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"Are you sure you'd be able to fight so many people at once?" I asked him.

"As long as I have you," He replied before sweeping me in his arms and kissing me. He was so quick that I hardly had any time to respond or react to this. As he parted my lips and tried to gain control over them, I felt my whole body tightening up with tension.

Instantly, I was reminded of last night's incident. I was starting to feel like that again so I tried to push him back because I didn't want it to happen again but Ezekiel's possessiveness increased even more and his hold tightened over me.

All of sudden, he seemed so determined to kiss me and this directly fed that unknown power that was slowly rising inside me. I was afraid that this was going to happen again but my body seemed to be slowly getting paralysed. I could hear my heart pounding in my chest as that power grew stronger and stronger, getting closer towards the edge.

And then it happened.

I felt his arms drop from around me and his lips abandon mine before he was being thrown towards the opposite wall with a force greater than last night. All I could do was stand there like a statue and watch everything in immense horror.

"Ezekiel..." I breathed but for a moment, he didn't even move. His body had grown still on the ground. "Ezekiel..." I called out for him weakly. I wanted to go to him and look if he was fine but I was just too afraid to touch him again at this point but fortunately, he started to move again.

I watched with guilt flowing inside me as he struggled to get up. When he could finally stand up and face me properly, I noticed the blood flowing down the side of his face and that was what completely broke me.

I turned around and started running with tears in my eyes. I didn't stop running until I was back in my room at the harem. I locked the door well before getting in bed, under the covers. For a moment, I was even afraid to touch Pax and didn't let him anywhere near me.

I didn't know what was happening and this was driving me crazy. This had never happened before. I had never felt so out of control before.

"Oh, there she is," Just when I thought that my situation couldn't get any worse, I heard the voice of one of those men. This made me bury my face in the pillow and cry harder while I heard the two of them bicker in the background.

What was going on?

What had my life turned into?

What was I turning into?

I couldn't answer these questions no matter how hard I tried so I either cried or slept the rest of the day away. Though all I knew was that whatever these powers were, they always made me feel isolated.

I thought that I would feel a bit better the next morning because sleep always almost made everything alright, right? Well, I found out the next morning that that was not really the case. I was feeling shittier than ever.

Though the plus point was that since I went to sleep early last night, I woke up quite early this morning. Even before Lyra could come and take me to Ezekiel. I didn't want to see him at all after yesterday. If I see them then I would be a train wreck so quickly, I put on my cloak and snuck out of my room.

I don't know where I was going. I was mindlessly wandering in the harem while wondering if this would go on forever. If this was just part of who I am or if this was just a phase or something like that.

At this point, I had been wandering for a while now. I was sure that I was still in the harem but not exactly in which part. This place was huge and like a labyrinth. I was most definitely lost but this was still better than being dragged to Ezekiel by Lyra.

I seemed to be on this strange balcony that overlooked a huge pond. I saw some of the women sitting by the pond, under the sunlight and doing each other's hair. It was a peaceful view so I sat on the balcony for a while and enjoyed the morning air until I smelled something.

The smell was peculiar. It stood out very well. As the smell got intense, I started to feel sick to the stomach. It was the worst thing I had smelled. For some reason, it reminded me of someone but I just couldn't remember who.

There was something very familiar about the smell. I decided to follow it. I left the balcony and followed the scent up a flight of stairs where the smell was the strongest. I wanted to puke at that point but I decided to keep going because something felt wrong.

This scent didn't belong there. I walked down a high corridor and heard the sound of a baby cry. The sound and the smell seemed to be coming from the same place and there was something that innately felt so wrong about this that I started jogging towards the source.

I took a sharp turn and instantly found myself in what seemed to be a nursery. There were several cribs. Most of the place was empty but somewhere in a distance, a baby was crying. Though what actually made me freeze in my place was a familiar green creature, who was currently busy emptying a cabinet of baby toys in a small sac.

It took her a while to notice me but as soon as she saw me, she froze for a moment. Instantly, I sprang to action. She was already running towards the opposite entrance but I was faster than her and was able to pin her down.

"What are you doing here, Nuessa?" I growled.

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