Chapter -9 (unsolve agony)

The next morning I woke up from the excruciating pain emitting on my hand.

I cried in agony as the pain get worse and worse in every second that pass.

A burning feeling creeping on my skin until it reaches my bone made me whimper.

Martha was promptly on my side, asking what was wrong?

Where am I hurting?

But it's too painful that I can't even speak.

My eyes brimming with tears as the pain went up from my hand to my arm.

I scream in horror when it reach half of my face too.

"On my goodness, Maricella pleased tell me why are you in pain?" Martha begs as she panicky, stood out of the bed, walking back and forth, not knowing how to help me.

I just stared in her eyes tears freely streaming down my cheeks as I engulf the pain.

"I don't know, but I'm in pain like someone is slowly burning my skin," I mumble before I choke up from crying.

She gasp from what I said. It seems like Martha already knew what's happening to me.

"Please bear with it. It will be just temporary..." Martha's words made me hope all of this just temporary.

I hugged myself and curled my body into a ball.

A few minutes passed and

gradually my rapid breathing became even as the pain begin to subside.

Martha was right.

I don't understand what's happening to me, and when I stare to Martha's face, she was standing near the bed, pacing back and forth while scrambling her hands together.

It seems like she has the habit of doing so when she's thinking about something, or she's worried.

When the pain subside entirely, I felt my eyes closing.

It's the same as I lost all my strength.

Slowly I drifted away.

I wake up from the loud voice talking to each other, and I felt like shit.

My body was aching, and I feel like I don't have much strength to go up from the bed. I opened my eyes and saw the sun was already high up above the sky as I can see through the window. It was probably around afternoon.

So meaning I fall back in the sleep after that horrifying pain emit in my skin this morning.

Glancing on my left

I saw Martha and Moira talking to each other near the door, and it seems like they were in a heated argument just before I wake up.

Martha's face was in a scowl while her hand was in a fist.

On the other hand, Moira has a brutal look in her face as she stood dominantly over Martha.

Sensing I was awake, Martha left Moira and sit next to me in the bed.

Grasping my hand, she look so worried about my condition. To ease the crease forming in her forehead

I force a smiled even though it turned out as a winch.

"How are you, Maricella?

Are you feeling much better now?" She asked worriedly.

I tried to sit up from the bed, and she quickly help me by putting my pillow next to the headrest so I can lay my back on it comfortably.

"I feel much better now Martha, thank you. But can you explain to me what was going on? What happened to me this morning?! " I asked her, very much confused. I'm scared that because I was unbonded with my real mate and marked anew, it might affect my unborn child, and it's giving me a painful feeling.

I'm terrified to feel that pain again.

It was so unbearable that it gives me a horrifying feeling, which brings a shiver to my entire body.

"You're in pain because Lord Theo tried to walk in broad daylight this morning..." She said to me, which made my brows furrowed.

"What do you mean, Martha? I thought If he drinks my blood, he can walk in the daylight again?" She gently turn her head on both sides, letting me know that the test wasn't as successful as they thought it would be.

"The two of you need to get up now. We're having a meeting in Lord Theo's office..." Moira's voice was lace with annoyance as she speak.

"Can I go alone? For goodness sake this girl can't even get out of the bed without stumbling on the ground she's so weak—"

I gasped in shock as I heard the slapping sound of Moira's hand connecting to Martha's face.

Instantly Martha's hand form in a fist as she let out a snarl her canine exposed ready for Moira's second attack.

"Don't you fucking forget that the two of you doesn't have the liberty to suggest or complain on us!

You're both fucking captives, and I won't hesitate to kill the two of you if only Lord Theo didn't forbid it," She said before turning her back around and walk to the door.

"Follow me right this instance, or else you will feel not only my wrath but Lord Theo too." She lastly said before slamming the door closed.

I saw Martha's body trembled as her hand feel for the edge of the bed. She sit there, taking a few deep breaths.

After a few moments of silence, she stood up and walked next to me.

"Come, Maricella, we need to move. After this I promised you you could have your rest.

For now, let's obey them as it's for the best.

If Lord Theo's experiment succeeds, there's a big possibility that he will release us soon.

Last night when you pass out, I felt so horrified seeing your pale skin.

You weight so much light just like a paper in Lord Theo's arm. He brought you back here in this room.

But seeing you like that disintegrate my adoration for him. I talked to him and told him about your unborn child.

He didn't believe it at first, but when he feel your stomach, it was then that he finally realized one thing..."

Her words confused me as I don't understand what that Godly King finally realized.

Sensing what I'm thinking, Martha smiled caressing my cheek like a mother would do to ease the worries in their child.

She gather a few strands of hair behind my ear, which covering my eyes. Then she smiled at me, looking satisfied.

"Lord Theo finally understands that he can never have something by using force.

He knows now that your bond with your mate was that powerful that even if he marks you as his.

Your heart will never belong to him. That baby in your stomach proves it.

Remember your a hybrid vampire, and Dalton is a pure demon. It's a miracle that you conceive a child, and it's faith when  Lord Theo mark you, but your unborn baby didn't die.

You and Dalton were fated to be together.

Mate or not.

So carry that hopes in your heart.

Soon everything will be alright" Listening to her words made me feel hopeful again that I can still be together with Dalton someday. I think flood of relief surged in me from Martha's word of advice. I forced my self to move, and slowly, I stood out of the bed and walk with her to that Godly's King's office.