feel ready but I had to get her out of there.
I looked back to the dark forest behind me, I hadn't had any more problems on the way, nor had I met my "brother", so I kept alert, I took a quick look at the whole house without finding anything strange, more than its deplorable aspect, Cameron had ordered all his wolves to surround the house, Cameron had ordered all his wolves to surround the house, so at any moment we would enter, since they would be left out here when the fight left the house, which I knew it was sure to happen, I took a breath of air and jumped off Cameron's back, she looked at me and made a sign with her head, she changed her shape and without delay I put some clothes on her.
— She's in there, I can smell her from here — that's all I needed to know to make my way through the darkness, both the forest behind me and the house in front of me.
— This ends today