PAIN

Alexa opened her eyes and felt her head throb.

She looked around and was surprised to see herself in an unfamiliar place.

She stood up from the ground. What was she doing in a cellar? And more importantly where was she?

Outside the cellar, she saw lord Faren with someone.

"Did you pass my message to him?"Faren asked the person.

"Yes, sir"

"Good, now get lost"

The old man scurried away with the speed of lightning.

"Let me out!"Alexa screamed at Faren as she shook the small cellar she was locked up in.

"Oh, you are up?"Faren asked as he walked towards her"Don't worry, I'll let you out in a few minute. I just need you around to get Damien to come here"

Upon hearing his name, fear gripped Alexa"Damien?Why?"Alexa shook her head"Don't hurt him"

Faren laughed out loud"Hurt him?Me? Of course, no one can hurt Damien"Faren walked closely towards Alexa "That's why I need you"

He backed away from her"Just stay there and pretend like you don't exist for the next 15 minutes when he gets here and everything will be over in the blink of an eye, I promise you"

A loud bang was heard as the door to Faren's chamber was flung open and Damien strode in.

"WHERE IS SHE?!" Damien growled at Faren.

"Who?"

Damien grabbed Faren by the neck"Don't play games with me and talk while I'm still being nice"

Alexa glanced at the clock on the all. Two minutes gone.

All she had to do was stay quiet for another 13 minutes.

"H..ow can.. I talk w..hen y..ou ..are ch..oking me?"

Damien threw Faren across the room.

He slowly approached him and picked him up"Let her go. I thought you said you were looking for my weakness?"

"Yes. And she's it, isn't she?"

Damien laughed out loud"What did you say?"

"If she isn't then you wouldn't have come all the way here"

Alexa glanced at the clock once more. 10 minutes left.

"Shall I let you in on a secret?" Damien asked.

"What is it?"

"I was using her"

Alexa felt her heart drop as she heard those words. What?

"What do you mean?"Faren asked

"I mean...she and her friends tried to use a love potion on me. I only pretended to be into her so that I could use her, get her to like me and then leave her"Damien dusted Faren's clothes"You wasted your time all these while, Faren"

Faren smiled. His and Laura's plan had worked. He'd doubted it but it had actually worked.

Admist his smirking, Faren stood up from the ground and looked behind Alexa"Did you hear that, Alexa?"

Damien looked behind him in shock as he saw his ever smiling beautiful angel trapped in a cellar and drenched in a pool of tears.

Damien rushed up to her and broke the cellar open"Are you okay? Are you hurt anywher-?"

Alexa backed away from him as she spoke softly"Get lost, please"

"Alexa, please hear me ou-"

Alexa slapped Damien's cheeks"That is for thinking you could use me and play me as you wish"

Alexa turned around to walk away from Damien but grabbed her hand.

"HOW DARE YOU SLAP ME"Damien growled while trying to suppress his anger deep down within him.

Alexa looked at his grip on her hand"So this is how you truly are. What? Are you going to hit me back ?or Are you going to do to me what you did to Celine?What did you do to Celine, by the way?"

"Shut up,you are testing my patience"

Alexa looked at Damien with so much hatred and tears seeping down her cheeks"You are nothing but a monster and I regret knowing you!"

She freed herself from Damien's grasp and walked out of the vampire's realm into the dark night.

Damien wiped his cheeks as he turned to face Faren"Don't think you've won"

He left afterwards and Faren couldn't hide his joy.

For the first time, he'd won against the demon lord.

When Laura actually suggested the plan, he thought it wouldn't work.

But who would have predicted such a beautiful outcome?

Marisol who was watching the whole drama from upstairs, applauded as she slowly descended the stairs.

"I must say, I am impressed"

Faren's smile suddenly faded"That's your business. I didn't do anything to impress you"

"I know. You did it all to impress father"Marisol raised her phone in the air"And I happened to have been recording it all and sent it to father" she tapped Faren's shoulder as she whispered into his ears"You are welcome"

She turned around and walked away from Faren.

Meanwhile outside the vampire realm, Damien chased after Alexa and when he caught up with her, he he'd her hand.

"Please hear me out!"he grunted out in frustration.

"Let me go! I don't want to hear anything you have to say!"Alexa freed herself from his grasp"Why are you still hanging around me? Ah, I see now, is it because you had so much fun 'playing'' with me that now you feel sad to see me leave?"

Alexa wiped her tears"I pity me, the most who actually thought for once that you were human.You are nothing but a cold-hearted beast and I hope that darkness that's always around you will be all you'll ever know"

Alexa pushed Damien slightly"Now, get lost"

She turned around and ran away. Damien balled his fist as he roared out loud.

He was angry but he didn't know who to direct the anger to.

Faren? Himself? The truth was bound to come out anyways,that much was obvious.

But why today? Why now? And why this way?

He decided to go back inside and settle scores with Faren.

"FAREN, WHERE ARE YOU!!!?"Damien roared.

His roar shook the whole realm, the ground started to slowly split into two.

Many vampires came out and surrounded Damien snarling at him.

"WHERE ARE YOU!?" Damien shouted as the pillar which supported the other vampires crumbled and fell to the floor.

Whimpering under the bed and shivering like a cold beggar, was Faren who was covering his mouth so that Damien wouldn't find him.

"FAREN!!!!!!!"

Immediately she back to her realm, Alexa headed to Celine's ward.

She broke down in tears as she saw her. Damien had done this to her.

She remembered the words of Warren; It was him, wasn't it? The demon lord. Why are you trying to protect him?

Alexa held Celine's hand"I'm sorry for everything"

The angel nurse, Rosa walked in"It's late, Alexa. Visiting hours is over"

Alexa nodded her head and went up to her room.

There she saw, Josty and Karina.

"Where have you been? I was so worried. You left in a hurry since morning"Josty cried out as Karina hugged Alexa.

"I'm fine now, guys"Alexa said hugging them back.

"What happened?Yours eyes are swelling,have you been crying?"Karina asked.

Alexa sighed as she laid down on her bed"It was all a lie"

Josty wrinkled her brow in confusion"What was?"

"Everything with Damien"Alexa smiled in pain"Can you believe it?"

Unable to tell a lie, Karina blinked her eyes severally. How had she found out?.

"I'm going to get a glass of water"Karina said before rushing out.

Josty sighed as she watched a retreating Karina "She keeps getting water often these days"

Alexa followed Josty's gaze"Is that so?"

In the coldroom, Karina took in deep breaths as she took some water and splashed it on her face.

She then picked up a cup and filled it with water. As she drank small from it and turned around, she saw Alexa behind her.

"You knew, didn't you?"

And she opened her mouth in shock making the water in her mouth come pouring down and dripping to the ground.

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