His Dark Obsession by Moonlight Muse

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There’s no light, and even with our vision, I cannot see anything.

This place is indeed empty.

I tighten my hold on Zedkiel’s hand as we walk through the emptiness, side by side. The only sound that I can hear is the Eternal God’s footsteps ahead of us and our heartbeats.

My aura is radiating off me, but it is just swallowed up by this place. Almost as if we could scream, but it would not travel.

“Kind of extreme, to put her in a place like this for simply falling in love.” Zedkiel remarks.

“She broke a divine law.” His cold reply comes.

Zedkiel is about to reply, but I give his hand a gentle squeeze, and he frowns.

‘He’s arrogant, and he grates on my nerves.’

‘He is a God. Perhaps the power has gone to his head.’ I tease lightly. Zedkiel smirks but says nothing for a few seconds before he kisses me.

‘Well, if you let that god stuff get to you, you know I know of a good way to punish you, take you to heights past heaven and then right down to earth.’

He murmurs through the link before kissing my neck.

My cheeks heat up, my stomach fluttering at his words, and I rest my head against his shoulder.

‘I’m tempted to misbehave just so I can experience that.’ I reply with a smile. He yanks me close, kissing me hard. I kiss him back quickly before moving back, feeling the glare of the Eternal God upon us.

‘He’s just jealous.’ Zedkiel remarks through the mind link.

I smile as we continue, blushing once when Zedkiel squeezes my behind.

After a short while, the Eternal God slows a little and whispers a few words in a language that even I don’t understand, and since being here, I have picked up on a few different tongues, that have come to me with ease.

A flicker of embers appears in the darkness before two towering stone pillars begin to materialise, set twenty metres apart and tower far up, disappearing into the darkness above.

I step back, watching as the engravings covering the pillars begin to glow.

Thick chains materialise, pulled taught and I turn sharply to see that in the middle of the two pillars, is a woman, suspended far up.

Her head is hanging, her arms stretched painfully on either side as the chains wrap around her arms. Her long silver-white hair covers her face, and she’ s wearing a white dress that flows to her feet.

My heart clenches at the state she’s in, and I am shocked at the fact that this is how she has been for thousands of years…

“How cruel.” I can’t help but say, my heart thudding.

“Punishment is not meant to be easy. Falling in love with someone she should never have fallen for, is the cause of this… remember that.” The Eternal God says coldly. “The price of love… it really isn’t worth it.”

chest heaves as I try

you can call it that, shows

he turns sharply to me.

want are

tightens

but this

simply turns to Selene and my heart aches

treated like this, and Raziel… he’s stuck on earth…

aim.” The Eternal God

tongue, despite

promised us a second chance for a price… that means her

respond for

an immortal. A shamed one at that…” He begins to circle her. “Grant her, her freedom, and she will stay in the Palace of Moonlight as my mother, not as a goddess. But

her, turning to face us and smiles

will come of it.” He tells

and kindness will not be forgotten… I ask you, as her daughter, please forgive her sins and requite her of her

was raised on earth. I will do whatever it takes and so

“Evangeline!” Zedkiel growls.

placing my hands on

on this child who has never had the chance to know

of power emanates from the ground. The

I exclaim, my heart thudding as he

light fills the

agreeing to something he didn’t want to agree to at the start…’ Zedkiel murmurs, making that same sense

very ground beneath me tremble, before he

voice fades away, and then he’s

dark but not as empty as it was moments ago. The chains are released from the pillars and Selene drops. Zedkiel is beneath her in seconds, catching her before her body hits the ground. Her head falls back, and I freeze as

so familiar… almost as if

of nostalgia washes over me, but I cannot

ground as she begins to stir. Her

places her down and she stands, she’s taller than I am, she looks young and she’s beautiful with grey

out to me, and I find

wraps her arms around me tightly. I close my eyes, her scent fills my nose and

fly open as a memory of

(FLASHBACK)

get ready for school…” Mama says. The sun is shining brightly, casting a beautiful golden glow

She’s wearing her chequered pink and white apron with strawberries on it. I wrap

hard to keep a roof over our heads. Her black hair is pulled into a messy bun, and she’s still wearing the

looks down at me, despite how exhausted

“I love you, Eva…”

love you

(END OF FLASHBACK)

pull away and stare at her. “How

to last for many years, I made sure

past I have blocked out, but that one memory has awoken

My mother loved me…

and he comes over, wrapping his arms around me.

deep breath as he holds me close. He caresses my back for a few moments before I turn to Selene, who stands there

have grown, over the years, the snippets that Eshe has shown me… showed only despair and failure… I am

“Eshe?” I ask.