"Lia!" a male voice yelled.
Their lips parted, and they were shocked to hear that voice again. Lia jerked to the side, the voice sounded familiar to her. Her feet wobbled when she spotted Zach in a corner in the bushes. He looked the same as before. Remember, he's had a heart attack before watching them vanish into thin air.
Zach was being treated for his heart attack, his men were able to hop through the window to get him to his GP in time before he breathed his last. Once Zach regained consciousness in the hospital, Sage made him see a vision about things happening between Derek and Lia at Lia's favorite place.
Yes, Sage knew everything. What an evil soul! She loves to see people suffer, she loves to watch people going through great pain and suffering. Sage loves to watch as Lia becomes depressed and emotionally disabled by Zach, the abuse, depression, and anxiety also help to permanently erase Lia's memories of her childhood, her parents, and where she came from. Zach only abuses Lia because of the images Sage is showing in his head, he feels betrayed and this makes him exceedingly angry.
"I knew you would be here. You shameless whore. You challenged me.” He raised his voice as he walked closer to Lia, who was shaking on one side.
"Zach, I'm sorry." Lia pleaded.
Derek tried to get up to punch Zach but couldn't. He wanted to move to stop Zach from hitting Lia, but he got stuck in one place.
Derek wondered what was stopping his movements. He noticed Zach's eyes change color. He sensed danger nearby. Zach is just one of Sage's tools to manipulate the Jinns. Unknown to him, he was caught in Sage's trap. Sage planted pearls of all the mermaids from the seven seas, including Ava's, to easily attack Derek.
Laughter echoed and shook the deep bushes, they all wondered where the voice came from, they were worried.
Now the dark Jinn, Sage, and Zach are after Derek's life and they all want to carry out their plan on the same day because Derek is now powerless due to the trap Sage set in the forest.
The Dark Jinn's hand appeared from the heavens to take Derek's soul from the earth. Sage camouflages herself in bushes as she slams her hand on Derek's head, trapping him in a cauldron and imprisoning him. The dark Jinn grunted as its nostrils ignited the fire. He clenched his jaws.
"Who dares share a meat with the dark Jinn?" he asked through his teeth. Unable to catch Derek, he reaches out again to snatch the kettle away from Sage. The Dark Jinn's hand accidentally touched Sage's acidic skin. The Dark Jinn lets loose of Sage and his spirit grows ever more hungry for Derek's soul.
The clouds stayed tar black as they moved and blanketed the atmosphere. The tapping on the grass and branches became a pitter pattern. Puddles began to splash as the rain intensified. The rain poured down on the earth while Lia looked around for Derek, Zach mercilessly pounding her wasted red body with his cane. Crying in pain, she dropped to the ground, into the mud, shaking and crying as Zach continued to punch her. Derek screamed for help in the cauldron, but no one heard him, he is helpless, all alone in the cauldron.
"Derek left me?" Lisa whispered to herself as tears welled up in her eyes. She never thought Derek could leave her, especially in her current situation.
"So he doesn't love me as he pronounced. He ran away just because he didn't want to hurt his flesh?” Wild thoughts ran through her mind. Zach's clothes were getting drained, he was starting to freeze, so he pulled Lia's golden hair, teasing her while he pulled her hair into the limo, unbuttoning his shirts and pants, and stripping her naked.
"No, please. You can keep hitting me, just don't hit me anymore." Lia pleaded, drooling mucus on her lips. Zach pulled her legs as he punched her in the face. Lia begins to retaliate and pulls away from him Zach got so angry his eyes turned red.
"He teaches you to stop being submissive to your husband, right? So you want that idiot to have you while I who revived you barely have it to my satisfaction?” Zach asked. Lia gasped heavily.
"Let me go."
Zach sat down on her weak body, clamped his hands on her neck, and strangled her. "If you don't do what I say, I will personally murder you. If I can't have you to my satisfaction, no one else will."
Lia tries to grab something to hit him on the head, but she was too weak to raise her hand, the darkness swallowed her, and she fainted instantly. Zach grins when he sees her unconscious.
"Now I can have it." He whispers to himself and strips her completely naked.
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"My trap caught a very big one," Sage said with a grin on his face. Finally, she has reached a goal. Sage doesn't get anything out of murdering Derek, but she wants to see Ava unfulfilled, she wants to see Ava cry again, which Lisa has long wanted. After that, she will attack Ava's life and then Lia and Lisa so that no one can stand between her and the three-eyed monster.
Sage believes that killing everyone will bring her closer to her lover. Sage transformed into her original form in her drained clothes. When rain fell on her, her body burned like a burning building that rain falls on, she smelled like burnt toast, that's her cologne. She walked to her underground chamber with a grin on her face, holding the golden cauldron in her hand. The water that dripped under her hoodie turned to acid, drying out the grasses she walked through.
In the subterranean chamber, Lisa, the three-eyed monster wife rubbed her hands together as she paced, sweat forming dark circles under her arm, and ominous thoughts writhed in the back of her mind. She paused, bit her lip, and looked toward the entrance when she noticed Sage's presence.
"You already murdered Lia?" Lisa asked.
"No, not yet," Sage replied as she walked in while drying herself at the entrance. She placed the kettle Derek was locked in on a table.
"But why?"
"Wait! I want her to suffer seriously before I murder her again so she never wants to rise again." Sage said as she sat down in her chair, which was shaped like a throne.
"What if she remembers the three-eyed monster? What if she tries to take it away from me again?” Lisa asked.
"Didn't you take it from me too? you stole my love I'm only helping you because I think we have the same goal.” Sage said, her goal is to murder Lisa as well.