Leilani.
I remember getting knocked out cold after Keisha injected me with another dose of the moonlight draught elixir. I also remember thinking that that was my end because the pain that came next had been so intense... so excruciating that I could barely breathe from all of it.
I had shut my eyes, awaiting my death or maybe something relatively close to death (something like a faint... like a coma or something) when a strange surge of energy suddenly rushed through my veins, and next thing I knew, I was on my feet, the chains around my wrists and ankles also long discarded and broken...
But that wasn’t all.
My hand was wrapped around Keisha’s arm— which also was the first thing I could latch onto on her body when I stood up, especially since she was about to hurt Zevran.
Her cries of pain slipped into my mind, snapping me out of my momentary daze and when I blinked at her, I was stunned to see the twisted expression on her face.
Her eyes were bulging with veins popping around and below them. The veins on the corners of her neck were worse and looked like they could fall out of her skin anytime soon.
"Stop it, you freak!" She screamed loudly, her voice dripping with both terror and pain. "Let ME GO!"
But I didn’t.
For some reason, I didn’t want to.
I felt as though possessed, like all the reasonable thoughts in my head had somehow gone down the drain, replaced instead with fury so much, I could barely think through it.
Still feeling that need not anger rush through my veins, I let my fingers curl around her arm, squeezing tightly as I sneered into her face; "You wanted to see what I can do, right? You called me a weakling and taunted me... you said—"
"I KNOW WHAT I SAID, YOU FREAK, LET ME GO!" She yelled,
And ladies and gentlemen, do you know exactly how that made me feel?
Ecstatic.
It made me want to squeeze tighter. It made me want to press on until she snapped. And to add salt to the already existing wound, my mind drifted off just then to remember Agnes.
My Agnes.
My friend.
At the time, Keisha was still screaming and thrashing wildly. Her long claw-like nails scratched at my skin as she tried to get away from me. With a shout of pain, she shoved my shoulder hard and sneered; "I said let go!"
"No!" I snapped back, causing her to immediately snap her lips shut. "You wanted to see what I can do?" I taunted in a cold cool voice, "...now baby girl, this is it!" I snapped, and with that, I squeezed so hard, her bones popped loudly.
Her loud shout resonated in the air, and it wasn’t until that moment that I stopped to take a glance at Zevran who for some reason was frozen in the same place he’d been at several minutes ago.
His jaws were slack with terror, and his eyes— the same eyes that used to hold just pure admiration for me now held something akin to fear.
I stopped.
Our eyes met.
And then he smiled. It was shaky at first but soon eased into the soft one I was used to— the one which reached his eyes.
"Bitch!" Keisha snarled as she pulled her arm out of my hold and clutched at it as if for dear life.
She however probably has a death wish because next thing I knew, she was charging at me like a mini Godzilla and because I was already feeling so antsy and so annoyed, I didn’t even glance at her as I smacked her in the face so hard that she fell to the floor and passed out instantly.
I sighed: "it was about time. She was making a lot of noise."
When no one responded to me immediately, I slowly turned to the other brothers to find them watching me with wide eyes.
My eyes thinned at them, and upon the realization that they were still chained, I glanced at Zevran and hissed; "Keys."
"Huh?" He sputtered.
"Keys," I hissed again, "the keys to those metal clasps. Also we need to do something about her," I finished, pointing to Keisha who was still sprawled on the floor, unconscious.
But still, no one moved.
No one even said a word.
Now, they were making me anxious.
I turned one more time to look at Zevran, my voice cold as I snapped; "What?"
He flinched, beamed a smile at me and drawled; "He was right."
"Who was right?" I couldn’t help but ask, especially since I was more confused now than ever. "What is happening?"
"Keisha’s ex, Gideon or Gabriel or whatever Ga his name is. Moonveil draught no longer has any effect on you." He hissed and I frowned.
"Wha—"

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