Whisper in the Dark

Chapter 16

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She stares out over the river. A tear rolls down her cheek. It hurts him so much to see her like this. If only he was stronger then he could stand against his father. She did not deserve what he did to her, and he regrets every moment of it. He watches her attentively as she just sits there staring in front of her. He feels like he wants to approach her and speak to her, but he isn’t sure if it is the right thing to do. He might just scare her. He will definitely scare her. She is too fragile at this point.

Nausea suddenly hits her, and she doubles over and vomits next to where she is sitting. It can’t be, please do not say she is pregnant. He cannot tell his father this. He will have her abducted and brought to their home to be their prison until the child is born. She should have about 4 months before she will start to show. He needs to come up with a plan, but to do so he will now need to put his insecurities aside and approach her and build her trust to get her to leave this place and go somewhere where she can be safe from his father. This is such a mess. He wanted to protect Marina, now he is instead stuck with two women he is trying desperately to protect from his father. This is going to end badly. He already knows it. He might as well try for as long as he can. He quickly ducks behind a boulder in the river when she glances his way. She almost saw him. He needs to be more careful. He cannot afford being caught here. This tribe will kill him if they catch him, even a glimpse of him will cause them to set up patrols to catch him and at this moment he needs to stay close to Soraya to be able to protect her and his unborn child.

Soraya feels the eerie feeling again of being watched. She could have sworn there was something at that boulder. She hasn’t been feeling too well. It might be the stress about everything. She barely ate the past few days, especially after her argument with Alexa. She hates arguing with her sister. They are supposed to be identical twins, yet it feels like they share no emotional connection and never have. They are complete opposites and most of the time she feels Alexa despises her. Even on Earth they did not have the same friends group. Alexa always mingled with the popular crowd and avoided Soraya completely. She called her an embarrassment because she was so quick to cry. She can’t help it, she is just overly emotional. She always has been.

She wants to get up and walk back to their home, but something compels her to stay a bit longer. This hollow feeling on her stomach has made everything difficult. She struggled to work today, and the old woman noticed it. Strange enough she has shown her kindness and have not increased her workload like she normally would. She looks down at the food she has brought with her from the leftovers of the tavern. She won’t be able to stomach it, her stomach is turning just looking at it.

She gets up and decided to feed it to the fishes. She needs to overcome this fear of water. Maybe if she takes small steps each day and spend a little time closer and closer to the water, she will eventually overcome it. She goes closer to the water but hesitates. It is better when they are a group together bathing, she makes sure to stay in the centre of everyone, but being here all alone in the last light, she just can’t do it. She quickly throws the food as far as she can into the water and runs back.

Alexa has been all giddy since she patched up things with Ritro. She has even asked her sister to sleep in the living room alone so that they can have the bedroom for themselves. Soraya has been off since their argument, she feels guilty about what she said to her sister. They have never been close. She blames her mother for that. They babied Soraya a lot and that made her such a cry baby. She always had to defend her at school, and they always ended up in trouble because she had to fight off her sister’s bullies. Her sister did not defend herself at all. She knows what she promised her parents. She will take care of her and they will look after each other. She just needs time to work through this hatred she feels for her sister. She knows deep down that it is not her fault and that she wouldn’t have known his intentions until he came into their home. She sighs as she sees her sister coming through the door.

“Are you hungry? I made some food.” Soraya just shakes her head and walks to her bed, plopping down onto her bed face first into her bedding. She can’t stand seeing her like this.

“Soraya I am sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt you like that. Can we please talk about it?” Alexa pleads with her sister. As much as she hates her at this point for everything, she also can’t stand to see her like this. She hasn’t eaten since their argument, and she barely speaks.

Soraya turns on her side and looks at her sister with a sullen look before turning back on her stomach and burying her face into her sheets. She just didn’t want to speak at this point. She felt so drained and all of what happened is draining her even more. She needs some time. She just needs to be alone until she can find a way to cope with everything.

Ritro enters with a big smile on his face. He has been the happiest man alive since he and Alexa has patched things up and have been sleeping together at nights, to Soraya’s dismay. The two of them have been trying to keep things quiet, but it has not been so successful. They hear the door open and Soraya leaving while they are having s*x. He kisses Alexa on the cheek and quickly heads to the bedroom. He can feel the tension between the girls.

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“Kill Alexa! Just kill her, get rid of her!”

“Excuse me my queen?” Ronan is not sure if he heard her correctly. Kill her own daughter? Did she really just ask him to do that?

“You heard me the first time Ronan. Do not play dumb with me. She is of no use to me now since that thing has defiled her.” She says the words as if they leave a disgusting taste in her mouth.

“Can’t we just let them be? Do we really need to kill them?” He is a heartless killer, but he pulls the line at children. The girls are still children and if he kills them his plans will also be foiled.

“Kill Alexa and bring Soraya to me.” He just shakes his head and turns to leave.

“Oh, and Ronan,” he pauses, “do not fail me again.” He knows her warning carries a definite threat.

Ronan exits her chambers and walks a distance down the corridors before exhaling the breath he has been holding. What should he do now? He is not going to kill a girl. The queen is mad. He was so grateful when the girls were abducted at birth. He was scared that he was going to have to kill them for her.

He quickly walks down the corridors to his chambers. He had to come up with a plan and quickly, she will know if he succeeded or not.

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“Alexa . . . Alexa . . .”

“I am here! Where are you? Please tell me where you are.”

“Alexa, the time has come, you are no longer safe where you are. We are coming for you before he comes for you.”

Alexa wakes up suddenly, sweaty all over. It is the woman who told her all about her past. She is sitting up in the bed breathing heavily. Ritro is sleeping soundly next to her. The man is a heavy sleeper. He is quite useless if something should happen. He will sleep through a war and be completely oblivious to what is happening around him.

She starts to calm down and looks around her. There is no one. It felt so real. She gets up and decides to go and get a drink before trying to go back to sleep.

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He paces up and down. Not sure about what he is going to do about the whole situation. This is all happening faster than what he anticipated. If only she did not have that darn mirror. He would have been able to lie to her for longer about the girls. Now all his plans are spoiled. He throws everything of the dresser and pants. He feels frustrated. Kill a girl? This has gone to far.

He quickly gets dressed and decides to head to where the girls are. He will think of something. He will wait for the right opportunity. He needs to enlist the help of a powerful witch on the way, and he knows just the one.

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Soraya has been feeling increasingly sick and has had to run to the bathroom a couple of times to vomit. The thought of being pregnant has crept up but she does not want to believe it. It cannot be. Ritro said that children are rare. How can Rusha then give her a child in such circumstances? What did she do differently?

She slides down the wall in the bathroom and sits huddled up before standing back up. She quickly washes out her mouth and wash her face before heading back out into the tavern.

“You are pregnant, aren’t you?” Soraya spins around at who said those words with her eyes widened.

“No . . . No, I am not, I can’t be,” she quickly says.

“Oh, but you are,” the old grumpy woman says with a raised eyebrow.

“No, it can’t be,” the tears start to fall.

“There is no point in crying. You should be happy. You have been blessed with what most wish for, for their entire lives. Have you told the father? He will be elated.”

Soraya looks away ashamed shaking her head no, not wanting to talk about what happened.

“You better tell him. Pregnancy is scarce here. He will want to be a part of it.”

If only she knew who the man was that attacked her. She just knows that it was a creature from the Nomma tribe. How is she suppose to love this child when he or she is a product of r**e? Now things have really gone from bad to worse. This is the last thing she needed.