GAMMA ADONAI

Chapter 19

ADONAI’S POV

My back hit the floor before I realized I was falling.

It was now that I felt the weight of my revenant mark.

My heart bleed, burning harshly and everything that Balqis was feeling hitting me back to back.

It felt like when I died in the plane crash.

*You abandoned me* I heard her voice in my head.

*Second time, you left me to my fate again, Adonai*

“No!” I cried, my hand on my chest, as if it could heal the pain.

*Our son… protect Riot, Adonai. He’s my only ray of hope*

“Mage!” I heard Sheila’s voice through the pain, but my hand was still on my chest, the pain hitting me so much that I couldn’t take it anymore and I let go of it.

Death wasn’t new to me, I’d walked through the afterlife eight years ago, felt my soul rip from my body in that plan crash. But I’d forgotten how revenant pain destroy you from inside out.

“Mr Mage!” Other voices joined in, but u haven’t gathered the energy to get up yet, Balqis’s tears replaying in my brain.

Sweat covered my shirt, her screams of ‘I didn’t do it’ echoed in my head, and I’m wanted to scream with her, so with her, carry this burden together…but the words are trapped in my mind.

No one could hear it but me.

“Mage get up!” Sheila cried again.

Something clawed in my chest, the sting of it jerked me back to reality.

The last thing I heard in my heard was *Protect my son*

“What happened to him?” Keiran came to the scene with others like Nirvana, Balqis’s sister and Elon my old best friend who didn’t know if I was the Adonai he knew or not.

Three years, I’d searched for her agger escaping Julius’s grip. Three years of building this fake life as ‘Mage’ just to stay close. And now, when she needed me the most, I’d frozen like a coward.

Her screams kept splintering through my skulls like shards of broken glass, each piece of ‘Protect my son, I didn’t do it’ ripping my heart.

“What happened?” Keiran’s voice cut through the haze.

I forced my eyes open, he stood over me with Nirvana, Elon, Sheila, all off them staring at me like I’d lost my mind.

“Get him inside” Keiran said. “Peolple are watching”

Sheila and Elon helped me to my feet and I was hauled to the next room, Keiran’s eyes searched mine like I was a criminal and Luna Onika, despite her ruined makeup still looked sophisticated and concerned.

I sank into the sofa, breathing heavily from my recovery, Sheila hovering around with concern.

For Five years, we’d been playing this game. We met while she was also running from Julius’s shadow, and decided to be partners.

She brought Isis, her daughter who like so much like Balqis but I couldn’t ask why since my mind was still under metal fog from Gwi’s spell. I brought money and new identity for the two of us. Together we built ‘Mr and Mrs Drunkmage’ — respectable couple with no dirty past.

No one even knew I was a Gamma and it worked until tonight….

Until Balqis…

“What the hell is was that?” Keiran yelled at me sharply after making sure it’s only us in the room, no hidden cameras or recorders. “You almost exposed us”

“Expose what?” Luna Onika challenged her husband, getting up from the sofa, even though her ruined make-up, she still looked gentle. “We all heard the security said someone fell into the chariot”

“Is that the next thing to talk about?”

“Yes it is” I got up furiously too, realizing that none of them talked about the girl that fell into the chariot. I grabbed Keiran’s throat, lifting off the the group. “Where. Is. She?”

“What…” Keiran coughed. “What are you doing?”

“Let him go, Mage!” Elon rushed to us, pulling me off Keiran, but the rage still ran in my blood.

“Why are you concerned about that wench?” Keiran cried, still coughing.

Sheila faced me sharply, her tone slipping from the concerned one earlier to a nonchalant one. “Mage are you mad? You could have killed him”

“He framed that woman!” I cried, knowing Sheila knew who Balqis was because I’d told her. “She was just trying to help”

“Well, well” Nirvana smirked joining the tirade. “I’ve known something was wrong since the day you lied that you’re not the Gamma Adonai that died eight years ago! Adonai could go crazy for that b***h too”

“Mrs Nirv, he’s just trying to help” Sheila replied her. “And how many times have we talked about how you always link my husband to that dead man?”

No answer. Everyone was silent, I nod at Sheila, thanking her for saving me on that.

Nirvana could really be a pain in the neck.

“No one talks about that woman” Keiran commanded. “All evidences is pointed as at her, and it stays that way!”

“Honey, she had a son” Luna Onika cried. “Mr Mage is on point, he…”

“Let’s leave, Nick. You need to rest” Keiran pulled his wife, stopping her from saying anything further.

“Keiran!” The poor woman cried but Keiran opened the door and they left.

Nirvana hissed at us then pulled Elon with her.

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“… my brother is the inspector general of police. He’ll help us…”

“Sheila you’re not understanding this” I growled. “They accused her of murder, Keiran is rich enough to back it up”

She got up to check what she was doing in the kitchen, leaving me grovel alone.

Isis’s door opened. “Daddy? Can I talk to you for a minute?”

“Ice please…not now”

I expected her to close the door and leave but I heard the door close after her and by the time I’ll turn around, she was standing before me with Riot!

My heart seized with panic, watching the boy who looked like the younger version of me whimper. “Please! Save my mommy”

“I…” I couldn’t complete that. This boynis blameless, he doesn’t deserve this kind of torture of staying away from his mother, but I….

“Ice said you’re powerful. You’ll get my mommy out”

I couldn’t speak, my tongue seemed to be tied by guilt and rage.

I watch his face crumbled. “Why” He cried. “Why wouldn’t you help her?”

“Daddy please…” Isis joined, making me feel like a bad guy.

My heart was shattered, seeing my children cry and I couldn’t do anything…

“I hate you! If I have a daddy, he would have saved mommy”

This broke the last stole in my camels back. This boy is right. If death hadn’t happened and I ended up marrying Balqis… perhaps we would be happy family now.

“Riot, I…”

“Don’t talk to me!” The boy screamed painfully then ran away.

Isis looked at me with those puffy eyes too. “Daddy I hate you” then she ran after Riot.

God damnit!!!!