Chapter 44
Javier tossed the pendant on the floor in fustration, rubbing his hands vigorously through his hair for the 5th time. One could tell he was boiling on the inside because of how tensed he looked and the redness of his eyes was no joke. He paced around Bella's balcony with his hands on the forehead. He hated it when he couldn't get what he wanted and that was exactly what was happening. He knew that he loved Hattie but going to mephistopheles wasn't something to do when indecisive. He had no other choice and that was what made him more mad. Curse Andrew for making him go through all of this. Curse Agatha for putting her children in all this mess and curse himself for ever letting Hattie go
"You need to calm down" Bella stated, looking at her troubled brother
"How can i?" he gritted in anger
"You are too tensed up, let's try this again. Who knows we might be able to counter Andrew's powers and you wouldn't have to go to mephistopheles"
"We have done that for 5 fucking times Bella. Don't you see, it's too powerful"
"We still have to try again" Bella walked stealthily towards the pendant on the floor and grabbed it
"You need to calm your nerves and connect with it" Bella looked at Javier and she had a change of mind.
"You know what, I will just try it myself. You might mess it up because of how predisposed you are"
"Well goodluck" he sighed
Bella closed her eyes and she began to speak
"Powers of the sea, powers of the earth, powers of the dark side, powers of the air, power over all the humans. You made it to earth because of thy bravery. The angels turned into demons because of thy bravery. The powers you bring forth has ever been useful. We asked for it now. Powers of the sea, powers of the earth...."She kept on reciting with her eyes closed and Javier looked at her in exhaustion and a little bit of hope
She made the recitation for the third time and when nothing happened , Javier lost hope
"Well?" Javier remarked stating the obvious.
"Am afraid you will have to meet mephistopheles. This pendant can only work in the hands of a hyran. I wonder how Lagatha tends to operate it"
"That woman can go extra miles for her to operate this pendant"
"What are you going to do now?"
" I will go with the other option then. Seek mephistopheles"
"Do you think that's a good idea?"
"It has to be. I need to get Hattie out of there"
"Are you sure about this?"
"I have never been so sure about something before"
"My God, I hate how this is going " Bella groaned in exasperation
"I will use it as an opportunity to destroy all of them"
"Lagatha and Andrew?"
"The whole bloodline of the Cartels" Javier shot with a venom filled voice
"I don't know what the deal would be. I need to make proper use of it. Incase the outcome is too drastic for me to handle" he added
"When will you be meeting with him?"
"As soon as possible"
"What about mother, have you convinced her on staying?"
"You know that convincing her won't do anything. I had to manipulate her." Javier stated
"That's better. Now we know that she would stay. Any arrangement in getting felix?"
"I will reach out to him about her sudden movement. I doubt he would even want to move over to Chicago"
"You doubt or you wish" Bella smirked at his statement
"Which ever way, I would have to hear from the horses mouth. I have too much going on in my head right now to even think about that guy"
"Take it easy" Bella advised
" you have to be strong for Hattie" Bella said in a mocking tone
"You never take anything seriously"
"Why would I, I am a lashedta. The devil never took my decision seriously before choosing me as his bloody desciple. So why would I take anything serious" she said with a smile but Javier could hear the slight anger in her voice. That was the pain of every lashedta. They never had a choice. They just grew up to find out that they were differnt from the other kids. Then the devil summons them once and tells them a piece of nonsense. Javier would kill to have a normal life. A life were he didn't need to worry about all this problem. A life were he wouldn't have to deal with the stress of being in season. A life he never met Andrew nor Lagatha or those bloody Cartels. A life were he could be with Hattie without fear. A life meant for him and Hattie. A life of peace
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Javier stumbled into the sitting room. He shut the door in anger. Banging it hard against the lock. He sat on the couch just right after the door, Elbows on his laps and hands against his forehead, he sat there in deep thought. He heard footsteps and he looked up. His mother looked at him worriedly. She sat beside him
"Work was tough?" She asked staring at him
"I wish, work was my only problem right now" he said running his two hands across his face
"Do you wanna talk about it?" She asked in concern
"No" he shaked his head Where would he start. He failed Hattie and now she was adopted by his worse enemy and the only way he could get her out was to make a deal with the devil
"You look so tensed, I think you should stop thinking alot" Anne advised at how predisposed he was looking.
"Its not that easy" the first thing Javier thought of if he was ever was ever alone, was Hattie. He thought of her fate and what she might be passing through in the hands of Andrew. There was no way he could not stop himself from thinking. It was almost impossible to keep his mind in a free state. It was too occupied by so many things.
