Terrifying little Mother-in-law!!…

*You left like I was never a reason to stay!!...*

**Proserpina's POV**
"No, your love is the reason I leave."
That was the last thing I heard before Hades literally pushed me from his life, making me scream in both heartbreak and anger, "Damn you! Damn you! Damn you!" I cried, letting my words trail off with the pain of hurt.
"Proserpina, please!" Mira tried to console me.
"Hhhow could he do this to me?" I asked, wincing in pain.
"Proserpina!" Mira again tried to talk to me.
"Don't...just don't! No words have the power to defend his betrayal!" I warned Mira.
Why did it have to be this way? I asked myself. Our relationship has this constant push and pull, give and take. I don't know who to hate more...him or my sucking luck! I feel like crying until the last tear drop drains from my body.
The last kiss was not only a goodbye for now...no, but it was something far more heartbreaking.
It was an eternal goodbye kiss.
It was the kiss that said that he would always love me, even in death.
If he thought that I was just going to let him leave, then he was wrong.
"Fuck this!" I snapped before walking over to the direction he had left, only to be blocked by a vampire...Jericho.
"Get out of my way, Jericho!" I practically growled.
"That's not gonna happen, Kora," he answered quickly, making me want to snarl like a damn cat at him.
"You don't get to tell me what to do," I told him.
"Actually, that's where you're wrong, as it's my ass on the line if I let you go back to Hades."
"Fuck you and fuck him!" I snarled, hitting him with my elbow.
"Look, just do me a favour and read this before you decide to do anything stupid," he said, pulling a rolled-up piece of paper and handing it over to me. I was just staring at it as though it was an emotional bomb he held in his hand. I just wanted to tear it off, but then taking a decision on heartbreak was never a good idea. So, I took it and started reading it.

My Kora,
My love, my mate, all I ask of you is forgiveness, which I know is the most unreasonable to ask for because I'm selfish. Yes, I'm a selfish being when it comes to you.
You must know I had no choice but to say goodbye this way. I know you are hurt and most likely feel betrayed, but that was never my intention. I will never betray our love but always prioritize your safety.
So, you may hate me, you may damn me or curse me, but Kora, I promise you with every breath I take, I will do everything I can to return to you. And when I do, I will spend the rest of eternity with you.
But until then, I have no choice but to entrust your safety to Jericho. Although it pains me to be separated from you, but I know that if you remained by my side, I would only be putting you in danger.
So, I ask you, more of beg you not to let my painful decision to be separated from you go in vain. I ask you to go with Jericho as he is the only one I trust with your life.
Please, do this for me, for I have never loved until there was you. I will never allow my heart to beat until it beats for you, and I will never take a breath that doesn't carry your scent.
I love you always and forever, until the end of days and beyond.
Yours eternally,
Hades.

