Revenge, and A Little Bit More

Chapter Thirty One: Bettrayal Of Love

Alcina woke up early the next morning, still laying on her stomach on the day bed in the greenhouse. She blinked profusely, trying to clear the dizziness and drowsiness from her head. She sat up, feeling around the bed with her hand, looking for Lilith. A dreadful feeling crept up on her as she frantically searched her surroundings for her love. She got up, swaying slightly and walked over to the dinner table, clutching it to steady herself. She gulped, her throat extremely dry, noticing that all the candles had melted down and burned out. She became nauseated as panic slowly took over her.

"Karl! GIRLS!!" she called, sluggishly making her way to the lounge. Panic turned into full-blown fear when she received no answer.

"Lily?! Amy? Where are you?!" she yelled for the twins, before stopping and resting against the wall, placing her hand over her eyes.

"My Lady! Quickly!" a maiden called, snapping Alcina's attention back immediately. The maiden pointed into the lounge with a horrified look on her face. Alcina ran over as she fought back tears, her heart racing in her chest. She walked into the lounge, in complete disarray, seeing her daughters, the twins, Donna and Karl sprawled across the room, not moving. Her chest tightened and the world moved in slow motion as she fell on her knees next to her daughters and Donna.

"No, no, no, no!" she panicked, quickly placing two fingers on Bela's jugular. She sighed heavily with relief, when all four of them had pulses. She stood up and checked on the twins and Karl, feeling pulses on them as well. Once she realized that all of them were fine, only then she allowed herself to break down completely, tears of relief, grief, anger and panic ran down her cheeks as she sobbed loudly. Her loud sobbing woke Lily, sitting up and looked around in confusion.

"Lady Alcina? W-what's going on?" she asked grogily, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. Alcina immediately grabbed Lily and hugged her close, surprising the younger woman. She hugged Alcina back, for the first time feeling a mother-daughter bond between them. The others slowly stirred, waking up one by one.

"Are you alright, dear?" Alcina asked, her voice cracked slightly.

"I am not sure what happened. Last night... The last thing I remember was seeing Bela run after someone, before collapsing. Mater... What's going on?" Lily started panicking too, getting flashbacks from last night. She looked over to Amy, seeing her breathing deeply with Karl lying next to her.

"I'm not sure. I cannot find your mother. It seems like someone drugged us." Alcina lamented, cupping Lily's cheek.

"Mom!" Amy yelled as she shot up, fearful tears running down her cheeks. Lily ran over to console her as Alcina went to Karl, shaking his shoulder to try and get him to wake. He struggled and Alcina glanced over to her daughters, seeing them fighting hard to wake up.

"Karl, please wake up." she begged. She winced slightly, recalling the nightmare she had last night. Karl lazily opened his eyes, yawning. He looked at Alcina in confusion for a moment, before his eyes grew wide with realization. Alcina was looking at him with a pained expression, black mascara tear marks running down her cheeks.

"What the fuck happened? Amy, my love. Are you alright?" he asked, placing his hand on her shaking shoulder. Amy just nodded, burying her face in Lily's neck as she cried softly. He turned to his sister, standing up shakily and stood in front of her.

"Alcina?"

"Karl, I cannot find her! Please, help me find her!!" Alcina sobbed, placing her head against his chest.

"What a fucked up nightmare..." Cassandra groaned as she sat up. She leaned over to Daniela, shaking her shoulder. As she sleepily started to wake Daniela, Bela shot up, screaming in fear as she woke from the nightmare. Alcina immediately ran over to them and wrapped her arms around them. Donna sat up too, looking at Bela for help.