Destroy My Life In You-Chapter 104: Beginning of Terror

"To my dearest brother, Luke.

By the time you find this, I might not be here anymore. But don’t worry, I’ll always be watching over you and the little ones, until I return. Make sure to look after Zeke and Seth too. Also, you can only trust Alaric and his brothers, NO ONE ELSE.

Also, I want you to take this letter to Zander and Finn. Don’t let Alaric know about it. At in this pouch, I have kept my extracted core. It will make sure my soul won’t disappear as the fragments will gathered and when it’s all done, maybe one day, I’ll come back to you all. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

FROM THE CLOSE DOTH, THE DAWN ARISES.

Sincerely, Astrid."

Astrid stared at the pouch in her hand, then together with the letter. She took them in her hands and closed here eyes. In a blink, the two items disappeared from her hands. She smiled knowing they were where she wanted them to be, but her happiness lasted only for a second, before she spat a mouthful of blood. The use of her power now exhausted her, considering she had now extracted her core.

Astrid stared at the blood, and something came up on her mind. But before that, she went into the bathroom and prepared herself for the long night.

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Alaric returned late at night, and he immediately headed to Astrid’s room. He had missed her so much and he wanted to have a heart to heart talk with her.

He was only a few steps away from her room when he caught the scent of something– Astrid’s blood. For the first time in his life, Alaric experienced the feeling called fear.

Like a possessed mad man, he crushed down the door, and the sight before him horrified him. There was a woman dressed in a black gown, facing her back toward him. She standing beside Astrid’s bed and was holding a dagger stained with blood. It was Astrid’s.

Alaric staggered confusion hitting in, as his eyes lowered to the bed. All he could see was blood on the covers, and the person lying there wasn’t moving.

All logic left him and in a flash, he had already dug out the woman’s heart from behind. But after he did so, he felt something familiar about the woman’s scent. It was after she felt to the ground did he see her face clearly.

Everything happened in a slow motion that Alaric almost lost track. How? Why? Why? Why? He wanted to scream but his voice died down when the warmth of the heart he was holding faded away, and those eyes of Astrid’s went shut.

Like a statue, he remained glued to his spot for what felt like a century, until realization started to kick in. Slowly, he slid to the ground still holding her heart in his trembling hand. His other hand went to her hair and caressed it slowly like usual. He was in denial.

"My love, wake up. See, I’m back now. Come on, wake up and look at me," he spoke lovingly, like he was just speaking to someone a deep asleep.

But then, it was already too late. She was gone. By the time Zander and Finn returned with the kids, the worst had happened. Astrid was dead and Alaric became a walking dead. He never spoke to anyone and refused to let go of Astrid’s corpse. For days, he confined himself with her in that room, waiting for her to wake up. But she never did.

It was until was day he woke up after unknowingly falling asleep, that he found out she was nowhere. He went mad after discovering it was his brothers who had taken her, and they refused to tell him where they had hidden her. Finn and Zander went through under Alaric’s hands but they never spoke.

Time pased by, but the more it did, the more Alaric became savage, lashing out at anyone who had ever been his enemy. If earlier he was considered cruel, then now, he turned demonic, ruthless and inhuman. He annihilated werewolves, witches, humans, hybrids, every creature that he thought could have been the course of driving Astrid to her death.

Finn and Zander trued every means to stop him but he was beyond redemption and they knew if he continued ued that way, he would turned into a rogue. Thus, they planned to erase all memories of Astrid in him, using the help of the Ashen sisters. Nyx, and her two witch sisters.

Alaric’s love for Astrid was too deep and they could only manage to erase her face and part of the memories, but it somehow helped. Though Alaric never returned to how he was before, he stopped the rampant killings.

But the a lot of damages had been done. The werewolves had fled and started living in packs, the vampires were the only ones left in Vetheris and thus it solely became their kingdom. As for the witches, they formed a coven and started plotting on how to kill Alaric. Their plan hit rock bottom as Nyx exposed them to Alaric. Half of the witches were killed by him and Nyx suffered the same fate. Reason why, Alaric didn’t need some useless creatures who would only trouble him in the future.

Finn and Zander were always by his side and after that incident, Alaric disappeared for almost a decade. They travelled everywhere looking for him but he was nowhere on the face of the earth. Years later, the man returned. Stronger and more fierce. Many tried to kill him but there was no one who succeeded. The man seemed to have attained immortality during the ten years of disappearance.

With his new found power, he took over kingdoms, killed thousands and thousands, and became a feared ruler. Until new generations came and he became tired of the wars. Alaric chose to stay lowkey, ruling his kingdom, Vetheris. Nyx, whom he had killed, he caught a few witches and forced them to summon her and she came back to the world of the living, in order for her create a barrier around Vetheris. No one would go in or out without Alaric’s permission. So, Vetheris slowly was forgotten as centuries passed by and to the new human generations, vampires, witches and werewolves became a myth.

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