Chapter 153
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"Ember? Em!" I shouted, but she was unconscious now. The wolfsbane had been too much for her to handle. I wanted so badly to head back and deal with the man who had caused all of this, but Ember had asked me to let it be. If I didn't listen to Ember, that man was going to die in my hands. And heaven knew I wanted nothing more than to end the bloke's life.
How dare he kidnap Ember? How dare he so much as hurt her?
My phone buzzed, and I knew before I even looked at it that it was going to be jeans. And alas, when I picked up the call, it really was Jean,
"Did you find her?" he asked, and his voice sounded very close to hysterics,
"I definitely did." I said, looking down at her pale countenance, "But she's unconscious, mate. Bastard made her inhale a lot of wolfsbane."
"Who?!" he shouted into the phone and I twitched,
"Sebastian's father. Kate's uncle. The man we've been looking for."
"Where the hell are you?"
"There's a hotel around this place and a basement. Call me when you get here and I'll direct you. I don't want this man out of my sight."
Why didn't you just kill the son of a gun?"
"Because before Ember passed out, she literally begged me not to."
"Son of a gun." Jean cursed and said a couple of things in French that I didn't understand and I felt it was best if I didn't understand to be honest, "I'll be there soon. Don't let that man out of your sight. Ember must have begged you not to end his life, but she hasn't said a word to me."
I waited for him, sure to keep Ember away from the stench of more wolfsbane, while still making sure that Sebastian's father was still out cold. And I looked up to find him looking around, completely flustered.
"What the hell is this place?" I heard Jean call out loudly from the doorway, and I sighed in relief.
"Finally." I said when he got closer, and looked up at him, "never thought I'd ever say this, but I'm genuinely happy to see you."
He didn't reply to me, but looked at Ember like he could not believe his eyes, "what did he do to her?" Jean asked, looking like a beast was being awoken inside of him. He didn't look happy that Ember looked ashen, even though he didn't have any bruises. Safe to say, that his expression rightly matched my inner feelings,
"wolfsbane poisoning, I believe is the term." and he visibly tightened his hands into fists,
"That son of a gun had the gallbladder to poison Ember? My Ember!" he shouted 'my Ember' like a threat and turned into the room where the man still lay lifeless,
"is he dead"?
"no. Ember asked for him to leave him that way."
"Ember- like hell, I will." he muttered and walked toward the man like a man ready and itching for a kill. He picked up Kate's uncle like a lifeless rag doll, and raising him high, so high like some kind of peace offering, he slammed him down with a hard thud that would have killed that man. But instead, the fellow wreathed on the ground like a snake,
"I won't kill." I heard Jean say. Killing you would be too merciful. "I'm going to keep you alive. So that you can be a prisoner, side by side with your beloved son. Nothing more is bound to fit your miserable existence."
Jean took Ember to his place, along with our new prisoner, and while he dealt with his new prisoner, I stayed with Ember in Jean's car,
"I think he's being careful about taking me to your own home, Em. But that's fine. I don't think you want to discover it either." I said, and ran a hand over her head, "everything is my fault, you know. I still take the blame for everything that has happened to us. I want you to know that. " I said and sighed.
I was thinking of yesterday now. Of the days when it was just Ember and I. When Kate came into my life, Ember had been the person I had spoken to about the endless emotions I was feeling. They had been worried and told me that. I told her that I wasn't going to be a slave to the goddess and her plans. I told her she was the only woman for me. I told her a whole lot of things. I had made her believe she was the only one for me and knew I wanted her to be the only woman for me.
But a couple of months went by, and Kate had been endlessly persuasive so that even though I had made up my mind at the very beginning, I found myself giving in to her. Her scent, her laugh, her voice. The very look of her. And on the first anniversary of my marriage to Ember, I brought Kate into our home and bedded her. That had to be the most insulting and terrible thing I could have done to Ember. But still, she stayed. She only recently spoke of the maltreatment from my sister and mother. So that meant she had a whole lot she had to endure because of me. So I didn't blame her for how much she wanted nothing to do with me, because I had put her through so much. She had even tried to give me separate chances after she left me, and I fumbled those ones too.
I pressed my fingers to my eyes and groaned. I was messed up in so many ways. And to be honest, I wouldn't give myself all of those chances.
"I blame only myself for how everything has turned out," I said, feeling very emotional. "So in a way, I don't blame you if you needed to choose Jean. He's a good man, to be honest. He is the right man for you. I mean, I can see the way you light up when he is near. It's almost as though he heals every scar I ever caused." I said and closed my eyes, "so I'll give you my word of three months. I'll let you be for three months, Em. That ought to be enough to properly fall in love with the guy. I mean, three months was all it took for Kate to get me to be hers. I'm so sorry about that by the way." I said and blew out a breath, before placing a chaste kiss on her temple.
"three months," I whispered close to her ears. "You have my word."
Jean returned an hour later, smiling with some evil glee, and I raised a brow at him,
"You look so pleased with yourself, don't tell me you killed the guy," I said when he opened the door to the back seat, and he shook his head,
"incredibly tempting, it was. I am not going to lie. But it was even more satisfactory to see the father and son unite in hell. Even a bit emotional. I made sure they'll get a daily bonus of wolfsbane at some point for a couple of minutes every day. That ought to sweeten their mood and all."
"That's so kind of you," I said dryly,
"Hey, I have to thank them for the idea."
"yeah," I said and looked at Ember,
"We should get her inside. I have a room that will detoxify her and make her calm."
"Alright then," I said and carried her out of the car, and handed over to Jean. He took her willingly, but raised a brow,
"not coming in?" he asked, and I looked over at his house,
"you will have to forgive me for passing up this opportunity of finally seeing what the inside of your house looks like." I said and turned back to him, "but I have a feeling that when she wakes, she'd rather see you than see me." I said, and he looked at me for a very long time before nodding,
"I will tell her of the role you played in saving her."
"That's very kind of you." I said and patted his shoulder, before finally turning away."
