? The
Heartless
immortal ?
{Cold as ice and dark hearted…}
Written by Ibrahim Gift
Chapter eleven
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Harley was still day dreaming when another slap struck her face.
She has just been slapped by ember, she was still trying to figure out what happened earlier until Alex spoke.
“She already apologized so why are you venting your anger out on her?”, Alex asked and Harley realized that she has been day dreaming.
“So everything I said was just my imagination?”, she muttered.
“Back to work everyone”, Cyrus Instructed and then his eyes landed back to Harley.
Harley suddenly became nervous seeing that he was staring at her.
“Don’t you think you have some explanation to do?”, Cyrus said walking towards her.
“Lo—rd Cyrus…. Hmm”, she called.
“Follow me.”, He ordered and she stomped her leg on the ground.
Ember stared at the both of them jealously, she would admit that Cyrus was no longer given her the attention he used to, he was just focused on Harley.
Even everyone in the academy talks about it, there has been a bet recently that lord Cyrus loves her and some disagreed.
“Go on and explain, I am all ears.”, He said as he sat on a bend while she stood, her eyes glued to the ground.
“I am sorry.”, She simply said.
“Why did you say the spy approached you?”, He asked coldly and Harley released a de-eper breath before talking.
“She wanted to help me gain your attention.”, She replied and he didn’t talk for several minutes.
“Why?”
“Because I love you.”, She said as she closed her eyes.
She was scared of what he was going to say or do to her afterwards.
“You committed different offense — do you know that?”
“First, you disobeyed me by not leaving, secondly, you called me by my name, you tou-ched me, you talked to me without respect and you entered my kitchen.”, He said.
“I — I was just worried, I couldn’t bear seeing you in so much pain and I am sorry for everything that happened but I don’t regret it.”, She said and he raised a brow.
“So you will accept any punishment?”, He asked and she nodded hoping that it wouldn’t have to deprive her of her food.
“I will be thinking of your punishment.”, He said.
“I will leave now.”, She said about to leave.
“How did you recover your memory of that day?”, He asked.
Harley thought of what to say but she didn’t see anything, she didn’t want to drag ru-by into all of these.
“You better don’t lie to me.”, He added.
“A friend of mine, she helped me.”, She replied.
“So she knows? If I find out that she didn’t keep her mouth shut, then I will be for-ced to punish you.”, He said and she nodded.
“You should get rid of whatever feelings you have, I won’t accept it so if I were you I won’t waste my time.”, He said.
“Are you — are you rejecting me?”
“What does it look like to you? You will only get hurt if you can’t control your heart.”, He said.
“If you are worried about me getting hurt, you don’t need to worry about me.”, She said.
“I am not worried about you, I just don’t want anyone to die because of me.”, He said.
“Why can’t anyone die because of you? You keep saying that, why?”, She asked.
“I owe you no explanation.”, He said icily.
“Please tell me and i won’t disturb you on this again.”, She pleaded.
“Why should I even tell you? you are not that important.”, He said.
“I know but it wouldn’t hurt if you tell me.”, She said.
“Please…!”, She pleaded.
“I don’t want another punishment, the punishment I receive here is enough. If I cause the death of anyone, I will be punished for life.”, He said and Harley opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out.
“I don’t even know why I am telling you this, get rid of your feelings.”, He said and walked away.
“How many more things is he keeping to himself? He has so many secrets, I wish I can make him trust me to share his pain with me.”, she said.
***
“Are you still willing not to join us?”, Magnus asked and ember scoffed.
“You think you can trick me just to join you?”, She asked and Magnus just smiled.
“I’m not tricking you, no matter what you do, Cyrus is falling for Harley already and you can’t do anything to stop it except you join us.”
“Join us to win Cyrus while I get Harley.”, He said and ember just hissed.
“I know how badly you want to destroy Cyrus, so why should I trust you?”, She asked.
“Yes I want to destroy him but I can’t kill him cos he’s an immortal, once I finally bring him down and make him bow to me, you can finally have him.”, He said and ember thought for some seconds.
“Are you sure about that? Cyrus will finally be mine?”, She asked and Cyrus nodded.
