Page 157 of His Cursed Heart

She opens her mouth again, and I know what she wants to say. It kills me that she wants to say those words to me now. That she didn't say them before, because she thinks I don't feel the same.

Althea still has the impression that I don't share her feelings because of her reckless behavior and lies, but what she doesn't know is that I burn for her harder than she will ever do it for me.

"Don't you dare say it, Althea. Not now." I warn her and my voice sounds desperate.

She locks her eyes with mine and it kills her too. We just stare at each other, silently begging for different things.

"Say it, Althea." I tremble again, but this time in anger.

I need Ivan's blood on my skin and his beating heart in my hands. I don't know what Althea found in there, but she got out of the cabin, she had tears dried up on her cheeks. Her eyes were haunted and disgusted and that makes me want to kill Ivan even more.

Althea opens her mouth and in hoarse voice, she decides to kill the last piece of my heart. "You are the love of my goddam life, Everest," My throat makes a sound of a whimper, and if Venus wouldn't have held my arm, I would've fallen on my knees in front of my wife.

My own heart.

"Take care of Vincent." She pleads and she raises her foot off the ground, a grenade exploding right beside her.

"Althea!" I roar when I see her body thrown to the left side of the minefield.

Other grenades around the cabin explode one by one, the smoke around making us cough.

"Bring the bastard to me," I tell my men and they start moving in the places that aren't grenades.

Without caring that I step on a fucking bomb, I run as fast as I could to Althea. She's on the ground, limp and bloody. I fall on my knees next to her, trying to control my own body.

She has scratches around her body, her clothes being ripped apart. There's blood coming out her mouth and head and the fear in me makes tears invade my eyes.

"Stay with me, Little Fox." I beg her and I put one of my arms under her knees and other one on her back and waist.

When I try to raise myself with her off the ground, blood comes out of her mouth like a waterfall. She tries to breathe but the blood chokes her.

"Just resist a little bit longer, Althea. Please just a little bit longer," I whimper and change her position, holding her body so that her head stays on a side, the blood falling from her mouth.

I move quickly, running desperately to the car. I now realize that the car in which Vincent was, it's gone.

One person that I know it's safe.

Venus holds the door to my car open, and I enter with Althea in one damn move. If I keep making thousands of moves, she'll bleed to death.

Venus enters behind the wheel, starting the engine in a roar. The car immediately starts speeding and now everything is in Venus's hands.

I look at Althea who is still trying to breathe, the color of her cheeks getting paler and paler. I pet her hair, whimpering that she'll be okay, but I don't even believe myself.

Don't take her away from me, I pray to the God above me.

If you are real, please don't take her. I need her more than you.

I look down at Althea and I start panicking when she stops moving, her eyes closed.

"Althea?" I ask with a tremble, taking her face in my hand, forcing my finger in her mouth to see if blood is still there, and when I open her mouth, another wave of black blood comes out of her mouth.

"Don't fucking do this, Althea. In what universe do

you think you'll escape me, baby? Because here it's a clue." I lower my head and kiss her bloody forehead. "In none."

Panic settles in my body when she doesn't answer me. My arms squeeze her harder, my nose inhaling her scent, trying to remember her in all the ways.

"Venus!" I roar as my sanity leaves my body.

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