"how do you put my life in peril, when your father made it clear on countless occasions to me you saved my life."
"that was before kuga. Now, he doesn't need you anymore, don't you get it?"
"No, I don't get it Ruby. I don't understand any of it," I said, willing to enter the pool of water to cleanse myself of the dried lingering essence of the woman on my face and skin but I was rapt to the spot, gazing into her mesmerizing firry eyes as they took hold of me.
"when I first kissed you on the forehead in a yacht in front of him, I did more than declare matrimony. I did chose you in front of my own people, to make sure he wouldn't kill you. but there was a price to pay.
If I don't want you to die, then I should marry D'mick, he needed the alliance," Ruby paused and trembled, before managing to say;
"I had no other option but to comply. That was the only hold D'mick had on me, and he did used it against my free will, and I fought back, I wouldn't be used as a placebo to cure my family long buried antagonism for domination.
That's when they planted the thought about your death, and D'mick as my man. when you gone I didn't care anymore, Spooky.
I realized how selfish I was in my demands, constantly asking you how you feel about me when I should have confessed what I feel for you. It was too late, and I lost my soul in this reality, I couldn't feel anymore...." she drew in air, holding herself not to cry.
"don't say anymore, Babe. I am here now, and when I was in that ship all I felt was same regret for never declaring explicitly how I feel about us."
"You seek me out Spooky, and help me remember, something the best doctors couldn't do. My own people did this to me and are going to pay."
"That's the most blasphemous statement ever uttered against family, Ludhiana," Nka's hissing voice came slice through our reverie like a devils' lullaby.
I impose myself protectively between him and Ruby in reflex, but Ruby brushed me away to the side and face her father head on.
"a family that betrays its own kind is not a family father, not my family. I remember everything now, you made them hurt me this way. You who was supposed to protect me… just looking at you brought back all the horrible memories."
"All to safe you, and save our family integrity. Come to papa dear, this man will not even at you twice, if he sees your true nature" Nka gave a sinister low snigger.
"He knows and he is still here father," Ruby taunted back as her nails elongate, and she glide slowly towards Nka like a puma stalking a rat.
My mind turned jelly, and I wanted to move to go to Ruby's aid, but I found my legs rooted to the spot.
"unbelievable," I heard myself murmur. I couldn't move.
"How much do you remember Ludhiana?".
"Everything papa, from the very start. Beyond and after the womb. All your treacherous ways lay before my eyes papa. Your atrocities against mama and Kate, and all your diabolic ways papa…"
"How blind you have become in the name of love, my dear. Come now to papa… lets talk about this at home."
"And leave kuga behind as dinner for your hounds?" Ruby fired rhetorically.
"Oh, Kuga could be handled right away," he said and rushed towards me but Ruby punch him hard on the side but he elude and grip her by the throat.
Ruby match his father strength to strength, wrenching his hand free from her throat, crashing and twisting Nka's under a vicious conter grip.
My mine was screaming now, yelling, commanding and willing my body to move. I have to help Ruby from her devil of a father.
The man is a maniac. I was spell bound to the predator like the prey that I am. Soon he was on to me, after having delt Ruby a swift savage blow to the stomach.
She sprawled on the green grass wreathing in agony, and my eyes water at the scene, but I transfixed.
"Look who we have here. My little puppy. You have served your Padron well, and served the princess in her time of great need of your services.
Don't worry, I will make it quick, Kuga."
He held me by the neck. His hands literally extend with claws as he had it trapping my neck under the assault of the ferocious talons.
My heart drum in my belly, and my lungs inflates like a balloon with the last inhaled air ready to burst, as the blood in my head stagnates, and my brain increase in size about to explode into oblivion.
"remember this one thing Kuga, I am saving from an eternal torture with my daughter. There is abundant peace in where I am sending you…"
"stop father, you can't kill him. He was born 1988," Ruby roared amidst her pain, still clutching at her stomach where Nka had wounded her.
"An earth Dragon. That's impossible," Nka said incredulously.
"Yes father, and he is a Sagittarius," Ruby added laboriously straightening on her feet. What happen next was blurry and savage as Ruby closed in on us causing Nka to tilt his head to long behind as he senses the quick movement of the wind, his grip around my neck loosen.
" And he is my man, father" Ruby said, stabbing Nka at the kidney with her claws. Nkas mouth spewed with blood as his hands drop to clutch at the left side of his belly.
"You side with an outsider against your sire in the name of romance," He gabbles the words at Ruby, going down one knee.
I found my reflexes back to normal. Nka lifted up his head and gave a bloody sinister laugh.
"Are you going to kill papa for this man?" he taunts.
"kuga, kuga… what a priced treasure you've now become, every vile female thing out there will now be coming after you…. hahaha?"
He laughed, crawled into a run and was gone. Just like that, like the wind, like a he was never there.
Ruby started to sob, and I drew her into my arms, "let's go inside babe."
We took a couple of steps towards the door, and she held onto me tight and whispered.
"There is someone in the house"