“I have no reason to deceive you.”, He said.
“Fine I’m willing to join you, I will do everything just to have Cyrus.”, She said and Magnus smi-rked.
He released some black smoke from his body and they entered to that of Ember’s body making some chances.
Her fingernails became long, her eyes became very dark and her li-ps turned black.
She already has some demonic powers in her.
“I won’t take it lightly with you if you go back on your word.”, She said and left.
“Boss are you really letting her join us?”, Someone asked and Magnus scoffed.
“She is an idiot, does she really think that Cyrus will be hers?”
“I will just make sure I have many more people from his academy to join us. I want to see how he would react when he knows that someone who he has protected and cared for like a little sister is betraying him.”, Magnus said and they all laughed.
“Now that we have two people very close to him, he wouldn’t be more broken.”, Magnus added and they roared in laughter again.
★★★
? The
Heartless
immortal ?
{Cold as ice and dark hearted…}
Written by Ibrahim Gift
Chapter twelve
★★★
Harley thought that she would really be okay after Cyrus rejected her but she wasn’t.
She had managed not to tear up as he watched him leave but when she got to her dorm and saw her roommates, she burst into tears.
She went on to tell them what happened.
“Falling for him was a bad idea from the start.”, ru-by said as she comforted her.
“I know that it wasn’t supposed to happen but I don’t regret it.”, She said.
“Are you just clueless or pretending not to notice? Lord Cyrus likes you.”, Emily decided to talk.
She really didn’t want to talk but seeing Harley cry so much made her to say what she has observed.
“What are you saying?”, ru-by asked and Harley paused to stare at her.
“It’s quite obvious that he likes you but he just doesn’t want to make it be obvious, if not do you see how he stares at you, he has countless reasons to kill you but he didn’t and he treats you differently.”, She stated and ru-by and Harley looked at each other as if they were pa-ssing information to themselves.
“Is that true?”, Harley said and Emily nodded.
“But why would he want to hide it? It is not bad confessing your feelings to the person you like.”, ru-by asked and Emily just shook her head.
“Don’t you both get it? Lord Cyrus is different, he has so many enemies, he doesn’t want to have weakness. Though I don’t know what happened between him and Ariel but I heard that it was really bad because she was used against him.”, Emily explained and that was when ru-by and Harley reasoned what she just said.
“But no matter what I won’t betray him, I will always stand by his side.”, She said.
“That is what you should make him see, you should make him realize that you are different.”, Emily said.
“Yes I agree with Emily.”, ru-by said.
“Thank you so much Emily.”, Harley said and she nodded.
“I thought you were one rude and arrogant person.”, ru-by said Harley agreed and Emily glared at them.
“You guys were just too nosy for my liking.”, Emily replied.
“So how do I find out that he really likes me?”, Harley asked.
“Guys I have a plan, come here.”, She said and they quickly went to her bed.
She whispered to them and Harley shook her head in disapproval.
“There is no way, I am doing that. No please, think of something else.”, She said.
“That is what you will do, if you really want to know. No matter how cold a person can be, it would get to a point when he wouldn’t be able to hide his feelings.”, Emily said.
“Really? I think you are describing yourself, have you finally admitted your feelings for Alex?”, ru-by asked.
“I don’t know what you are talking about.”, Emily denied covering her face with her duvet.
“She is dating Alex?”, Harley asked ru-by.
“They are dating secretly and I caught them ki-ss ing.”, ru-by replied and Emily hit ru-by’s face with a pillow.
“You are a blabber mouth, we are not yet dating.”, She answered.
“But you both like each other.”, Harley said and Emily tried to hide her blus-h.
“Oh she’s blus-hing!!”, They teased her as they climbed her.
***
#Training ground
“Cyrus did you sleep well?”, Ember asked as she interlocked her arms into that of Cyrus.
“You don’t normally ask that? What’s wrong with you? You look a bit different.”, Cyrus said and ember blus-hed.
“Do I look more beautiful?”, She asked as she tucked her hair behind her ears.
Harley looked at them and glared ha-rd at Ember.
“If only your glares could kill, ember would be dead by now.”, Alex said to Harley finally gaining her attention.
