Kilian's eyes met all six of theirs as he hung up.
Then they turned towards each other, for the first time since that fateful day.
Before they knew it, they were jumping over the seating arrangements and coming towards Kilian.
Kilian had a look of suspicion and hostility in his eyes as he approached them.
" Where is she? "
All three of them froze in their tracks when Kilian asked that question.
Kilian pounced on them and repeated what he was saying.
" I am not playing around. You think you can outsmart me, huh? I will not hold back this time. "
None of them fought back.
Their expressions went from aggression, to shock to realization.
Their eyeballs revolved so fast in their sockets that it finally sunk in Kilian's mind that he had unintentionally given his own secret away.
He immediately let them go.
" I am sorry. I was just feeling triggered. Excuse me! "
He turned around as Sitara pulled him in her arms and they hurriedly walked back to their ship.
It was too much for the boys to even stand up.
They kept sitting on the spot with their heads in their hands.
The realization was too heavy.
It was too unreal to grasp.
Mira was alive?
She did not die?
Immediately they sprang to action.
" She is alive. She breathes. She did not go anywhere. I did not fail her! "
Nobody had ever seen Xen cry. But Xen did not care as big tears of happiness flooded his eyes.
He kept hitting the floor again and again.
Braze suddenly sprang up and he went straight for Kilian.The door of their ship was about to close but Braze rolled inside and grabbed Kilian by his collar.
" Mira was alive all this while? "
He asked as he shook him violently.
Kilian did not answer. He tried to shake off Braze's grip.
" Answer me God dammit! Where was she? Where is she? What did you do to her? "
Braze was not done with Kilian.
" I begged you. I offered to be your slave. I cried like a fool and kept meeting you so many times. Yet you kept repeating that we lost her... Why? "
Braze looked like he was about to punch Kilian's face.
But then Kian entered the ship.
" Take this boy away before I kill him. "
Kilian told Kian as he faced him.
His eyes looked red but apart from that, he looked the most composed amongst the three of them.
" Answer him! '' Kilian was taken aback at Kian's reply.
" Why did you hide it from us? Why did you not tell us that she was alive? Do you have any idea about the hell that I have been living in? "
He did what Braze wanted to.
He pushed Braze to the side and landed one hard punch on Kilian's face.
Sitara immediately pulled out her gun but Kilian raised his arm and stopped her.
" Do you really want to know why I didn't tell you all that she survived? Because she did not want you all to know. She hates you all for leaving her behind. She hates you all because you all chose your tribes over her. Did I make myself clear? "
He fixed his dress.
" Lie! That's a lie! " Braze yelled.
" She would never... "
" Oh really? Even if I did tell you all that Mira lived, technically, should she have contacted you? Did she? What does that tell you about how she felt?
She is missing at the moment.
She went missing right from my castle.
I swear if I find any of you complicit in this crime, I will sever your heads from your body.
I want Mira safe and sound, back to my palace. "
Kilian shoved the two of them out of the ship before finally closing it and hitting on the autopilot, back to home.
" Where could she have gone? These boys looked shocked. Honestly, I don't think they have anything to do with her disappearance..."
" I know! " Kilian said, his fingers tracing his brows.
" I just put them to work. They have a connection with Mira. It will be easier for them to find her, if they look for her together. "
Kilian said.
" But if they find her... "
Sitara began.
" If they find her, I will take her back over their dead bodies. I should have killed them long back. I will rectify my mistakes this time and this time I will have reasons to justify my actions in front of their tribes. "
Kilian laid back.
" I absorbed the power of the Heartstaff, there is only one thing that will give me that immortality. And I am not going to let it go. "
Kilian murmured.
Sitara shifted a little closer.
" But what is it about Mira that you want? I mean I understand that her father wanted to sacrifice her to unlock the keys to Eternal Darkness. I also understand that is not your goal, neither will it apply because she is not the most valuable object that you possess.
You have been asking her to work on her core.
How are you planning on using her? "
Kilian looked at Sitara with so much aggression that it made her move back.
" It's none of your concern. I will do what I need to do. And you focus on what you can. Round up everyone in the castle and question them. Look for any sign, anything abnormal."
Kilian opened his belt and disappeared out of the ship before Sitara could answer.
" I know it's not uncommon for Kakaras to marry inside the family. You are not planning on marrying your niece, are you? To procure an offspring with her bloodline and then sacrifice it?
Is that what you are planning to do? "
Sitara placed one hand over her stomach and with the other she held the chair where Kilian had been sitting.
" I have loved you all my life, Lord Kilian. I loved you when you mourn your wife and child.
But this time around, I will not watch myself get replaced by an illegitimate b*tch! "