Chapter 118

"What do you think of this?" Selene asked as she showed Inez a baking book.

"I am afraid that I cannot help you with this, Miss Selene," replied Inez with a soft smile. She looked at the innocent woman in the wheelchair and said, "I have no idea what the two women like." And even if she did, she knew that the second Selene presented the gift as something that she chose for Edira and Morrineth, the two women would definitely refuse it.

Selene frowned. She placed the book back on the counter and said to her, "You are right; I don t think that they will like a baking book." Though both of them liked to eat cakes, Selene wondered if her grandmother or Aunt Morrineth would bake anything.

She turned to look at the rest of the gift shop and groaned, "I just cannot understand what to get them. There are so many options; I just cannot fathom what to buy."

Laxus glanced at her. He opened his mouth but shut it close soon after.

A good decision, thought Inez, as the man had given Selene more than six suggestions and none of them had worked because the woman didn t like any of them.

"Why don t you buy a piece of jewellery for the two of them?" Inez suggested. She recalled how happy Evelyn was every time Dominic gifted her something expensive and shiny. Inez had no fondness for diamonds or gold, for sirens naturally felt proud of their appearance, which was prettier than any jewel.

It was inherent arrogance that she couldn t get rid of.

But women seemed to like them.

"You are right," said Selene with a tired expression. "I might as well buy them necklaces or rings or something else. I mean, I will go crazy if this continues."

As she finished speaking, Laxus heaved a sigh of relief. Though the man had not complained, Inez knew that Laxus was getting tired of visiting shops after shops. And honestly, who was Inez to blame him? She, too, could feel her soles hurting after walking for three hours.

"I was thinking that a nice ruby ring would be nice "

"When the sky peels open like skin, when the ground drinks fire and weeps tears of blood when everything crumbles but not from the hand of a man. Then shall everything be razed, and something more than just men will rise."

Selene was still speaking when Inez suddenly halted. Her eyes went ice cold and turned a pearly white. She spoke in a misty and chilling voice, which was different from her usual voice.

Feeling hands pulling her upper arms, making her heart pound, Inez snapped out of the eerie silence where she was trapped... and found Laxus standing in front of her. The man was frowning hard while Selene was looking at her with a look of pure concern.

"Inez! Inez, answer me!"

Instinctively, Inez stepped back, as she didn t like it when someone touched her. Especially so hard as if they were trying to trap her. Glancing around, she saw that everything was fine and yet Selene was looking at her with a worried look on her face.

"What what happened?" Inez asked because she only recalled her entire body going cold and getting trapped in a space from which she could not get out.

"You sort of went rigid and said something about the sky opening like a peeled skin and raze... what happened?" Though Selene had never seen or met with a siren before, and she had never confronted Inez regarding her identity, even though she knew that Inez was a siren.

As far as she knew, Inez was her saviour who was giving her a chance to live her life. Other than that, she didn t care about what other identities Inez had, as she couldn t care less about anything else.

"I what did I say?" Inez turned to look at Selene and asked her to repeat what she had told her just now, and once she finished listening, she exchanged a glance with Laxus. At once, realisation hit her and she said, "Run! Move! we have to fucking move now."

Inez didn t need to say it again.

Though the sudden change threw Laxus off, he still brought Selene in his arms and carried her out of the mall in a princess carry.

Without breaking stride, the two of them rushed to the ground floor and glanced behind them.

"What s going on?" Selene asked as she couldn t understand why Inez and Laxus suddenly rushed out of the mall.

"Unless you want to die, keep quiet," rumbled Laxus as he rushed past the many cars with Inez dodging. Neither of them looked behind at the SUV that they had brought with them to the mall. Instead, she ran out of the mall on their feet. And then

A blast of fire erupted. A rumble shattered the ground, and heat raced after them like a poisonous snake.

Inez didn t even think twice before she sent Laxus and Selene sprawling on the floor. She gritted her teeth in pain as a burst of heat exploded on her back. But even if the pain was enough to make her throw up, Selene was alive. Albeit she was shocked and scared, she was alive, and that s all that mattered.

"Oh my god, Inez!" Selene gasped from somewhere, and Inez, who could only see white spots in front of her eyes. noveldrama

"Are you alright?" Inez asked while ignoring the ringing in her ears.

"I am fine, but you you...oh my god, Inez, you don t look good."

Oh, that was all? Inez thought as she collapsed.

And the second, she fell, and all hell broke loose.

Killian ignored the knock on the door of his bedroom, just as he was bent on ignoring everyone else. Instead, he stayed put on the seat on which he had been sitting for the past three hours since he had laid an unconscious Inez on it. The sight of her ashen face and dark smudges under her eyes was enough to make his wolf frantic.