The Alpha's Blind Fate
Chapter 119: Her Caged Fortune

Chapter 119: Her Caged Fortune

There are men who will take your breath away, and there are men who will take your life away.

ZINA

"Because I am obsessed with you and I don’t know if there are words that could ever possibly describe it."

It was those words that triggered a memory Zina thought was forgotten.

Sixteen Years Ago

Zina was eight when the GreenLands was celebrating the infamous Moon Festival during the day after the year’s anticipated first rains. The air was ruptured with excitement when she and her childhood arch-enemy, Fionna, decided they were better company for each other as the Pack carried on with the celebrations paying them no heed as usual.

As they walked down the lit streets of their small village, both Zina and Fionna were each clutching one silver pebble coin in their small fingers. While Zina’s money was the totality of her life savings, Fionna had been reluctant to tell the tale behind her own money—a tale that Zina had been rabidly curious about even though she pretended to be otherwise.

They wandered through the streets. Fionna, occasionally helping Zina navigate tough terrains with a grumpy attitude like she was the most unfortunate person to be spending the moon festival with a blind girl.

Zina didn’t mind much. She found Fionna’s expressiveness to be refreshing in a world where many tried—but failed—to pretend that her sight impediment was nothing.

They were wandering about to find a place to spend their money but they were yet to be successful. Fionna had a problem with every place they passed and Zina couldn’t fault the girl much as she shared the same sentiment. Whether it be the toy stalls, or the pastry shops, or the candy man’s cubicle... none of those places held their fancy.

But Zina was already getting tired of Fionna’s pickiness and was desperate to spend her life savings lest she changed her mind. Her adoptive mother had just passed away, and she was mad with grief...as mad as a young, confused girl could be.

That was until after five hours of unsuccessful search, they passed by a stall where the shrill voice of a young man screamed. "Welcome to the two sides of the coin fortune telling stall where we don’t only tell your fortune but your grim fate as well."

Something in Zina was spurred as she heard those words. "Two Sides of the Coin is here in our small village?" She said excitedly to Fionna whose grim, haughty voice conveyed that she did not share the same sentiment with Zina.

"What is so good about a toothless woman spewing lies?" Fionna said.

Zina frowned, highly offended. Two Sides of the Coin was one of the most popular fortune telling organisations in the GreenLands and their presence was highly sought. She doubted anyone would dare imitate them for fear that the Heralder of the organisation would come for their heads.

Zina stomped her feet against the ground, acting angry. "Fine! I guess I alone would visit tsome toothless woman who will spew some lies!"

As her childish voice screeched those words, she secretly hoped that Fionns would change her stance and follow her. Zina could survive alone with her impediment, but imagining having to blindly struggle at the probably long queue that was waiting for the fortune teller dreaded her. So she was elated when Fionna grumpily followed her while muttering under her breath that ’she didn’t care where they spent their money’.

Says the girl who spent five hours looking down on every shop, stall, and peddler.

Zina knew that like her, Fionna wanted an insight into her future. They were both similar in that even though they were young, they seemed stuck in an endless loop of misfortunes so vivid there was no hope of a bright future.

They both seemed to want a promise that their future was going to be far from as bleak as it was now... even if such a promise was a lie.

It took fours of waiting in the queue, but it finally reached their turn. Zina could imagine that it was not everyday that children sought their fortune without a parent, for the guard ushered both of them in at the same time.

They must think that she and Fionna were a joke, which wasn’t exactly surprising.

A woman cleared her throat, and Zina felt a leery beady stare on her body. "Peculiar visssitors...." she drawled in a scratchy voice like a hissing snake, "it isssss not everyday you find one."

Zina felt the bravery she once possessed diminish, but for the sake of saving her face, she acted like the woman did not scare her.

"Your namess..." The woman asked.

"Fionna WolfKnight."

"Zina WolfKnight."

"Your namesss are falsssseee."

Even without seeing Fionna, Zina could sense the other girl’s annoyance. She wondered if like her, the girl was rethinking their decision to grace the Two Side of a Coin Fortune Telling. They were girls who had nothing but their names to them, so hearing someone tell them their name was false wasn’t exactly well received.

"But it doessssn’t matter..." The woman drawled, "falsssse or not, your name will soon change in the future to names that will terrify the world."

Was this how the woman read fortunes? They were yet to show their palms to the woman.

Fionna voiced her exact thoughts. "We are yet to show you our palm. Has the telling already begun?"

"Child," the woman suddenly said in a distant voice as if she was there and yet, not there. "The White one and the Red one visitssssss my small temple. Your pressssenccce is such that even the sspiritssss are moved. I need not read your palm."

Zina’s shoulders slumped in despair at the woman’s crazy bumblings. It dawned on her that she had just been scammed. And there she thought that she was finally meeting a genuine fortune teller. And yet, this scammer didn’t even have the decency to at least take a look at their palm.

The woman shamelessly went on. "Fionnnna, ask this one what your fortune and your disssssaster are?"

Zina could sense Fionna’s reluctance even as she said. "Tell me my fortune and disaster, great one."

"As for your fortune, when all has been taken away from you, you shall meet a man who sharesssss your darknesssssss and will take your breath away. As for your dissaster, soon, you will meet a fate worse than your current one. You shall be forced to battle in crimsssssson gamesssss."

Even though Zina thought the woman a scammer, the strength and power that poured out with her words were so commendable that they rooted her in place.

"Zzzzzzzina, assssk thisss one what your fortune and your disssssaster shall be?"

Body trembling with foreign anticipation, Zina said. "Tell me my fortune and disaster, great one."

"Oh what a fortune," the woman moaned as if assaulted by a vision she could not shake off. A chair clattered to the floor in the room they were in, and Zina could sense it that the woman was now standing and she walked towards them.

"You shall rissssse to heightsssss women can only dream of in the dead of the night, but your disssssaster shall follow quickly after, for you will meet a man who is meant to take your life away, but instead he will take your breath away. Dissssassster of fate!"

That evening, Zina and Fionna took to their heels from the woman’s stall even as she screamed that they should collect back their money, for their fortune telling was yet to end as the spirits themselves were confounded with the onslaught of visions.

Zina ran even as the woman screamed her name especially, for she could never understand how it was a disaster that a man who was supposed to take her life away would instead steal her heart.

How could that be a disaster?

PRESENT

Zina tipped her head up, knowing that even without seeing him, Daemon was far taller than her head could ever reach.

"Because I am obsessed with you and I don’t know if there are words that could ever possibly describe it."

Every confession needs a response. Those were the words she used to convince herself even as words she would not have ordinarily said, if not for the fact that she was in heat, rolled off her tongue.

"You stole my breath away when I was just fourteen and you became the first man to ever grace my visions."

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