Page 67 of Queen of Vengeance

“Mema?”

It was silent for a long moment, and I worried that the potion didn’t work despite seeing through Mema’s eyes.

That was until I heard her sobbing. “Lea! My dear Lea, is that you? Oh, thank Lunair!”

“Mema…” My logic went out the window as soon as I heard her voice.

I crumbled, feeling hot tears roll down my cheeks. “I miss you.”

“I miss you too, my love. Are you okay? Are you safe there?” She poked and prodded for information, but there was nothing I was going to tell her that would ease her mind.

“Listen, I don’t have a lot of time. I need to tell you something… Today, I went to the nurse, and she informed me that I’m pregnant.”

She silenced her mind once more.

“Aleandra Nadir, please tell me it belongs to that good boy from the Willow family and not that troublesome Ransom boy.” Her voice was stern, but the direction of her anger was not what I expected.

“It was Jax,” I whispered, ashamed to even tell her. “You can’t tell anyone about the pregnancy. It would only put me and the baby in danger.”

“That boy. I knew he was nothing but trouble, and now he’s fled Dask and his responsibilities to you. Typical,” Mema began ranting, and I could see her imagine running after Jax with her trusty broom in hand.

“What do you mean ‘fled?’”

“He left, dear. Signed a deal with a potion producer. Left his poor mother here to rely on his uncle.”

A cold feeling ran down my spine like a bucket of ice water.

My ears rang as I tried to connect how he managed to secure a producer without me.

He was begging me to join him, saying that they couldn’t do it without my?—

I gasped in the musty air around me as a horrible realization came over me. “Mema, the bag of my things that the BPR agents returned to you, was my potions book in there?”

“Now that you mention it, it wasn’t. I thought that was rather strange, but I figured they might have let you keep it.”

“They didn’t. I brought it with me that day when I went to the Kronos Key Portal with Zane and Jax. That could only mean one thing. Jax stole my book and used it for his own benefit!” I was through questioning if Jax was capable of something like that. I had front row seats to see just how diabolical he could be.

My veins were on the verge of exploding with the rage overflowing within me.

I hate that man… I hated him with every fiber of my being!

My view of my home started fading into the bleak gray wall.

“No, Mema!” I cried out loud, forgetting where I was for a moment.

“I love you, baby! I’m not giving up on you.”

“I love you too,” I whispered the words into oblivion, unsure if she heard me before the potion ran out. I’d held myself together pretty well up until that point, but that was my last straw.

The threads in my chest had been cut, and I collapsed over the bowl, sobbing.

No… I want to hear her voice again!

“What’s going on in here?” a gurgling voice tore through the cell, but I didn’t pay him any mind.

I didn’t care anymore.

Kill me if you must. At least then I would be rid of this awful place!

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