Chloe gave Larry a thumbs up. He made her sit comfortably on the sofa before sitting nearby.
Chloe was contemplating whether she should cook when her mer husbands walked in.
Her tiredness won over and in a bossy tone she told them she was angry.
They all looked at Cassen who was looking at her with grievance and emotions hard to tell.
"What is it now?" She sighed exhaustedly.
"I feel tired, I will be in my room sleeping." He replied before storming upstairs.
His mood looked law and dangerous. She looked at him thoughtfully.
" You really are sulking without a reason?" She was too exhausted.
When Cassen heard her, his eyes flashed dangerously like a beast ready to pounce before snorting.
She looked at Cassen in bewilderment, this should be the first time he lost his coolness on her.
She retrieved fruits and eggs with flour from the system space and specifically gave it to Larry before following Cassen upstairs.
Larry's cooking is way better than the others who always make dark cuisine.
She peeked through the slightly closed door in the pink bedroom.
There was no one she entered the bedroom before going to the bathroom.
There on the bathroom sink, Cassen stood half naked with deem eyes maybe examining his image in the mirror.
His face was etched in pain like scars.
She nudged him lightly before asking softly. "What's wrong Cass?"
"You shouldn't have come back this earlier?" He accused heartlessly. His voice raw in pain.
She watched as his eyes flashed with pain and loathing and her eyes narrowed to the extreme. "Pfft, you've missed me already?"
"Don't play guessing games with me, I know how sharp your mind is, you can't fail to know what am talking about." He said calmly. His hand roamed to his chest as it stilled for seconds before dropping it.
"What games." Chloe curved her mouth, tilted her head to the side, her eyebrows and her shoulders raised.
Cassen looked at the way she looked clueless before he said. "I remember everything."
Chloe's body froze for a few seconds as her heart skipped a bit, she smiled innocently. "I don't remember you having amnesia?"
She removed her jacket and put it on him.
"The memories you erased, the lifetime we spent and the fire in the end." He looked at her calmly.
Chloe's action of buttoning the buttons paused, she looked directly at his face before laughing heartily and painfully.
"I erased everything to the end." She said while bitting her lip.
"Liar, you locked them away. Why? Why should I relive the pain.
Why did you wish I experience this pain again.
This memories will cause nightmares every time, why?" Cassen shouted, his voice hoarse.
She left the bathroom up to the bedroom window.
Standing there at the window, she looked at the busy streets nearby.
Cassen's first life was a mess, they did meet earlier and got married but because the heavens or her fate was of a villain, those who associate with her will suffer.
She watched helplessly as he was abused by wild mers who were meant for her in order to save her.
In her second life, she did try to change his ending but as always nothing was better.
It was a time of drought, he was cut into pieces as a meal alive to the end.
In the third life she vowed to protect him but as always the cause followed a path.
She used her own powers in blowing him apart after locking his memories aside.
"Yes why?" She questioned herself. Why did she lock them rather than erasing them.
Her hands at the side clenched into fist. She locked his memories in hope that he do remembers the pain, the people who were the course of his hurt.
He should seek revenge himself.
She opened the window while controlling the energy in her hand. The energy morphed into a ball of fire as she threw it in the nearby flower in her field
There was a shrill cry followed by silence.
Chloe calmly closed the window.
"You do hate me right?" She asked him not as a question but as a statement.
How she wished he could say no.
She is greedier for his warmth and companionship.
She is greedy for all of him. Not just his body but also his heart.
If he says he hates her, she will understand, but that didn't mean she will let go.
The pain he passed through in his first life trying to protect her while she looked like a coward.
The helplessness in his second life while she looked stupid.
The hopelessness and hatred of the third life when she blasted him alive completely even wiping all his memories.
She owe him alot. Her life is his. But she can't let him go, never.
"Do you wish to be hated?" He asked back.
"What is my wish and what is your will, my wish is for you not to leave and hate me." Chloe stated, now looking at him.
"How I wish I could but I couldn't." He laughed painfully.
