+CHAPTER 50+ Peace

Amber stared at the man sleeping peacefully beside her.

Life wasn't as complicated as man made it. Sometimes a person was just bound by the chains of his longings, resentment and pain to see what always has been in front of him.

When fate took something from a person, the person was always blessed with something more but it seemed like the pain of losing was too big to grab on to the happiness offered to him.

A person always remember what he lost instead of cherishing the things he still has.

Amber was that person~

She was blessed with a Goddess to show her the right path, a mate, a father, a mother, friends who were like a family, allys who were ready to protect her no matter what. She had people who trusted her with their loyalties. And above them all, she had a baby coming her way.

If she counted all these blessings on her fingers, they really dull out the pain of her past. The pain she had endured in the past had shaped her into the woman she was today.

Amber stroked the dark circles below Darach's eyes with her finger. His long lashes were casting a shadow over his cheek. He didn't even stir when she touched him. It must be the first time he was sleeping peacefully in months.

Laying there in the protection of Darach's arms Amber's chest tightened~ He was holding her as if he was afraid that she was going to fade away. She felt at peace in his embrace.

Her powers had made him endure so much pain. Amber pressed her lips to his lips gently.

It was all her fault~

If she hadn't been so blinded by her pain then she hadn't made Darach go through her past. She didn't know that his beast had grieved for her pain. He had wailed for the sufferings his mate had endured.

Closing her eyes Amber leaned away from her mate.

She had to find a way to release him. She had no idea how to lift this curse but she knew a person who can help her.

The Oracle~

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Emmeline gazed at the wastelands while standing in her daughter's territory. Amber's territory was covered with lush grass and the point where it ended the snow covered the land beyond that point.

Standing at the edge of the boundaries, Emmeline extended her hand out of Amber's territory. Abruptly she pulled her hand back with a hiss. She gasped at the condition of her hand. She stared at her hand as the split skin started healing, it felt like her hand was exposed to a snowstorm.

No one could tell that beyond the boundaries of this lush tropical land, a snowstorm was brimming in the wastelands.

Emmeline's eyes welled up with tears, her bottom lip trembled as her throat tightened.

How could she just threw Amber out on that snow when she herself did not have the guts to enter the wastelands.

She was dying inside little by little every day and no one seemed to notice. Watching her daughter from afar and her ignoring Emmeline's existence was an agony of another level. Her daughter was far stronger than Emmeline had ever been.

She was ready to love her child without a single doubt or an inner battle. Instead of crying over her broken heart, she was busy taking care of her unborn child. While Emmeline had been so weak that she had lost at the hands of her inner Fey who was now as guilty as she was.

Her Fey was past the hatred but it was already too late, her Fey longed for her daughter~

"Look what we got here. The Fey Princess mourning over the past." A voice taunted. "I have been waiting so long for this. Just to get our tabs even." Emmeline gazed from the wastelands towards the witch who was smirking at her.

She didn't answer the witch. She didn't have any strength left in her to fight with the witch. Emmeline gazed back at the wastelands as if it held all the solutions to her problems.

The witch's smirk fell off when she did not get any reaction out of Emmeline.

"They all had forgotten what you have done. They can't see the blood of our Queen that drips from your fingertips but that doesn't matter because some of us are still loyal to our Queen Charlie." Emmeline's eyes snapped towards the witch. Martha's words had caught Emmeline's interest.

"You knew Charlie?" Emmeline queried, her heart skipped a beat at Charlie's name.

"I was her loyal servant until you murdered her." Martha sneered, her eyes were black with resentment.

"The Oracle didn't seem to recognize you. So how come you were so close to her twin sister and she was oblivious of your loyalties and existence?" Emmeline questioned, suspicion evident in her tone.

"That Mad Oracle never remembers anything anyway. She is a traitor for not avenging her own blood but I am not. I am going to avenge the blood of my true Queen." With that Martha attacked Emmeline, pinning her to the ground. The back of Emmeline's head banged against a rock, warm blood trailed down her neck. Martha's hands were glowing black with power, inclined to end Emmeline's life.

Emmeline peered in Martha's eyes and strangely she did not see her death. What she was witnessing was a way out.

A way out of all her regrets and pain. A way out of the shames of her deeds. A way to escape her demons.

She had nothing left to lose all she ever cared for was already lost. Her daughter hated her guts and her mate didn't even spare her a single glance.

Emmeline's eyes shined with unshed tears as she smiled up at the witch just like Charlie had smiled at Emmeline before dying.

It was all going to end just the way it started.

Finally~

Emmeline was so close to peace. She panted beneath the witch but not in fear but anticipation.

Centuries ago this was a way out for Charlie and after centuries it was a way out for Emmeline. Now Emmeline knew why Charlie had smiled at her before her soul left her body.

She was not mocking Emmeline or making fun of her. Charlie was just happy to find peace but her finding peace had destroyed a lot of lives.

She had chosen an easy escape but her cowardly and selfish escape had made others go through hell. And now Emmeline was following her path. She knew it was wrong, but she was too selfish to back out.