Tasting All My Mates by Alexis Dee

348-Suffering Silently 

H a Vouchers The moment I remembered that hidden memory and why I had dreamed about the woman cursing

Thiago, my heart sank in my chest. I couldn’t even utter a word or walk inside the room to inspect it. 

“Wow! That’s a weird color,” Maynard said, walking past me to enter the room and then looking around. “There is

noth ing here. But why is the color so red, and what is all this mark ing on the floor?” he frowned, probably

confused at what kind of messed up work my mother was doing here. 

Thad tears in my eyes, my vision was blurred, and my body was shivering in guilt. It was my mother who cursed

Thiago, but for what? 

Why would someone curse a little child? I couldn’t com prehend how my mother could be this evil. As I raised my

face and blinked the tears away, I saw Maynard walk around the room cluelessly. He had no clue my mother

screwed him over, too. 

At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if my mother had done something for Zander to turn out like that. Is it why I

was given so many mates? Did she mess up everyone and then the Moon Goddess gave me them as a mate to

punish me? Maybe 

it is a redemption point where I have to help my mates? 

“Enya!” Maynard spoke to get my attention. “Here is a pic ture—,” he was looking through the closet when I shook

my head and started walking backward. I wanted to get out of here and leave as fast as I could. 

“Um! What is happening to you?” He must have seen me cry, because he ran after me out of the room to check on

me. I shook my head one last time before I turned around and sprinted out of the room like crazy. He followed me,

and once! was in the front yard, I broke down. 

“What is going on? Did something happen?” He wrapped his arms around me and pulled me closer to his chest as I

cried frantically. 

“Enya! You are scaring me,” Maynard whispered, gently patting my back. 

“What happened to her?” I heard Christina ask Maynard. That’s when Maynard broke the hug and steadily handed

me over to Lazio. 

I wasted no time before pulling myself closer to Lazlo and hiding my face in his chest. He hugged me back but

didn’t say anything. 

He was probably still upset remembering his mother, and now he had to calm me down. 

“I am so worried about her.” Christina was running her hand through my hair and trying to calm me down, but how

do I calm down? How can I even tell them what happened? How do I tell them the woman who cursed Thiago was

my mother? 

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The one who needs to be sacrificed is me. 

“Let’s go back to the academy. It seems like this place gave us the answers we needed,” Lazlo mumbled, and I

finally lifted my face from his chest to speak to them. I needed to tell them I was the one who should be sacrificed

for Thiago. 

“I will go grab our bags,” Christina suggested, and she ran inside to pick up her stuff. I was just blankly staring at

them, feeling like a culprit. My mother messed up everything and then left me behind to clear the mess. 

How can someone be so heartless? 

“I have to tell you guys about—” | paused, watching Christina come out and join us. 

“Guys, we should go,” she suggested, and they agreed. I wanted to have a talk with them, but I was trying to calm

my self down first. In the meantime, we sat together in the car and hit the journey back to the academy. I had my

head resting on Lazlo’s shoulder when I noticed him moving a little. 

“Can you sit over there? My shoulder is kind of numb,” he complained as he gently massaged his shoulder. 

“Oh! I am so sorry, I didn’t notice,” I uttered, and instantly sat up straight. 

“Enya! What happened back there? Did you have a vi 

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sion?” Maynard questioned himself while driving the car. He was keeping one eye on the road and snitching a

glimpse of me in the mirror. 

“I — I found out – who had cursed Thiago,” as soon as I said those words, Maynard hit the breaks and we almost col

lapsed. Thanks for the invention of belts! 

“What? that is good news.” Maynard turned around and smiled. The others suddenly looked so happy. 

“That means we can contact Thiago somehow and tell him we have found the cure.” Christina clapped her hands

excited ly. “wait! we cannot do anything until we find him, right?” She tried to confirm, and a brief nod from me

gave her the answer. 

“Dammit! He didn’t want us to go with this plan. So how in hell are we going to find him to cure him?” She sighed,

getting out of the car after Maynard eyed us all to leave the car and sit on the side of the road to discuss it in detail.

I reluctantly got out of the car, followed by Lazlo, who was just silent all the time. 

“We can make a plan to lure him back, but first, we need to get our hands on the one we are going to sacrifice.”

May nard stroked his chin while Lazlo sat silently on the side. 

“What if the witch’s blood is pure? I mean, kids can turn out good,” Christina suggested, but then I found Lazlo

glaring at her in silence. I just didn’t understand what was going on with Lazlo, but there was something definitely

bothering him. 

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“An evil person’s child turns out evil only.” That came from Lazlo. He said it without looking at anyone specifically. 

“But Enya turned out good.” Maynard shrugged his shoul ders, and it helped me a lot. Because I was going to tell

them now that the evil person who cursed Thiago was none other than my mother. 

“The witch who cursed Thiago —- was my mother,” My words distracted them from discussing any more plans. The

silence engulfed them entirely, and I found myself in the cen ter of the quizzical stares.