Queen of Cursed Hearts

Chapter 16

Chapter 16

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~Lilith~

About a week later after that class is over and I am residing in my room once more,  I receive a message from Graeme.

He knocks on my door in the evening and I open it.

"Good evening Graeme." I say to him.

He seems confused and nervous.

"Hello Lilith." He says. "There is a constable here who wants to talk to you."

Ah...so Caloa has found this place...

He steps to the side as Caloa steps into my doorway to look at me. We stare at each other for a few moments before she turns to Graeme.

"Thank you Mr. Stead." She says. "If we could have a few minutes alone."

Graeme shoots me a slightly alarmed look as Caloa turns back to face me, and I smile at him.

"Thank you Graeme." I say to him, and I see Caloa shiver and narrow her eyes at me.

Graeme nods his head and leaves. As soon as he is out of range, Caloa steps into my room and locks the door behind her, pulling her pistol on me.

"Lilith," she says as she takes a step towards me, "you're coming to the station with me."

She cocks her pistol at me and holds out handcuffs.

"Turn around and put your hands behind your back." She orders me, and I smile and oblige her request.

The cold metal clamps around my wrists. As soon as the 'click' sound is heard when they lock completely, a strong kick lands in the middle of my back, and causes me to fly forwards onto my side on the floor.

"Get up." Caloa says, anger clear in her voice.

I sit on the ground and turn to face her. I smile at her as she glares at me.

"Don't think for one second that I wouldn't shoot you." She says.

I remain silent, and Caloa becomes increasingly angry as the moments tick by. An angry kick lands on my stomach. I stay down.

"Before I take you to the station and let those pigs have their way trying to interrogate you," she says and squats before me, "I have a personal vendetta to resolve with you."

The butt of her gun lands hard into my right shoulder. A cracking sound it heard as she cracks the bone there.

"Why did you kill her?!" She asks with anger as she stands and lands another kick to my stomach, breaking a rib. "Why the fuck did you kill my lover?!"

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~Lilith~

5 years prior, I was in the human realm after awaking from the the Mist Curse. I had awoken in a river in one of the busiest human cities in the world.

I knew this because after I emerged from their sewage-filled-river, within a short walking distance from it, I found a very busy town on the outskirts of the city.

Feeling rather famished, I ventured into the large city. After quickly devouring one rotten heart, my nose immediately picked up on the scent of another rotten heart, and I made my way to the location of it.

That is when I saw Caloa and her lover.

They were inside a small house that called no attention to itself. I had concealed my presence and ventured up to the window that they were behind. Caloa was talking excitedly to the woman before her, smiling and laughing. They are sitting on a sofa. The slightly shorter woman before her was also smiling, but I could see that her smiles were false.