+CHAPTER 38+ She Seeks Forgiveness

"It's Frightening How Guilt Can Destroy A Soul."



From the past days, Emmeline can feel that a part of her was calling to her, a part of her that had been misplaced for too long. . .

She had never felt like this before but deep in her soul she can sense that her daughter was calling her. . .

Her dead daughter~

Listening to her Fey, Emmeline had forsaken her own daughter. She didn't even regret it! Not until her Fey's rage evaporated, not until her Fey's resentment dimmed.

The moment her inner Fey had given back the control of her mind back to Emmeline was the moment it dawned upon Emmeline that what she had done.

The Oracle had warned Emmeline that she was going to regret her decisions but Emmeline had not listened to her. At that time she was blinded by her Fey's rage, her soul was scorching for a chance of vengeance. . .

From the past week, the Oracle's words were ringing in her head. 'Come back to the place where it all started! Come back when you are done running from your own self. You'll find me here.'

After centuries Emmeline had returned to the Kingdom of Lycans, she had come back to the same woods where it all began.

Emmeline wants to get back to her mate Aric but she can't go back to him even if she wants to.

The guilt she was carrying within her soul won't let her breathe~

She just wants to get it off her chest.

With each passing day Emmeline is turning insane, mentally and emotionally. She wants to run in Aric's arms and tell him that how much she loves him but she can't.

The Oracle had told Emmeline that Aric had fucked the witch, Charlie because she had enchanted Aric. It wasn't his fault. Charlie had overpowered Aric's instinct, she had locked his beast within his own soul. Aric was as vulnerable as a human. He was defenseless in front of the witch.

But Emmeline wasn't~

She wasn't enchanted when she had abandoned her own blood, her own daughter. She had been a slave to her hatred. Emmeline had murdered her own daughter because she had Charlie's essence within her soul. Her daughter had the witch's black eyes with red orbs. Besides her pointed ears there was nothing about that little baby girl that resembled to Emmeline.

The beast and the witch's essence within that little girl's soul had set Emmeline's soul on the blaze.

She carried that little girl for four months in her womb only for that little girl to be a constant reminder of Aric's betrayal. At that time the witch's laughter ringed in Emmeline's mind. The witch was making fun of the proud Fey even from her grave.

Charlie had successfully crushed the pride of the Fey Princess.

Soul tainted by envy and hatred, Emmeline had thrown her own blood for an agonizing death.

Her daughter's cries when Emmeline had placed her on the lethal snow haunts Emmeline to this very day.

She hadn't slept in centuries, her daughter's cries won't let her sleep~

Emmeline had stopped running from Aric a long time ago. Now She's been running from her daughter's agonizing cries. . .

She's been hiding from her own mate, hiding from the brutality that she had shown to their dead daughter.

Eva~

Emmeline had named her daughter after her own mother, a Queen.

She had killed her own daughter just because she sensed a witch within her instead of a Fey.

She had killed Aric blood~

Now the proud Fey Princess is hiding from the deeds she had done~

Emmeline looked at the witch's grave longingly, she wishes that it was her in the grave in place of Charlie. Sometimes she just wants to dig that bitch out of her grave and kill her again.

Red roses had covered the forest ground around the witch's grave like a blanket. Red roses had blossomed all over her grave too.

Emmeline had an urge to destroy every single rose!

The witch was at peace while Emmeline was mourning the loss of her love and her child.

The butterflies around Charlie's grave had broken wings, the forest was dark and the woods were sad. . .

The emptiness of the forest was so heavy, how could emptiness be so heavy. . ?

The roses and the butterflies with broken wings were the only living creatures in the dark woods, the forest around them was dead.

Life had left the forest the moment soul had escaped from Charlie's body~

It seems like the forest was still grieving for the witch's death.

Charlie had smiled at Emmeline before Emmeline killed her because the bitch knew that Emmeline was going to regret killing her.

For centuries Emmeline had thought that why would that witch let Emmeline kill her. Then one day it clicked in her mind that Charlie was in love with Aric, she was in love with Emmeline's mate.

She knew that when the fog of her enchantment will be lifted off Aric's mind he will hate her forever.

Charlie had feared Aric's hate and resentment more then she feared her own death.

