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ALPHA FOUR : CHAPTERS 1 – THE END

CHAPTER 73 & 74

By Naomi Cindy B.

“M-m-mum?”

The beautiful woman smiled wider, and colour drained off Zinnia’s face.

What the hell is happening? A ghost? A spirit?

Is she seeing things? She attended her burial with Aunt Vivian, though Vivian never allowed her to see the corpse.

She told her seeing her mother’s corpse might cause nightmares and affect her in her later years, but she’s very sure of her death, so why…

Why is she right in front of her right now?

“No…. impossible” she shook her head, stepping back slowly.

Every single person in the room looks apprehensive.

Everyone is aware of her mother’s death, so the shock reached them too.

“Did dead bodies start waking? What am I witnessing?” Hardin muttered, and Malachi settled heavily on a couch.

Alice quickly sat beside him, smiling as she remembered what took place yesterday at the castle.

FLASHBACK*

The guards at the castle entrance strengthened their alertness when Vivian’s car pulled up right in front of it, and she came out boldly, walking with slow strides to them.

“I need to see the Overlord” she voiced.

“He made no mention of any visitation today, leave” their leader replied.

“Maybe if you tell him someone he’d like to see is here, he might change his mind” Vivian smiled.

The guards pointed their guns at her immediately….all of them.

“Leave the property!”

“Tell him Nica is here to see him!” Nica’s voice came from the car, and she stepped out too with the young boy, walking to Vivian.

The guards exchanged signals, and some of them went in to make inquiries.

Three minutes later, they rushed out.

“I’ll escort you” he told them, and they were led in.

The walk to the Den was fast, and they met Malachi seated like a mountain at his desk with Don Bennett in front of him.

They both stood in shock immediately the two women came in, and Malachi’s eyes fell on the little boy.

His eyes widened, and he rumpled his forehead.

“I understand your shock, you thought I was dead, didn’t you? You set the hospital on fire because you thought the child I was carrying was a girl, your child” Nica said straight, and Vivian faced her sharply.

“What are you saying, Nica?”

“This devil! He’s the father of Rigel” Nica replied, referring to the young boy with her.

“You had an affair with Malachi?” Vivian couldn’t close her mouth.

“Even before Gabriel started working for him as his son’s trainer….I met Malachi at a dark club where I worked as a bartender…He promised me paradise but what did he do? After I got pregnant and scan revealed the child to be a girl, he abandoned me. His hatred for females made him set the hospital on fire that day just to get rid of I and the baby, but I was luckily saved by your wife Aurora! She saved me before the hospital blew up!” Nica shouted at Malachi’s face.

Malachi folded his fists.

“I birthed my baby in shock, and I landed in comatose since then only to wake up last month. It was a boy yunno? A boy….the scan was wrong, he’s a boy!” Nica gently pushed Rigel forward, and the little boy looked up at Malachi’s face.

Malachi’s fist landed on the table, and Aurora came in.

“You….” He roared.

“You pretended not to know about it when I told you I was the mastermind behind Nica’s death. You betrayed me!”

“I couldn’t just sit still when I found out about your ploys. I know I’m just a sèx slave and a baby making machine to you, but I’m not heartless. You impregnated her then planned her death? You’re a beast hubby” Aurora shook her head.

“And now I’m hearing the news of your son’s relationship with my daughter? It can never work! My daughter will have nothing to do with this family!” Nica shouted.

“Nica you can’t do that…my son will lose it…don’t take away his only hope of redemption” Aurora started crying.

“Your Ladyship, I’m so sorry but I really really can’t take this. I had Rigel for Malachi, so allowing Malachi’s son for my daughter is precarious, it’s impossible” Nica shook her head, crying too.

“No one wants them together anyways” Alice said, coming in next.

“I was planning to kill her before, but you saved her by coming. Just take her and fly away from this country if you love her” she continued with a sly smile and looked over at little Rigel.

“Aww, aren’t you sooo cute? Little brother. Wait… Zinnia is my stepsister now, cool!” She laughed.

“I’ll take care of that. Killian’s relationship with Zinnia was never real” Malachi said.

“What are you talking about?” Aurora faced him.

“Soon enough” Malachi replied.

FLASHBACK ENDS*

Zinnia was already shedding hot tears at the end of the revelation, and her face and eyes changed colour to red, snot coming out of her nose.

“Wha…. What are you all saying? I don’t… I don’t understand… Say it again so I can get it…. M… Mum you… You had a child for…. For Malachi?…. Make me understand… Make me understand!!!!!! ” She screamed, holding her head tight.

“Make me understand!!!!!!”

“Listen! Killian is literally your stepbrother, meaning you have to cut your relationship with him immediately! Rigel is the thread holding our family together since he’s the son of your mother and my father!” Alice shouted.

“You shut the fûck up Alice! ” Alyssa spranged up.

“You do not shout at me Alyssa! ” Alice fired back.

“I’m so sorry Zinnia” Aunt Vivian said pitifully, and Zinnia shook her head, shaking so much.

“This isn’t real!!!! This has to be unreal mum!!!!!!” She continued crying, and Alice smiled in relief.

