Reborn As The Daemon’s Wife - Chapter 150

She sat up and looked into the distance. Was she dreaming again? She could have sworn that she had heard Catalyah’s voice. Dairon was staring at her. She felt his gaze and turned to face him.

“I…”

“Are you okay?” He asked.

“I can’t get the book I was reading earlier out of my mind. I should probably finish reading it before trying to catch some sleep.” She skirted around his question. He didn’t pull his gaze away from her and that made her uncomfortable.

“Dairon?”

He tore his gaze from her and slid out of bed..  He didn’t spare her a glance as he walked out of the room. She panicked and ran after him. What was wrong with him?

“Dairon! Please stop.” She pleaded as she followed him down the staircase that led to the attic. She caught up and grabbed his wrist. “What’s wrong?”

His eyes were red when he looked at her and she knew that he was furious.

“Are you angry with me?” She asked with a slight tremor in her voice. She hated to see him this way, and hated herself for only realizing how far she had taken it with her selfishness now.

“I’m not angry. Just upset.” He pulled his hand from hers. He had wanted to take a breather on his own so his feelings would not get out of control. He looked down and saw how worried and remorseful she looked, and his heart melted.

“How could I be mad at you? I just didn’t know what to do.”

She pressed her lips into a thin line.

“My mate is obviously worried about something and it’s so bad that she can’t stop hallucinating and having nightmares about it, yet I don’t know what it is. I can’t even take her pain away if I want to. How do you think I feel, flower?”

She placed her hand on his arm. “I’m sorry.” She whispered.

He took note of her words. She didn’t intend to explain anything yet. He balled his fists and swallowed down the temptation to compel her into telling him the truth.

“Go back to sleep, okay? I’ll join you soon.” He urged.

He didn’t seem to want her to follow him wherever he was going so she gave up trying to ask. She watched him walk away and clenched her hand. She had the urge to stop him but could only let him go. The walk back to his room felt nearly painful as though there were needles in her soles. She glanced back every few seconds hoping he had decided to return and taken a u-turn.

She sat on his bed and lowered her body to lie on her back, letting out a breath. She felt a soft piece of cloth under her hand and picked it up, finding that it was his silk scarf. She took in his scent from the scarf and held it against her chest. How could she be so unfair to him when he loved her so much?

Before she could think twice about it and let the selfishness crawl back in, she ran out of his room and out of the mansion. He was right where she expected to find him—at the beach, facing the sea.

The breeze blew his hair slightly as the water played out a gentle tune. He looked breathtaking but the upset look on his face made her want to embrace him more than anything. So she did. She ran to the bench he was sitting on and embraced him from behind.

He was taken aback by her sudden attack, since he was so focused on the sea and didn’t feel her presence as she approached. He looked at her over his shoulder. “Why aren’t you asleep yet?” He asked.

“I wanted to have a word with you.” She circled the bench and sat next to him, slotting herself so her head was resting against his shoulder. When he wrapped his arm around her, she was relieved because it meant he was no longer too upset.

“The moon looks beautiful tonight.” He pointed at the reflection of the moon in the sea.

“It does.” She had to agree. She remembered part of her first dream and tilted her head to look at him. “Why does everyone call Narilia the moon?”

“She is a goddess among demons. The moon in the dark.” He knew that she was stalling for time but he let her.

She played with the strands of his hair that had fallen onto her shoulders as she gathered her words. “Yesterday, I met Ulke.”

“Ulke. Of course it would be him.” He hated that all his problems always had to have something to do with that demon.

She concentrated on making a little braid with his hair so she wouldn’t change her mind, even though her heart was racing wildly. “He thought I was Catalyah.” She recounted her conversation with the king of the underworld, including how he had proposed to her. She knew that some of the conversation was unnecessary but she had decided to stop hiding things from him so she recounted everything.

“Let me get this straight. Ulke told you that Catalyah’s soul had accidentally been sent to the human realm?” He asked for confirmation. When she affirmed it, he wanted to laugh. “If that were so, what would make him think you are Catalyah?”

She had not thought about it before either. “It only makes sense if Ulke knows that I was born in the human realm. He probably thinks I am the reincarnation of Catalyah, but how would he know where I was born?”

Dairon frowned as he faced the sea. Ulke had no business learning about such personal details of the inhabitants of the realm of immortals. Unless a god told him…

“Do you think Lord Dylan told him?” She asked when she thought about the same thing.

“No. But I think King Rian told him.” He declared.

She thought he was joking at first and when she realized that he really thought so, she wanted to know what he was thinking.

“The academies were redesigned eight hundred years ago so demons cannot go in unnoticed. I only manage to make it without being detected because I don’t reveal any traces of my demon side when I’m a demigod.” He explained. “If King Rian was shocked by Ulke’s arrival, he was pretending. He is the only one who can temporarily tamper with the detectors so they would not alert the other gods of the underworld King’s presence.”

Jasmine  was taken aback, not having ever thought about it that deeply. So was all this a trick? It seemed to be, but what would King Rian gain from making Ulke meet her?

He figured it out after thinking for a few minutes and the thought made him want to strangle the god once and for all.

“His aim is to turn you against me. He knows that the mention of Catalyah might just be what he needs to make you go crazy. You are insecure about her presence even though she is no longer there.” He analyzed.

She felt ashamed. How obvious was she, to let King Rian know what would make her lose her mind?

“You don’t have to feel ashamed about it. I wouldn’t be able to handle the thought of my mate possibly leaving me either.” He reassured her when he saw her expression.

“What would he gain from making me lose my mind over Catalyah?” He asked.

“You would drift away from me. Ulke would then make himself appealing before you, and the aim is for you to fall in love with him. Heck, you don’t even need to like him. He will put that illusion in your head. What’s worse, he will not even treat you well after using you. He will merely ditch you.” He stated angrily. “Rian is using Ulke and the fool doesn’t even know. I wonder how he convinced that bloke to play along.”

His hatred for Ulke would have made her even more insecure but she hated him just as much after hearing what the enemies must have planned.

“There has to be something that Ulke wants with his entire being but can’t get, and King Rian is the only one who can help him get it.” She guessed. There was no such thing as free favors that involved a demon.

It definitely had a lot to do with him. Dairon guessed, but he didn’t want her to be more worried than she already was so he didn’t mention it.

“So King Rian does want to marry me off to Ulke.” She was disgusted by the thought. “What made him certain that I am unlucky enough to cause the death of the king of the underworld along with all demons if I were to marry him?”

He took her hand and held it with her palm facing up. “I don’t know. But no matter how much I want Ulke dead, I will not let you marry him.”

She studied the side of his face. She was yet to be reassured. “What if Catalyah really came back to life?” She hesitantly asked.

He ran his finger along her palm. “If she did, she would never come back as Catalyah.”

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