Prince In Darkness Sebastian Sallow

Chapter 50: I Said Yes

*Alora POV*

Ominis puzzled face watched me carefully with his white orbs, waiting for me to answer, to continue on.

I sighed, ".... I should have never went down but he bated me..... wanting to show me around the manor....... down in the basement. I thought maybe I could slip away and maybe find that woman myself but instead, he brought me to death ....."

I could feel the sweat hit my back, my heart beginning to race as I replayed the memories in my head. Trying to get air into my lungs.

Ominis noticed this, dropping down to the ground, picking up the towels and wrapping them around myself. Bringing me down slowly to the chair that was only a few feet away.

".... thank you...." I said softly, watching him go and sit comfortably on the adjacent chair. Motioning me to continue..... so maybe he could understand once again my recklessness.

"This door...... had someone inside..... some kind of awful contraption and for a moment I didn't know who it was...... until I dropped down, picking up his head and seeing his eyes again......." I looked away into the fire, my body beginning to shake again, the goosebumps reawakening on my skin. The fire doing little to help.

"..... I haven't said his name-.........."

Ominis leaned slightly forward, folding his hands together in front of him as he closed his eyes, his face turning towards the fire. The clinch of his jaw............

"...... in nearly nine years......... I just never thought I'd ever see him again. And here he was, sitting in front of me, waiting for Marvolo to deliver his death as I just stood and watched.... like a fucking coward-"

"Stop."

"But its true! I watched him die and even with all the magic in the world I couldn't make it stop! I let him get the better of me for it all to be for nothing! Absolutely nothing! It wasn't even him after the potion had been released Ominis....."

Ominis looked beside himself, his eyes looking off into the fire. I could see he was trying to figure out what to say to make the situation better for me, to find me comfort but I knew better..... there wasn't one. I did this.

.....I did this..... again.

"....now some poor soul is down there with his head cut off, hands separated from his body...... Ominis, I couldn't save him, I'm so sorry I tried, I tried so fucking hard-"

"Alora, please-...... there is nothing more you could have done, I can promise you this for I have-..... suffered the same torment by him. I promise you....." He leaned forward, grasping my cold hands in his as he rubbed them softly. Looking up at me with a glint of hope. "....... you've done nothing wrong, it was going to happen whether you wanted it to or not. Marvolo has a way of making sure every single option is taken away from the person he's trying to torment.... in this case.... he used your heart against you."

I pinched my eyes shut, feeling the tears trying to escape but I held them back. Breathing in a hard breath, trying to get this erratic feeling to disappear from my chest. This sense of panic.

".... its such torment Ominis...... seeing the light in his eyes diminish--"

"I know, but this feeling will pass. I promise."

I sighed.

"I don't understand you Ominis....." I whispered, looking down at our entangled hands, "...how are you so kind and gentle and fucking merlin, loving for heaven's sake!"

Ominis chuckled.

"I mean it, Ominis! Please tell me the secret, for I have lived long enough to deal with the many sufferings of death of people I have cared about but this-...... this............. was far worse than I have ever imagined....." I said lowly, barely a whisper. Feeling my heart twist and turn in every direction possible.