"Why?" She asked back. The hurt in her eyes unmistakable.
He was her first love.
Her first crush, her first person to honestly support her and her first mer husband in every lifetimes.
"How I wish I could, to never be by your side, to hate you, to kill you but am hopeless. What I hate is myself." He shouted emotionally.
He looked broken like strings. He sat there at the floor looking lifeless.
Chloe hugged him tightly.
"I hate myself for loving you for lifetimes and still loving you after everything.
I hate myself to not giving up on you knowing that is the right decision.
I hate myself for wishing your fire to burn me in all my lifetimes."
Chloe world narrowed to only him, she kissed his lips like it was a fight. Lips bruising, blood mingling while tasting his tears like wine.
He pulled her close, kissing her passionately like forever.
Her kissed was poured with different emotions, undying love, pain, obsession and helplessness.
And now he still takes her first kiss.
She placed her forehead on his before an etheral voice like a siren came out from her red lips.
Lifetime after lifetime we fought together,
My helplessness and your hopefullness will one day pass,
Your love to me and my love to you is a tied note,
Her voice dropped to a whisper, the tone dangerous.
You can hate me but you can't leave,
You can live and I will find you
If locking you is necessary then I will
Her voice became coursing. The sorrounding energy became pure before part of it entered Cassen while the other separated into nine threads before they dissipated.
I will become your hero,
The lover you deserve,
Your future you wished for
Just give me time
Half of your pain
All of your love
To be the one I need to be.
When she saw his closed eyes she laughed. She carried him carefully in a princess style to the nearby bed before tacking him in blankets like a cacoon.
"I wasn't singing a lullaby but purifying your souls so stop pretending to be asleep."
Chloe flicked Cassen's nose lovingly and in a doting voice she said, " you know what, am happy. You guys loving me after everything. "
She looked at how he looked dissapointed and she laughed happily. "Don't look at me like that, how I wanted to do so but my time is limited.
What if we are in the middle of the action when my new me, the innocent me awakens, am sure you know how she would react."
They all laughed at how the new Chloe would behave.
The new Chloe seems to hate responsibilities.
"But," Chloe smacked her lips like savouring the incredible. "You taste, amazing." She said suggestively.
Looking at his red face, Chloe laughed happily, "rest first, the person next to me will mind link you." She said as she closed the door and went downstairs.
"Did you go to the end?" Bree asked mischievously.
Chloe footsteps paused before she continued and went to sit down.
Sipping a drink, she said. "I think I told you not to spy on me, daddy,"
"Why when am dying to carry my grandchild." He retorted.
"Those are basic manners, can't you tone down your eavesdropping a little." Chloe looked at her father speechlessly.
"Manners," he tilted his head to look at his wife before he added.
"My manners are for my wife and myself, I will choose to use them the time I want and where I want, no one can control them."
Chloe looked at him before turning to her mother who was silent.
"Control him."
"You should do so because he is your father." The queen replied.
Even the queen knows better not to talk back at his husband.
To her, this is how a family should be. To bicker with one another and not being too politely to each other.
"He is your man, your husband." Chloe gritted her teeth.
"We've missed you." Her mother changed the topic.
Chloe smiled as she stood up giving her mother then her father a heartfelt hug.
She moved to Alex, Lenox, Nathan, Dylan then Larry.
Chloe looked at the new members and her smile widened.
"Silence and Thomas, long time no see." She hugged Silence who took the opportunity to kiss her.
Her eyes widened when she felt pain on he shoulder. Thomas had bit her.
What a dog.
But Silence really surprised her, he was her holy maiden.
Just like others in the house, she was shocked at how he initiated the kiss.
When he saw how people were looking at him he became embarrassed before hiding behind Bree.
Silence is an introvert and shy person.
"How is he?" Bree asked worriedly.
"Calm and maybe better." Chloe replied sitting down.
"Mind link Cassen." Chloe told the mer closest to her who was Larry.
"What triggered his memories?" The king asked again.
Chloe shook her left wrist while replying. " The blue strings on my wrist, what are they though?"