The Shadows of Royalty

Fallen Portraits

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"Ash?"

Her puffy red eyes escalated towards me.

"You better start with everything..from the beginning...."

She put her hands up. "What's there to know?"

I exhaled. "The coven....what happened? Is that why you came back all moody and gruff, isolating yourself?"

She abruptly stood up. "I can't do this....I..." She held her hand onto her mouth before hurling into the wastebasket beside me.

She looked sick....she was ill. Here I was pressuring her to something that was hard to explain...abuse and God knows what.

I stand up, and remove her hair from her face. I place my palm to her forehead and she is scorching hot....a fever. I should have expected it.

"Come on," I help her to her room, and she crawls into her king sized rose colored bed.

"Rachel, don't think I'm pushing you out or that I am ungrateful. I just....it's been a long time since I've let someone in."

An inhale stuffs to the back of my throat.

But I nod, even though I was too damn curious. "Hmm, I'm going to call your assigned maid so she can help take care of you. I need to go do something, in the castle."

She eyes me for a second before collapsing into bed, her face wincing with pain. Only if I can heal her..... But I wasn't ready yet to reveal such thing... Just like how she doesn't want to explain after all we've been through.

Besides my energy needs to be recharged... Only a faint glow occurs, nothing more.

I had things to already start coping with, for instance, the new Supernatural world, right in my home. God knows what lingers between the darkness these days...there was everything; werewolves, faeries, vampires, harbingers, witches, demons, and much more.

First of all in reality, I had to start making appearances in the palace, so I would look normal because they would know if we started acting suspicious but there was only one thing on my mind. The question had been itching in my mind.

What had happened to Liam? This was my time to start lurking between the hallways and infirmary. How was Jamie? My demented father that lay on the hospital bed....slowly dying? Just, because, I am too selfish to save him... But that's how it's supposed to be if it is his fate... Why should I interfere? But I've interfered so many times with fate, that now I'm willing to not make an exception for my father?

I was such a bad person...that I was probably going to rot in hell.

It was past noon, and I will admit to sleeping for the whole day today. I needed to sort everything out...my mind being a scrambled ATM, with no filter; it was hard to actually start somewhere.

Liam.... The back of my mind ached and my breath hitched....He had saved my life and I have left him.

Coward...

My legs pull themselves right in front of his door. I looked both ways, seeing it clear. I have been visiting his chambers quite often (like this is my second time), and I didn't need anyone witnessing these innocent trips because they would think otherwise, and I will get simply killed.

Why was my heart erratic and in an unnecessary frenzy?

Aurora being a little b word that she is, attempts to whisper seductively while lacing sarcasm in her voice. Well when he opens the door, your eyes will widen and you will throw yourself into his arms weeping, and then he will bend down to peck your...