A Thousand Year Old Heart

✴Chapter 39: Crestfallen

LAST CHAPTER BEFORE EPILOGUE

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"Kyle had always been suspicious of my family. He never trusted us." he began his story without averting his gaze from the ceiling. "He thought we were hiding something, especially my mother."

Davina kept quiet. He had the need to talk, but it wasn't easy for him to open like that either.

Open up. She had finally managed to make him open up to her.

"Ethan was the first to approach me. You could say he was my first friend of some sort. Kyle, as his brother, took it as an opportunity to keep a close eye on me and kept sticking with us wherever we went. Back then, I hadn't realised his motives. That he was simply using me to spy on my family."

Davina bit her under lip. Her eyes rested upon Kol's white t-shirt, her fingers fiddling with the fabric.

"... One day, Kyle met a girl. Long story short, that girl was the love of his life. He began spending more time with her than us and soon his interest in my family died out."

"What happened to her?"

Kol breathed out heavily.

"As you may have found out, witches were not welcome back in those days. They were hunted down like animals. Esther had told us we had to be careful. Well, about that girl... It turned out that she was a witch hunter who had come to our village seeking for witches."

"A witch hunter?" Davina's eyes went wide. "How did you know?"

Kol scoffed.

"Isn't it obvious, love? She found out about me. She saw me one day practising magic in the woods."

Oh no.

Davina sat up, her eyes lowering as sorrow poured in them.

"Kol, please tell me you didn't-"

"She threatened me, Davina." his tone turned serious as he sat up too and ran his fingers through his hair with a sigh, "It wasn't like I wanted to hurt her, either. I wasn't that evil back then."

The little witch rolled her eyes, "You know I didn't mean it that way," then she looked up at him again, searching for an answer in his darker gaze, "But why? Had she been following you? Had she suspected you before and-"

"Tragically, it was none of that. She had a rendezvous with Kyle in the forest, at the same place I had decided to mess around with some spells. She had arrived first out of the two and, well, she did notice me. When I did what I did, Kyle was watching. He had seen me killing her."

It was then Davina saw something more odd about his hazy eyes. They were so cloudy, so unreadable and cold, that you couldn't really tell if he felt anything at that moment. For a second though, she could swear she took a glimpse of a spark of pure sadism and satisfaction flashing through his empty eyes, but it was only briefly. Either way her eyes were playing tricks on her or Kol had no remorse for his actions back then.

Both scenarios seemed possible to her at this point.

His next line though, confirmed her suspicions.

"... But it wasn't like she didn't deserve it. She knew with what she had to deal with. A witch. She knew the risk and she took it. But unfortunately for her, she lost."

Davina furrowed her eyebrows. She did not like the turn this conversation had taken.

"But Kol, that girl was your friend's first love! And you killed her without second thoughts?"