“You were really just going to blurt out the reason even after clearly seeing that he’s in the dark?” Teresa asked when she was alone with Fabio who had been watching Kai until he could no longer see him.Fabio had thought that Kai knew about it, and that was why he had wanted to tell him. Although, he figured that there was a possibility that Kai was in the dark after talking and realizing that Kai still didn’t get it.“So,” Fabio started, his eyes blazing with so much more excitement than he knew what to do with. “Are you trying to tell me that I’m going to have a great grand-child?” He asked.Teresa didn’t say anything as she only shrugged, she knew he was going to keep it a secret just like Catherine wanted them to, but she wanted Fabio on the edge of his seat.She had thought that she could use this as a way to get revenge on him because he had an habit of always dragging out good news and making her feel as though something bad had happened.“Tell me, Teresa, am I really going t

The walk through the garden had been a peaceful one, Kai was going to trust Catherine to tell him what was on her mind in due time, and pending that time, even though it was killing him, he wouldn’t ask.He didn’t want her to feel pressured, he didn’t want her to think that he was suffocating and that’s why he’s going to be taking his grandfather’s advice.“It’s been so long since I had a hot, calming tea in the gazebo like this. I almost forgot how beautiful the scenery is from here.” Fabio’s voice jolted Kai out of his thoughts.Kai couldn’t help but smile, he had liked the gazebo too the very first time he had made his way there. It was peaceful, calming, and he could hear himself breathe and think whenever he was there.He also loved the way he could see almost everything going on in the compound, he could see the people coming in and out of it, and they wouldn’t know that he would see them.Kai shared his grandfather’s sentiment, and could only smile as he closed his eyes so that

They made it into the house, and the dimmer went by faster than Kai had thought. He could tell that they were all going to fully switch into preparation mode tomorrow as that was the only day left before the event.Catherine still looked thrown off, she would occasionally get lost in thoughts, but he had been able to manage to get her back, and then she would join the conversation, but would get lost again.He couldn’t help but think that something was wrong, and while Teresa and his grandfather had advised him to let her say things whenever she was ready, he couldn’t wait and watch her bear the burden all alone.Kai wanted to be able to help, and there was no way he could if he didn't know what was wrong with her. “Okay, I’ve been trying to keep this to myself, but are you okay?” He finally asked.They were alone in the room now, and he had been sitting on the bed, waiting for her to join him, but she had gotten so lost in thought that she didn’t even realize it.“Catherine?” Kai fin

“The realm of divinity?” Kai asked, one of his brows raised, his guard was completely down as he saw no more need to keep it up. He stared at the man standing in front of him, and he couldn’t make sense of anything going on.He wondered when the impromptu meetings, and the dragging him to places he didn’t know when he had been in his bedroom just a moment ago would stop.Kai let out an exasperated sigh as he sat on the smooth ground, and it wasn’t until he looked down properly and let himself look at the floor that he realized how different it had been.If he didn’t know any better, he would have thought that he had been pulled up into the sky. It was a mix of blue and white, a soothing color that almost sent him back to sleep the more he stared.He felt as though he was being wrapped in a warm embrace, everything about the place screamed of calm, and he wondered why he had let a fake bloodlust fool him.Kai sighed again, he shouldn’t even be here in the first place, but these people—

Kai ran his fingers through his hair, sweat was dripping down his temple, and when he looked at the small digital clock on his bedside table, he realized that it was only an hour past midnight.“What do I do then?” He muttered to himself, his mind going back to the conversation that he had with Zane Wickham, his heart still racing, he had no idea what to do about the massacre that was already bound to happen.He had thought that his plan was foolproof, he was supposed to get ready to put up the multiple barriers today with the calculation he had made in his mind of the likely places that the entities were bound to visit.There was also the case of Catherine’s pregnancy. Kai looked beside him to see that Catherine was sleeping peacefully, and he wondered why she had kept the pregnancy a secret from him.It didn’t take him long to put the pieces together, when Teresa had said that they’d gone for their usual girl’s outing, it had probably been the pregnancy that they were talking about.