Chapter 21: A game for two
Abrielle was so exhausted and deep in sleep that she didn’t sense something on her neck or the blood trickling down. She slowly turned to the other side of the bed and mumbled some rubbish.
She was completely vulnerable in her sleep and had no idea of the danger by her side. The voice in Cedric’s head kept on whispering to his ears. "Kill her!"
"If you don’t end her she will end you."
"No one stands against you and lives."
The words kept on echoing in Cedric’s head; his grip on the hilt of the sword tightened, and he raised his hand to cut her neck.
He was so close to ending her life because all his senses were telling him that ending her was the best option. How was he going to live with someone who might poison him in his sleep or strangle him to death when he was unaware? He was a monster, but he had never done anything to her before she met him, and yet all she thought about was to kill him.
Just before the swords touched her skin, an image of her mischievous scheming smile, when she was bold enough to poison him with a kiss, popped into his head, and his hand froze.
He withdrew her hand, and the heavy sword fell from his hand, making clunking sounds on the floor as it fell. Abrielle’s brows furrowed hearing the sound with her eyes fluttering for a short while.
In her sleep trance, she was blurring the images of Cedric standing before her bed, but she soon fell asleep again, not caring much about her environment. After the sword fell from his hand, his knees lost strength and he sat on the ground with his bloodstained hands raking through his hair.