The Story of Dusk 97 SHE DIDN'T WANT THE CHILD, BUT...

From the pitch- dark of tress at the backyard, an old man appeared.

His white long hair fluttered by the night wind, the aura that exuded from him, from some inexplicable reason, was terrifying. He was aloof and reeked with malice.

Not long after that a younger figure emerged from the same spot.

Upon seeing her younger brother, Luna's lips curled into a faint smile as her eyes turned warmer, but it wasn't enough to hide her pale face.

"Gong Xu, give the medicine to your sister." Was all Modama said the moment he saw his own daughter.

There was no warm hug or endearment word for Luna, for the daughter that had risked everything, even her life and chastity for his revenge and ambition.

Gong Xu stepped forward and gave a small bottle- gourd to her sister that she received with knitted brows.

"What is this?" Luna examined the bottle that only the size of her thumb.

"I don't want you to carry that thing." Modama glared at Luna's flat belly in disdain. "I don't want my lineage is tainted with their blood."

It was the royal family of Xiao, who had massacred Modama's family, apparently his hatred toward them was bigger than his desire for having a successor of the mind controller.

Luna's eyes turned darkened. There was bitterness that she felt, 'the thing' that her father mentioned was her own flesh and blood.

"Drink." Modama said coldly. His eyes fixated at the bottle in Luna's hand, he wouldn't leave until he witnessed it with his own eyes that she drank all of the liquid inside.

"Drink it now!" He exclaimed with anger when he saw Luna didn't make any movement.

Somehow, Luna had an urge to throw the bottle away or better, throw it to her father face, which she grew to hate.

Both father and daughter stared at each other, there was hostility in the air. Both could see sorrow and revulsion in each other eyes.

"Do it now or I will use another way to kill the bastard inside your stomach." Modama was getting furious upon seeing a defiant stared in her eyes. "And it will not pain free."

Luna lowered her eyes and looked at the bottle in her grasp, she didn't know why she was very reluctant to drink it.

She didn't want the baby also right?

For her surprised, she couldn't find the answer of her own question. But, she would lose the baby, either she wanted them or not.

Thus, with trembling hands, she raised the bottle to her lips and chugged down the liquid, she pulled her head back as tear slipped from her eyes.

Luna was confused, she didn't know what her tear was for? The lost of the baby? Because, she had became a murderer? Or because she had killed her own child?

Modama even didn't stay for another second to check on her, he turned around and talked harshly at Gong Xu. "Next time if you failed and this thing happened again, I will chop your hand!"

Gong Xu didn't even raise his head to look at his father or answer his rhetorical question. Only when his father had gone and it was only the two of them in the darkness of the night, he dared to approach his sister.

"Are you alright?" He said when he had stood in front of her.

Luna looked blankly at her hand that caressing her stomach, she thought there would be some kind of pain after she drank the medicine, but strangely she felt nothing.

"This is the right medicine." Gong Xu grabbed Luna's hand and put another small bottle in her cold palm. "The one that you drank before was only nutrients."

Luna looked at her brother in disbelief, Gong Xu had never defied their father's order before. "Did father know about this?" She asked.

"No, he is not." Gong Xu shook his head. "I know what you will ask." He hurriedly said when he saw Luna was about to open her mouth again. "I have done this because I want you to have your own choice without a pressure from him. No matter what the situation we are in now, the child that you carry, is not in the wrong, moreover, this is your child you have to think about this over again."

Gong Xu wrapped his hand around hers. "I hope you think about it thoroughly and whatever your choice in the end, I just want you to know that will not judge you."

With that being said, Gong Xu disappeared from Luna's line of sight, leaving her with the bottle in her hand.

Despite of the cold night, the bottle in her hand was oddly hot as if the liquid inside was able to provide warmth once she drank it, however the surface of the bottle was like burning her skin.

Luna headed back to her and Xiao Tianyao's chamber after carefully kept the bottle inside her pocket.

She knew that she couldn't afford for having a baby, it wasn't save for the both of them, but deep down inside her heart, she was unsure that she could callously abort her child.

The wind blew and howled between the trees, disturbing the quiet night.

As the gloomy cloud drifted away, the ray of the pale moonlight fell on the figure behind the pole at the hallway.

His face ashen as his eyes could compete with the dreary sky, even the cold night couldn't hide the murder intent that exuded from him.

Xiao Tianyao touched the hilt of his sword lightly, he had followed her, but kept the distance between them far enough so she couldn't feel his presence and because of that, he was not able to hear what Luna and the two of the unwanted visitors were talking about.

However, Xiao Tianyao could confirm it was Modama and his son, Gong Xu. He had fought him before when he overthrown the Kingdom of Xinghe ruler and destroyed their dynasty.

Ever since Xiao Jun's warning he had acted very careful around her and investigated about her identity thoroughly.

Initially he had a wild guest and it became prominent with the time that he spent with Luna.

Sometime, he would feel affectionate toward her out of nowhere as if his mind was clouding with a strange thought that didn't belong to him.

However, recently the feeling that was imbued in him was becoming weaker. Xiao Tianyao didn't know what was happening with Luna, but day by day she grew feeble.

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Xiao Tianyao's eyes flickered at Luna's back that disappeared at the corner of the corridor and in the next second he was no longer there.

He vanished in the blink of an eye just like that as if he was never there in the first place.

***

Luna looked at the guards who were still guarding the door of her chamber. Nothing was unusual from them as they bowed their head respectfully.

She ignored them and opened the door tiredly, took off her cloak and hid the bottle inside the drawer.

Only when she laid down on the bed, tiredness hit her hard.

Luna glanced at Xiao Tianyao, the man was still sleeping soundly, for as long as her fatigue eyelids could hold her sight before she fell into a deep slumber.

Chapter end

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