“I am not glaring.”, She denied and Alex just laughed.
“You are really a jealous type.”, He said and she only scoffed.
“So what about you? You are not jealous whenever you see Emily with another guy?”, She asked.
“Of course I am, Emily is the type that hardly relates, if I see her with a guy then I will get jealous.”, He said.
Cyrus just stared at both Alex and Harley, they have been talking since and they were even laughing.
He clenched his fist seeing Harley so happy around Alex, maybe he should have trained her himself.
“What could they be talking about?”, he wondered.
Ember looked at Cyrus and Harley.
She saw how Cyrus looked at her.
She clenched her fist ready to attack Harley but she quickly recovered.
She can’t attack her yet, she would wait till they go to their mission today.
***
Everyone was set for the mission and after some minutes they arrived to the location where they were informed demons were.
Harley improved a lot than the last time, she was able to attack and defend herself.
“Oh see who we have here.”, Magnus said appearing in Harley’s front.
“Why aren’t you with your lover? No — that shouldn’t be the question, why are you still alive?”, He asked and Harley just glared at him holding ti-ghtly to her sword.
“Cyrus must really love you to go back on his word, I am so curious to know what he sees in you, how about I taste you?”, He said shamelessly and Harley boiled in anger.
“Calm down dear, you shouldn’t get angry yet or are you still in vir-gin ? You know — I would love to taste Cyrus’ woman.”, He said and laughed.
“That’s if you leave here alive.”, She said as she attacked him but Magnus was way stronger than her.
He just swung her, making her back him and he caged her in his arms.
He moved towards her ne-ck and sniffed her.
“You smell nice, you will surely taste nice.”, He said and Harley struggled to free herself.
“Let go of me, you demon.”, She yelled.
Then suddenly Magnus disappeared with her.
Ember quickly followed them, she was curious to see what Magnus would do to her.
“What do you think you are doing? Why am I here?”, Harley asked when she found herself into an abondoned building.
“What do you think?”, He asked as he went towards her.
Harley tried to move back but she was glued to that particular place she was.
She was unable to move her hand, she was already beginning to panic.
“Let go of me you monster!”, She screamed as his hand trailed towards her body.
“Your lover is the only monster I know, he killed his parents, brother and his former lover, he has even killed a lot of people and you are calling me a monster.”, He said.
Then suddenly ember appeared.
“What do you think you are doing? Let’s just kill her now.”, She said and Harley gasped seeing Ember.
“Ember? You are with him?”, Harley asked.
“What are you doing here? You aren’t suppose to be here.”, Magnus yelled.
“It’s too late now cos I am here already, let’s get rid of her now.”, Ember said.
“Please …. Please spare my life.”, Harley pleaded.
“I’m pregnant with lord cyrus child.”, She lied and they looked at her shocked.
“You are pregnant?”, Magnus asked falling for a little lie and she quickly nodded.
“That is another reason to get rid of you.”, Ember said angrily as she closed her eyes and the building caught fire immediately.
“We can use her and the baby against him.”, Magnus said to Ember.
“Let’s go now, it’s better she dies. I will have Cyrus all to myself.”, Ember said as she held Magnus and they both disappeared.
“Please don’t leave me here.”, Harley screamed as she tried moving her body but it was useless.
The fire was already beginning to get to her and there was smoke everywhere, she was already choking and breathing heavily.
Harley was finally giving up, at least she would die without any worry.
“Hailey…”, That same cold voice that makes her so nervous called her.
Even now, he still pronounced her name wrong.
“Cyrus …! Are you really the one?”, She asked and he raised his brow.
“Do I look like different?”, He asked still with his cold and huskily voice.
“Thank you for coming for me Cyrus.”, She said as she bursted into tears and rushed to hug him.
“Don’t touch me, I don’t ….!”, He didn’t finish his statement when Harley hug-ged him ti-ghtly like her life depended on it.
Well her life actually depends on it…
It was the moment she saw him that she was released and was able to move.
“Let’s get of here.”, He said releasing himself for her grip.
He carried her and they both disappeared.
★★★
Tbc