Chapter-100. Mother-2

[Xanthea]

'... to cure the curse your mother put upon us because only you can.'

Asher's words hit me like a blow to the chest, leaving me breathless and blank. I stared at him as thousands of thoughts rammed into my mind. I was scared like I had never been before. Although I couldn't decipher who I was scared for myself, my husbands or my kids?

I wanted to know more about the curse and how I could cure it, but for all the unsettling reasons, I wanted to know no more.

Asher stared back at me as though he was trying to find the Xanthea he once knew in the daughter of Cadence Starsoul, but couldn't. Then again, did he ever see me as Xanthea?

All this was happening in my head and, like he said, the Asher in front of me was just my imagination. But Asher had always been in my head - in my dreams.

"Before I tell you anything else about the curse, I think it's important you know the events that led to it," Asher said, returning his attention to the memories playing before us.

I bit down on my lips, a painful knot tightening in my chest, and I forced myself to watch the memories again.

As the memories played on, I realized that had Asher not been here, these memories would have assaulted their way into my mind in the most excruciating manner.

Real or imagination, I was glad Asher was here by my side. Although I wasn't sure if I didn't deserve his company.

I stood closer to him as years flew by in my mother's memories.

With two powerful alphas (Alpha Caelum and Alpha Deimos, triplets' father) supporting her, my mother soon had a team of healers, alchemists, and researchers working under her for her cause.

Amidst all those harrowing memories were gaps - pitch-black voids where nothing happened. These empty memories had been present from the beginning, but their frequency had grown, spreading like silent, unspoken shadows. It was as though my mother erased them on purpose,

It felt as though my mother had either erased those memories intentionally or she was in an extremely dark space-

"These memories are empty..." I whispered, a freezing sensation crippling me from within.

Asher's gaze was fixed on the darkness in those memories for a while, and then he said.

"Indeed."

Swallowing the lump building in my throat, I tried to look at Asher, but couldn't.

My heart knew he was lying, while my mind argued he wasn't. Yet my instincts led me somewhere far more unsettling - a place that had challenged and disturbed every all my six senses, just like these empty memories did. The dark room.

Asher's dark room.

between us like a dreamy blur. I wanted to hold his hand. I wanted to step closer to him, but I couldn't move an

step closer,

though we stood

stared at those dark memories with blank, cold, inscrutable eyes, silently waiting

room with him, trying to unravel all the secrets it hid - to the moment I saw Asher walk out

loneliness and pain ever again. Regardless of everything I am and everything I am not, I wanted to be

wanted to tell him, and everything I couldn't, turned into a silent, warm touch as I slid my hand into his palm and

heart pounding, as he finally lowered his gaze from the empty memories. The darkness in his eyes wavered, softening into something warmer - something lighter. The soft flutter in my chest instantly turned into electrifying goosebumps as he wrapped his fingers around mine, his grip tightening, holding

us, no explanations - just

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transitioned into busier ones, with a lot of things happening

all..." Asher

we've gathered over the years, has led to this moment,' my

attention. Through the memories, I knew my mother had been planning something

goal is simple: to activate immortality genes in as many weak bloods as possible. If it succeeds, an entire population of "nobodies" will transform into

drawing in a deep

we have a name for it?'

of hell. They call it the... Forced Activation,' mother said with a smile. I swear I could have felt a lot of things at that moment, but I didn't. I was

The sky-high walls my grandfather had

looked like the demon lords, but was much older

Asher said in a stoic tone. "Deimos

of those walls as an immortal,' Deimos said. 'In case he

closely monitoring Prince Ezra and I am sure this will work. Don't worry, Alpha,'

drained into my eyes as I looked at Asher, my heart convulsing with

a deep breath and

Forced Activation, the First and the way Ezra reacted

were about preparation for the FA. The

Raven and me, Ezra couldn't activate his immortality genes naturally," Asher said. "So when he turned six, mother took him on a trip beyond the walls

my fists, lowering

wishes that our mother would have

tell me, he..." I took a deep

her. Days. Weeks. Months. Years. Other weak bloods would make fun of him, tell him the truth he didn't want to hear. But he kept waiting for her exactly where she left him. He wanted to prove the other weak bloods wrong, but as three years went by, they proved him

weakly, I tightened

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