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.

us like a dreamy blur. I wanted to hold his hand. I wanted to step closer to him, but I couldn't move an inch. I didn't have the courage to. I waited for him to speak, to say something - anything but he

wanted to reach out, to hold his hand, to step closer, but I couldn't. I

even though we stood side-by-side,

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 of the door and felt as though my world had fallen apart.

that kind of loneliness and pain ever again. Regardless of everything I am and everything I am not, I

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

in my chest instantly turned into electrifying goosebumps as he wrapped his fingers around mine, his grip

explanations - just one touch, and in that moment, we were

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with a lot of things happening

the beginning of it all..." Asher said, his hands

every bit of knowledge we've gathered over the years, has led to this moment,' my mother

the ominous feeling building in my guts, I paid attention. Through the memories, I knew my mother had been planning something big and I think I already had an

Alpha Deimos's suggestion, we're ready to test our treatment plan for the weak bloods on a larger scale. The goal is simple: to activate immortality genes in as many weak bloods as possible. If it succeeds,

drawing in a deep

we have a name for it?' a

since that's what we are going for, but my top healers like to call it something fancier that suits the vibe 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 just

send the weak bloods of their packs within the walls. The sky-high walls my grandfather had built to isolate weak bloods from our society..."

like the demon lords, but was much older with more distant and weary eyes,

my father," Asher said in a

of those walls as an immortal,'

Ezra and I am sure this

my eyes as I looked at

a deep breath and nodded

information I had on Forced Activation, the First and the way Ezra reacted

my mother's memories were about preparation for the FA. The actual data in those memories was

immortality genes naturally," Asher said. "So when he turned six, mother took him on a trip beyond the walls in the weak blood colonies

fists, lowering my gaze to

she was crying when she told him she'd be right back. But I'm sure Ezra still wishes that our mother would have been honest with him back then, and told him she was abandoning him. That she'd never return

I

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

in my brows weakly, I tightened

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