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Chapter Twenty-One

"I need your help, Marcus." Aikiterina said softly suddenly by his doorway with a tearstained face. Marcus looked up from his painting and saw her dressed as if she was going somewhere with two large suitcases by her side. He laid his paintbrush on a nearby bowl of paint and stood up with a grave look within his kind eyes. "Where are you going, Rina?" He asked casually as she remained by the doorway.

Her eyes filled with tears as she looked down at her feet with a bowed head. "I need to leave here; I can't stay here anymore knowing that one day I'm going to die by Caius's hand." She replied with a sob. Total shock filled Marcus's face as he tried to absorb what the girl had just said. "Are you suggesting that my brother would want-"He began in disbelief.

"I saw what will happen to me if I stay, Marcus. And I have to leave at once if I want to prevent such a pain to occur between us." She cried. Marcus shook his head. This was completely impossible for his younger brother to want to kill her, he felt the bond between the pair was very strong, but now this?

"Where are you going, child?" He asked quietly as he gazed up at her bowed face. Aikiteirna hesitated for a moment before answering him in a broken tone, "I-I would take the twins with me and relocate where Demetri wouldn't be able to find us."

"Even if you were to do such a thing, Rina. He will find you in the end. And you would be severely punished for daring such a thing against Caius. Do you understand?"

"And what am I to do as a mother? Have him kill me from thirst and leave them without their mother to raise them right? If you aren't going to help me, I'll just find someone who will." She turned away from him and found him suddenly standing in front of her with a dark look. "I risk much for doing this, Aikiteirna, but perhaps since you are more than willing to go by your own freewill, I will give you this." He handed her a large square package. "There are enough money and private funds in here to for your relocating someplace in the world with the twins. If I were you, child. I would do something about your powers from now on. Take on another identity, but know this," Marcus's eyes were sad as he leaned in near her ear. "Caius is willing tear the world apart to find you and his children. I have seen what he's truly capable of out of sight of Aro and let me tell you, it's not pleasant at all. You do this, Aikiteirna, your life is already on the line."

Aikiterina drew a shaky breath as he pulled away and turned back to his room. "Thank you, Marcus. I won't forget your kindness towards me." She said gratefully. Marcus remained silent as he stared out his darkening window. His keen hearing picked up the closing of the door and the departing sounds of her footsteps as she made her way out of his private wing. Her words from what seem so long ago, drifted back to his memory of the first day she was possessed by her past soul. Could you really learn to withstand the greatest test of all time that would challenge what you had long ago?

"So it has begun." Marcus murmured softly as he watched her leave the castle walls in the dead of night when everyone was feeding. She got into a black car with three luggage's and the twins, droving off just as the screams of the trapped humans began to ring into the midnight sky. Caius was going to have a fit once he discovered them gone and there was no curbing his rage once it was released.

Crash!

"Where the hell are they?" Caius screamed at Atheodora who was cowering in the corner of her room as he sent another vase slamming agaist the wall into a thousand pieces as he turned on her with gleaming dark eyes full of hurt and anger. She cried out as she felt his hand slap her face to one side, nearly snapping her head off as Felix and Demertri flickered into the room with faces that told Caius, Aikiterina and the twins were truly gone.

"Well?" He growled as he fought to not rip someone's head off. Felix silently nudged Demetri who paled beyond snow white as they faced a beyond furious master. "W-w-we l-looked everywhere, Master." Demetri sputtered in fear as his wide eyes took in the massive damaged caused by Caius's hand. Everything was in ruins and torn up from his master's berserk fit of pure rage while his mate lay trembling in fright at the floor. "Felix looked in the library, all the rooms on all the floors, including yours. It seems that s-she left with them while we were feeding."

"Get the fuck out of my sight! All of you!" All three vampires fled from Caius before he really decided to kill one of them as he punched his fist into the wall. He had come up their shared room, wanting to talk to Rina about her dreams when he found all of her things gone. Her clothing in the dressers, her passport, and other important papers were all gone as well. Fearing the worst, he had swiftly checked for the twins in their nursery and found their cradles empty. Their things were missing as well. Caius flickered out of the room at full speed before arriving into the throne room where Aro and Marcus were talking urgently about the missing mother and children. Aro looked up as Caius entered the room and flicked a quick warning glance at Marcus who immediately sat down in his throne with a clinched jaw.

"Well?" Aro asked.

Caius threw him a dark look as he took his seat beside him. "She's gone, Aro. They looked all over the place and found nothing."

"I heard she left because of a vision she had of you possibly killing her." Aro said with a glance up at Marcus before he turned back at Caius who stared up at him with startled eyes.

"What?"

"The girl can see the future and saw you kill her while in a feeding frenzy. She left with the children out of fear that you could possibly turn on them."

"Why would I even want to hurt my own woman and children, Aro? I care for them." Caius said as he clinched his throne with hard fingers.

"You may not care enough to watch yourself in the future and even though she has done something that had pained you greatly, don't think for once she didn't do it out of love." Caius growled loudly and hissed at him, exposing his razor sharp teeth.

"You fucking know nothing about me, Aro. I love her and the twins and I would be willing to lay my own immortality for them. I will find them and bring them back even if I have to change her before I do. So you and your fucking damn shit ass words can go to fucking hell and burn where they are supposed to be." He flickered from the room and made his way to his chambers. Aro sighed and looked at Marcus with despair in his eyes. "What are we going to do, brother?"

Marcus looked away from him at the closed doors. "Let him be and see what happens. She's smart, Aro. She will hide in a place where she thinks we cannot find them and live a normal life. Question is where is she going and what to do in the next step when we find them."

Aro rubbed his hands together as he thought. "If it is true about what you told me of what she said to you earlier, then we have no choice but to let her go and only hope that nothing happens to her, Roman and Cassia while they hid from their father. I will do what I can to curb Caius's anger while you try to send out your informants to look for her. But if this is what she truly feels about him, than yes, this is indeed the ultimate test that he will go through" He looked down at the two necklaces in his hands that he took from his pocket. "Strange she would in trust these to me while she's gone." He mused.

"If she took them, he would know where to look for her because of their connection. Already I can feel it fading rapidly and be replaced with fear and anger, Aro. Caius has to learn from this and forge his own true path. We can't do it for either one of them." Marcus said wisely as he stood up. "Fate and Destiny are two separate things to all of us, but her recreation has a purpose to serve for either one and one decision can make the outcome come to light." He left Aro to himself and went to his own chambers for privacy.

If only she had talked first with Caius when he asked before taking such a high risk on her and their children's lives. Why does the Gods work in such mysterious ways?