*** HIIIIIIIIIII! I am super duper sorry that I have waited over 2 months to update! I would promise and say that will never happen again but that would be a lie. And I cannot tell a lie! Well I can but it's too much work to maintain. Anyhoo I know this is short but I do plan on writing more soon! Now go! Enjoy! And eat a taco!***
Aleksander….
"ALINA!"
The name of my wife fell from my lips as I jerked awake from the few precious moments of sleep that I had allowed myself.
That dream…
It was so real.
I could feel each slash of the whip, each painful shudder as the cold racked my body. The fire across my flesh that never seemed to vanish, no matter how cold I was. But worse was the drug making everything I had ever known no more than a distant memory. One that if you tried to focus on would flitter away until you could no longer recall it at all.
Slowly I pulled the covers off of my half naked body as I rose from the long couch in my private study. It was too painful to sleep in our bed without her. The scent of her, sunshine and lilies, driving me mad with longing. She was supposed to be here! I've waited sixteen years and now someone has taken her from me! They will surely die in agony and long lasting torture for taking away my sunshine and leaving me in this wretched darkness.
Rage was living and breathing inside of me unlike I had ever known. I will find her and I will make them pay, whoever they are.
A knocking at the door drew me from my murderous plans of revenge. Breathing deeply to contain the darkness, I rose from the couch, not bothering with a shirt.
Stalking to the door, I threw it open.
"What is it?" I snapped in annoyance.
A familiar pair of green eyes stared up at me in adoration and just a hint of obsession.
Fury was a tidal wave that rose higher and higher until it was the only thing I could think or feel, threatening to crash and destroy all those who were unfortunate enough to get caught up in its path.
My hand wrapped around a pale, slim throat, squeezing hard enough to cut off almost all breathing as I slammed the thin body against the wall.
Victoria.
This is the woman who is responsible for taking away the only good thing I had in life.
"Where. Is. She." I ground out. My control was slowly cracking at the edges. IT wanted out. The one thing that only Alina could control with her gentle touch and the promise of the one thing IT craves. Light.
Darkness descended into the room. Slowly creeping in as Death would on its unsuspecting victim. Slowly, quietly, and deadly.
I could see the panic and fear in her eyes and I relished in it. It fed the darkness, which was ravenous for the blood of the one who took what was ours.
"I-I d-d-don't know," She wheezed out. I knew she probably was on the verge of passing out or worse dying, but all thoughts of strategy and planning flew out the window at the sight of the traitor.
"You do know! NOW WHERE IS SHE?!" I bellowed in vehemence.
"Plee-ease," She rasped out. "I don't know."
Suddenly her eyes widened and rolled back into her head, and her body started to convulse rapidly.
"NO! No no no! You cannot die until you tell me where Alina is!" I screamed in frustration while shaking her now limp body.
I dropped her dead corpse, running my hands through my long dark, hair. I haven't cut it since I found out she was missing.
As I turned to walk away a flash of something white caught my attention. Inside Vuctoria's had was a small note.
When lightness meets the darkness the two shall become one and all shall perish.