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 · Fantasía

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Shower With Me

I am not ready for this!

He opened the door and was only clad in a towel which covered his lower part of the body.

His six packs bore testament to his workouts.

"I don't think it is a good idea, Zaccheus. I am definitely not ready for us to have a shower together," I said calmly, trying to ignore the butterflies in my stomach.

"I won't have sex with you if that's what you are worried about," Zaccheus smiled with a wink.

I felt goosebumps all over as I looked at his face and bare torso.

He took off his towel and hung it on the hook behind the door. I saw his taut firm bottom and quickly looked away, feeling a blush creeping up my neck and face again.

I froze, not knowing what to do.

"You are fully clothed, are you sure that is what you want to do? Taking a shower fully clothed?" He teased.

I did not turn to look at him and stood by the sink fiddling with the soap like it was the most fascinating thing in the shower.

"I want to brush my teeth first," I mumbled quickly, anything to stall the inevitable, to strip and take a shower together with my husband.

I took the longest time to brush my teeth until I could feel my gums getting sore and my lips feeling numb due to the cooling mint lingering too long on them.

Zaccheus already stepped into the shower and hummed a tune as the sound of the water cascading on his body and the floor served as his orchestra. I still focused on brushing my teeth as if it was rocket science, it must have been at least 15 minutes when the shower was turned off and I was still brushing my teeth.

"You can rinse your mouth now, darling wife. We shall take a shower together another time, make sure you get cleaned up properly, as thorough as you are cleaning up your teeth," he whispered into my right ear. I then realized that he stood behind me at the sink and his reflection was clearly showing him stark naked in all his glory.

My eyes opened up wider before I blinked hard. I started choking and he patted me on my back as I tried to rinse out the toothpaste from my mouth while coughing hard.

I finally stopped coughing and continued to rinse my mouth properly.

"Get used to seeing my body, dear wife. I am a nudist. Remember that all the Greek statues are nude anyway," his voice seductive and I felt the heat rising on my face again.

"I love seeing you blush. I love everything about you," he planted a soft, gentle kiss on my right cheek and walked away, grabbing his towel before leaving me alone, closing the door behind him.

I finally heaved a huge sigh of relief, letting out a breath that I did not even realize I was holding in. I looked at myself in the mirror and shuddered to think of how he was going to tease me when we were with the entourage.

"Jeff would be the first to suspect that something is fishy and that we are not really husband and wife in that sense!" I panicked and thought that I would at least allow Zaccheus to kiss me in public.

Deep in thought, I peeled off my clothes and stepped into the shower, feeling the soothing flow of water cleansing every pore on my skin.

"Tomorrow is another day, a big day but let me get through tonight first. I need some kissing lessons if we are going to convince them that we are really in love with each other," I thought to myself, stopping when I realized I wanted to appear legit in front of these people I hardly knew.

"Why does it matter so much anyway? It is not that I love him. I mean, I like him but love? I know there was a drastic change of feelings after the past life travel to the beginning and I could feel that Cassandra loved Zaccheus deeply, but those are just her memories. Are her memories affecting my heart? Am I not my own person? I am an individual separate from Cassandra, I am not Cassandra and I am Theeya. If I have Cassandra's memories and I remember her love for Zaccheus it won't automatically render me helpless to prevent myself from falling in love with him, right?" 1001 thoughts were running through my mind as I finally felt a chill. I had been in the shower for far too long.

I grabbed a towel and used it to pat dry my body and hair. I wore a bathrobe that was laid out earlier by the maids and hung back the towel.

Sighing out loud, I opened the door and my jaw dropped when I saw a naked bottom swinging to the beat of the music Zaccheus was jamming to.

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