CXXX ||| To Kill a Mating Bond

This is good. I can ask her once and for all.

I don't know how she's already here, or how she knows I was here, but it doesn't matter. I've postponed this enough. They may all hate me for it, but I'm going through with it. I'm not letting this bitch use him again, break him even more than she already did. Oli deserves more than this.

"Headmaster," Violet growled viciously.

"You are not allowed to use your animals on here to persuade my students, Violet Strauss. No matter if you are a Queen or not, in here you are simply a representative of the Ministry and the mother of two students."

I scoffed, "She's no mother."

Mia turned to me, "You come with me. You shouldn't have acted on impulse and let her teleport you to where she was, Hel."

Getting up, I gave a up and down look at Violet, "Lavender," I said knowing it pisses her off and winked, walking to where Mia was, still with my feet bare. "See you tomorrow on the opening ceremony!" I want to murder this whore. I want to murder her so fucking much, but it's not like I can do that right now, damn it. Or with my current strength.

"Remember my words, daughter-in-law," she said viciously.

"Why should I? They didn't sound important to me," I mocked.

"But they are, and you will regret dearly if you doesn't."

"Same goes for you," winking, I turned my back to her, feeling the dreadful sensation inside me thickening.

Clenching my jaw, I held all my nausea inside me, maintaining my blank face, refusing to show her any kind of emotion that would show how fucking affected I actually am by what she said to me. By the threats she made. Mia closed the doors and in a minute she teleported us from the hotel to her office.

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The second we changed places, my knees gave in and I would have fell down if she hadn't held me tighter. "Child. That was unphantomably reckless, you know that?" But her voice was soft.

"B-bucket," I whispered and she used magic to summon one at the second she sat me down on the couch. As my insides turned upside down, I vomited everything I ate inside it. Mia held my hair softly and I bend down, my body shaking with the wave of shiver, vomit, and the dread I was still feeling on my skin.

She summoned some water and gave me after I thought I was done with all the throwing up, but right when I drank it, I threw it all up. "What did she say to you, Hel? What did that bitch say?"

I kept my mouth shut, not even wanting to thinking about. Then came the last real wave of vomit and I let out all food, blood, drink, and everything else I had consumed from yesterday to today. She gave me one more cup of water, and this time I managed to drink it. Mia used some magic to make the bucket disappear and I took a deep breath.

Clenching my shaky hands, I turned to her, "How do I do it?"

She frowned, "How do you do what?"

"How do I break the mating bond, Mia?"

"You can't be fucking serious!" Oliver busted the door open, and turned to me, fury in his eyes. "What did Violet do? What did she do?" He ran to me, I stopped him. "Hel!"

"No!" I turned to her. "How do I break the bond, Crone?" I hissed.

"Don't get between us, Mia. Hel, this is between you and me!"

"How. Do. I. Break. The. Mating. Bond?"

"It's impossible!" Oliver screamed, "Stop this madness."

But Mia let out a deep breath, "There's a way!"

"No!" He yelled in horror.

"Tell me!"

"No. You can't do this, Hel. You can't," he cried. "Please, please."

Avoiding his eyes, I felt my heart breaking for him and me, but I can't change my mind. I can't. Even if he hates me for this. I can't let him go through all of that again. I can't.

"Sorry, Oliver!" I froze him and turned to Mia, my eyes burning. "Please, tell me. I need to save him from this. I can't… I can't let anything happen to him just because we're mated. Even less allow him to be used again because of this."

Sighing, she sat down, "You can't do it, Hel."

I blinked, "Yes, I can. What is it!"

"You don't understand, child. You cannot do it."

That made me frown deeper, "What. Is. The. Way?"

Her eyes went from Oliver who as frozen to me. "Strip you down from what you are. Strip you from your magical core. Strip you from your race. Strip you from everything that you are. Strip you from your memories. Strip you from everything you know of. Both of you. It has to be agreed by both. You will become mortals. Humans. With no power. But the mating bond will be broken."

My eyes widened in horror and this time, when my legs gave up, I fell onto my knees, "No…"

"You won't be a winged serpent, he won't be a vampire. Mortals. No powers. No Crown. No defeating anyone. Humanity. That's the price of breaking a mating bond, and it's the only way, which my sisters came up with as an alternative for those who really wanted to break the bond. There is no other way, Hel. I've been avoiding to tell you this, but it's the truth."

No…

"It's not impossible, as you said it, but the price is too big, because a mating bond is not supposed to be broken. If you do it, it's the highest price possible to be paid," no.

"No, no, no, no, no," I cried desperately. "Please, this can't be."

Sigh, "It's the only way, Hel. And," she gulped and stopped.

I turned to her, my eyes burning with the tears, "What is it?"

"You wouldn't be able to do it even if you wanted to!"

I feel like vomiting again. "Why?" I whispered.

"All races have a way out, except yours. When we made the winged serpents, my sisters and I had the idea to make them our masterpiece. The most pure in power and in everything else. That includes the strongest type of mating bond," she pointed from Oliver to me. "That's why yours is so different than the others. Empathy, telepathy, channeling, and everything else, it's all because the winged serpent's mating bond is the strongest of all kinds. It's forever. It's the true unbreakable bond, that can't even be broken with death. Two bodies, forever connected souls, one heart."

It can't get worse than this. "Is that what grandpa… what they were going to tell me in the mirror message? What got cut off?" My voice was a whispered, my voice raspy, tears rolling down my cheeks non-stop.

A nod, "Yes. I see that you found Belladonna. Yes, they were going to tell you how your mating bond works, to prepare you."

"Too fucking bloody late," I cursed, covering my face with my hands. "What do I… what do I do now, Mia? I…" my voice broke. "I… I can't let his parents use me to break him again… Oli… Oli lost too much already. If… if they make him kill me, he'll break… no turning back."

Mia gasped, "That fucking bitch. She said she would do?"

"Y-yes. I am not scared for me, Mia," I cried. "I am scared for him. Oli can't go through this again. He can't. I can't… I can't let that happen. Violet meant every word she said. She… she would really do this."

"I won't let that happen!" She growled. "How dare she come to my Academy, kidnapped my goddaughter, threaten to kill her using her mate, my pupil… she has no fucking idea what she's doing. Who she's messing with it!" Mia came to me and knelt down, "Don't worry, Hel. She won't do that. I won't let her do that."

"As a deity you can't interfere, Mia," I looked at her, despairing.

"Not directly, but I can," she said firmly.