Chapter 369
Chapter 369
Snowflakes
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Under the night sky, the ambulance races right into Castle Healthcare, and I alight hurriedly from my car. Marlik and Yasmin follow the stretcher at once, Cupid too.
Thurry after them, watching as Mother is lifted and gently placed on the bed, then wheeled away, Yasmin won’t stop shivering. Marlik sits down silently, struggling to breathe. Cupid goes still in his tracks, fingers trembling. I can’t tell what is going on in his mind, but the pain radiating from him speaks louder than words.
We all wait in the hall, and time seems to crawl instead of tick forward. Quietly I walk over to Yasmin. She hugs me tight, sobbing, while I sit there trembling and praying the worst won’t happen.
Feroz has done it again. He has done it again and this time not to me, but to Cupid, my mate. Somehow it hurts more than anything he ever did to me, and deep down I know this will be the very last of his cruelty.
The doctor appears from ahead. At once Yasmin pulls away to face him.
“How is she? Where is my mom?”
The doctor sighs, steadying his breath before turning to Marlik.
“You should go check on him, Marlik. She will talk to you and your sister.”
Marlik sits in silence for a long moment, then nods. He stands and begins to walk away, but then turns around to settle his gaze on Cupid. For a heartbeat I fear he will push him away, but he murmurs, too tired to fight.
“Don’t just stand there. Our mother is waiting.”
Emotions pull at my heart at those words. Cupid blinks as if he can’t believe what he just heard after everything that happened. Together they all go inside while I linger.
At last my legs carry me to the doorway of the parted ward. Mother lies in the bed, Yasmin seated beside her, Cupid and Marlik standing aside.
I have watched them all as one small family, quiet and happy even with so little. Now the energy filling the room is thick, heavy, as if she is about to say her last words.
“The doctor said I will live,” Mother begins. “He said the silver bullet has been removed and I am healing. But I wish I were not healing.”
“Mother,” Yasmin calls in awe.
But Mother’s gaze is fixed on Cupid, as though he is the architect of what has happened, the reason she doesn’t want to live.
“I wish that shot had killed me, Jahan. Perhaps that way you would know that the job you are doing… is the worst, the most dangerous, and you have to stop.”
Cupid remains silent, face cast down, humble.
“Back in the rogue town… we had nothing really to worry about like this. Food as little as we had, we ate and were happy. But now we have abundance and watch our backs, sleep with one eye open. Is that the life you wanted to give us or the woman you love?
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Chapter 369
Who loves you?”
She wipes her tears, shivering, sighing miserably.
430 Fise Does
“Your mother was the sweetest. She was a good woman, and I wanted to repay her for all her kindness. After her death, taking you in felt like a blessing. You are my son. I love you. Even after many years apart, even after that Alpha took you away and turned you into what I hate, Jahan… even with blood on your hands, I have always loved you. But… but it’s… it’s over.”
Cupid lifts his gaze at that, stunned, horrified at what he just heard.
Over?
“Mother…” he murmurs.
She looks away to wipe her tears.
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