Chapter 21

The starry night above was better than any image imitation. There were lighter patches, clusters of faint and bold light, the constellations altered according to the time of year. These were the same stars that greeted the ancients, the same ones that would be there in millions of years. Even in the velvet dark there is the light of the stars, perhaps a promise that even when we yearn for the light of the sun there will be those stars to bring hope of the dawn.



'A hope," Hades breathes as he strokes his hand on her cheek. She was sleeping soundly after what they did. He guesses it tired her.



'You're now my hope," he said, and a smile was put on his lips.



The stars hung above them, as if strung in the air by invisible strings.



'Hades?" Lissana murmured and her one eye was open looking at him and Hades lower his head and now their forehead was just an inch of them.



'What is it?" he asked and couldn't help himself not to plant a kiss on her swollen lips. He must be so addicted to it and can't get enough of her. He can see her blush because of the luminous light of the moon and finds it beautiful.



'Aren't you going to sleep?" she asked and her eyes fluttered.



'I was about to when you suddenly woke up," he smiled and lay down beside her.



'Wow," she exclaimed as she saw the stars in the sky and her face gleamed in happiness looking at the stars.



'Are you loving what you are seeing right now, Ana?"



'I did not know there were so many stars but I can't see this in our house," she stated and it still fixed her eyes in the sky.



'Clouds and everything polluted was in our place that is why you can't see them but in here you can see all of them," he answered and was looking at her face.



‘From the love she gives to her ideas and the creative ways she expresses her soul. She is one who wraps her arms around the soul of the world, of all who love her and those who need to love. That's beauty and if you can see that too, you'll be smarter and wiser than most. Her emotions were not easily hidden on her innocent face. Her pain was clear in the crease of her lovely brow and the down-curve of her full lips. But her eyes, her eyes showed her soul. They were a deep pool of restless gold, an ocean of hopeless grief. As I looked into her eyes, I knew all the beauty of the universe could not even hope to compete with this simple thing: passion. Passion turned her eyes into orbs of the brightest fire, and in them I read that she would fight to the very last year for her life. She would not let the world break her. Sure, she could cry, but she would never let them take her true self from her. She clung to it with passion. Passion that made her beautiful,' she thought, and can't help herself but to put a smile on her lips.





'And that is you, Ana."

'Did I already told you that you are beautiful today Ana?" Hades asked which makes Lissana turn her head to him and their eyes met.



'Hades," she breathes.



Hades cupped her face and captured her lips to his, it was slow but a sweet kiss.



‘When he looked at me it was as if it took every ounce of breath from my lungs floating into the air like midnight smoke. Every time he kissed me it felt like the world stopped, leaving just the two of us to wander the earth together. Every time he held my face between his hands, it felt like he was untying all of my knots. Holding me for eternity in the arms I've grown so accustomed to. This falling in love was like a story you never wanted to end. For so long I had longed for it, and now I can't bear to lose it - lose this thing that makes me feel so complete,' Lissana thought as her heart was beating wildly because of what he was doing to her.



'I love you even though in the eyes of the people think we are wrong but trust me we are more than this," he said and Lissana closes her eyes and just his hand to her cheek. She doesn't care about the rumors, all she wants and cares about is him.



‘I never lived a moment of my life before meeting you. And that day I met you once more, this heart says that I paint it in your colors! I am yours. Be mine. Nothing in me is mine, it's all yours. I've fallen in your charm, make me yours. This unusual feeling- it aches my heart, sweetheart. How long? Why is it my heart aches when I saw you that day? When you call me Isabella? And when your heart came across mine in its path, your grace celebrated every beat. I have risen to meet you, hidden in your heart. The moment you are with me- I rejoice in life in that mini-second. Getting you was all I wanted, I have no more wishes, God has done his deeds for me! I am made from you, and I am needless without you. Be with me, make me yours. This feeling that I can't explain; I will just be brave enough to admit that I'm falling for you. I married you with my eyes and soul on that night you came into our house. I married you with my heart and every future dream. I saw all of you, the joys and the sorrows, and I knew I was home. I knew you were something to me, Hades like a missing piece of a puzzle for me to complete,' Lissana thought as she looked through his eyes, those eyes that made her heart beat fast.





Lissana trace his lip lightly with the tip of her finger and smile.



'I love you too Hades."





