chapter 91

I woke up with a start, I was still naked but that was beside the point. I was gripping scratching at my neck whilst coughing violently, I looked around and found myself in my bed Xavier was kneeling beside me and his hands were outstretched, the boxers around his waist were hanging lowly, dangerously low. This is no time to admire his adonis belt.

“What happened” I struggled for breath, I finally regained my breathing. I placed my hand to my chest holding the blanket that was already threatening to fall in place.

“You had a bad dream, and you were strangling yourself in the dream” strangling myself? why will I strangle my self?

“Meredith’s powers are more powerful than you thought”

“No, this isn’t Meredith if it was Meredith it would have taken longer to bring you out of the nightmare. It was my blood that caused it”

“You mean your family member right?” I raised my eyebrow

“Yes that is what I mean, I am so glad I found you in time or you would have been dead like, for good”

“Who do you think did it,” I asked looking at him with fear in my eyes “who is trying to kill me”

“Everybody in my family wants you dead well except Camari and me and the rest are celestial hell so it is either my father or my mother or Camari but I doubt that she can harm a fly at her age”

“It’s your mother”

“You don’t know that,” he said

“The woman threw a knife in my direction the last time we met”

“But my father is very angry at how I have been treating him lately because of you. I would have to find out myself but for now, I have to put a charm on you so you can keep going to school”

“I will get dressed”

“You do that, I and my father are going to have a little chat”

Xavier’s point of view

Oh, my good devil, I cannot believe someone in my family will go to the extent of strangling Winter in her sleep. I sat on the floor with my legs crossed and my hands laying on my knees.

After deep breathes I closed my eyes, I just hope I walk in on my father in the courtyard shooting some arrows because if I walk in on my father having sex with a concubine again I am going to commit suicide.

“I don’t know why you are only wearing boxers my boy” Thank lucifer.

“Father I want to talk to you”

“Oh is that not what we were doing” of course imply that I stupid, bring up irrelevant jokes. I wonder why I was born to the family I was born into. “Oh shut up, you are spoiled and you are complaining”

“Father, I want to talk about the dream my girlfriend had”

“DREAM? I don’t know how sex dreams work they just happen. so if she is having sex dreams about you bask in it you may go”

“Oh my God” I exclaimed

“Don’t say that name near me, you have been on earth so long you are calling his name already where is the demon in you”

“Oh my Lucifer, are you happy”

“Very, so go now,” he said taking a look at mother’s black rose garden.

“If I didn’t know better I would say you were admiring the flowers”

“Exactly”

“What?” I asked raising my brows

“You do not know better”

“Father I will not stray from my purpose again because you want to have small talk with me, my girlfriend was strangling herself in her dream” he smiled exposing his fangs

“Did she die?”

“NO, no she did not die”

“Hmm, Shame,” he said and laughed

“Did you have anything to do with it”

“You came here, all the way from the earth down, down through your mind to accuse moi of strangling a girl in her sleep”

“Of course’ you do want her dead don’t you and you are the only person I can see doing such an evil thing,”

“If I wanted the girl dead, she’d be dead ask your mother I did not strangle the girl. Quite frankly I admire her wit, the only person I see myself strangling is a guy I am looking at”

“Your idea of humor sickens me father”

“Great we feel the same way about each other, laughing at what do they call it, Instagram skits”

“That is too big of a lie, even for you goodnight” I opened my eyes and saw Winter sitting on the bed looking at me, she was such a beautiful woman. I felt like holding her every time I set my eyes on her.

“Well” she urged

“It was not my father,” I said confirming her early suspicions.

“Then it is your mother, I knew it. She is out to get me”

“I am sure she has a reasonable explanation for it, maybe she was trying to pass a message across to me” Even I wanted to laugh when that came out of my mouth, I just wanted her to be calm I can find a way to fix this.

“Yes she was sending you the invitation to the funeral ceremony she has planned for me next week and there would be a big bouquet of black roses on my coffin” so that’s what the roses were for, silly Lillian.

“Winter” I got up and held her cheek “relax, I will talk to her later meanwhile we should give you that charm I was talking about” I outstretched my hand to her and she took it. “no the necklace”

“You should have said that” she mumbled under her breath then proceeded to pull the necklace off her neck. “here” I collected the necklace and placed it on the floor sitting in front of it

“Get me a knife” she shot off the bed and out the door, a minute later she returned with a knife. “Thank you” she bent over my head watching closely. “your hair”

“Oops sorry” she brushed it away

“How did it even get that long so fast” she shrugged “Okay, listen carefully you are going to mop this place immediately I am done”

“Okay?” I placed the knife on my palm and slowly dragged the blade deeply into my flesh.

“Fuck I have not done that in a long time”

“You have done it before”

“Yes, when I had suicidal intentions, I wanted to get as far away from my father as possible” I dripped my blood on the crystal pendant, I picked it up and held it in my hand, it started glowing when I began my incantations.

“Now no one in my family can invade your thoughts” she widened her eyes happily “yes even me it will only last till Saturday though when we go and warn my mother to refrain from doing what she is doing”

Winter's pov

“Okay” I am going to kiss Alec, I said in my head

“I am terribly sorry, WHAT?” Xavier said

“You lied to me” I exclaimed pointing an accusing finger at him

"I never gave you the necklace" he dangled the jewelry in front of my face, well that's awkward