Forgotten Wife Let the traitors kneel Down (by Patricia Maradiaga) novel Chapter 310

< Part II Intertwined Hearts

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Part II: Intertwined Hearts

Cassian had been so focused on escaping that room to reach Maya that he hadn’t noticed he didn’t have the marriage mark on his hand. They had performed the ceremony, their blood had mingled, sealing their marriage, and the mark should have appeared on his hand. Yet, there was nothing. He recalled that he hadn’t seen the marriage mark on Maya’s hand either. Thousands of questions swirled in his mind, but the one that lingered most was what the fairy queen had told him: the marriage mark is for humans, not for fairies.

Cassian began pacing around the room, wondering if that had something to do with the absence of the marriage mark on their hands and with Maya’s suffering after the ceremony.

“Damn it! What the hell is going on?”

Maya was taken to a room filled with flowers. The guards placed her on a bed of white flowers and then left her alone with the fairy queen. She could barely speak from the pain, but she made a great effort to ask where Cassian was. The queen ignored her, saying:

“Don’t speak, you need to conserve your energy.”

“Where is he?” she asked again in barely a whisper.

“He’s fine. He’s of the guardian lineage; I can’t harm him.”

“Where is he?”

“Stop talking. If you won’t do it for yourself, do it for the baby you’re carrying.”

The pain became even worse, and Maya began writhing in agony.

“Ha…!”

“This is what happens for being stubborn. The pain you’re feeling is the marriage mark engraving itself on your heart. For humans, the mark appears on the skin, but that’s not the case for fairies. The mark is etched into the heart, creating an unbreakable bond. What you did was not just a simple promise of love; you’ve bound your heart to that human’s. Now you and he have become one being. The promise to stay together until death do you part is literal. If his heart stops, so will yours. If he dies, you will too.”

The fairy queen took Maya’s hand, but she pulled it away with a slap.

“I’m trying to help you, foolish girl. Could you stop for once?”

The fairy queen took Maya’s hand again, intertwining it with her own. She absorbed all of Maya’s pain. Then she kissed her forehead and whispered:

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“Sleep.”

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Maya closed her eyes, falling asleep immediately. The fairy queen continued holding Maya’s hand, enduring her agonizing pain. She knew the pain wouldn’t stop until the mark was fully engraved on Maya’s heart. But Maya was weak from being away from the fairyland, and being pregnant made her chances of survival even slimmer. This was the only way to save her.

The queen stayed intertwined with Maya, suffering that unbearable pain for an entire day. When the pain finally stopped, a golden mark suddenly appeared on the left side of Maya’s chest, over her heart; it was the marriage mark, now fully engraved.

Cassian was sitting by the door when he felt his chest start to burn as if branded with a hot iron. He opened his shirt, and a golden mark was being engraved on his chest, over his heart. What he didn’t understand was why it had appeared at that moment and why it had appeared on his chest

and not his hand.

He stood up and began pounding on the door, begging to be let out and taken to Maya, but there was no response. He felt as if his voice was vanishing into thin air, reaching no one. After hours of shouting and kicking, Cassian lost his voice and strength, collapsing unconscious on the floor.

Cira entered the depths of a barren mountain, where all life seemed to have died. Liona had been following Princess Cira, thinking she could avenge Abril, but all she had done was run from one place to another, searching for a key she wasn’t even sure existed.

“Your Majesty, do you think what you’re looking for is here?”

“I believe so. Everything here is dead. The key must have contaminated the land. I think we’re getting closer to our goal.”

“What will you do when you have the key in your hands? Will we avenge that damned bitch?”

“Not yet. The best way to break someone is to wait, to make them feel anxiety and fear, and attack when they least expect it.”

“So we’ll keep hiding in the shadows like rats?”

“No, I’m tired of that.”

“Then what will we do?”

“You’ll find out soon.”

Cira continued descending into the depths of the mountain. The deeper they went, the thicker the darkness became. This time, she had reached the right place; her entire being told her so. She

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