#ROMANCE #ADVENTURE #REINCARNATION #R18 #SUPERPOWERS #PRINCESS

Forty Thieves

I was running away from them. My baby was crying in my arms as I tried to shush him. The biting cold was harsh my already thin frame. My baby’s lips started turning white. I glanced at how my baby boy stopped crying. I continued running until the town was far behind us and all I could see in front of us were just a field of thick snow. My baby’s lips turned blue. “Oh Lord, please don’t let anything happen to him,” I prayed to God and caught sight of an old church up the hill to the left of the snow-covered path. “Hang on there, baby, we are almost there,” I whispered to him. The falling snow was heavier as the minutes ticked by. Soon we were caught in a blizzard. With much difficulty we managed to reach the old church. My heart sank as I saw that it was a dilapidated and abandoned church. It only meant one thing, no warm fire to save my baby. I went inside anyway as that was the only shelter available for miles on end. There was no fire wood by the fire place. No blankets, no rugs or anything that I could use to warm us up. All my baby had was me. I cuddled him closer. I was losing my baby. “No, God! Lord if you can hear my prayer I am at your House right now please let my baby live! You can take my live, please let my baby live!!! Please Lord I beg you,” I kept repeating my prayer believing if I prayer hard enough God will really grant my wish and let me trade my life for my baby’s life. I did not know how long I prayed. When I finally checked on my son he was cold and dead. God did not help us. My prayers went unanswered. I wished the Earth would just open up and swallow me up as I lost the will to live on. I had lost my son, what else was there for me to live for? My last thoughts before I lost consciousness was, “God failed me.” ******************************** This incarnation: Theeya is the direct descendant of one of the original Forty Thieves. When everyone thought it was just a bedtime story that was popularized in the 1001 Arabian Nights. Their entire life changed course, taking on a totally different direction the moment Ali Baba killed all forty thieves. Theeya’s ancestors were guarding their family heirloom zealously. The only clue her late father guarded zealously was the parchment containing clues to where the secret cave was. Every man of each generation tried and failed to unravel the well hidden secret. Years later, it became her father’s obsession. Unfortunately he died without fulfilling his wish, that was to claim his birth right. As her late father had no son, only daughters, Theeya took it upon herself to continue her father’s legacy, to reclaim their family’s inheritance. She consulted the help of a dashing Professor, specialising in Egyptology, to unravel the mysteries of the parchments passed down from her forefathers. She found herself falling in love with Prof Jeff Everett, a man whom she thought to be gay. Only two years before that Theeya turned down the marriage proposal from her ex who cheated on her and had a baby with another woman when they were stil together. Theeya promised herself that she had no time for romance. She must not get married. She must not let her father down. It was up to her to get to the secret cave and find that Holy Grail of Immortality even if that means going to the end of the world looking for it, not that she mind to travel with the devilishly handsome Professor Everett. Her legs would go jelly and she would swoon each time she was in the Professor’s presence. Can she really survive her adventure with Professor Everett? As they traced the footsteps of men who lived for the secrets of the cave and the Holy Grail, they found the other descendants of the original Forty Thieves. One thing in common bound them, one thing that none could ever ignore, the bloody red eyes that would haunt their sleep. Would these nightmares end once they unravel the ancient secrets of the Forty Thieves cave?

Ariya_Maya · Fantasy

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Zaccheus

"Cassandra."

That booming voice again.

I looked around in the darkness, trying to see if I could see his face or form again, be it a silver wolf or just red eyes or the gorgeous god-like brown haired man that called himself Zaccheus.

As I adjusted my eyes to the dark, I saw some kind of smog in the darkness. As I focus on the smog, an apparition appeared. After awhile I was so sure the apparition materialised into a man, in flesh and blood.

"Hello my darling Cassandra. Did you miss me?" he smiled as his entire being glowed in the darkness, it was not a green glow-in-the-dark kind of glow, it was more like an angel's halo kind of glow.

I glared at him and scowled. He chuckled at my expression. He flicked his finger and a dim light turned on. We were in a cave-like room with a 4-post bed covered in pink rose patterned silk duvet and matching sheets. It somehow reminded me of that tacky penthouse at Dawood's hotel. Even though it had only been 3 days since I last saw Dawood, it seemed like a lifetime ago that I first stepped into the hotel with Prof Jeff Everett.

The last 3 days my dreams were like a series of drama of my past incarnation and Zaccheus said he would be there with me. Wait a minute, is he the Duke Zaccheus in that dream?

As if knowing what I was thinking, his grin widened.

"You finally figured it out. Do you want to return to that dream? We are going to spend the next one day in the dream anyway as Jeff Everett has another day before his deadline to marry you. He cannot marry an unconscious woman. The magistrate won't allow it." His face was smug as he said it.

My eyes must have looked surprised so he explained: "Jeff Everett has a deadline to marry you. It was in your father's secret will and he was entrusted with it. Your father specified that if you get married, then you will inherit your ancestral inheritance. Unbeknownst to you, your father kept his antiques locked away and guarded by several trustees in the form of foundations. If you do not get married by tomorrow, all the inheritance shall be liquidated and donated to charity."

"But why must I get married to inherit them? And must I marry Jeff and only Jeff or can I marry any other man?" I raised my eyebrows enquiring Zaccheus.

"You can marry me. We just need the marriage certificate as a proof."

"And why must I marry you or marry anyone for that matter?" I challenged him, annoyed that my father placed such a restriction on his will.

Zaccheus gazed into my eyes with amusement. "You really want to know why?"

I nodded.

"The key to unlocking the secret cave is one antique item in your family heirloom. In order to activate it and reverse the spell that hides the cave, you need a man and a woman who are bound in marriage to open it up in a ritual."

"And why the deadline?" I found it absurd but could not help but asked more.

"Well, apparently after our honeymoon, the first month after the wedding, the stars will be aligned and we can dance our marriage dance ritual to reveal the cave's exact location," he winked.

"What marriage dance ritual?" I frowned in confusion.

He laughed in glee at my expression.

"Love making under the full moon, silly. Things that only married people can do legally," he explained and I blushed.

"A maiden's blush... I was the maiden. I was the key..." I muttered.

"Yes. And you shall be kept a maiden until the unveiling ceremony. That's why you must not marry Jeff Everett. He couldn't have waited and would ruin the timing. He doesn't understand this as well as I do," his face contained a look of disdain when he talked about Jeff.

I cocked my head to one side as I let the information sink in.

"So who did I marry in the end, who ruled the Kingdom of Nitreil with me in that incarnation?" I looked at him and saw that his face darkened.

"Do you want to see the rest of that life? We still have time before we head to the magistrate," his dark brooding look intensified.

"You left me hanging, it was like following a series and not knowing the ending, at least let me see the ending," my eyes met his gaze.

"Very well then, as you wish," he smiled brightly as he kissed my forehead as his hands pushed my shoulders gently to make me lie down on the bed.

My eyes felt heavy and I drifted into the darkness again.

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