章 52: Heart Strings

My eyes widen in shock but before I can do anything, he disappears into thin air. I lay on the bed, wide-eyed as I try to comprehend what just happened. He kissed me! I slowly lift my hand up to my lips, lightly touching them with a dazed look.

That was my first kiss...

My face turns completely red as I feel like my whole body is suddenly blushing! I quickly sit up, holding my lips as if someone had tried to steal them! No, they had already been stolen!

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BOLIN

Bolin suddenly appears outside of a dark and empty town. As he walks over to the largest building, shadows crawl and shift along the other buildings, silently following him. He lifts a thumb up to his lips, slightly smiling but his eyes remained cold.

He was angry she was so quick to give up. To throw herself up on the altar of sacrifice and while he does understand why she did it, it still pissed him off that she thought so little of herself. That she valued herself so little. It also pissed him off that she didn't see him as someone she could trust and rely on.

Doesn't matter, she was obviously used to being alone and only relying on herself so from now on, he planned to show her that he was someone who wasn't going anywhere. Someone she could trust and rely on. Someone safe.

Even if the whole world goes up in flames, he would be her safe place.

When he comes to a stop in front of the large building with boarded-up windows, the dark shadows begin to descend upon the house but don't enter it. If anything, more and more cover the house until the whole thing looked as if it had been swallowed up by a black hole.

The sun had long disappeared so nothing but the moon and a few stars could be seen. He looks down, trying to control his rage but when he looks up, his eyes glow red. The solid black eyes were now replaced with a bloodthirsty red color that made a person's blood run cold at just the sight of them.

As he steps up to the door, the shadows blow the door clean off and into the building!

The door flies into the room, hitting two guys and knocking them over. Dade quickly jumps up, looking towards the door with a menacing look in his eyes but when he sees what walks through the door, he feels his heart skip a beat.

As Bolin walks in, the dark shadows rush in through the door behind him, covering the entire house inside. Dade stumbles back as fear threatens to overtake his entire mind! What were those things!? When Bolin looks up, Dade's heart literally stops.

The protective spells were going off sounding like explosive alarms, but nothing happened to the man with red eyes! He stood there unbothered like nothing could touch him as black things kept pouring into the building at terrifying speeds.

His men were screaming and yelling, trying to throw up personal protection spells but nothing seemed to work against the black things! Dade stumbles back as Bolin turns his deadly gaze on him. It feels as if death itself was slowly crawling its way up his spine before tightly wrapping its cold, boney hands around his heart.

He had never felt anything like this in his entire life! Nor had he ever read of anything like this! He grips his chest as fear nearly takes over his mind but all he can see are those red eyes as he falls to his knees and gasps for air.

Bolin slowly walks over before coming to a stop before Dade's kneeling body. He looks down at him with those blood-cold eyes as he says, "I will not kill you because you're still useful to me but as soon as you cross the line and try to touch Lyra or those she cares about again, I will kill you but not before I let my friends here have fun with you."

Dade looks up at Bolin and struggles to get anything out. Large, slightly transparent red eyes suddenly appear behind Bolin, hanging in the air like promises of death! They almost looked like Bolin's eyes, but they were larger and more sinister.

Dade wets himself as he feels tears of blood flowing down his face. Bolin sneers at him as he says, "Stay and cause as much trouble as you want but Lyra is mine. What belongs to her is also mine. The second you forget that, I will kill you."

He leans in a little, causing the large glowing red eyes behind him to grow larger. Bolin lowers his voice as he says, "No matter where you hide, I can see you. No matter where you run, I can reach you. Even during the day when everything is washed in light, there are shadows."

Bolin's voice echoes in and around him sounding like the pits of hell had opened and the devil himself was threatening him. It felt as if the very devil was playing with his life as if he was nothing more than a tiny pathetic mouse.

Dade's entire body shakes as his heart struggles to beat. It feels as if all the blood in his body was trying to flow backward! He falls forward, landing on his face. Without caring about the pain, he struggles to reach out.

His face is stained from the bloody tears as they continue to fall. His veins were protruding as he reaches out and grabs Bolin's foot in desperation. He tries to gasp out 'mercy' but nothing but a strangled noise is heard.

Bolin watches him with those cold glowing red eyes as the larger pair do the same but at no point does he see an ounce of mercy. No hesitation, no emotion except for cold hatred. Pain assaults his hand, causing him to release Bolin's foot.

Suddenly the entire building felt as if a black tornado was tearing through it. Dade tries to hold on but as soon as he closes his eyes, he sees the terrifying pair of red eyes floating in the darkness! Screams of pain and terror can be heard before everything comes to a stop.

Dade gasps for air, thankful that he can breathe again but fear still lingered in every inch of him. He lays there for a while, trying to wipe the bloody tears that still fall from his eyes. When he hears the sniffling and soft crying around him, he slowly sits up to find all his men in various states of fetal positions.

Their hair was white!! Every single one of them! Dade reaches up with a shaky hand and plucks a few strands of his hair and sees that it too was white!

They all had tears of blood running down their faces, it was truly a terrifying sight to behold. If anything, they looked like wandering, tormented ghosts. His men rock back and forth, some just silently crying while others constantly mumble things under their breaths.

Dade looks down at the hand that grabbed Bolin's foot and sucks in. His hand was black! It looks as if he placed it inside a fire! His shaking intensifies as he slowly reaches up and touches it with his other hand. It was hard! What had he done to him!?

What was that man? No, he was no man! There was no way that thing could be human! His entire body shivers as he brings his burnt hand up to his chest. His eyes were filled with indescribable fear and a touch of hatred.

He reaches out, trying to use his magic to try and help heal his hand when he suddenly realized nothing happened. He tries to call up his magic again but just like before, he's greeted by silence.

NO!

No no no nooooo!

A terrifying, soul-shattering scream can be heard as fresh tears of blood begin to fall. Bolin took his magic! He took it!!