Omega's Rebirth-Chapter 166: While You Can ()

"And how could you be certain...you never did know her, did you?..." The woman replied in a low whisper.

"You are not her." Neveah said again, her eyes fluttering closed to contain her emotions.

"Perhaps... but I could tell you of her if you wanted." The woman offered with a quiet chuckle.

"How would you know anything of my mother?" Neveah asked with a frown.

"There are things your heart knows...but your mind does not. I could show you your heart... and in return, you must give me your life." The woman bargained.

"Why would I be willing to make such an exchange?" Neveah asked in a low tone.

"You need not be willing. Where is your rage? Where is your fire? Why do you fail to move your own feet?" The woman taunted.

"In this world, only your greatest nightmare weakens you."

"Your longing for one you have never known, is this not the greatest shackle around your heart?" The woman asked again.

"You are right this time... this is my greatest weakness... this is my true nightmare." Neveah whispered lowly as she sucked in a shuddering breath.

"Then from here on, you will only grow weaker... the shackles of your longing will be the shackles that binds you from fleeing this nightmare...you are defeated." The woman cackled victoriously.

Neveah felt the woman’s hand move up from her shoulder to wrap around her neck, the grip tightening by the second.

Neveah’s eyes fluttered closed as she willed her heart to be at ease.

"I do long for her... I cannot deny this truth. Yet if I am to find closure, I cannot die just yet." Neveah murmured beneath her breath.

"My emotions do not control me, instead I get to decide the level of influence they have over me." Neveah continued.

She could feel her heart growing still, reverting to it’s cold shell which she had built around it for her own protection.

Her heart could long for her mother...it always would, but just like the mate bond, Neveah was used to fighting her own desires.

Neveah lifted a hand to the hand around her neck, taking a hold of it and pulling slowly.

"In physical strength, fairies are inferior to werewolves." Neveah stated blankly as with just a single hand, she freed herself from the grasp of the fairies.

"Even without my legs, I can still kill you just as easily... even if all my limbs are held down, I would still find a way to kill you."

"Why? Because no one gets to decide when my life ends...not this time." Neveah murmured as she tugged the fairy forwards so she stared straight into her eyes.

As Neveah expected, the face was that of the female fairy. How could they truly impersonate Neveah’s mother when there was no memory of her in Neveah’s mind?

Neveah had never met her mother, she knew nothing of what her mother looked like, all Neveah knew was a name and the color of her mother’s hair.

"You are nothing more than an abandoned existence! Your mate did not want you... your family did not want you... even your mother did not want you!" The fairy roared in Neveah’s face.

"I already know this...need you remind me?" Neveah asked with a blank tone.

Though Neveah could not move her legs, her hands were perfectly fine and so when her wolf rose to the surface, her claws extended.

"If I ever am to see my mother again... I will need to live first, don’t you think?" Neveah asked in a low tone.

"You ask me to give you my life...do you realize that my life is all I have left?" Neveah continued.

"You speak of bargaining with life so easily, it is only because you can afford to die...but I am different..." Neveah finished.

"Yet you would let Xenon kill you and hold no grudges...why? Because you care for a man whose heart belongs to another." The fairy taunted with a dark chuckle.

Neveah heaved a sigh, the fairy was making use of every doubt she had found in Neveah’s mind... every concern, every fear.

"Give it up... I have grown used to my unfortunate lot, it will do you no good to use it against me."

"You have seen my heart, you should know my mental fortitude was forged from pain and troubles...it is not something you can overpower." Neveah replied with a casual shrug.

The fairy struggled to free herself from Neveah’s grip but Neveah only held on tighter.

"I will not harm you, disperse the spell." Neveah demanded in a blank tone.

Her heart felt weary and she was already exhausted from the spell, she just wanted to get out of it.

All of a sudden, the fairy began trembling in Neveah’s grip. Neveah let go of her hand and watched with a raised brow as the fairy crumbled down to the snow, trembling.

It was as though someone was taking away her life force, but it most certainly was not Neveah who had only touched her hand.

"What is wrong with you?" Neveah asked uncertainly.

"I have failed...my life is required..." The fairy gasped out.

"So long as you remain in Dragon Keep...you will not be able to keep your life. We may have failed, but there will be others!" The fairy hissed in a furious tone.

"What is it about Dragon Keep that it must be so troublesome?" Neveah asked with a raised brow.

"You have stepped in the midst of a feud, many centuries old...he says to tell you to get out while you still can." The fairy gasped out as her form began disintegrating slowly.

Neveah’s brows furrowed at the mention of a ’he’.

"Who?" Neveah asked.

"The one who requires my life..." The fairy croaked.

"Who is it? Who possesses influence over your own spell?" Neveah asked warily.

"The man...in black..." The fairy gasped out right before her form exploded into sparks of magic like the one before.

"The man in black?" Neveah thought to herself.

"Could it be... the assassin from the forest?" Neveah wondered just as an unseen force pulled her away from the scene.