SILVER-HEART
Chapter 174: A Failed Yang

Chapter 174: A Failed Yang

"He is not your husband!" he growled, his silver eyes blazing showing the fury storming his eyes and yet I remained unfazed. I was already used to this side of him, there was nothing he could do to scare me, he had already done his worst.

"Everything was a sick plot of yours, you made him feel despair, you cursed him!" I seethed. I wanted to scream at him, clawing his eyes out and let him feel my rage, he made William suffer, William suffered because of him, and yet he protected me with everything he could. I regretted lashing out at him thinking he abandoned me.

William never abandoned me and he was always there, he has already taken my heart and I wasn’t planning on taking it back, it was his forever.

"And I will do it again!" he boomed. "Again and again and again until he is just an empty shell!" He closed the distance between us and backed me to the wall, caging me there and I kept my unreadable eyes on his raging ones.

He looked like he was about to rip me apart and yet put me back together, the look in his eyes was pure rage that shocked my very bones and yet I looked him eye to eye in the means of the storm.

"Even now... even if he remembers, there is nothing he can do, he is bound to that dimension to be trapped in that library for eternity" he cupped my cheek and I wanted to put it away but he gripped me hard until it hurt but I didn’t make a sound. I won’t give him that satisfaction.

"He won’t come, Aveline and you can’t be in his world, it rejects you because I say so and you only belong in mine for eternity"

"My name... is Ava," I said with clenched teeth.

His eyelid twitches and he leaned close in a heartbeat, his breath washing on my feature and he was heaving like he was about to explode. "As much as I would want to cut that thing out of your womb I must resist, I can’t bear to watch you suffer, it destroys me"

"Fuck you!" I seethed and he paused and then a frown covered his features before he pulled away.

"I will let you spend time with it, 9 months right?" he nods, naive to the insult I have just given him. "And then in your presence, I will bring a dagger to her throat and slit it right before your eyes. She is the obstacle in our relationship and I will bring it to an end" and then he smiled as if he hadn’t made the most horrifying threat ever. "I can’t wait to meet sweet Estel"

He turned on his heels and walked to the door and I was just paralyzed where I was. "Rest my star, I will care of you, I always do"

I bolted to the door but it was already shut. I pounded my fist on it, fiddling with the locks but it wouldn’t budge then the realization struck me as I rushed to the window in an attempt to stick my hand out but it stopped like some invisible wall covered it.

He has a barrier around this tower, I was trapped here.

I leaned my back against the wall and slid down to sit on the floor while placing my hands on my tummy and then I broke down in tears, I really want to be strong, I want to be able to fight this but I’m afraid I was too weak.

"William," I cried. What would William say if he was here? Will he let me just give up? No, he will want me to stay strong. No doubt I have to be strong now, It wasn’t just about the two of us but three of us now. I will not let Aldon murder my daughter right before my eyes.

I have to stay strong and find a way out of here.

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I watched as Adina dropped a number of plates filled with food on the table before me, setting them properly and offering me a small smile which I didn’t return. I darted my eyes at Aldon seated on the other end already grabbing his cutlery.

"Eat Aveline, you need the food," he said, taking a chalice of wine and taking a sip keeping his eyes on me.

"So that you can poison me?"

He sighed dropping the chalice back on the table and I heard a gasp from Adina but I paid her no mind.

"Leave us," he said to Adina and she bowed and signaled the other maids to leave the dining hall. "What did I tell you, hm? I will not bring you any harm, at least not until that..." he pointed to my tummy. "...’thing’ get out of you, for now, nurture her and bring her out, alright?"

"You’re sick"

"I am not... this is merely a suited understanding for both of us" he shrugged.

"So what you keep me in this tower, trapped, fed, and taken care of as if you won’t butcher my daughter the moment she comes out!"

He broke in a peal of laughter and the mere sound caused chills to flood my body, just how twisted as he become? Was this the effect of going against his good nature or was this what he truly is? He was my light and I was his darkness but right now he was the blackest soul I have ever met. Twisted from the inside out like the very devil himself.

"You make me sound like villain Aveline, when I’m not... can’t you see that I am trying? Trying for us?"

"There is no us... there never was"

"There will be, just a few months to go alright?"

"When will you-"

He cut me off when he slammed his palm on the table and the plate jogged as well as my bones.

"Please Aveline eat, I want you healthy," he said in an impossibly calm tone and I knew he would snap again.

I gulped, leveling my eyes on the table. I do have to eat as much as I hate it... I knew the food wasn’t poisoned because Aldon always kept to his word. I grabbed my cutlery.

"Good girl"

Silence followed for about an hour just the sound of our plates and forks.

"What changed, Aldon?" I asked suddenly, keeping my eyes on my empty plate. I heard the noise of his cutlery tune down and I lazily dragged my gaze to him. "You’re a good nature... never this"

"Good nature, bad nature, until millennia ago it wasn’t truly defined was it? You’re the darkness that balances me, Aveline, it has always been that way"

"Then why do I feel you’re the darkness itself?"

He shook his head. "I’m not... I’m your light and I will always be, what I do is always the right thing and the right path"

"Because that is what you think, you’re using your nature in the wrong way, because you’re light doesn’t mean everything you do is good. There is good and bad Aldon"

He sighed dragging his gaze back to mine and a smile tugged on his lips. "All I have ever wanted was to be with you" he began in a heavy tone. "For us to work even though it was impossible, I knew no doubt a curse was the only way"

"I only wanted peace Aldon and you took that away from me"

"No I didn’t, because I’m your peace," he mused. "You’re my greatest darkness, Aveline"

The exact same words he said to me before he sealed our fate and yet it still brings chills to my spine. I don’t think Aldon and I will ever see eye to eye, he is too far gone, corrupted, and drowned in his own delusions.

A failed Yang.

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I cannot wait until the months are up or else Estel will be in danger, I must think of a way to get out of this tower, out of Aethel, and away from Aldon. I knew I can’t go back to William, once again Aldon must have something to do with it... why I cannot connect to his world.

I have to go somewhere safe for Estel, here her pending death will only give me a heart attack.

"So is there anything else you need, your highness?" Adina asked. "Are you cold? I can bring more blankets"

"Adina," I began.

"Yes your highness"

"You’re not a maid"

She forced a smile. "I know but Prince Aldon has given me instructions to take care of you and besides you’re my friend both in the past too"

"You have questions..." I could tell, it has been swirling in her orbs. Even though she was just a ghost she was very much still Adina. I cannot believe I never sensed this until now.

She hesitated before taking a seat on my bed. "You’re not pregnant with Aldon’s child are you?"

I shook my head. "I’m carrying my husband’s child and not his"

"Y-You have a husband?"

"Yes, and I was taken from him because of Aldon’s will"

"But the prince isn’t like that! He’s a good man"