Her Men Of Ruin
Chapter 6
“He
cut your tongue?” Heaven almost shrieks. The child continues
moping. “Why did he do so? So that you won’t talk?”
Kaicha
shrugs, her eyes big and bright. It’s then it dawns on Heaven that
even this little girl may have been captured.
What
if she isn’t his daughter like he claimed she is? Everyone knows
that Alphas seldom have babies with people who aren’t their mate,
as it could sabotage their Alpha lineage.
Even
if Kaicha was his daughter, could be why he’s keeping her a secret
from his pack? Or is there another bigger reason as to why the girl
should be unknown?
“Do
you know why he’s hiding you?” Heaven asks again. Just then, the
woman fixing Kaicha’s hair finishes her job and bows out, while the
child suddenly breaks into a dance.
Her
steps are clumsy and lack rhythm. Even her attempt at fluidity is
terrible. Now Heaven can see why Ziason badly sought a tutor.
“He’s
hiding you so you can dance?” Heaven queries, utterly clueless of
the girl’s gestures.
Kaicha
shakes her head frantically and breaks into another round of amateur
dance. She keeps signaling something with her arms, placing her hands
on her chest and abdomen from time to time and then throwing them up
in the air while arching herself backward.
Heaven
still can’t understand.
“Can
you write?” she asks. If the girl can pen down the words she can’t
speak, it would be better. But Kaicha shakes her head.
Heaven
wonders how Ziason can be so heartless and cruel. Why would he treat
such a little girl like this?
Firstly,
he cuts off her tongue, then doesn’t give her education in such a
modern world.
He
really is a beast.
Now
Heaven can’t believe the fact that he seemed to care for Kaicha
yesterday. Or is it a toxic kind of relation between the duo? As in;
a man who needs Kaicha for something, therefore pretending to be kind
to get it, and the little girl who doesn’t understand why he
switches from good to bad from time to time but still acknowledges
his good side with all her heart.
>>>>>>>>
That
night, Heaven stands in her room window to watch the view below.
Her
window doesn’t face the pack house like Kaicha’s. What Heaven
sees from her window is the main gate from which she and Ziason came
in yesterday.
At
daytime, she can also behold just how the mountains surround the
pack.
For
now, due to the black night, she can’t see much. Except, there are
small movements happening below, which look like people leaving
through the tower through the main gate.
Heaven
knows that Ziason has a room in this tower, but she doesn’t know
which of these countless rooms it is. She doesn’t have the interest
in finding it either, since she’s now hellbent on trying her best
to simply avoid the man.
When
he left the tower after his gym session yesterday, she knew. When he
returned at night to spend the night in the tower, she knew. When he
left this morning and returned in the afternoon, she knew.
She
watched these movements from either her window or Kaicha’s window.
But who she’s seeing leaving the main gate now isn’t Ziason.
They
look like two men pushing a big wooden cart. And due to the lamp in
the cart, Heaven sees what looks like three male bodies inside the
cart, their clothes soaked in blood.
What
the hell happened? What did Ziason do to these men, and why were they
even here in the first place?
When
Kaicha’s maid comes in the next morning to serve Heaven’s
breakfast, it’s the first thing Heaven asks her.
“Do
you know whose corpse the Alpha disposed last night, and why they
were killed?”
The
girl says nothing.
“Is
he also holding your family captive?” Heaven pushes. She notices
the girl’s brief pause. “I’m correct, aren’t I?”
The
girl still doesn’t respond. Instead, she quickly sets the breakfast
on the bedside stool before turning to leave the room.
Heaven
jumps out of bed and grabs the girl’s forearm, pulling her back.
If
she can’t understand anything about Ziason, she deserves to at
least know the nature of the things that are already keeping her
here.
She
has tried with Kaicha—to know why Ziason needs the girl. That
failed.
Now
she has to try the curse. And since she doesn’t know much about
curses except that marks like Ziason’s mean a curse, she decides to
read about wolf curses instead.
“Where
can I find books; about wolves and curses, to be precise? Do you know
any place?” she asks the pain, who cranes her head in Heaven’s
direction.
“The
library,” she murmurs grudgingly, then quickly shrugs out of
Heaven’s hold.
“Wait.
Where can I find the library, then?”
But
the girl has already left the room. And the small breeze left by her
dash turns to cold, harsh wind on Heaven’s skin.
Heaven
lets out a breath she has been holding for long. Chills spread
through her body as she hugs herself, her mind running several
question about her moments of demise.
Would
she die by Ziason’s claws, or by his blade?
What
will she be doing at the moment when she dies?
Where
will she be; this tower, in Yule, or nowhere in particular?
>>>>>>>>
For
the next four days, Heaven experiences a trail of reoccurring events.
A
growing fear for her life.
The
nightmare of the day her parents died.
Teaching
Kaicha dance.
Struggling
to reach the depths of Ziason’s secrets.
Watching
him slip in through the small gate then sneaking to the ground hall
to watch him workout as she uses her eyes to trace the lines of his
tats.
Trying
hard to convince the maid girl into telling her the location of the
library while attempting to find it herself to no avail.
And,
every night, watching a group of young men flock in through the main
gate, only to leave as corpses.
Sometimes
they’re two, sometimes three. The highest so far is six.
Twice,
Heaven has hurried down the stairs the moment she saw these men
enter. But, by the time she reached the last floor, she always didn’t
find them.
She
even tried to look for where they could have entered. However, she
discovered that all the doors in the tower are locked except for the
ballroom, her room, and Kaicha’s room.
How
she didn’t see these coming still amazes her. She was always
cautious so as not to fall into a trap. And she avoided wolves like
they were virus. Yet, she fell for Alpha Ziason’s trick, how? Was
she that desperate? Was she so scared of herself that she resulted in
following a total stranger so blindly into his den?
Now,
what happens next? How certain is she that Ziason wouldn’t kill her
anyways, before or in five years? Also, being an Alpha, is it
possible that he could know what happened to her parents seven years
ago?
What
if… what if this was a ploy?
She
definitely doesn’t know the reason her parents were killed by ‘an
Alpha’. So
what if Ziason brought her here in the guise of teaching Kaicha
dance, only to repeat the incident of seven years ago—get something
from her, then kill her?
There
must be a reason her parents made sure she survived.
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