Loving the Dead

Chapter VIII-Hades' Memories (Part Three-Losing Her)

Hades' POV

I rushed down to Persephone's room. When Czar came panting to my room, telling me that she was in pain and fainted, Caspian immediately took control and I did not stop him.

Reaching her room, I found Adelina sobbing uncontrollably holding Solomon. Astrid was standing next to Oscar with a worried face. Konstantin and Ryker stood at one corner with grave expressions. Czar had went to get the royal doctor.

Caspian sat on the bed, slowly taking her into his lap, winding his arms around her slender body. This felt good. Caspian was way too calm. He was waiting for the doctor, to tell him what happened, so that he could kill. He wanted blood and I was not going to stop him. Nobody harms what's ours.

The doctor came within few minutes, with two other nurses and Czar hot on her trail. She inspected her while Persephone was on my lap. She knew better than telling me to put her aside. After almost half an hour, I was at the verge of losing my patience, she looked at me. She had a pained expression on her face. She was hesitating, which was making me losing control.

"What is it?" My calm voice sliced through the pin drop silence.

"Anguis venenum, it is Latin for snake venom. It instantly starts to clot blood. She was injected with it through the hair pins as well as dress pins, somewhere this morning. The venom was slow but it has almost reached her heart. And..", she was hesitating once again, which could not mean anything good.

"What?" I could understand that the calm facade I was showing was not of much help. All of them along with the doctor knew it was nothing except a facade.

"It's too late, Your Majesty. It has already reached her brains and did a lot of neuro damage. Within no time it will reach her heart. There is nothing we can do to save h-" Her blood tainted my face, while the sound of her heart dropping resonated in the room.

I looked at my mate, so beautiful. The regret for not accepting her any sooner, overpowering the rage. Her heartbeat was faint, extremely faint. I had no other option, other than feeding her my blood.

With Adelina's help I gave her few drops of my blood. I once again placed her on my lap, hoping to hear her heartbeat get stronger.

"Solomon and Agnes, while we wait, go search for that maid. But do not kill her. She is mine to kill."

They were about to leave when the unexpected happened. Her heartbeat ceased to nothing, and hell broke loose.

I have no idea, how long I have been holding her, but I could hear the heart wrenching cries of Adelina and Agnes, while Astrid and Ryker were still just like me.

Red. All I saw was red and I wanted blood.

Glass breaking, people screaming, and burning smell was coming from downstairs, the courtroom. We were under attack.

And then I smelled it. I smelled him. Angelo Drakos, the rogue vampire leader. He has a lot of followers who want to end this peace between all supernatural beings. They want death and destruction, and only the vampires to survive.

My brother, my twin, my mate's killer.

He had came at the perfect time. I did not even had to catch him. Within seconds he was in front of the room. By the corner of my eyes, I could feel every one tense at his sight.

He had a evil smirk on his face, a smirk which I would very soon wipe out of his face. His smirk slowly disappeared when he looked at my mate's lifeless body.

"I told him to keep her alive, the poison should just put her to a comatose position." He remarked angrily.

Who is this he, that he is talking about?

His eyes met mine. The rage matched in both of our eyes. I was about to rip her heart out when I found Adelina, Astrid, Czar and Ryker falling down. Their mates quickly went to their aids.

"They are not dead...not yet, just under a spell. They were going to be the baits for Nyx to come with me", he said taking my mate's name in his filthy mouth.

"Only her blood could have brought them back", before he finished the sentence, Oscar, Agnes, Konstantine and Solomon fainted too.

With indescribable rage I stormed towards him, knocking him down the door. Just before I was about to rip his heart out, he opened his filthy mouth again.

"Nyx can come back. After many years, she will be reborn, only if you, her chosen one stays alive."

My hand was mid air near his chest, itching to rip his heart out, but Caspian would not allow that. So I let him out of my grasp.

"Why would you help me?" I asked him, still weary of his intention.

"If you die, she will never be reborn, and I would never get her back. Once the spell is put on you, like the others I can't harm you. Also only her blood can bring the others back from their sleep." By the time he was finished, it was Caspian who wanted to claw him out, for calling our mate, his.

"Why would I have to go under the spell?" I asked him, already losing my patience and itching to let Caspian out, to kill him.

"Oh that was not a option, I have the strongest witch by my side. Either you accept or you lose Nyx forever too."

Before I could respond, I could feel myself losing control of my muscles, and within seconds my whole world darkened.

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