Chapter 385
Chapter 385
Chapter 385
Snowflakes
I had waited on pins and needles for the man named Gafi, every second stretching into agony.
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Cupid had vanished from my sight, and the realization hit me like a blade. A life without him felt just as empty, just as dead.
I have sent Sera a text message to meet us here in few hours.
It didn’t take long. A sleek black car pulled up beside Cupid’s abandoned vehicle. A man stepped out. Tall, broad–shouldered, radiating quiet menace.
He wasn’t like any ordinary enforcer; the way he carried himself screamed experience, danger honed to a fine edge. When his eyes found me, he approached with measured steps and offered a respectful bow.
“Good morning,” he said, voice low and steady. “I am Gafi p>
I nodded, throat tight, swallowing hard against the fear and hope churning inside me.
A boat was already waiting at the dock. I hurried after him without a word. We cut through the water at full speed and arrived just in time to witness the nightmare unfolding in the main cabin. Cupid standing there, Alpha Ruis aiming a gun straight at his chest.
“For what?” Cupid asked, voice calm but laced with raw hurt, echoing the same question screaming in my own mind. “I served you faithfully for eighteen long years. I never asked for anything in return. And now you’re trying to dispose of me? Why p>
Alpha Ruis paused, staring at him with cold, unreadable eyes. Then, jaw locked tight, he slowly lowered the gun and took a deliberate walk toward the couch but he didn’t sit. He stood there, towering, radiating fury.
“Because you dared to rebel,” he said, each word clipped and venomous. “I dragged you out of the garbage pit you called a life as a rogue. I cleaned you up, gave you power, wealth, status. And after you had everything, you had the audacity to walk up to me and demand retirement. I knew I had to act fast before you actually walked away for good p>
He continued, voice growing colder with every revelation.
“Feroz wasn’t dead yet, so we couldn’t take any risks. To speed up his demise, I teamed up with Grant Frost. We arranged for Feroz to infiltrate H.O.W.L. and attack your woman.
“That way, you’d go berserk and finish him off yourself. But even then, you didn’t get the job done. Luck, however, stayed on our side. Your woman stormed the hospital, broke his spirit with words.
“Feroz lost all hope, he’s lying low now. Killing him can wait; another mafia man can handle it. The time was right to eliminate you before you became a real threat p>
My blood turned to ice. I literally went still, breath trapped in my lungs.
“With you gone,” Alpha Ruis went on, “all the properties in your name revert to the Godlike, all mine. No more sharing the drug revenue with you. It all becomes ours.
“The original plan was to stage your suicide, make it clean. But luck smiled again. Yenda, drunk as always tried to force himself on his own sister.
“Desmond called the ambulance; cops were bound to follow. What was I supposed to tell them? That incest was happening under
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my pack while I ruled and I knew nothing? No.
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“It was the perfect opportunity, kill two birds with one stone. Frame you, get rid of you, and shield Yenda from charges p>
He finally turned his gaze on me, eyes glittering with contempt as he raised the gun toward Cupid again. My heart stuttered violently.
“I have to commend you for your brilliant work,” he said to me. “You said you’d pull strings, and you did. Unfortunately, it’s all useless now. Blame yourself for his death p>
His finger tightened on the trigger.
In a blur of motion, Cupid closed the distance and wrapped his arms around Alpha Ruis in a sudden, fierce hug. The older man froze, stunned into absolute stillness.
Silence swallowed the entire cabin. I watched the storm of emotions flash across Alpha Ruis’s face.
Anger, regret, a faint, fractured glimmer of something that might have once been love. But some sins are beyond forgiveness. This was one of them.
“I love you, Father,” Cupid murmured softly against his shoulder. “Always p>
He pulled back slowly. We all waited, braced for the gun to rise again. But Alpha Ruis didn’t move.
Then his body seized. Muscles locked rigid. He crumpled to the floor like a marionette with cut strings. My eyes caught the glint of the syringe embedded in his neck. I gasped.
That bottle, the one Cupid had hesitated over in his hidden vault. He had taken it after all. For his adoptive father.
Luna Sash let out a blood–curdling scream the instant she saw her husband’s state.
“You bastard!” she shrieked at Cupid, voice cracking with grief and rage. “I always knew you’d do this one day. I knew you’d be the end of him p>
Cupid didn’t respond. He simply turned and stepped toward Yenda, who was now trembling uncontrollably.
“I… I’ll follow you to H.O.W.L.,” Yenda babbled, dropping to his knees in desperate pleading. “I’ll go there right now. I’ll tell them everything, everything that happened. I swear it p>
He never finished. Cupid drew the knife from his boot in one fluid motion and slit Yenda’s throat open with surgical precision.
I looked away, tears burning hot in my eyes. The wet thud of Yenda’s body hitting the floor mingled with Luna Sash’s anguished wail.
Cupid turned away without a backward glance. He met Beta Sky’s gaze once, then his elder sisters‘, before walking straight to me. He pulled Almira gently into his arms.
The way he cradled her, held her close, spoke volumes about how deeply she mattered to him. Almira drew back just enough to search his eyes, tears streaming down her face.
“I’m coming with you, Cupid,” she whispered fiercely. “I don’t want any of this bloodshed. I’m following you p>
He nodded, a quiet promise in the gesture.
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Then he turned to Alpha Ruis, who was struggling futilely to rise, body still paralyzed.
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“You made me Almira’s guardian,” Cupid said, voice steady. “In the documents submitted, seated, and signed at the Moon Tower, you declared that if her parents were no longer able or no longer alive to perform their duties, I would take over. Don’t worry. Father. I’ll take good care of her p>
He turned away just as the cabin doors opened wider.
An elderly woman had been standing there all along, watching silently from the threshold. When Cupid saw her, his entire expression softened, pain, love, regret all at once.
I looked at her again, and recognition slammed into me. Last year, under that snowy night sky, the night I discovered Ares had been cheating I’d mistaken Cupid’s grandmother for a simple firecracker seller on the street.
In my heartbreak, I’d given her my ring, thinking it worth something.
Now she stepped slowly into the cabin. Her eyes fell on Cupid. I braced for anger, for curses but instead, she reached up and caressed his cheek with heartbreaking tenderness.
Then she turned to me. Those wise, ancient eyes saw everything, our mate bond shimmering between us, plain as daylight.
“The Moon Goddess bless your union, ” she said to me softly, voice warm with quiet certainty.
She started toward her son, Alpha Ruis, but Cupid gently caught her wrist.
“Grandma, come with me. Please p>
She shook her head sadly, eyes glistening.
“Ruis is my son. My cross to bear. Let me take care of him. You should go now. Go clear your name. Take care of your sister, Almira p>
Cupid
didn’t want to leave. He had never wanted the bond with the Godlike family to shatter like this. But reality had been shoved in our faces, ugly, irreversible, undeniable.
He nodded once, throat working. Then he turned away.
We left the cruise ship behind, stepping out into the dawn light. Almira clung tightly to Cupid’s side, and I, his woman, couldn’t summon even a flicker of jealousy.
I already knew the depth of the sibling bond between them. It was pure, unbreakable, and right now, it was the only light left in the wreckage of everything else.
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