The Curse Of Blood

chapter 2 ( The love birds)

Tim and Reyam fell in love at young age and got married very fast. After a year of their marriage they had twins , Hikmat and Ghayath who are 8 years older than Jean .
They work for an agency specializing in archeology and strange phenomena , that was established since the first phenomenon that occurred on planet Earth in BC.

The first phenomenon in the modern era of a temple similar to ancient Greek temples was discovered in 1920 by an archaeological excavator named Arthur Perry , who is a year after exploring the temple, died in a way as if someone had tried to remove his soul from his body in a frightening and bloody way.
The problem is that the temple was moving from one place to another and did not have a specific location, but in 1997 its location was confirmed in one of the Amazon forests.

The mission was entrusted to Tim and Reyam and 7 experts with the best training for this mission to explore the secret of the temple. Unfortunately, every one of them died afterwards, as if it was planned by something or someone who studied the weakness of each one of them.
After the death of the entire team with surviving many traps and monsters, Tim and Ream reached the end of the journey, where they were suffering from many wounds and bruises.

"Reyam! You have to leave me here and... Survive..." Tim said. A 30-year-old man, with an athletic body that is full of muscles. He is tall, handsome, and attractive. His hair is black, his eyes are gray and his skin tends to be light brown.

"No, I will not leave you. We have arrived... Look, salvation is at that entrance," Reyam said withher tears flowing abundantly.
A 29-year-old woman, a Russian beauty. Her body is as slender as a French lute and she is tall. Her hair is extremely beautiful in all shades of red. Her eyes are light blue, which when you look at is as if you see the purity of the sea and the sky. Her skin color is as white as snow.

"Reyam , I am bleeding a lot.... and whatever is behind that door, I will be an obstacle to your survival. You must leave me and survive ".
Tim was bleeding a lot and he felt that his soul was about to leave his body and began to collapse because he would leave Reyam alone to escape this hell.

"I told you I will not leave you!!!".

Tim looked at her, touched her face and wiped away her tears, and said: "The only thing I will never regret in my life is you and our children..."

Reyam's tears began to flow abundantly, she closed her eyes and began to pray for God to save them from their ordeal.
The last door opened and Reyam was happy and tried to wake Tim up, but it was too late .

"Tim, look!!! The door has opened, Tim!...Tim, no, please, don't leave me, Tim!!!" , Reyam screamed, making everyone in the temple hear her scream.

Then the place began to shine with light, and Reyam turned her back to see the glow of a huge, extremely beautiful woman, her eyes shining with light, and her long white hair almost as long as Rapunzel's hair, was moving like waves slowly, as if enchanted.
Her skin was white, and she was wearing clothes that had never been seen before it is similar to the clothes of the ancient Greeks, white in color and studded with pearls.
She wears jewelry made of gold and a crown made of white and embroidered on the sides with the phases of the full moon.
The woman looked at Reyam and then at Tim, and used her powers to make him float in order to dazzle and frighten Reyamat the same time.

Reyam felt panic and fear when she saw her and asked her: "Who are you and what do you want?".

But the woman did not answer her, she just smiled innocently and said to her: " My name is Cecilia....I will make you a tempting offer. I will make your husband live again, and in return the first daughter you give birth to , I will have her body as mine.
If you accept my offer, I will get you both out safely from here. If you do not accept, your end will be the same end of every person who had entered with you ".

Reyam was more surprised by what she heard than what she saw. She only knew the story of the legend of Cecilia's existence and did not know what she might be cable of .
So there was no other choice , her husband had died, and she would have been stuck in this place until she die and her children would have been left alone if she had not accepted.
She looked at Cecilia for a moment, then at Tim, and her tears began to fall more. She accepted the offer without hesitation or thinking about what its consequences might be.

Cecilia smiled a malicious smile in secret, but it was only clear that it was innocent to Reyam and told her :"A promise is a promise. Do not forget that, and I promise you that you will not regret accepting my offer ".
Cecilia used her powers to save Tim then cast a spell that gotten Reyam and Tim safely out of the temple and the temple disappeared.

"Rrr...Reyam" Tim called out to her.

"You are an alive! thank god" , Reyam hugged her husband tightly, her tears streaming down from happinesses.

"Reyam...how am I...and how did we get out??" .

Reyam interrupted him: "Don't worry, it is a miracle from God " .

Tim looked at her with anger and then pushed her away, "Reyam!!! What did you do? What did you give her?" .

"What do you mean? How do you know what happened... What did you do?" , she asked angrily because she felt that Tim knew the outcome of this mission and did not tell her.

The reason Tim knows about the offer because he read the full myth that Cecilia is able to achieve anything , but the entire part was distorted by Cecilia and in reality she is not able to revive the dead, make anyone immortal, or create any life.
Tim did not tell Reyam anything about the barter, because if she knew that the only way to reach Cecilia is to barter 7 souls and the last one must be an infant without blemishes.
But Tim couldn't bring a child, so he had to rely on luck by sacrificing one of their friends.
But in the end, his luck was bad and he almost died, so Cecilia deceived Reyam by saying that she revived Tim but only healed His injuries.
She was able to take the soul that she had been waiting for it , for centuries.

"I've heard everything, don't ask how! If this temple is magic or something, don't be surprised.
How do I know what you did? But then again, what did you trade her for?" Tim said to her in a completely absent-minded way.

"Tim don't worry about it, it doesn't matter. The important thing is that you are fine and we are fine" , Reyam ignored Tim's act that he didn't know anything and just started thinking about what she had done. She had only bartered a soul that was not even born yet .

"Reyam!!!".

Reyam's tears began to flow abundantly and she said: "There was no other choice. I had to trade soul for another" .

After this adventure, the problems between Reyam and Tim increased. Each of them blamed the other for causing the death of each of their friends, and for accepting Cecilia's offer, and that they both lied to the other about everything and in the end each of them parted their way and the twins remained with Tim.

Reyam married a man through one of her friends whom she did not love. She married in less than a year in order to take revenge on Tim for all his lies and actions, but she also suffered a lot because of her wrong choices.
When Reyam became pregnant with Jean , she knew that....She must protect her no matter what and will not give Cecilia a sacrifice.

The relationship between Reyam and her husband Bashir was not stable, they both decided to separate, but Reyam did not agree to divorce him in order to protect her children and obtain their full rights.
Despite all this fighting for years, she was forced to abandon Jadd in order to protect him from the fate of his sister.
No one understood Reyam why her relationship with everyone was superficial, even with her children from Tim.
Her relationship with them was not good, and as a result they held a big grudge for her over the years.
Despite all that ,Tim didn't abandon her and remained by her side as a close friend because he is the only one who knows everything.
Despite Reyam's rejection because of everything he did, she had no other choice. She did all that to keep everyone and her daughter safer even from herself.

It was not easy because Cecilia was a person without conscience or compassion who took and did what she wanted. She was smart, cunning and loved to exploit every living being with her toys.
She considered them entertainment for a while until she got what she wanted. She was able to take what she wanted with ease, as she did not tell Reyam how and at what age she would take Jean from her or what she was capable of , if Reyam refused to give her what she wanted.