GAMMA ADONAI

Chapter 7

BALQIS’S POV

My eyes flung open at the ring of the bell against my ear.

The lights came on, and the first person I saw was the doctor, who carried a small bell. “Seems like she’s coming back to life,” he said, then rang the bell again.

I guess this is all it takes to bring me back from the realm of darkness that I’d suddenly wandered into.

“Balqis?” I heard Mrs Kathy’s voice, and I slowly turned my head. She was also beside me, with Nirvana and a few of the other strippers. “Can you see me now?”

I tried talking, but my voice had been buried away.

The doctor leaned away, “She’s really a strong kid. No one had ever come back after being bitten by a Gamma revenant.”

“Gamma revenant?” Mrs. Kathy asked in my stead, and the doctor nodded.

“Revenants are shifters who died but somehow resurrected” He explained as he examined my neck, then pressed on a particular spot that sent chills down my spine.

I whined. The memory of the man biting me with fangs juggled in and I groaned. ‘Rina?’ I called out to my wolf at the back of my mind, but her presence was silent.

My eyes widened, and my chest sank. ‘Rina, are you there?’ I called again and heard nothing.

The doctor has withdrawn his hand from my neck and turned to my family to explain things to them, but I grabbed his hand.

I held him back from leaving while looking at him with shaky breath, wishing he could understand me.

“Doctor, she’s not talking!” my stepmom asked, sounding kinda worried.

The doctor’s keen eyes scanned me before snapping his hand from mine. “I understand,” he said and left the room.

Nirvana came close to me and massaged my forehead before facing her mum, “How can you just give her off to some man, Mum? This is not what we planned.”

I frowned, but I didn’t say anything and let her continue. “I ran a background check on the fellow, and I found out that the ID he used to pay at the club was fake. How could you be so careless?”

“But he offered a lot!” The mother argued. “We all know how desperate Balqis needs money now. If we leave her to do things her way and give her the money she had in a safe, it would be enough to…”

The doctor opened the door and came in, then faced them. “I think I’ll need you two to leave us alone for some time now.”

“Leave you?” Mrs Kathy scoffed, “If you must do anything, you have to do it in our presence. I can’t leave my daughter to you alone in private.”

The doctor wanted to talk back, but I reached out to Mrs. Kathy. Seems like the doctor has something to tell me that I must hear for myself.

She looked at me, understanding that I was telling her to heed the doctor’s word. “I can’t let anything happen to you, Balqis. You’re pregnant and…”

“Mum!” Nirvana quipped, already at the door. “Since when did you have a heart to care about Balqis of all people?”

This made her retreat grudgingly, and the doctor faced me and gave me the lotion.

I looked at him, as if to ask what tonic this was. Then he sat beside me, “Your voice was clogged because you yelled so much when you were unconscious. That will burn whatever that may be blocking it, so …”

I opened the lid and was about to gulp it down, but he held my hand, “Don’t take it yet. I have to tell you something.”

I frowned. He gave me the tonic and I shouldn’t drink until he told me something?

I shrugged. Then he heaved a long sigh, “There’s someone who wants to see you, but I don’t want you to drink that until he’s done….”

I quickly attempt to open the lid again. I need my voice to fight anything that may be coming my way.

He held me back, “I shouldn’t have given you this until it’s done. But I need you to trust me, and believe me, he wouldn’t hurt you”

A ‘he?’ I really wanted to yell right now, but thinking back at it, I can’t know if it’s something that will hurt me without seeing it.

So I calmed down and patted the doctor’s shoulder to assure him that I agreed to what he said.

He smiled simply and stood up to lift the window sill. It took nothing less than a second when someone landed in the room like flash.

My eyes widened when he raised his head, and it was that face from the club yesterday, but now wearing another mask. But the eyes were still the same.

Even though the room had been fairly dark. I still couldn’t forget this eyes. It was the same man who asked to sleep with me, and the same man who paid to sleep with me, and also brought me to this state.

I breathed erratically, reached out to the doctor, as if he could save me.

The doctor didn’t acknowledge me anymore, but bowed to the fellow and stepped into the room in the background.

I clutched the duvet and to myself even tighter, the tonic too ready to gulp it down and yell if anything goes wrong.

“If you don’t want to hear me out, you can drink that,” he finally said— in the same voice that I still remembered vividly as it echoed, “You’re mine, Balqis.”

My hand traveled to the lid of the bottle, ready to open it, but I hesitated and looked at him.

Perhaps it’s good that I can’t talk right now, or less I don’t know what I would have done, and perhaps… He has something to say, indeed.

“I came because I wanted to see you, Balqis,” he said again and took a step closer since he was standing beside the window all this time.

I clutched the duvet to myself even faster, and he stopped. “You can get angry and be mad at me, but I don’t regret what I’d done”

My eyes widened in shock. I really wished I could curse him right now. After making me bedridden for two days straight and even losing my voice, this is all he had to say?

I tried opening the bottle again. “I miss you, my forbidden fruit,” he suddenly said, stopping my action.

I shot him a glance. Fruit? Forbidden fruit again?

No.

I jerked off the bed and rushed at him. He tried holding my hand from getting to his face, but I was very fast.

All thanks to my dancing skills, I know when to be fast and not, and so my hand was already on the mask.

Just before he could hold me back again, I pulled the mask down.

Chills and cold shivers of shock ran down my spine, spreading all over my body because standing face to face with me was the face I never thought I would see again in this life.

I gasped…gasped until it turned into a yell, and the doctor rushed out to grab me.

Before I could look up from gasping, he was gone.