Chapter 120: Between Love and Hate

WHEN I quickly withdrew my hands from Val, he and Nick looked extremely hurt. They changed their eye color and when they looked at me, their faces were back to normal. But that was a sight that was hard to forget. Val tried to reach out and I shivered. I scoot over until I fell on the bed.

“Please don’t come close. Just stay where you are!” I said in a trembling voice. But Val stepped closer. And when he did, I screamed. “No! Get away from me!”

“Cassey, I’m not going to hurt you. If that was our plan, you wouldn’t have been alive until now.” He turned to Nick. “We have no choice. Hold her, Nick.”

“What are you going to do to me?” I asked, still horrified. “Don’t touch me!”

“Are you sure about this?” Nick looked anxious.

“I read about this. My father did the same when my mother was suffering. I could do this too,” Val replied before he slit the center of my palms with a dagger. Tears rolled down my cheeks out of fear and out of the excruciating pain that followed. I wanted to free myse