Alex repeatedly hit the back of his head against the wall. It seemed the time was slowing down for him. His eyes were burning due to the lack of sleep.
’Amelie refused to forgive me. What about my parents? Did they not appeal the King? And, Zander, is he not going to save me this time?’ Alex thought, feeling frustrated and scary.
Bringing his hand to his head, he clutched on his hair. "I don’t want to die," he murmured. He began feeling what it would feel like to go near your death.
Just then, he heard a voice, coming right from the other side of the iron gates.
"You should have made a good use of the chance you were given then," Gabriel spoke. His dark violet eyes landed on Alex, who immediately looked at him. "You did underestimate me when I grant you the second chance. You should have known that Amelie can’t be harmed in my presence," he stated.
Alex simply stared at him in terror. Words didn’t slip out of his mouth.
"I’m giving you an easy option to embrace death," Gabriel said. "Consume the poison," he asserted.
"Please, let me live," Alex begged, his hands joining in request. "I will leave this country forever and will never return. I swear on my life. I–I will be somewhere far," he muttered.
Gabriel remained untouched by his words. "The prison of San Ravendale never lets it’s prisoners leave until they die," he stated and took a step back. "I did give you a chance to die, but you refused for it. Then, be ready for the harshest way of dying," he affirmed and walked away.
Alex screamed for him, but Gabriel didn’t stop.
As he returned from the prison to the mansion, he encountered his mother, who was still in the living room, checking the decorations.
’Why am I getting this strange feeling?’ Gabriel wondered, his eyes narrowing as he watched his mother. ’She looks... calm. Too calm. That’s not her. She’s never been like this, not when it comes to me. She’s always hated me from the core of her heart.’
Mabel turned just then with a smile on her lips as her eyes locked with her son’s. But, then it gradually faded.
"Where were you?" she asked. "You didn’t break the tradition, did you?"
Gabriel didn’t bother replying. He simply walked away and climbed the stairs, leaving Mabel standing there. Her brows knitted together with a flicker of unease before she redirected her attention to the unfinished preparations.
Gabriel entered Amelie’s room and closed the door behind him. The familiar scent of her instantly wrapped around him. He walked over to the bed and sat down slowly. He grabbed the plush toy that Amelie had bought just a few days ago.
"I need to start buying baby stuff once we’re back from the honeymoon," he murmured to himself, holding the toy gently.
There was something about Amelie’s scent, even in her absence, that calmed the raging sexual desires within him. Just being surrounded by the essence of her was enough to dissolve the irritation that had clung to him since morning.
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