Page 40 of Beyond Your Darkness, I'm Your Light

‘What do you want?’ She asks as her brows furrow, and she stares intently at me, waiting for my answer.

“I want to know who you work for. Be careful with your answer, it just may save your life or be the end of it.” From the grip I have on her, she is immoblie and can’t make any sudden moves. I notice her eyes shift as someone comes up behind me and tries to take me out, but before he can get close enough, I turn around and greet him with obsidian eyes that hold no light. He incinerates seconds later. “Anybody else want to give me a try?”

‘I work alone.’ She thinks as my grip tightens.

“Wrong answer.” I lift my hand, wielding a long, dark, tendril as it sharpens to the point of a knife and plunged it into her heart. “You don’t deserve pleasure before you feel pain from my osculum mortis, but I need something else from you first.” I tell her, right before I sink my fangs into her neck. She lets out a loud roar behind the seal on her mouth. I smile as I drink from her and use her blood to tell me what I wish to know.

I close my eyes as her blood enters my system and flashes of her life pass behind my closed eyes. I’m hit with wave after wave of her stealing girls and women and dispersing them to different locations, whore houses around the world.

They are drugged, raped, and some are even killed. Forcing my fangs deeper into her throat I take more blood and see more.

‘Mother, please don’t do this.’ A young girl, no more than fifteen begs.

‘It must be done, child. Look at it this way, you are making a sacrifice for us all.’ The Witch reaches out and caresses the girl's cheek, but she slaps her hand away.

‘No blood of mine would do what you are doing!’ She yells, lifting her hand up as small fireballs begin to form.

She doesn’t get a chance to use them, because her mother is casting a spell on her.

‘Stupid girl, did you really think you could use your barely there powers on me? One day, you would have done great things should you have just gone with them. Today, you have brought shame upon yourself and this family. I can no longer help you.’

‘You wanted me to go with them, for what? To teach me how to kill? To become a machine like so many others? Why do they want to eliminate just Elementals, Mother?’

Her mother stares at her, and for a moment I think she is going to set her free. But she doesn’t. With the flick of her wrists, she sends the girl flying into the waiting carriage, and she’s taken away.

‘You will be sorry for this! One day, I will find and kill you!’ The girl promises as the carriage takes her away.

With that, I rip my fangs from her throat, taking her flesh with me.

“You sold out your own Elemental daughter?” I growl, but don’t miss the way her throat just bobbed up and down. She’s scared, good.

‘I had to. She was a danger to us all.’ She tells me.

“Where is she?” I ask. ‘Do not lie to me or are I will keep you alive just to torture you to brink of death. Don’t even think of casting a spell against me.’ I speak in her mind and watch as her eyes get as wide as saucers. She shakes her head vigorously, letting me know she understands. I rip the imaginary zipper from her mouth as it starts to ooze blood.

“Motherfucker!”

“I’ll ask you once more, where is the girl?” I grunt, preparing to end her life.

“For fucks sake, she’s gone! I let them take her to another location when she tried to turn on me.”

“Turn on you? You fucking sold her because she threatened to go against you while using her power to flee from you!” Using the tendril turned knife, I rip it out through her heart and slice her in two. The bottom half of her falls to the ground as blood spills from her torso and mouth.

“You should know my daughter, for she is your most recent Elemental kill.” She says with an evil smile on her face as life leaves her pathetic body.

“What have I done?” I can’t change the past, and it wounds me to know that I may have killed an innocent Elemental.

“What about the other Elementals, my son?” Darkness whispers to me as she surrounds me.

“What about them? They aren’t the only ones I’ve killed.” I grunt. I’m not a pussy or soft, but this is confirmation that something more is going on. I need to fucking figure it out and before the time comes that I have to kill my Luna Nera.

“She is already cursed, my son.” Darkness whispers.

“What do you mean?”

“You cannot stop what will happen to her whether by your hands or not, someone else lurks in the darkness that I can not see.” She hisses. “If you care for the girl, you will make yourself known.” She surrounds my body, engulfing me in her darkness while feeding me some of her darkness. “Go now, my son. No one here can help you, except the girl you spared.”

“I had no choice but to save her.” I grumble.

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