Witches are the kindest souls one can ever encounter and it almost kills Emmeline to admit that Charlie was a kind soul too, she feared hatred from the man whom she had loved with all her heart.

Now Emmeline has the same fear. Because the anger that she had against Aric had been faded with time. She had realized that what happened back then wasn't her mate's fault.

But she had realized it too late~

The Oracle had been right about everything! Emmeline wished that she wasn't so blinded by her Fey in the past, she wishes that she should have listened to the Oracle's warnings.

She can go back to Aric but it won't take long for him to find out what she had done. His beast will look into her soul and he's going to see the blood of their daughter on her hands.

He will hate Emmeline for the rest of their lives. Emmeline knew Aric as no one can ever know him, he won't be able to love her ever again.

She fears seeing disgust in his eyes that once held love for her!


He won't be able to forgive her, how can he forgive her when Emmeline can't even forgive her own self for what she had done to their daughter.

The guilt of abandoning Eva in the face of death won't let her die and it won't let her live. . .

She hate this guilt that was burdening her soul. It ate away at her to the bone and left her fighting off self-hatred.

Once Aric found that what she had done,
Aric and Emmeline will never be able to come out of that.

They will forever be doomed~

Emmeline had come back to these abandoned woods in hopes of finding the Mad Oracle here but it's been a week since she had roamed these barren woods and still, there was no trace of that insane witch.

Emmeline can't stay here anymore because the longer she will stay here the more there will be a chance of someone finding of her location and she can't leave her traces behind from which Aric will be able to track her.

Giving Charlie's grave one last glance, Emmeline turned to leave but shortly she sensed that she wasn't alone in the barren forest.

Someone else was there~

Emmeline wasn't alone~

Deciding on finding that who had dared to step inside the cursed forest Emmeline started walking towards the direction of the voices.

It is said that when a witch dies in a forest the forest becomes barren and in the worst-case scenario the woods get a mind of their own.

When people with weak spirits enter those cursed woods start playing tricks on them. Like not letting those people out of the forest until the woods takes something from them.

It can be anything from a person's hate to a person's devotion, any remorse or any distress. . .
It could be anything. . .

The dark wood helps the weak spirits~

Standing in the shadows, Emmeline's eyes fell on Darach, Lucia and Connor. The first thing that came into her mind was that what the fuck were they doing in these woods.

The air around the three of them was thick with tension as if they had been fighting over something.

None of them noticed Emmeline's presence so she decided on leaving before they could notice her.

Emmeline turned her back on the siblings that she once considered her own children. . .

The witch had taken away everything from her, her mate and her loved ones. She can't meet the people she love, not even if she wants to. . .

Emmeline had merely taken two steps when Darach's next words stopped her in her trails.

"It doesn't matter that Amber is Uncle Aric's daughter. It doesn't matter that she's a witch and lycan hybrid. The only thing that matters is that Amber is my mate and I'm in bloody love with that witch." Emmeline sucked in a breath. Her hands reached out to the tree beside her for support because it feels like her legs had turned into jelly.

Emmeline looked towards her niece and nephews. . .

She was too shocked to form any words~

A Witch and Lycan Hybrid~

Uncle Aric's daughter~

Tears welled in Emmeline's eyes. Darach's words were playing in her mind like a broken record.

A huge burden of regret and misery had been lifted from her shoulders. . .

Her daughter is alive~

Eva is alive~

Emmeline felt overwhelmed.

Her whole body was trembling, her lungs were constricting. She tried to force her chin up, she tried not to show any vulnerability but the broken sobs that escaped from her trembling lips weren't in her control.

At this moment she just didn't care about anything else. She just want peace, peace where she can cry her heart out.

Strong arms engulfed Emmeline in their embrace, she didn't think for a single second before hugging the person close to her.

It was the first time Emmeline and allowed herself to cry after that cursed night that changed her life.

Her daughter was alive!

Oh Dear Moon!

The Proud Fey Princess wailed for the pain that she had endured. She cried in relief.

Her sufferings were going to end, no longer she will had to hide from Aric. Emmeline laughed in between sobs, the cold rain drops felt welcoming on her burning skin.

After centuries Emmeline's heart was filled with home, hope of returning to her home.

Finally! The Fey Princess thought that she was going to find peace but she was unaware of the chaos that was waiting for her~

Because her regret won't mend the souls that her actions had scared. . .