Chapter 65
Ciara
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As Zoren pushed his father’s mouth open, he looked very unsure and conflicted, but I ignored him, focusing on the confidence in my mind right now. As I watched the water drip into his mouth, for a fleeting moment, I hoped that I hadn’t just fed him poison. As soon as I thought of that, I was quick to discard that thought.
This felt right. It felt like something I had to do.
Once I was done, I moved away and Zoren slowly let go. He was staring down at his father and I just know that even if he didn’t understand what I just did, he definitely just had his hopes up. I let out a small, disappointed sound after a few minutes passed and nothing ended up happening.
“What now? Nothing ended up changing.” Zoren pointed out, voices sharp. I kept staring at Gregg’s face, which seemed to have grown paler than it looked before. His chest was slightly rising and falling with labored breathing. The juice from the flower didn’t help at all.
What was I thinking? Oh god.
So all that was just a waste of time?
After a few more moments, his chest completely stopped moving. Panic gripped me as I touched his chest. It was still.
He was no longer breathing.
A lump sat heavily in my throat and my lips wobbled, unable to comprehend what just happened. He really just gave up the ghost?? I had just hoped that he’d survive this: that feeling in my mind had felt so certain and present!
When I slowly looked away to glare at Zoren, I grew tense, expecting him to lash out at me or something, but instead he looked broken as he turned away and headed for the window. The way his shoulders were stiff and hunched made me want to take him in my arms and cry but I didn’t dare move.
“I guess I should just fully focus on finding our son.” He spoke, voice thick and heavy and I swallowed, my chest clenching with more pain. I opened my mouth to respond even though I had no idea of what I was gonna say when a sneeze suddenly filled the room.
I whirled around so fast that my head spun. My breath was bated and stuck in my throat as I stared at Gregg laying in the bed. Zoren turned as well and was beside his father’s bed, his eyes widened as he grab his fathers shoulders.
“Father?” He called out.
I anxiously bit on my bottom lip as I went to stand behind him, staring down at his father and not daring to breath. Nothing happened after a few seconds and if I wasn’t alone in here, I’d now believe that the sneeze didht actually happened.
My eyes fell on the flower crushed in my grip, still slightly wet. As I stared at it, before I could stop myself, I pressed the flower right against his nose. Zoren swore, vlovr loud.
“What are you doing? That shit’s not doing anything!” He bit out but in the next moment, his father sneezed again, then again and again. His mouth hung open and his eyes widened from shock as he slowly looked at me, his hands shaking.
“Ciara,” he slowly whispered just as his father’s eyes opened.
A relieved sigh left my throat just as Zoren swept me into his arms, a deep rumbling sound leaving his mouth as he spinned me around.
“How did you do it? The flower, how did you know about that? Where did you get it?” He asked frantically as he settled me on the ground and cupped my face.
Wed, Jan 14
Chapter 65
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“I- I don’t know, I’ve been having some strange encounters…” I trailed off on realizing how weird that sounded. Thankfully, Zoren was distracted by his father calling out his name and attempting to get off his bed. He rushed back to his father an helped him back into the bed, admonishing him.
“You were dead, father, but Ciara saved you.” Zoren revealed to his father before I could fully wrap my head around the fact that flower did actually end up working. I couldn’t believe that actually happened, after I had lost all hope.
“I didn’t do anything.” I breathed out awkwardly but Zoren was pulling me close and his father was hugging me, thanking me profusely and making me feel like I did more than squeeze a damn little flower.
Or perhaps I did?
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