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A dream is just a dream, sometimes it brings up the truth in our past live or in present live but not all of it was true because maybe it brought up with all of our imaginations, desires, dreams that we want to become but do not trust all of this besides you were just sleeping and woke up like nothing more than thinking about what was that. Sometimes a dream by itself brings a person back to life, bringing the truth or a sign by the gods, but sometimes it's all false.



'Captain Bella, there was a letter for you," an old man came rushing by as he wiped the sweats on his head and neck. It was a tiring day for them, for they had sailed far.





'Where did this come from Desmond?" she asked as she looked for the name or where it was addressed.







'Jezyl your sister gave it to me Captain, I said she should give it to you personally but she looks like she was in a rush and I don't know Captain but she looks like she was hiding from someone," he stated, Desmond was one of her trusted friend in the ship and she believed him.





'Jezyl? Where is she now?" she panicked and looked for her around, it was a busy street and people were rushing in and out.





'She was rushing as soon as she gave me that, she said that you should read what she had written in that letter and whatever happened to her it was not your fault she did it because she wanted to be aware of you. She was trembling in fear of my captain, she was cold, her eyes can't look at me directly, it was like someone was following her. Captain Bella, I think your sister is in danger," Desmond says, and there was sympathy in his eyes.



Jezyl was her youngest sister, and she was worried about her at this time. She looked at what she was holding, it was a crumpled paper and she was sure that it was handwritten of her sweet sister. She walks down the trail and searches for her but she failed, she was making her worry and she couldn't even do anything.



Why would she say that? Why would she say those words, why would she expect whatever happens to her? She looks at the letter and gently reads it.





Dear sister,



I am writing this letter to warn you to not ever come back to Sweden. I know I shouldn't be ordering you not to but as you sail in the sea there were a lot of happenings that you didn't know were coming. It was a long story my sister and I wish I could tell it to you more and personally but I can't, I wanted to protect you from them. You were gone for a year and it was hurting me to tell you that your prince, prince Hades got married a year ago, I wanted to tell you but how can I tell you when you are far away if I could swim I would sister, I would you know that. Princess Ysabelle from the land of England suspiciously landed in Sweden and what even makes me bewildered is you look like her, I am not making stories. She looks exactly like you, I was there and I know what happened. I know you are now thinking why I was there, me and Hades got an agreement to surprise you with a wedding but as I went back home alone in the woods, I saw a carriage and I saw you, I saw you that it makes me crazy to think of that I saw you in that carriage. I followed the carriage without them finding I was following them. I didn't hear what they were talking about, she was talking to a man with a mask. I didn't see his face. And the day after that they got married and now they were searching for me, Hades mentioned me to them and once they get me I know they will do everything to make me silent. I know you are a little bit confused about my letter, I don't have much time to dig deeper. I hope you are doing well my sister and I miss you so much. I will be going far from here in Berlin. I will go to our family but if I would not make it I promise to guide you every path you take. Trust no one, my sister. I love you.





Your sister,

Jezyl







Tears were streaming down her face and her heart was clenching in pain she winced as her heart skipped a beat. She was in agony, she didn't care if people in her surroundings were now looking at her. Her beloved man was now married, the man that promised her the life that she dreams, the man that makes her world spin in his world, the man of her life is now married to the woman who looks exactly like her. But why didn't he notice that it wasn't her? There were a lot of questions running in her mind that no one could answer and there was only one way to find it out and that is to go to Sweden.





She was now sorry for her sister not to obliged her warnings but she wanted an answer and she swore that she would be careful and not to waste the warning of her. Heavy and abundant rain poured down the land and Bella looked up in the sky. Her tears streamed down together with the rain sipping through her skin. Her heart was still clenching in pain and she was gasping for air.





Lissana was startled about Hades' question and his sudden change of topic. They were saying their I love you's and now asking questions about dreams. She really wanted to continue their romantic answering until they claimed each other again and again. She admits she was kind of a crazy and ridiculous woman if whoever read her mind but she doesn't care.



'What are your dreams, Ana?" Hades asked as he tucked a loose strand of her hair in her ear.



'I have dreamed of being a captain of the sea, is that weird?" she said as she remembers what she had dreamt.



'No, not at all in fact that dream of yours is awesome and I have no doubt that someday you will be," Hades answered and stared at the dark sky that was full of sparkling stars. The wall of the room was made of glass and they can see the entire sky and because they were at top they can clearly see the whole mountains and everything that an eye would wish to see.









‘Whatever comes in our way Ana I will protect you, you are mine to protect even if it costs my immortal life,' Hades thought as he saw her ring transform into a different color signaling that the deities were watching them.