"Would you like something to eat? I made lunch. It could get you to stop thinking even if it for a second" she offered
"Or perhaps, something to drink" she sat up hands akimbo
"Its okay I can find my way to the drink stand. Food is the last thing I wanna see right now"
"When I said drink, I meant Chapman. I wouldn't want you drowning in alchohol to ease your sorrow"
"I can't take Chapman, I don't feel like it. I need to forget a little. Something strong will do"
"And my answer is no" Anne stood her ground
"Alcohol will only make you more depressed" she stated
"When will i see Bella?" She asked
"Whenever you are ready"
"Well am ready now"
"I can't go back there again. I just left from there. I would send for her later. She plans of visiting anyway"
"Is Bella the cause of your worry, is she okay?"
"No she is not the cause and she is doing great"
"I asked because you look so tensed and you clearly stated that you went over to her house so I thought maybe something probably happened there"
"Everything is fine" he snapped. He really needed to be alone but that was the least thing he was getting. He couldn't bear the constant questions that Anne kept throwing at him. He really needed a place where he could think without any form of distraction
"I made lasagne" she stated In a bid to lighten up the tensed atmosphere
"I told you I don't want eat anything" Javier said
"So what do you wanna do?"
"Just to be alone by my self"
"Okay Fine, I tried at least" she shrugged and turned to leave. She turned back to him again
"About felix, you mentioned something about sending for him?"
"Yes I will reach out to him to come over to Chicago, if he could"
"That would be perfect but I already told him that I am at Chicago. So he plans on coming. You will have to pick him up"
"Why do I have to, he is a grown man and you already told him so I see no reason why I should pick him up anymore"
"Yeah I know he is a grown man but I want the two of you to get along. You are always tensed when you are around him"
"No am not" Javier denied bluntly
"Whatever you say but you are picking him up"
"I see you didn't loose your authoritative side to old age" Javier commended playfully
"Watch it young man. I am any thing but old" she scrowled playfully at him
"Yes and everly so beautiful" Javier remarked making Anne to let out a chuckle
"Am off" she said
Anne beamed with excitement, turning towards the stairs and headed for her room. She opened the door to her new room. Javier had prepared it for her after spending a night in the other room. She ran her hands across the sheet as she breathed in.
She still had a little bit of fear that lingered in her heart but she couldn't decipher the cause.
She thought of her children and a little bit of joy crept into her heart. They had been the cause of her joy for a long time. She did not know what she would have done if they were never here. She didn't even want to think of the loneliness and the space that her heart would have occupied. How fast they grew. She remembered when she held Bella, her first offspring in her arms. She couldn't stop her smile that remained consistent for that whole day.
Javier was conceived 3 years later and the same joy clouded her emotions. She watched them grow but as time went by, She noticed how they began to distance themselves from her. She felt it was as a result of teenage hormones and the rest but, it seemed more than that. Most especially Javier, at age 12, he started distancing himself so much from her. Anytime she went close to him, he would always feel restless and all. She had always wondered why he acted that way. Bella too had that same character towards her but She wasn't as bad as Javier. Anne had always felt that she could probably had been a bad mother. That she hadn't showered her children with concrete love and affection, that was why they were retreating away from her. She even went as far as asking if they were being bullied in school but it wasn't the case. Javier as a matter of fact was a terror in school. Skipping classes and being by himself.
As time went by, He got close to a certain friend, Andrew. He kind of got out of his shell. But he still distanced himself from her. Making her feel like she was the problem.
Andrew and Javier were friends for a very long time and she didn't fail to point out how strange and off Andrew acted. The way he always looked at her in a differnt way. The way he spoke sometimes, as though he was being controlled.
She noticed after sometime that Javier also started to distance himself from Andrew after the death of Vanilla, his highschool classmate. She fell from the school highest floor and she didn't survive it. Anne thought maybe Javier and her were kind of close, that was why he distanced himself from Andrew to morn her properly but Anne noticed that he did not only distance himself from Andrew, he also hated him and was practically disgusted by him. Javier got worse. He stopped going out, he started being by himself again. To sum it up, he became depressed and it was killing Anne that she couldn't help him. She contacted some child psychologist for his sake but he never talked to any of them. Not even a word. He would just stare at them from the beginning to the end of the session. It was so heart breaking to see him like that and she had always wondered what the problem was
~~If only she knew~~
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