Lords Series #1: Lord's Obsession (UNDER MAJOR REVISION)

CHAPTER 18

LEAVING BYLUR'S PLACE causes chaos in her mind. Valouise was overwhelmed — she's relieved being back to her small, cozy and homey place but she's also sad, in pain and mad at herself. After a while of thinking, she realized that she's starting to fall for that stranger. She's mad to herself for being too open to him. She's mad to herself for letting that man come closer to her heart.

I hate you. She thought.

Her routine was back to normal. Open her cafe, work for hours then, write her novel then have meal and go to sleep. She have been used to it but deep inside her, she knows if sucks— it sucks to repeat those things. She wanted something new. Pero sa kabilang banda, naisip n'yang mas mabuti na ang ganoon sitwasyon kaysa magsama pa sila ni Bylur at patuloy na mahulog ang loob n'ya rito.

After closing her shop, she went to finish her routine and went to bed.

“Itulog mo lang, self. Mawawala rin ‘tong bigat na nararamdaman mo.” Saad n'ya sa sarili at sinubukang matulog. Ilang minuto pa lang ay agad siyang nakatulog ng mahimbing.

Isang mahimbing na tulog na hindi n'ya naranasan nang ilang buwan. It was her first deep sleep after a while and she thought nothing could ever happen, nothing can harm her but she was wrong.

The danger is in her dream…

—

Galina was laying in the green grass, looking at the clear sky enjoying the peacefulness of the place.

"Galina! Ubi es Galina?" (Latin- Where are you?) Scream the voice from a distance. Galina chuckled softly as she realized who was calling her. She stood up and waved her hands, "Hic, Colden! Hic!" (Latin- Here, Colden! Here!)

"Galina!" Colden screamed her name and waved back. He ran towards her and suddenly hugged her.

"I miss you, amica mea!” Colden whispers in her ear full of affection.

"Te amo, Colden."

“Te amo!”

Colden got something in her pocket and showed it to Galina. Her eyes shine in happiness when she saw a hair clip with a blue crystal design.

"Keep this with you, amica mea! When you have this, we're together even though we're physically apart."

Colden puts the hair clip himself in Galina's hair before locking their lips together. "Please, stay with me."

"Ero, Colden! Ero!" (Latin- I will, Colden. I will!) Galina whispered and locked their hands. "Manebo, Colden."

It was all Galina's memories with Colden. It was all happiness, joy and love but life has never been that better. But… the dreamy scenery was replaced with a nightmare.

It was Bylur. Bylur was choking Colden to death, grasping his own brother's neck with his ice blue sharp eyes and looking intently at his own brother. The sharpness of his gaze was enough to say that he might end up killing him.

"P-Prohibere, Bylur! Sis occidere eum, desine!" (Latin- Stop, Bylur! You're going to kill him, stop!)

“No!” she screamed.

Panting, catching her breath with tears in her eyes, she woke up from that nightmare. A second later, all she heard was her own painful scream— crying and screaming.

“Did you enjoy that sorrowful dream, Galina?” A voice she heard from nowhere. Valouise gasped in fear and stopped herself from breathing. She felt the presence of another person in her room but she couldn't see anyone. All she felt was the sinisterness of her place.

“Don't act like you don't hear me, Galina… I'm here…” a raspy and guttural voice near her ears sent shivers down to her spine.

“I— I'm n-not Galina…” Valouise hissed as she stiffened in her place. She couldn't move and didn't want to move.

Mariin n'yang pinikit ang kaniyang mga mata nang maramdaman n'yang gumapang ang mga kamay ng halimaw na kasama niya ngayon patungo sa kaniyang leeg habang humihigpit ito. Nanginig ang kamay ni Valouise sa takot nang bumuhos ang malakas na ulan at patuloy na malakas na kulog.

Out of fear, she never thought why the name of this man had crossed her mind and called him out loud.

“C-Colden…”

—

While Valouise was screaming for her life, Bylur and Colden were fighting against each other.

“V-Victus!” (Latin— Loser) Colden tightens his grip on his brother's neck.

“Your anger won't d-do any g-good, Colden. N-Never!” Bylur mocked Colden. In anger, Colden throw him. Sa lakas ng pagbato ni Colden sa kan’ya ay sumalampak s'ya sa isang malaking puno. But that force isn't enough for him to fall and get hurt. Bylur laughed and shook his head on him.

Bylur wiped out the blood in his lips and looked at Colden with pity.

“You're so pathetic. You are throwing hands for being defeated. It's been centuries, Colden. She has chosen me ever since.”

The sky thundered and cried, expressing what Colden had felt in that very moment. Bylur and Valouise's betrayal to him pains him for centuries and he couldn't let them be happy while he's in agony. He can't let them be.

“Stop this and go home. Let us be —”

“So you will be happy?! God damn it! Do I always need to sacrifice for you to be happy, Bylur?” Colden screamed his lungs out.

“She once chose you already! Isn't that enough? Why couldn't you give her to me this time?! You took her away from me, Bylur! ” he added.

“It was her choice, Colden!” Bylur screamed in anger.

“Because you stole her away from me! She didn't choose you, Bylur… you took her away.” Colden was fuming mad and Bylur stilled from what his brother said.

“Still...” Bylur swallowed the thick lump on his throat and continued, “She stayed with me.”

“She stayed but she never loved you, Bylur.” After that, they fell into a long silence. Colden was right. Galina never loved him. Galina never loved Bylur and she never wanted him. It was Bylur's obsession and selfishness that put them in this situation.

Suddenly, Terra came with fear in her eyes.

“Bylur!” Bylur stilled for some seconds realizing what Terra came for. When he tried to escape, Colden jerked him on his neck. The otherworldly light of ice and steel power of Colden grasp Bylur off. 

“Stop it! Valouise is in danger!” Terra shouted but Colden didn't even hear her voice.

“You're a traitor!” Colden gritted his teeth. He was ready, he's in the peck to kill his older brother but not when he hears her voice.

“C-Colden…”

Paulit-ulit na binabanggit, sinisigaw ng babaeng iniibig nila.

“She's in danger again! Valouise is in danger, Colden!” Sigaw ni Terra sa takot at galit. Isang galaw na lang ni Ephilia, maaring mamatay si Valouise.

“Let me go. S-She needs my help, Colden.”

FAITH
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