Leave {z.m.}

Forty One

Time seemed to move by slower and the room seemed to spin before me. After everything that we had been through together, and after everything that we had felt for one another...it was all wrong. We are related and we cannot be together romantically. I should have known to remain numb and empty. Feel nothing. Was loving her a mistake?

"What the hell are you talking about?" Gemma blurted out. "You are Zayn's-" Adelaide began quizzically. "No, I am most certainly not! Where did you hear that from?!" Gemma demanded indignantly. "What-" "I never had a child with Xavier!" Well, this was news to me. Then who was my great, great grandmother?

"When I was younger, my mother told me the story of you and your family. She would not lie to me or leave anything out," I declared forthrightly. Gemma frowned and appeared to be reflective. "I had...relations with a man in 1856, I believe," she admitted. "How is that possible?" She was a vampire after all. As if she had read my thoughts, she answered my question. "I was only part vampire, so I could still conceive. I had a daughter. How do you know my story though?"

Her tone was accusatory and it confused me. "It had been passed down through my family. My father had told my mother, and she explained it to me." Gemma glared at nothing and I realised that she was choleric, a hot-head, most of the time. "Clearly, I didn't erase Xavier's mind forever," she mumbled.

"His memories probably came back after he died," I figured. "It doesn't matter anyway. He's gone now," Gemma stated belligerently. Her eyes seemed to blaze with fire, and Adelaide tried to move back until she noticed that she was as far back as she could possibly get within this room.

"I'm gone now? I love how you sound so mournful, sweet Gemma." My head snapped to the left to witness the sight of a man who appeared to have almost the exact same features as me. Adelaide looked from him to me, back and forth. If I had only caught a glimpse of him, I would have thought that we were identical.

"Xavier?" The fire in her eyes vanished and her haughty attitude faltered. "Miss me?" He smiled in a sardonic way. Xavier must be her weakness. "How are you here now?" I asked the question for myself, Adelaide, and Gemma. "You're cursed like me Zayn. You should know," he owned a bitter tone, but I knew that his attitude was only because of his detestation for Gemma.

"I thought Gemma locked you up for all eternity?" Adelaide's statement sounded more like a question. "Eternity? It certainly felt like an eternity, darling. A hundred and fifty-two years." I could almost gasp when I felt the sudden need to rip Xavier's head off after calling my Adelaide "darling". Where is this coming from?! And my Adelaide? Is this what it is like to love? Is it normal for this violent behavior to arise?

"How did you get out?" Now, I owned the bitter tone. What is wrong with me? Love is illogical yet profound and remarkable. "Evelyn set me free," he confessed. That is when I realised that my father had warned me of this, and I had chosen to ignore it. I had wanted to forget but I could not.

 And when he had told me that there must be another sorcess alive, one who was related to Gemma and could actually undo the curse, I had thought he meant Cecilia...but it was Adelaide.

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I know it's been a while so if you've forgotten that scene with Zayn's father, it's on chapter 28 (:

How do you feel about Xavier showing up? And he looks like Zayn? No wonder Gemma was obsessed with him.

Can Addie really undo the curse??

-Izzy