As soon as I finished reading his letter, the tears were already dribbling down my face.
"Oh, Hades," I muttered with a sigh, gripping the letter to my chest. Despite being angry, I now understood his reasons. He was terrified of losing me and was doing everything to prevent that. So, I need to get up and do what he has asked of me. Despite how much I hated it, I needed to trust his decision and believe he was doing the right thing. Because I wanted to be by his side, facing all this together right to the very end. But I also know that Hades could potentially get hurt or lose the fight if he had me to worry over.
So, Jericho, Mira and I walked through the dark forests. At one point, I paused, looking around the colossal space. An unnatural and eerie silence shrouded the forest ground as the nocturnal animals' movements suddenly stopped. They have sensed something in the air. I started to get a bad feeling creeping along my spine.
"Err...Jericho."
"Yeah?" He, too, paused, trying to sniff something in the air.
"We are not alone," I whispered to Jericho, who gritted his teeth.
But then, this soon became obvious as a streak of lightning flashed through the sky and struck the ground. And before we could realize or react, a grotesque grey vampiric woman was hanging upside down like a damn bat behind us, laughing like a witch with a crooked nose and bad teeth and humping back.
She then moved like a grey mist and landed before us, shredding her grotesque form. She was dressed like a Greek goddess with a low-cut flowing dress of white with gold ropes twisted around her body as well as the seam of the dress. She was a redhead with the beauty of the goddess. She had a prominent nose, high cheekbones and blue eyes under a prominent brow. It gave her the vibes of an arrogant lady. I had seen her before when she killed and drained my little rabbit like a blood-lust vampire ten years ago.
Estrella!
"Who the hell is she?" Mira asked in a bored tone.
"Estrella!" I scowled at her to act scared, at least.
"Eww yuck, wicked mother-in-law," Mira snarled, pulling a disgusted face.
"Don't say that!" I snapped. She realized what she had just told me; it was too late for her 'my bad' excuse. Because Estrella gave her a look as if she wanted to gouge out her eyes and tongue with a toothpick.
"Hey, beautiful vampire mother-in-law. Did you visit us for a reason?" Mira fumbled once more. I looked down as Estrella was sneering at us with her sharp-knife fangs glinting under the faint glow of midnight. She was fucking pissed off. The blackness spread along the veins of her eyes, no doubt trying to intimidate us. She looked at us as if she had delved into my secrets.
"I must say, I was sceptical when Vlad told me I could get you easily, and here you are, just like he predicted. But then again, Hades is nothing if not predictable," she spoke sneeringly.
"Ah, and let me guess, this is the part where you talk smack about her boyfriend and then tell us your evil plan while engrossed in arrogance until the last minute when you realize we have stabbed your ass." Mira was trying to provoke her, much to my disdain.
Estrella obviously didn't take too kindly to her smart mouth and scowled at her because all she expected was us cowering in fear and begging for mercy. But instead, she found three of us standing facing her as an army. Though I couldn't help wondering what we must have looked like.
There was Jericho, dressed in all black. He looked more like he was attending a masquerade than a kick-ass fight. He looked amused as always, and his icy blue eyes didn't seem to miss a thing as they homed in on the enemy, just waiting for her to make the first move against us.
On the other hand, Mira stood in the middle with her arms folded and looking bored while doing it. The way she rolled her shoulders, it felt as if she was ready for a dirty street fight.
As for me, I would be a lucky girl if I got out of this alive and made it to my tall, dark and handsome in one piece.
"No, I guess not," Estrella responded with a half-smirk and half-threatening look.
"Whatever, I could still kick your ass," Mira retorted, pretending to be filing her nails.
"You could try, but I think not, not when we have that poor werewolf of hers with us. Hades is awfully lonely inside the dungeon walls without you."
Hearing this, I tried not to react, knowing that was exactly what she wanted. She was bluffing so I could comply, but there was no way she was likely enough to outsmart Hades.
Or if she could with Vlad's help?
She carried her banter, and I could feel myself losing my shit.
"I would even say he's crazed and very close to losing himself to his wolf in his need to have you back. Although, don't worry, we've locked him in chains so he doesn't hurt himself, but I guess your company would help." She mused with a grin, making Mira want to roll her eyes.
"Can I kill this woman now?" Mira said in a bored tone as if she had better things to do.
"Are you sure? She is not Justina-the bitch." I warned Mira. But she ignored me and ran straight towards the head of Estrella. I held my breath for the impact. But unfortunately, this didn't happen; instead, she was rewarded with a slight taste of Estrella's power, for she forgot that Estrella could fly. Mira hit her head on the branch. Then suddenly, Estrella appeared from nowhere behind her.
"Mira, look out!" I screamed, but it was too late as Estrella grabbed her hair, pinned her to the branch, exposing her fangs, and lowered her gaze to Mira's jugular.
"No...no...leave her. I'll do what you say." I screamed. Estrella turned away from Mira, throwing her to the floor like a useless piece of cloth. She smiled down at me, exposing the sharp glint of her fangs. She strides straight towards me, but Jericho forces me back with an arm banded across my chest that has already started to change into a grotesque form.
"Stay back. Let me handle her," he told me as his voice turned deeper with his fangs' emergence.
"Jericho, I think..." I muttered, but he winked at me as those icy-blue eyes turned white. Then the rest of his body started to change as if something was moving underneath his skin, as it started to change into black. He snarled as he threw his body backwards, and his spine was cracked at an unnatural angle. His neck grew thicker, and his head took the form of a bat.
"No way!" I uttered, in complete awe at what Jericho had become.
He turned into a humanoid bat minus wings. Then he began running on his fours towards Estrella. With an angry shrill, she advanced towards Jericho, hitting him in the chest and making him crash backwards into the rocks.
"Jericho!" I shouted, unable to help myself. But Estrella was quick enough to attack him, making him fall into the big rock behind. He hit hard enough to make a body-sized imprint. Then he fell to the ground with an audible thud and into a useless-looking heap.
"Fuck!" I muttered before running, although I knew it was as useless as hitting a dragon with a feather. In the next two seconds, I was grabbed from behind, and a hand held my throat, "Now you're mine, and oh, I'm going to have fun with you." Estrella snarled in my face with malicious intent and a sickening gleeful tone.
And with that warning, she leapt up in the sky, with me in between her claws.

*Behind every man of your dreams is the mother-in-law of your nightmares!!...*