When they touch me (Shelagh Milano)

Chapter 108 Artemisia

"So many tears for such a small being," Cassy snarls, dragging her voice.

I guess she is still recovering from her parasite, but it makes me happy nheless as she seems to want to gossip with me, instead of belittling me.

“Oh, you shouldn't have sent out Finnegan when he is this angry," Corvina says to Cayden but he just looks at her with a destructive look. “We don't know how Missy's blood affected Drake yet. So, that was very hazardous."

"At this point, I really don't care," he states coldly as Fynn pushes a hysterically crying Daisy into the chair in which Corvina was sitting just a few seconds earlier.

"Shut up," he snarls as she hiccups, squirming in her seat. "Look at him."

"Fancy to explain this?" Cayden asks, without waiting for her to look at him properly, and points to the black mush on my bedroom floor.

Daisy shakes her head with a devastated expression but decides to keep her mouth shut.

"You don't want to test my patience now, right Daisy?" He says as he stands in front of her, covering my view of her partly.

Fynn's and Logan's rage is flaring as they try to hold back until told otherwise. I can sense Matthew's anger rising as well as his caresses on my arm are getting increasingly edgy.

“I don't know what that is," Daisy sobs as she stares up at Cayden.

"That just came out of Missy. The supplements you gave her were full of the feed for that abomination. Don't try to lie, it won't end well for you," Cayden growls, his angered tone slowly showing that he is losing his patience.

Daisy shakes her head again, tears streaming down all over her face. "I didn't... I swear that I didn't know that was in it. They gave me the pills to spike her food. But I didn't know... She was doing fine. Right, Missy?"

She looks at me wide-eyed, making my heart race in my chest.

Everything seems like an abstract movie, and my stomach churns at the strange feeling growing in my chest.

"Why did Julie feel sick then?" I ask, squinting my eyes at her as I try not to let myself fall for her tears.

"Julie felt sick?" Her eyes widen even more before she looks back up at Cayden. "I didn't know that! I would have never endangered a pup!"

Her pleading demeanour makes my heart bleed and I slowly start to think that she might be telling the truth.

"Julie?" Corvina asks, and I nod in her direction.

"A little girl and daughter of an Omega who is part of the kitchen staff. She had to be taken to the hospital as she was throwing up after eating some of my food," I explain, making her wrinkle up her forehead.

She looks at me pensively, wanting to say something just as she gets interrupted by Cayden's deep voice.

"Who are they, Daisy?" Cayden asks, bringing my thoughts back to what she said earlier.

Maybe she was played.

“I don't know who they are. I thought the pills were given to me by the Alpha as I found them ready for me to be processed with the food every morning in the kitchen. They were waiting for me on a little plate, always in the same place," she explains, forming a cup with her hands as if it would underline the truth in her words. "Since you, Alpha Cayden, said that she needed to take them to feel better, I did my very best to give them to her based on a strict schedule."

I swear that I can hear the swoosh of everyone's gaze settling onto Cayden as he lifts a brow at Daisy. "I never told you she needed supplements." "But... But for the baby," she has barely spoken the words as Fynn grabs the collar of her blouse, shaking her.

She closes her eyes with a squeal as he snarls into her face, "Stop bullshitting us."

"Finnegan!" Corvina shrieks, making me jump as well.

Fynn's eyes are already fully black, and the veins grow into his face as whatever demonic entity is clawing onto Drake's soul shows himself on Fynn's skin. I want to get up instinctively but get pulled back by Matthew, who fixates me against his frame.

"Matt, let me go. He needs me to calm down," I argue, just as another movement catches my eye, making me shut down.

Logan charges forward, grabbing Corvina and slamming her against the wall to keep her from intervening. She gasps as she hits the wall full force, and I fear for Logan momentarily as I think a witch surely knows how to defend herself. But as I see her struggling against Logan's forearm crushing her windpipe, my worry swaps completely.

"Who told you she needed supplements for a baby?" Fynn shouts at Daisy while holding her in the air, making her kick her legs.

She coughs, "No, please. Alpha Cayden! It was Alpha Cayden! He needed her to take them. I had a.......”

She swallows her last words with a gasp as he pulls her close, growling into her face, “Lie again, and I'll eat your heart!”

My breath hitches in my throat as Daisy pales, stopping her pleas immediately.

"I- I-" she stutters, looking like she is about to faint any moment.

"You have to stop him," Corvina says breathlessly, clawing onto Logan's arm.

Logan smirks, shaking his head. "There is no need."

Fynn lets Daisy fall, making her slump back into the chair with a scream.

"Last chance, Daisy!" Cayden announces, spreading his arms. "Who told you that you had to give her supplements? Because it wasn't me."

Daisy's chest heaves as her breathing gets laboured.

"But..." she sobs, opening and

closing her mouth repeatedly. "You did! I got them with a letter and then found them on the plate. It was clearly your handwriting... I even

checked with another Omnes

It..."

"What letter?" Cayden asks with a growl, balling his hands into fists.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

"You have written me a letter. About

how the pack needs her to take those pills and how I am the only one who could achieve this!" She

says confidently, "I got apedret

her for a reason. I had to make sure the baby would be growing healthy. And make sure that she will be a healthy mom when she gets

pregnant." Her words make my heart

squeeze painfully in my chest.

She looks back and forth between Cayden and Fynn, seeming totally helpless while they just stare down at her.

Cayden completely cold, and Fynn with a terrifying appearance.

Cayden leans down, putting his hand on the backrest of the chair as he grins mockingly, "Bullshit!"

Daisy breathes fast, her chest

heaving even mire as she seems to

think of what to say next in total

panic. Fear is written all over hermet

face as she realises that there is no way that she will get out of this conversation alive.

I'm just about to say something when suddenly her face morphs, and she sets her eyes on me while her expression gets distorted by an evil grimace. "She was never supposed to come here! She should have stayed where she belongs. In that pack made of dumb weaklings!" Daisy screams at me. "Oh, my Goddess," I whisper as she continues her rampage.

"No one helped me with this. I knew that she had that thing in her through rumours from the Netherworld!"

"Stop him! Stop him!" Corvina pleads to Logan but he doesn't budge.

I feel Matthew's arm tighten around my waist as my heart drops to my stomach.

"She isn't supposed to be Luna. She is too stupid to be one. How is a useless she-wolf, who isn't even able to protect her own wolf, supposed to take the place of a Luna in the strongest pack in the world?"

Cayden straightens back up and continues to watch her indifferently while Fynn begins to chuckle, and my panic rises exponentially with Corvina's pleas about doing something to get him away from her.

Daisy takes a deep breath, glaring up at Cayden as she spits, "Luna Rachel is the only-"

My heart stills at the same moment as Daisy's words die in her throat.

She moves her head to look down slowly, looking at Cayden's arm that has perforated her chest.

Her stuttered groans fill the room, making me want to put my hands on my ears to shut this nauseating sound out.

I feel like time slows down, and Cayden is moving in slow motion as he pulls his arm back out, tearing Daisy's heart with it.

He holds it in his hand for a moment, watching the light fade from Daisy's eyes, just to throw it into the air to feed it to Fynn, who shifts temporarily to

catch it.