“Mama Bear, I’m so…” Nica started crying too…

“Don’t call me that!!!!! How could you sleep with a man you met at the club? And of all men it had to be the Overlord? I’m so sick of it!!!!” Zinnia cried again, still holding her head.

Killian is right beside her, but ever heard of the feeling of being somewhere and also not being there at the same time?

That’s exactly what’s going on with him right now. He’s busy plotting how to decimate everyone in this room except Zinnia.

He wants to kidnap her and take her away from the claws and move her faraway with himself.

That’s the only way to settle this cos no fúcking body is ruining this.

No one is taking his little flower away from him, no one is taking his Zinnia away.

His jaws gritted, and his muscles started clenching.

Nothing is making sense in here, everybody is spewing garbage and it stinks!

He opened his mouth to talk, but that was when Zinnia ran out of the cottage.

He made to follow, but Hardin stopped him by the shoulder.

“I’ll handle it” he told him and ran after her

Killian faced Malachi instantly.

“What the fûck are you trying to pull? Is this your last resort?” He muttered.

“No. Actually my last resort is yet to come. We have a secret between us remember?” Malachi smiled knowingly, and Killian felt his head falling.

“Let her return, then we finish this” Malachi said.

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KAREN’S PLACE*

Sitting on the couch with lollipop between her lips, Karen reminisced about her moment with Jordan on this same couch yesterday, and she started giggling.

She got her phone and went to his IG, but strangely, he posted nothing since hours ago.

“Strange” she muttered, going to Hardin’s.

Hardin posted nothing too. He literally updates his IG every hour, so it’s odd.

She went to Zade’s, and it’s empty too, but when she got to Killian’s page and saw a picture of him and Zinnia that he posted two hours ago, she screamed out and was even unaware of when she stood from the couch.

“OMG!!!!! Bam!” She gushed, jumping on her toes as she loved the picture and started typing a comment.

Kar_love: Beautiful! I love you sm Zee, you look good with Kill!

She dropped the comment, went to the girls group chat and was about to inform them when her doorbell rang, ruining it.

She quickly ran to open the door, and her eyes widened when she saw Ludo with her bags.

“Ludo?”

“I was chased out of the mansion, and my accounts are frozen. I have no penny on me and nowhere to go. I know I’m not worth it but please…. Can I stay the night? ” She asked.

“What did I just hear you say?” Sunny’s voice came, and they both turned to see her just entering the mansion with Priyanka.

“Stay the night? Where? In this mansion? You’re mad!” Priyanka sneered.

Ludo went on her knees, and their eyes widened.

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BENNETT’S MANSION*

Don Bennett has been pacing the living room since daybreak, thinking about what he saw at the castle yesterday.

Nica is back?

She’s not dead?

It’s the most shocking news of the century, and he still hasn’t been able to digest it.

He ran his hand through his open grey hair, and Dona Bennett came out of the kitchen with a bowl of custard for Honoria who’s still crying in her room.

“Are you sure you’re ok? You’ve been restless since you came back from the castle yesterday. Did something happen over there? ” She curiously asked.

Without replying, he went upstairs, and she sighed.

“What’s happening?” She muttered, going upstairs too.

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GABRIEL’S PLACE*

With three bottles of alcohol on the table, Gabriel is heavily drunk.

He belched for the uptenth time, and a small chuckle escaped his throat when he mulled over his life drama.

To think that he worked so hard to make Nica happy throughout their marriage, and she payed with wickedness.

He could still remember how he worked at a construction site just to cater for her when she was heavily pregnant with Zinnia.

And when she got pregnant with the second child, he took the training job and had to apply inhumane method to train Killian just to get payed heavily by Malachi and take care of her.

At the end of his damn struggles, none of the two kids belonged to him, they belong to two different fathers.

Isn’t it funny? He came emptily and it seems he’s gonna return emptily.

The hospital fire shouldn’t have been her death, he should have killed her himself.

That’s his only regret.

He shouldn’t have hated Zinnia so much, she’s just an innocent little thing caught up in all of these

Nica is the starter of everything.

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BACK AT THE COTTAGE*

Zinnia didn’t run for long before Hardin caught up with her under the shadow of a teak tree.

He grabbed her hand to drag her to a stop, and her hair covered her red face at the suddenness.

“Where are you running to? Huh?” He asked, and she sniffled before releasing tears from her eyes again.

“I seriously can’t take everything they’ve been saying. I don’t wanna leave Cameo. I swear I’m gonna die… I can’t live without him anymore… I want to continue seeing his smile… I want to stay with him… He can’t be my stepbrother… Can you please assure me that it’s all a dream? We’re in a dream, right? It isn’t real… Huh? Cameo is my life… I can’t… I’ll die!!!” She squatted and continued crying on her knees.

Hardin squatted with her and started rubbing her back.

“Then running won’t solve it. No matter how long and how far you run, you can’t stay away from it. Face it now and get it over with” he said.

“I don’t want to… I can’t… How could mother do this to me” she hiccuped.

“Come with me, we can settle it once and for all” he pulled her up.

