Free to go

"Khalan what is wr... " he wanted to asked but was interrupted by Khalan's next action.

She pulled him to her and pressed her lips on his, make all the thoughts in his mind fly to the back of his head.

The kiss lasted for some seconds before she broke away and darted her eyes around like she was surprised of her own actions.

"What did you just do?" Nathan asked her as his eyes turned dark and and he held her left arm tightly and squeezing it in such a way that she could feel pain.

"Nathan stop, you're hurting me" she cried as she struggled her arm out of his hold all to no avail.

She looked into his eyes and their ruby color seemed to have adopted a little fire in them. She looked into them, but didn't feel scared. She only felt pained by hold on her arm.

"Nathan please" she pleaded again, but he didn't bulge at all. Rather, she felt something pierce into the skin of her arm where he held, and as fast as the pain came, he let go of her.

She looked down immediately to see what pierce her skin but only found blood trickling down her arm and dropping on the hut's hard wood floor. She looked at him with confusion written all over her face. She knew he had no weapon in hand, then how come did he pierce her skin that much or was it his finger nails? She asked herself as she studied the wound closely to realize that it was five deep nail pierces. Was it really his nails, she just couldn't tell, so she decided to ask him.

"What did do you do to my Nathan? Why am l bleeding?" She asked with confused eyes looking at her hands in horror.

Lucifer didn't believe what he just did as well. How could he have pierced her skin with his nails, causing her pain. He didn't know what made him do that, he felt like he lost his mind at the instant of the kiss and couldn't control his actions anymore.

"I am sorry" he blurted as he walked inside to get the first aid kit and treat her wounds.

"Is that all you are going to say Nathan?" Khalan called after him as she followed him inside. "What exactly did you do to my arm" she said as she winced in pain from the arm's wound.

"Lets go to your room Khalan, let me treat your wounds" Nathan said as he walked to where she stood carrying the first aid kit.

"No Nathan!" She yelled in pain as blood still dripped from the arm. "I am not moving from here till you tell me what excatly you did to my arm. Did you stab me with needles or something? Or is this the doing of your nails? Answer me!" she yelled in pain.

"Khalan l will explain later, just let me heal your wounds first ok" Nathan said with his voice evident of love and care. He was worried that she would cause much pain to her self as her arm was still bleeding profusely and and she still didn't want to get treated.

"No Nathan" she said sturbbonly. "I will not let you treat my hand, till you tell me what excatly happened to it. What did you do to me?!"

"Look Khalan" Nathan pointed "you are bleeding and you should just listen to me for your own good. Let me take care of the wound and stop the bleeding first, then l will satisfy your curiosity is that ok?" He ended with a sweet smile, hoping she would give up on her sturbboness already and listen to him.

But to his greatest disappointment, she yelled to his face " no Nathan, l don't think l will be safe here with you anymore, l am leaving the barrier! Never to return to this hut! Ever again! " as she just ran out of the hut to the back where the stables where.

"Khalan!" He called after her but she didn't answer. "Khalan come back here! Khalan come back here and stop causing yourself more pain than you are already in! Khalan it is not safe out there!". But that didn't get Khalan's attention at all as she just barged the hut's front door on him.

'Oh what have l done ' Lucifer thought with desperation. With the fear of letting her go again, he ran after her immediately calling her continously. "Khalan! Khalan!" He called but she didn't answer.

He followed the blood trails on the ground to trace where she was and found her in the stables untying a horse. As she saddled it properly as he had taught her, while the blood still dripped continously from her arms and half of her dress on the bleeding arm's side was already soaked in blood.

"Khalan" he called softly. "Please stop this, come inside and let me treat your wounds. Please Khalan try to understand me" he pleaded as he walked to where she stood getting the horse ready.

"I have nothing to say to you Nathan" she said without looking at him. "I wish no more to stay here with you Nathan and my decision is finally"she said sternly.

"And why is that?" Nathan asked her obviously pained.

"I no longer feel safe here with you and l don't know what is wrong with me, like l losing myself slowly Nathan! Sometimes l feel like am not me, and sometimes l feel like someone else is my body and this me is not the real me, like am going to die or something!" She broke into tears.

"Khalan l totally understand what you are going through, l know excatly what you are passing through. Please try to calm down and let me stop your bleeding before it gets worse, please!" Nathan pleaded with his eyes full of worry and pain.

"No Nathan!" She yelled sturbbonly, "l am leaving. Because today, you affirmed it to me that you are the cause of my problems and whatever thing! that is wrong with me. You are my curse Nathan, and l am old enough to lift that curse from myself" she said in a determined voice as she climbed the horse.

"Is that really what you want?" Nathan asked feeling hurt.

"Yes" she replied as she made herself comfortable on the horse.

"Then you are free to go" he answered with his head bowed in pain.

"What?" Khalan couldn't believe her ears and wanted to be sure. "Do you mean that?"

"Yes, l have disabled the barrier, you can go now".

"Good bye Nathan"

"Hyaaa!"

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