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The Moon s Descendant

While I Was Bleeding Out, He Lit Lanterns For Her

While I Was Bleeding Out, He Lit Lanterns For Her

Katie Oettgen
As I lay on the floor of our manor, bleeding out from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy, I used my last ounce of strength to call my husband, Cole. I begged him for help, my vision blurring. But the only thing I heard was the clinking of champagne glasses and his mistress's giggle in the background. "Stop the drama, June," Cole snapped, his voice cold. "We're about to go on stage. Don't call again." He hung up, leaving me to die alone on the Persian rug while he accepted an award with another woman on his arm. I woke up in the hospital days later. My baby was gone. They had removed my fallopian tube. Cole finally arrived, smelling of expensive scotch and his mistress's perfume. He didn't hug me. He didn't cry. Instead, he leaned over my hospital bed, pressing his knee into the mattress until my fresh stitches tore open and bled. "You embarrassed me by calling an ambulance," he hissed. "My mistress, Alycia, says you're faking it. Clean yourself up." He left me bleeding again to go announce a $10 million donation to Alycia's "groundbreaking" medical research. I stared at the TV screen, numb. The research Alycia was taking credit for? It was mine. I wrote that patent years ago under a pseudonym. They thought I was just a poor, orphan housewife who needed Cole's money to survive. They had no idea I was actually a billionaire scientist hiding my identity. I pulled the IV needle out of my arm. A drop of blood fell onto the divorce papers I had been hiding. I didn't wipe it off. I signed my name right over it. Then I walked into the bank, reactivated my dormant account with $128 million, and bought the penthouse directly overlooking Cole's house. The mourning widow is dead. The avenger is born.
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"Tabitha!"

My lips thinned when I heard his voice again yet I brushed it off and continued hanging the clothes I just finished washing.

It's a fine day but what the hell is he doing here again?!

"Tabitha! Tabitha!"

I squinted my eyes when his voice went louder and louder until I felt his demonic aura behind me.

"What is it now, Yosuke?" I asked calmly and turned around meeting his deep, red eyes.

Tyler and Kurama appeared beside him with their usual smiles. They're wearing yet again those scarlet red overtunic I made them when I was still living in Demon Realm. They even matched it with knee-high leather boots.

"How dare you address her just by her name, Yosuke!" Kurama hissed, biffing Yosuke's head.

"I'm sorry. I just can't help it! Her blood really smells good," Yosuke snickered so he got poked again.

"All right, all right!" He whined caressing his head. He then looked back at me with his normal eyes. "I'm sorry, milady."

"Are you ready for your last mission, milady?" Tyler asked and I shook my head.

"I told you I'm not going!" I scoffed and turned my back against them.

"But you have to, milady! The council have already decided and you must go or else you're going to be punished," Kurama argued and I shook my head once again.

"They've been punishing me since the I day I was born. What could go worse and I just don't understand, why it has to be me?! There's a lot of tamers back in Demon Realm. They can handle him for sure. My mom is sick and I can't leave her, all right?!"

I couldn't hide couldn't hide the frusttration in my voice. I heard them sigh.

"Just please tell us when you're ready," Kurama walked beside me and handed me a memo. I only looked at it and then averted my gaze elsewhere.

He was a little breathless when he bent down and place the memo above the dried clothes beside me.

"Just call us anytime, milady." Tyler whispered and just that, they disappeared into thin air.

I hissed in frustration, glancing at the memo Kurama brought. I didn't bother reading what's written inside. They're sending same missive again and again. I can even relay the words backwards if I must.

Well, I should be proud and the council really took time to give me this piece of shit, right? I'm touched as heck!

I glanced at the mark on my wrist. θάνατος is a greek word read as Thanatos which means death. This is my mark when they pronounced me as a tamer at the age of thirteen.

This shit almost cost me my life when I fought with my first descendant with some luck.

Those three are one of my tamed descendants.

Yosuke came from Libra's descendant. Tyler came from Pisces and Kurama came from Sagittarius.

I'm not even proud to say that I'm the one who tamed them and the rest eight descendants coming from different zodiacs and now I'm ought to go back to Aiden's realm, where they live, to complete the twelve of them.

Aiden is one of the Trinities who rules the Demon Realm: the place I used to live.

Adonis, Aiden's brother, rules the Spirit Realm.

And lastly, Lelith: the ruler of the Human Realm.

I rolled my eyes, took the memo and went inside the house. I gasped when my mom emerged beside the door and as if on a cue, I immediately hid the memo behind me.

"You don't have to hide that." She said in a soft voice. "I saw them."

Mom placed a hand on my shoulder and smiled. "You know your duty in the Demon Realm and you must fulfill it."

I gobbled with rage. "But I can't leave, mom! I can't leave you especially with your situation."

She smiled and caressed my cheek with her soft, warm hand.

"I'll be fine. I'll be here when you get back. Everyone's lives depends on you." I bit my lip as I eyed mom's thin body.

Yeah! Damn that everyone. It's been thousands of years since that incident happen--the day when the descendants loss control of themselves and invaded the human realm.

They went berserk and killed thousands of human beings. Aiden, together with the two other rulers, searched for a way to stop the chaos and that's by taming them.

I have no choice but to do what mom wishes.

She helped me pack the things I'll be needing in hell and waited with me for Kurama's return.

"I'll be back shortly. Got that, mom?"

She nodded and I hugged her.

"Take care, okay? Don't let those descendants defeat you!" She cheered.

"Losing is not on my terms and besides, this will be my last mission so there's no way I would lose," I winked at her before walking towards Kurama who's already standing behind me.

"Goodbye, my child." She mouthed and waved me goodbye.

"Goodbye, mom." I mouthed back before a blinding light devoured us from below.

"Your decision is perfect, milady." Kurama beamed.

"You don't have any idea how hard this decision is," I scoffed as I was heaving deep breaths when the enormous gate of the Demon Realm materialized in front of us.

It's been a while since the last time I came here but it seems like nothing has changed.

To clear some things, the Demon Realm isn't a place where monsters live. It's actually just a place for underworld creatures which look exactly like human beings but with supernatural powers.

The gate opened and we entered. This place looks ordinary--just similar to the human world--like New York, to be exact: buildings, ports, and there's even a River located near the Center of this city-like place which is similar to Hudson River.

I know this sounds ironic, but demons doesn't have horns. They don't look like scary monsters either. In fact, they looked very innocent and kind. They used be angels tho.

There's a saying which says, "demons aren't born, they were made" and that, my friend, is true.

Everyone looked at me as Kurama and I walked through the streets towards the house I used to live.

"Why the heck didn't you just teleport us to my house, huh?!" I hissed, trying to avoid the malicious look the crowd is throwing at me.

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