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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NYASA
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I felt someone hit me quite hard on my left arm, I wondered why and thought I was dreaming but when I felt water on my face like someone poured a whole pail of it on me. I knew I wasn’t sleeping and I opened my eyes to see the sorceress with Kieran. She was very angry and I wondered why she was. I looked away from her scary face and looked around me to discover that I was in sort kind of room, with the bed just opposite the window. How did I get in here and if Claudia is here with me, it means I am in the forgotten lands, guess the good spirits heard my prayers for them to provide a way for me. I saw some luggage on the floor which meant that it was Kieran’s room, he wasn’t in the room and I was left with an angry sorceress. Anyway, she knows she can’t harm me.


“Your plan came to fruition, didn’t it?” She said. I feigned ignorant and asked,


“What are you on about now?”


“Just stop with the pretense, you did all you did on the way here to make Kieran take you in here. You knew you couldn’t take all of those men but still revealed yourself when any dumb assassin would have remained in hiding until sure of victory. I saw you put yourself in harm’s way so that those men would walk on you. You did all that just to make Kieran believe you were protecting him and throwing your life away for him. You knew if you were terribly injured, he wouldn’t abandon you and will fight anyone to get to a place where you should never be in the first place. You used his goodwill against him and now he foolishly thinks he owns you when in truth you are only working for your evil master. You are cunny, repulsive as well as pathetic. I wish Kieran never found a way to heal you so that you could have been long dead, paying for your sins in the underworld. You gordonds don’t deserve to live after the horrible things you have done to so many innocents in your service to your king. I hope you will be ready to betray him when the time comes because I know you will and I also hope you will be the one to tell him how you and your fellow demons killed his family. How you set fire to his daughter and watched how his wife was raped till her death. Will you be able to tell him Because if you don’t, someone else will. You don’t deserve the goodness of a man you helped kill his only last saving grace, and yet here you are, well and sound, ready to continue with the work you have been assigned to. My hatred for you knows no end and I will make sure you do not hurt him more than you already have.”


She spat at my face before leaving the room. I sighed before getting up; I moved the thick cloth used to cover me to discover that I was actually naked. I wondered who might have removed my clothes and then it hit me that I forgot to take along my bag after I tied it to my horse. I slapped my head in disappointment, well, you can’t have everything. I had to get in here and if my precious cloth was the sacrifice, then so be it. I went to the wash tub where I washed myself and checked for any injuries, there were none. I took a great risk getting myself injured like I did, knowing that I couldn’t be healed by normal healers. I hoped that Kieran will discover his connection with me and healed me, from the look of my skin, I guess he did. I saved his life and he saved mine. I might have used his goodwill but it doesn’t matter as I must see to it that I fulfill the desire of my master. The witch said some troubling things though, how did she know that I was with my master when Kieran’s family was being mishandled by him. No one knows about our targets and who we go after, how then did she know of Kieran’s family?


Anyway, it doesn’t matter as I have no regrets to what I did, what happened just had to happen. I will always make my master happy before anyone else. I left the wash tub and searched for the cloth that was removed from me, I checked my trousers and found what I was looking for; my travel book. I smiled as I took one of the coats in the room and covered myself with it, the next thing I need to do is make Kieran hate Claudia and make him trust me. I need his trust and I have earned it.


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CLAUDIA
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As I charged towards where that filth was kept, I overheard Maureen in a conversation with one of the guardians. They were talking about the gordand and how foolish Kieran was to heal the woman who helped killed his family. I was shocked at such a discovery and tried my best not to scream. Kieran’s ignorance might just be his downfall, I will have to watch him even if he is safe here but he is not far away from trouble as long as that woman lives here. He is making enemies with those who will help him and becoming closer to those who killed his family and will surely kill him when the time comes.

She didn’t deny my accusations but kept a straight face. She still have her plans but I wonder why she seems to care deeply for Kieran or could that be one of the instructions given to her by her master. She has gone beyond watching him now; it seems she wants him to see her in another light, which explains why she slept with as soon as she met him and always appearing in his time of trouble. Surely, Kieran won’t see her as the killing demon she is any longer but one he can share his thoughts with. I can deal with an enemy who wants my friends dead but one that wants to be with my friends and in so doing, make me the enemy is one I don’t know how to deal with. Anna might have other uses for Kieran but as long as this woman is among us, such plans will come to nothing. I will make it my responsibility to prevent such from happening, after all my failure to see beyond the surface allowed her access into this place. I will redeem my image as well as protect the broken man.