'Let go.'
'Just this once...'
Eva both relaxed and surged up against him, wrapping both arms around his neck, and it made something in him shift. He pulled back and watched her, eyes nearly black, cheeks flushed with color. Eva's vision blurred along the edges as she succumbed to what she wanted.
More.
Everything.
Him.
He let out a groan, grabbing his head as he stumbled back and Eva gasped, wanting to reach out for him as she wondered what suddenly went wrong.
Or maybe... this was him returning again?
'Come back...
Please.'
He looked at her as if she was a problem he couldn't solve no matter how many decades passed. The vulnerability that he was trying his best to hide didn't go amiss by her sharp eyes which were now fixated on him and his heaving body.
'Don't go.'
'Don't leave me again...'
"Tell me what's wrong," she pleaded and saw him shake his head rapidly, his eyes scrunching in pain.
"Run away to your friends before I end up hurting you. I won't repeat myself—"
"I am not leaving you!" 'I can't leave you here all alone...'
Her cries must've bought the attention of the others as Kai and Sebastian burst in a second later and watched as Theo crumbled to his knees like a fallen King with his head in his hands.
And watching him, Eva's heart completely shattered, leaving her bleeding.
Despite her rapid blinking, a lone tear managed to escape her guard and slide down her flushed cheek.
"Fuck." she heard Kai mutter but her main focus was on him. She crouched down and leaned toward him softly to not startle him once again.
Taking his face in her hands despite his futile attempts to push her off, Eva made him look her in the eyes. "I'm here."
'You aren't alone anymore...'
'You don't have to hide in here every time you lose control.'
'I'm here for as long as you would like me.'
He stared at her through heavy-lidded eyes and parted his lips to let out one single word.
"Eva."
Theo blacked out in her arms.
Kai and Sebastian immediately ran in their direction. Kai patted Eva's back comfortingly as he helped her stand up and Sebastian wrapped an arm around Theo's broad shoulders to lift him up on his feet.
"Is he going to be okay?" she choked out, her eyes darting between both of them and they finally landed on him again.
"It usually took a week or more but yes, he'll be fine once he wakes up," Kai assured and Eva breathed out, her relief evident to everyone who witnessed the scene.
"Are you okay?" Gwen rushed toward them as soon as they stepped out of the darkened chamber. She wrapped her arms around Eva's shoulders and then her eyes widened when she caught sight of her cousin's unconscious body being supported by her two friends.
"Did he—"
"He'll be back to normal in a few hours," Sebastian stated plainly and Eva caught Davina closing her eyes, her face showing signs of exhaustion along with ease.
"Why did you all lie to me?" she asked, facing Gwen and Davina as the boys departed hurriedly and Eva wondered if she heard their twin sighs of relief a few seconds later.
She watched as Gwen fidgeted in her place while Davina picked at her nails with a blank expression on her face.
"He didn't want you to know," Gwen said, trying to be assuring and failing miserably.
"Well I'll talk to him about that later." both the women glanced at each other and Gwen shuddered thinking about what Theo would have to go through in a few hours.
'Boy was he doomed...'
"What happened to him? Why didn't he remember who he was?"
'Why didn't he recognize anybody? Why did he look so broken and alone?'
Gwen ran a trembling hand through her glimmering blond locks and released a shaky breath. "It started when he was quite young. Just a few years before his parents were killed."
Davina continued on. "A foolish soldier once insulted Sephie and Theodore, in his rage which is equivalent or worse than his fathers, brutally beat him up after which he didn't survive. It was the first time he had experienced such strong emotions and I wonder if that was why he erupted."
"What do you mean?" Eva inquired, trying her best to hide her quivering hands behind her back.
Gwen pursed her lips. "We aren't called Demon Fae without no reason. Some of us are unaware of our soul demons while a few of us have to perish because of them. Theo sadly wasn't the exception."
"Alex controlled his after he married Sephie but Theo loses control of his each and every time something causes him to suffer from his emotions. Guilt, panic, he feels it all but on a higher level than most of us."
"..."
Eva felt speechless for a while, her brain processing everything as quickly as it could as questions erupted in her head like a massive explosion.
"B-But then what triggered him this time?"
"You."
Gwen glared daggers at Davina but Eva locked her eyes with the witch the very next second.
'Me?'
"But why?"
"He wasn't able to keep you safe even in his own territory," Gwen murmured instead of the woman who now looked down at the ground.
"Eva you— you aren't just nothing to him."
"He's fucking weak when it comes to you and he hates it," Davina muttered but Eva heard her.
Loud and clear.
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