+CHAPTER 35+ Kill Me, Add Another Ghost To Haunt Her

"She's Brave And Strong And Broken All At Once"



Aric looked at the small girl standing in front of him with a smile on her face, a smile that didn't reach her eyes.

All the air got sucked out of his lungs~

Wild red hairs, bold blood-red lips and the same soulless black eyes with red orbs, the Cold Queen was a replica of Charlie. 

A replica of the witch who destroyed Aric's life~

She was staring at Aric without blinking as if she was imprinting his image in her mind, her stare was pulling at the strings of Aric's heart.

Aric's beast raised within him with a hope that the girl proudly standing in front of him might be his daughter but the low growl that rumbled from Aric's chest was an indication that she wasn't related to him or his kin.

His beast didn't sense a part of him or his mate within her soul.

Aidan behind him was panting hard. They had fought all there way to this 'Marked Territory'. The fucker was hell-bent on making Aric believe that the witch standing in front of them was Aric's daughter.

Which was clearly a lie~

Aric felt no connection towards the witch but he didn't know why it pained him to look at her.

"Looks like my Royal Messenger isn't as loyal to me as I thought." The Cold Queen's lips curved in a sadistic smile.

"Amber he's your fath---" Amber didn't let Aidan complete his sentence and threw his on the ground far away from Aric with just a flicker of her fingers.

Aric gazed at the blue fire that was emitting from Amber's palms.

Aric recalled that the same blue flames used to emit from Charlie's palm whenever she used her power against someone.

"Son of a bitch!" Aidan grunted in pain while lying on the ground curled up in a ball.

"Witch!" Aric sneered as if it was meant to be an insult but Amber smiled at Aric.

A bone-chilling smile~

"Actually I'm both." Shoulders back, chin up, Amber proudly claimed. "Daughter of a bitch and a proud witch." She was standing there in front of two Kings, challenging them fearlessly.

'The witch needs to be disciplined~' Aric's beast whispered aggressively inside the cage of his mind.

"Leave Aidan out of this witch and I might negotiate with you instead of killing you." Aric commanded but his command had the opposite effect on Amber. 

She gave him a coy smile before throwing Aidan against an old oak tree with her powers. Raising her palm in the air towards the direction of Aidan, she pinned Aidan with his back against a tree, his feet were a few meters above the ground. 

Aidan was thrashing against her hold, clawing at his neck as if someone was constricting his neck.

Aric's beast raised at the blunt challenge by Amber.

His eyes flashed molten gold~ 

Claws came out of his fingertips, his body was getting bigger, the legendary beast that resided within Aric's soul was coming out with a vengeance that he had stored within him for centuries.

The clear clouds thundered above them, the wind was changing its direction, the elements had already sensed an upcoming doom.

Not waiting for any more witch shit, in a flash, Aric had the witch's delicate neck in his grip. Electric shocks ran through Aric's body when his skin came in contact with the witch but he didn't release her.

An image of a Fey version of Amber flickered on her face but in a nanosecond, it was gone as if Aric had imagined it~

Aric felt connected to her the moment his skin came in contact with her but he dismissed his thoughts, the witch had started playing with his mind. He had been played by a witch before but not this time. Aric focused his gaze on the witch's neck.

If he applied a little more pressure he was going to break her neck~

Tears welled in Amber's eyes but not a single tear fell from her eyes. She gave him a broken smile.

No one smiled like that at an assassin~

"Darach has your eyes." She whispered while looking in his eyes. The name of his nephew from the witch's lips irked Aric's beast.

His nephew was so young yet so doomed. Darach had lost his parents on the hands of witches, he lost Aric because of a witch and now a witch was playing with his mind and heart. Charlie had done the same to Aric.

"You are a monster." Aric sneered, his face only inches away from Amber's face.

"Eventually you will learn that monsters have nightmares too." Her eyes were cold and lifeless when she stared in the King of Beast's eyes. "You have no idea who I'm, do you?" Aric looked at Amber in confusion. One moment her eyes were lifeless and the next moment they held sadness within them. He had no idea what this mad creature was talking about.

"What are you talking about, witch?" Aric inquired while not letting go of his grip on her neck. He had faced countless witches in the past but no one was like the witch in front of him. Hell! The mad Oracle would look sane in front of this one.

"Go ahead, kill me." Amber spat the words at Aric.

Aric gazed at his claws that had the witch's throat in their grip, ready to rip it out.

"ARIC DON'T!!" Aidan bellowed. Aric's eyes snapped towards Aidan who was still pinned to the tree. 

"Don't listen to him. Go ahead and kill me, add another ghost to haunt her for the rest of her eternal life." Amber whispered aggressively, her voice had totally changed. It felt like someone else was talking from within her.

"It will ruin her as she had ruined me!" The witch let out a hollow laugh.

It was the first time that Aric's opponent was so desperate to get herself killed by him. From what he had listened from Aidan and known about a crone, this creature had the powers to crush mountains and here she was begging Aric to end her life.

"Kill me or you'll watch as I'll bring your Kingdom to ashes, I will make every lycan present in your kingdom mateless. But for now, the more you will delay in killing me the fewer chances will be there of your darling friend's survival." Amber threatened Aric.

Aric looked towards Aidan who was trashing against the witch's hold on him, his face had turned purple and eyes had turned red. The witch had cut off his air.

"Do you want me to pop the Dragon's head off his shoulders?" Amber threatened again.

Aric eyes snapped back towards the witch. She was holding her hands at her sides, blue flames were still emitting from her palm but she wasn't attacking Aric.

The wheels were turning in his mind, he can't let the witch live. She was a threat to his people and Kingdom, a threat that needed to be eliminated.

Amber seemed so calm yet Aric can feel a storm brimming inside her. Despite all her threats her soulless black eyes were silently begging him to end her life.

Aric can sense powers within her~

Powers that she wasn't using against Aric.

He can feel the powers coming out of her small body in waves.

She was brave, strong and broken all at once. And it only happened when someone was going through a heartache.

Aric's instinct was telling him to step away from the witch but his responsibilities as a king were telling him to end her.

Aric can feel that the witch was surrounded by a mad haze and in her madness, she was trying to get herself killed but once the fog of madness got cleared from her mind, Aric won't be able to defeat her.

"Charlie had ruined your mate bond, I have her soul within me, your majesty, I'll ruin your Kingdom. Charlie made you mourn for a couple of centuries, I will make you mourn for the rest of your eternal life." Amber exclaimed with such determination that Aric believed her every single word.

Charlie's mention was enough to throw all the logic and reasonings out of Aric's brain.

The witch had brought back the memories of dark wood and bloodbath with the mention of Charlie.

She had just sealed her fate~

If Charlie's soul resided within her then Aric will be more then glad to end her life. . .

Aric's beast raised within his soul again but this time to seek revenge, he was seeing Amber as Charlie who had taken the beast's mate away from him. The beast tightened his grip on Amber's neck, his claws were now embedded in her neck, blood dripped from his palm.

Amber's Blood~

Gagging sounds were coming from her lips~

All of a sudden screams started echoing all around them, defending screams of lost souls and creatures of myth that occupied the wastelands.

Amber coughed more blood out of her mouth, painting her father's hands with her blood.

A father was killing his own daughter, the King of all Beasts was killing the only person who can save the lost souls and the doomed lycans.

Maybe the Goddess of Nature was right, Amber was going to be turned into a lost soul.

This world was never meant for her~

The world that had just given her pain and heartaches~