Mate by Fate, Bound by Love

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Lena’s POV

What just happened? I thought witches were very strong beings from folktales and folklore. I heard that witches are the major source of vampires and werewolves. History says they are the creators of vampires and werewolves.

I still don’t know why Lyla feels so scared, and It’s making me worried about her. ‘Did anything transpire between her and a black witch in the past?

“Lyla! Lyla!! Lyla!!!” I called out again, but she wasn’t answering. The fact that Lyla had been quiet all this while and didn’t say anything until the mention of a black witch sounds suspicious.

I called out to Lyla again, but this time with a teary voice. She wasn’t still answering.

“Lyla, if you can hear me” i began

“I don’t know how long you’ve been inside me or how you even got to be inside me, I don’t know if you chose me to be your host, or it was destiny or fate that brought us together. I don’t even know how this right here works”

“I mean the way I am communicating with you, right now I don’t even know if you can hear me, all my life, I have never known full joy and happiness, I have been beaten and battered by family never really been close to anyone” I continued

“Although there was Ethan and then Adrian, we were close at some point, but another woman is in the picture, maybe they are not just meant to be mine, or it’s fate’s way of telling me I will die alone” I paused waiting to hear if I would get an answer from Lyla but it was awfully quiet.

I continued, “I don’t know how your life went before you got trapped inside me; I don’t know if you had loved ones or enemies; I don’t know if you had it good or bad when you were yourself.”

“I wish you could talk to me about it, right now you are all I have, everyone has abandoned me, and I am on the verge of giving up, I don’t want to lose my child maybe I should just give in to what Claire said,” I said paused for a while maybe I might hear her but nothing

I began to shed tears; after crying for about thirty minutes, Lyla finally spoke up.

“Stop being a crybaby,” she said

Immediately I wiped my tears blew my nose and sat up well

“Lyla” I called out

“Yes, Lena, I am here”, she said after heaving a deep sigh.

“I am sorry I made you cry”

“That’s not important right now, at least you are here, that’s what is important”

“Why were you scared when you heard that Claire was looking for a black witch to transfer my baby into her womb,” I asked

Lyla kept mute for a while.

“You can tell me, Lyla, as it is, we are one. I need to know more about you to be able to understand you better, and we need to know more about each other if we have to work together, that is, if we ever get out of this alive.” I said looking around the cell.

Just in case you were wondering if I was speaking out of my mouth, nah, I wasn’t; we were communicating through my mind. I couldn’t afford to let anyone here find out I had a witch inside of me.

Who knows what they would do to me?

“Lyla come on you can’t be a scared cat forever you know” I teased

I began to hum a melody my mom used to sing for me when I was very little before she died; the melody could calm your nerves and relieve your mind.

“I was in love with a black witch once” her voice came

I stopped humming the melody to pay attention to what she was saying

“He wasn’t a black witch from the start, we started as white witches, we were kids trying to learn about sorcery and its right use” She paused

“Go on Lyla” I urged her

“He was my everything; we made different plans together, decided to see the world together, we even planned to bring peace and order to the world together.” “Werewolves are not meant to fight each other, because they are of the same kind, vampires are meant to live in harmony with werewolves”

” We decided to find a way to put a stop to these things together, his name was Marcus, and he was my first and last love” she said

“Yeah love, I have had my fair share of those” I scoffed

“One day I came to our practice room, where we both stay to practice sorcery I saw Marcus sitting and reading a strange book, I asked him what it was, and he said it was nothing, I tried looking at the content of the book but he quickly closed it up and said it was a surprise and when the surprise was ready he was gonna let me know,” she saidText © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.

I could sense pain in her voice while she was talking, but I didn’t interrupto her; I let her continue.

“I didn’t see it as something serious as I trusted Marcus with all my whole life, i could give my life for Marcus, and he could give his life for….. maybe that was before he became power hungry.”

“I was coming from performing healing sorcery on someone when I entered the room and saw what looked like body parts with the same book I saw him with the other day I felt confused and lost I immediately used telekinesis to snatch the book from him to see what was written”

“I found out it was a book for power-hungry sorcerers, a book that uses sacrifices to perform magic. I tried talking Marcus out of it, telling him it not too late to change and come back to the white ways, but it was useless. His mind was already made up. He asked me to join him so we could rule the world together, but I declined. Without wasting time, I used telekinesis to hold him to the wall while trying a heart-cleansing spell.”

“Marcus was too strong, he had been practising this dark magic for a while now so he was stronger, he broke free and then pushed me far away with telekinesis, but before I could stand up to attack back he already disappeared, I didn’t hear anything about him until a particular day where people in our town began to die.”

“Someone was killing people with black magic, Marcus finally showed up, after a series of fighting, It was like my attacks did nothing to him he rendered me incapacitated, and he took my powers he was about to do the finishing blow when I just opened my eye to a very dark place, I woke up inside you.”

“How?” I asked

“I don’t know” She replied.