Must Read: A Broken Destiny: The Sword Of Vengeance

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Must Read: A Broken Destiny: The Sword Of Vengeance

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KIERAN
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“Take the straight path and turn to your left when you get to a cross-head. You should see a little cabin, stop there and wake me up.” Claudia instructed and shortly after fell asleep on my back. I still wonder how someone can sleep despite the uncomfortable movement of the horse. She did anyway and I was left to myself. We entered the town of Aydridrill not too long ago, I thought of stopping at an inn as that has been the regular routine but she was against it. Probably, because of what I did with the strange woman at the inn, she hasn’t been talking with me as she usually does. I still don’t what is it to her if I sleep with a stranger, I am a grown man; I don’t need anyone’s approval to fvck whom I want. Anyway, her disapproval or disgust over what I did is the least of my concerns right now. I need to know why King Lucien came after my family, murdered them and waited a few days later before coming after me. I have been trying to make sense of it but I have been hitting walls. Now, if he is truly after me, why would he send a woman to do the job, after all the last time he sent the most powerful wizard in the land and a couple of soldiers. His change of personnel means he doesn’t want me captured, he wants me watched. He wants to know what Claudia and her precious Anna want with me; well, that’s brilliant from him.

Soon, we reached the little cabin Claudia directed me to earlier. I woke her up and got our things before heading for the Cabin. It was late in the afternoon that we arrived there and as soon as Claudia opened the door to the cabin, she collapsed on the bed. She was fast asleep within a very short time. The cabin was well kept and arranged which shouldn’t be considering the dirty surroundings. She must have visited this place when she was coming for me or someone else did. She seems to be well known around here too because as she passed, people bowed their heads in greeting. Is she is some kind of princess or what, because most sorceress don’t get such respect. They are mostly feared by the by the populace.

I turned my attention from her and decided to clean up the surroundings and clean the horse. I dropped our things on the floor, washed my face and hair and then went out to do the clean-up. As I cleaned up the horse, memories of my father teaching me how to ride a horse rushed into my head. I was seven then and mother didn’t think I was ready yet but Father felt I was because I was taller than most of my friends of the same age. My first lesson was one of the scariest moments of my life because as soon as my father set me on the horse. I hit the horse and screamed “he-yah” just as father does but unfortunately, I wasn’t expecting the horse to move. Its sudden movement set me off balance and I almost fell off it. I was screaming for my father to save me as it was the straddle on the horse that was holding me from bashing my head on the ground. My wicked father didn’t help, he was laughing instead with mother scolding him for doing so. My legs were flying freely and my chest hurt from exerting so much pressure to keep myself from falling. I hoped for the dumb animal to stop but it didn’t as it was close to entering the woods then. I knew if I get in there with the way I was, my legs wouldn’t be flying freely again. In my desperation, I pulled the reins with one of my hands, the horse didn’t stop. I pulled again and still it didn’t stop, probably because my little hands couldn’t exert the required force to stop the animal. We were almost at the woods, I couldn’t keep on hoping and with both hands, I pulled the reins and this time the horse stopped.

Holding on to the reins only and swaying freely in the air allowed me to use my whole weight to pull the reins which stopped the horse. Of course, I didn’t know this then and I returned home that day crying and saying that I would never ride a horse again after picking myself from the ground. I chuckled at my childhood experience, I left the horse to eat and set out to cut the grown grasses when I heard a heavy stump. I stopped what I was doing immediately and set out to know what caused that noise. The noise came from the woods and not the house but still I decided to check on Claudia before setting out into the woods. She was still asleep, the noise didn’t wake her. I took the machete I was using in cutting the grasses and went to the point of the noise. I looked around when I got there but I didn’t see anything that could have caused the noise but I saw tracks. Someone was just here and probably isn’t too far away. I tried to follow the tracks but it led to nowhere, the fellow must have disturbed the pattern. I looked up hoping to see something but there was nothing. If the fellow was watching then it means that he or she is still watching. I decided to fool the person by going back the same way I came and then after walking a few steps, I hid behind a big tree. The tree would have blocked the fellow’s view of me and will most likely force the person to come out from his or her hiding place because I am certain that the fellow was sent to watch me.

I waited for quite some time before I heard rustling of leaves and then the quiet sound of someone or something walking towards my hiding place. When the movement was just a step away from where I was, I left my hiding place and emerged right in front of the person. The person was shocked and before the fellow could react, I punched the lungs of the person which forced him or her back. I quickly put my hands around the neck of the person, raise the body up and slam it on the ground. I heard a few curses and some groans, I sat on the person with my machete to the unknown person’s throat and asked;

“Who are you?”

“ Fvck your c.ock, it’s me , Vanessa.”

I heard the person say, I quickly removed the cloak covering the face of the person, and truly, it was her. She has been following me all this time,

“ …..You?” I asked, not too surprised to see her.