She kept pulling back, but he successfully brought her back to the cottage.

She immediately left him and went to Killian to hide behind him.

She hugged him behind and stayed there.

He removed her arms and faced her, hugging her from the front.

“I love you so much… I love you… Don’t listen to them” she shook her head, and he held her red sweaty face.

“Calm down for me, mmkay? Nothing is fúcking happening” he assured, and she nodded as he hugged her again.

“Isn’t this affection too deep for a devil who’s only toying with you? You’re just a plaything” Malachi said huskily.

“What are you talking about!” Jordan spranged up.

“I guess he told you the story about the Mafia Lord and his sons already. Do you know who Gabriel is in that story?” Malachi continued nevertheless, and Zinnia looked up from Killian’s chest.

“It’s the same Gabriel you know, your father… Gabriel Holt” Malachi said, and Killian’s jaw gritted as Zinnia released him.

“What?”

“He’s the reason he trapped you in his web” Malachi said, and Zinnia’s heart skipped beats.

“Huh?”

“Gabriel didn’t rape anyone in your former school, it was all set up by Killian to implicate him. You were expelled and no school was willing to take in a rapist’s daughter, then Killian told me to take you into Royal Pride High!” Malachi said, and Zinnia staggered.

Malachi snapped his fingers, and Alice got a disc which she inserted into the player, connected to the TV.

A video began playing, featuring Killian from months ago.

He entered Malachi’s Den in the castle with his ice-cold expression, and Malachi smiled at his sight.

“What are you planning to do now that you implicated Gabriel?” He asked.

“Contact the Aunt and admit the girl into the school” Killian replied stonily.

“What’s the plan?” Malachi asked curiously.

“I promised Gabriel to destroy his wife and daughter. His wife is dead, but his daughter will bear it all. I’ll make her my pawn, lure her into my web and then drop her into the fire…. I’ll watch her burn, and by the time she’s ashes, I’ll come for you” Killian replied, and Malachi smiled.

“I’m included in your plan too?”

“Of fúcking course,. You started it all, and you’re the last person I’ll kill after her. You and her father. Just get her into the school, that’s all you need to do” Killian replied and walked out of the Den.

The video ended, and the TV went off.

“This is from three months ago before Zinnia’s admission, and an evidence that this is all a revenge plan! You’re a pawn in his game! You’re nothing but a plaything! His plan was to kill you after everything” Malachi said.

Every mouth in the room hung open, even the brothers and Alyssa’s.

Nica and Vivian just stood rooted, gulping at intervals.

Hotter tears fell from Zinnia’s eyes, and she slowly faced Killian as she felt her world crashing without any landing in sight.

She’s breathless.

She couldn’t breathe.

She’s in a haze.

She’s lifeless.

When her eyes met his own, more tears fell directly from her eyes to her cleavage.

“Cameo… You… You didn’t…

“That was my plan before i saw you at the park. I discarded it immediately I saw you that night Zinnia! I wouldn’t hurt you… I’d rather axe myself to smithereens instead of touching a strand of your fúcking hair… I wasn’t joking when I said I can’t live without you… You’re not a plaything, you’re not a pawn, you’re my everything!” He shouted, and she shook her head, stepping away from him.

“Don’t!” He grabbed her hand.

“You promised… You said you’d never take it back! You love me!” He glared desperately.

“Mama Bear, let’s go home” Nica said.

“Shut the fûck up you don’t have any right to talk!!” Killian yelled.

“She’s my daughter, and you’re just a devil lurking and waiting to claw her…let go of her!” Nica yelled back.

“Zee we have to go… ” Vivian persuaded.

“Let go of me, Cameo” Zinnia muttered, not looking at his eyes.

“Look at me and say that….look into my fúcking eyes and tell me that again” Killian muttered.

“Let me go… It’s suffocating here. I can’t… I’m gonna pass out” she shook her head, wriggling her hand.

“Then pass out! I’ll take you!” He snapped.

“Kill” Hardin cautioned, and Killian gritted his jaws.

Zinnia wriggled her hand again, and this time he reluctantly let go.

She walked to Nica, and Nica hugged her tightly.

“I missed you Mama Bear”

She didn’t hug her back though.

Vivian took Rigel, and together with Bruno, they started walking out of the cottage.

Killian expected Zinnia to turn and look back, run back, but she didn’t.

She didn’t.

She didn’t fúcking turn.

Not even for once.

His eyes turned red in a whim, his head turned blank, and he immediately started walking to Malachi.

His surrounding guards drew their guns and targeted him, all of them.

The brothers and Alyssa drew their guns too, and this time, they didn’t hold back.

A whirlwind of gunshots happened.

Within a minute, they shot down the fifteen guards, and Malachi stood in shock.

Bullets filled the ground like crackers, and the smell of metal filled the air.

Few steps before he’d get to him, Killian picked a wooden chair and swung it in his hand.

He took the last step to Malachi and brought the chair down to his head.

The wood crashed to splinters on Malachi’s head, and he fell back heavily on the ground, blood trickling out of his head.

“No… You can’t die yet… Stand the hell up!!!!!” Killian roared.

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