Chapter Forty Eight
Damian moved from her and she kept screaming in pain. She reached out for him but he moved away. Justin ran into the room and looked at him
“Damian, what did you do?” He asked, standing in between the both of them
“I swear, I didn’t do anything. I was just talking to her and I touched her and she started screaming” he said
“Why is there blood on your hands then and why is she bleeding?” Justin screamed at him
He looked down at his hands and saw that Justin was right. He could have sworn that he had just talked with her. Sally ran in after him and moved back. Her eyes went dark and her fangs came out. She went for Damian but he caught her by the neck and threw her across Anna’s bedroom. He stopped
“I don’t want to hurt any of you. Can you just listen to me?” he screamed
He felt something carry him and when he could gather himself, he found himself in the dungeon in his own house. He looked and saw Alex standing at the other side of the gate
“What do you think you’re doing?” he screamed at Alex
“You said you don’t want to hurt anybody else and I provided a solution for that. I took care of the problem, you” Alex said to him
“I am not the problem! I didn’t do anything to Annabelle. I love her and I would never hurt her, not for anything in this world. You have to believe me, Alex! You of all people know how much she means to me. We are linked. How would I hurt someone that I can literally feel her pain? Be reasonable!” he screamed at Alex
“I am being reasonable! You are in here for your own protection because the person up there is not even Annabelle! She is some sort of mirage and I knew right from the beginning” he said
“Are you crazy? Let’s say you’re right and she is not the real Annabelle, how does me being locked in here helps me out?” Damian screamed at him
“Whatever is in there is after you and that is why it doesn’t know you, let us handle this!” Alex said
“Too late” they both heard and Alex almost jumped out of his skin
Alex growled at her and she smiled at him. She walked up to the cell Damian was in and waved her hand in the air and the locks opened immediately. She waved her hand and a force pushed Alex into the cell
“You can both get all the bonding time you need!” she said
“Who are you and what do you want from us?” Alex said
“You are right and you are wrong at the same time. I am not Annabelle, I just abide in her body for a while. It was the gift Arielle gave me. I can’t remember you, she can. I don’t have those memories with you, she does. She is a very strong person but the longer I inhabit her body, the more permanent the effects are. All I have to do is stay here and watch things unfold. I also can’t guarantee that she would be fine after all of this but that is not my problem but yours” she said
“What do you want?” Alex asked
“I have only one mission, to make his life as miserable as I can” she said, pointing at Damian
“And what did I do to deserve whatever miserable gift you have to offer? Why are you doing this to me? To Annabelle?” he screamed
“I act not on my own will. I was sent by someone, I hope you understand that it is not about me. You have done nothing to be but I was born of magic and I have a master. He wants me to make sure that you never find happiness and that is exactly what I would do” she said
She gave a bow and walked away. Alex looked at Damian and he saw his eyes get filled with tears. It was only a matter of time before something bad happened and they knew it. Damian looked back at Alex. He suddenly dug his hand into his pockets to reach for his cellphone. He looked at it and decided to call Justin. He wasn’t answering his phone. He called Sally instead, they both were not picking up
“It looks like we are going to be down here for a while” Damian said as he found somewhere to sit
“It is only a matter of time before someone finds out that we are missing and whatever she has done with Justin and Sally, let’s hope it’s not as bad as this. We have to get Grace here, fast” Alex said to him
“I don’t even have her number or anything. I am doing a terrible job at keeping the community together now. It is just so draining. I have so much to do yet do little time to carry it out” Damian said and he rubbed his forehead
After sitting for hours, Damian started to get restless. He couldn’t understand why his father would do this to him just because he was obsessed with Anna. He was so obsessed with her that he didn’t care if he was making her unhappy, he just wanted to make sure that she never ended up with him. He was more obsessed with making Damian miserable than making Annabelle happy. He needed to have a one on one conversation with his father. His father, he scoffed. He wasn’t even his father and Damian could never wrap his head around the fact that Phillip wasn’t his father. What was going on with Annabelle though? He wondered if she was scared or even alive. He has had his body being taken over by another being before and it wasn’t an experience that he would wish on his own enemy. It was dreadful, dark.
It was like he was fighting to stay in the light. He was struggling with his own body while being in his own body. He could remember how weak he felt and cold. He eventually gave up and laid down while he helplessly watched the being take over his body and do as it pleased with it. The screams didn’t help, it just made things worse and he gave up. He let it all go and he stopped struggling because all he wanted to do was sleep. Was that the way she felt now? She was going to be so lonely if that was how she felt. He rubbed his temples and looked at Alex who was meditating. He wondered how Alex could find peace in this chaos. That had always been his secret talent. He could find peace right in the middle of a burning house and that had always kept him in check. Meditation was his way of getting out all that anger in him
“We have to find a way out of there and your meditation is not helping with that” Damian said to him
“Who says it is not helping? It just depends on who it’s helping. One thing about magic is that it always has a loophole. Magic is not perfect especially the bad ones. There is something we are taking our focus off and that is exactly why we are still trapped here” Alex said, not opening his eyes and still taking deep breaths, trying to stay sane in whatever chaos was going on but Damian was losing his mind already
“Snap out of it, Alex! Anna needs us now and that is not going to get us out of here” he said as he ran his fist into the wall and it cracked
He moved back, surprised. The wall there was thinner than the rest of the cell and he never even knew.
“Whoa” he said
“You still think I was wrong?” Alex asked
Damian moved back and his eyes glowed before he ran his fist into the wall again and it broke. It led right outside the palace and in no time, they were in the house. He looked around and they went into the living room, it was already day break. So much for having a peaceful night, Damian thought as he walked towards the room. When he got in, he saw Justin and Sally on the floor. He ran towards them to check for a pulse and found one. He sighed and dropped on his knees, glad to know they were alive.
“They are still alive” he said to Alex
“I was going to be here in less than twenty four hours and you managed to piss off whatever spirit that was in her” they heard someone say. Her voice brought some sort of light into the room.
They both turned around and Damian saw Grace standing there. He had never been so relieved to see someone in his entire life. He walked up to her and hugged her. They uses to be friends before she got into a relationship with Justin and Damian had to set boundaries because of his friends relationship