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Kaya’s POV.
My fingers hurt as I’ve been working since this morning. I have the triplets to thank for that.
“Oh, it’ll be over soon, Kaya.” I have been repeating this in my head like a mantra. And trust me, it’s only the truth, because I’m about to get out of this hell of a place.
My escape is soon—tonight, finally. The brothers have been so occupied with the war coming up that they have no reason to think about me, and having gotten the key this morning, I shall make use of it tonight. May the sun set soon.
I grunt lightly as I open the door, its annoying sound reaching into my ears. I’m inside the triplets room with a mopping stick and a bucket filled with water, which is already mixed with soap.
Since I was lowering my gaze, it took me a while to notice the stress evident in their eyes. It’s so
50Kaya’s POV.I’m lying on the bed with my hands entwined as they rest on my stomach. My back is against the bad with my orbs counting the ceilings. By now, I know practically all details about it.But that is of no matter, anyway. Ever since the event at the triplets’ room, I have locked myself in here, fearful of what they have become. It’s one thing to know they are my archenemy but to know that it is coming from a place of sadistic love is nothing I never could have imagined.It scares me more than they like me so much that they would kill anyone or go against even their mother and uncle or fire their sex slaves from the kingdom or fight all five neighboring packs just because of an alter affection they’ve got for me, which in turn they barbarically punish me for.It’s not just saddening but frightful to the very core of my being. Plus, th
Kaya’s POV. I’m awake, but my head hurts. My eyes remain closed for reasons best known by my body, and I am glad because I felt my own nerve pausing after a sudden wreckage when I heard the triplets’ mother’s voice. Emilie is annoyed at someone as she speaks. “How could you have been so careless? You said what?” She speaks as though whatever discussion they are having is meant to be hidden, kept away from anyone else hearing them. Her voice is tight, and I think she is pacing because I hear her heels tapping against the floor continuously. “There’s no way I could have guessed. Well, perhaps we shouldn’t have underestimated the girl. She is maybe not as week as she looks.” He disagrees with her. Who are they talking about? While I eavesdrop, hoping that I still look un-alive to the naked eye, I wonder why my head hurts. I can’t remember anything, and it hurts even when I try to recall it. It’s almost like my memory is a needle trying to pierce through a wall. Impossible to achie
3RD POV.Kaya’s pain is a reflection that shreds the existence of the triplets. With every shattering in her heart, burning in wants for help is a replication that the triplets feel too but hides deep down like it isn’t of any affection.In one sentence, they could feel Kaya’s pain, and as much as it hurts them, their pride wouldn’t let them stop her suffering. With each scream that she makes when the whip lands on her skin, ripping her skin like it’s silk clothing of crimson red colour, they feel the betrayal in her heart.And confusingly enough for them, they aren’t even there. The triplets remain in the room with their uncle and their mother, and anyone could feel the tension in the room.“I did warn you, guys, but you wouldn’t listen to me. I said she would betray you. She’s a witch, for heaven’s sake, and that’s what they do. They are cunning, delusional about being smart, and shits like that.” Jared speaks with much confidence before he folds his arms over his chest.“Uncle, we
53Kaya’s POV.The cold has gotten worse in the past few weeks. I’m standing on the balcony with my hands spread out, my eyes trailing the stitch line of the blue glove, and consciously, I come to realize that my lips are naturally curved downward.Well, there’s no reason to smile. Everybody who has ever made me smile has been taken away from me. Oh, isn’t that even a fair way to say it?They were snatched! Robbed from my hold, from anywhere I could reach them, and it still hurts.I close my eyes for some time, enduring the way the breeze prickles my skin, and it does hurt mildly, anyway. The sun is high up in the sky, but it almost doesn’t do anything to stop the cold.Even as the universe still changes, the earth rotating perfectly, everyone else well, and the season shifting to winter, my days aren’t any better.Having had enough of the cold weather, I hurry back inside and close the sill window. It’s been about a month since my last attempt to escape this hell hole, and I haven’t
54Kaya’s POV.My eyes are closed, and there’s the sound of a child giggling in the distance. For some reason, I am familiarized with the sound of the girl.As she seems happy, her giggling gets nearer and nearer, and my own cheeks pump as my own smile elevates too. Her happiness is my own happiness, and I can’t even see her. At least, not yet.My senses are sharpened. I seem to be alive, but it’s all dark. My body feels heavy, and my eyelids are like a block that I can’t force myself to shift open.In the course of all this, I feel calm. The aura of the mildly blowing breeze is a utopian feeling. Also, there’s a feeling of happiness, etherealness, and joy. I feel all bubbly and perfect. I have never felt like this before, not in a long time. Not since I lost my parents.Yes! My memories serve me well, even here.Suddenly, someone hit me, and my eyes snapped open as I tried to catch the little girl that my sight came to accommodate.“Hey, careful, little one.” I say to her, but she’s
55Kaya’s POV.Many fucks! This is bad.My eyes peel at the expressions on the faces of the brothers. Kyle pauses from doing his boot and raises his face, which is no less utterly shocked. Kieran is stunned too, and his hands are hanging in the air with the spoon titled so that the soup drips back into the bowl. And Kade’s brows are separated, his lips parted with his teeth showing to the eye, and there’s a furrow on the skin of his forehead. His hands are folded into a ball as well.“I demand a repeat of what you just said. Now!” I pray the physician could say something else and blame the triplets for what they must have heard wrong. I pray so. I wish so. And I wish that the ground could swallow me and I’d vanish.There’s no escape for me, especially not here, where I’m surrounded by the three of them.“The girl is carrying a child inside of her. It’s growing.”“Is this news to you?” Kade’s eyes shift to me, but I couldn’t talk. What do I say? I know that I am pregnant but hide it fr
56Kaya’s POV.A game of chess?!Wait, that’s what he wants to use to teach me the secrets?!What?“I see that you look shocked.” The physician calls back my attention. I have come to know his name as Pete, by the way.“Of course, this is a chess.” My hands outstretch to the box of chess game atop the table of which he’s said I should sit.Pete chuckles softly. “I see there’s a lot of correction we’ve got ourselves to doing. Anyway, please sit once again.” He repeats himself and I shake my head, huffing out softly before I agree hesitantly.“Don’t tell you hate the game of chess, or more importantly, lack the importance behind it?”I’m giving him an awful look, and while my head still hurts mildy, I say, “because it is. It’s naturally an awful game. I wonder whatever it is people see in it.”Pete holds out his hand which made me pause in my words. He closes his eyes for a second, breathing out and when he is ready, he reopens them and fixates his gaze on me. “The game of chess holds t
57Kaya’s POV.When I get to the entrance door to the triplets’ room, I stop in my tracks and take a deep breath.“It’s going to be tense in there. Pull yourself together.” Inaudibly, I whisper to myself under my breath and push the double handled door inside.My vision tries to adapt to the dim light inside the room, coming to see the Kyle and Kieran on the bed. They are playing with the pillows and Kade is on the bedside table, stretching his back.“Kaya, you’re here.” Kyle says, getting unfocused that Kieran hits him on the face with the pillow so hard that he falls down from the bed with his head. I would have pity him if not that he stood back up as though nothing had happened. I almost forget that they are inhumans.“Have you taken the potion? Is the baby aborted?” Kade approaches me with such audacious gait that I practically shrinker into the air that I’m breathing in.I shake my head. “I didn’t take it.”“That physician, Pete...I...”I am quick to speak. I wouldn’t want to ge