Mates But Enemies

Chapter 37: Werecrocodiles.

From what was happening, I knew something was amiss somewhere, Absalom and Logan had traveled

to Logans adopted parents to inform them of their incoming journey and also to consult the oracle

about what was happening and what could be done about it. I drove home after the interference and

decided to ask my father about what happened and the reason it had to happen. I got home and went

to look for him but I found him asleep. So I decided to see him the next day and went to my bedroom to

sleep too.

I opened my door to find my son, Leo curled up on the bed sleeping soundly. Not intending to wake him

up, I walked in silently but then I saw his eyes opened and staring at me. He gave me a little smile and

I smiled back awkwardly, I had being caught. I went and sat beside him and he pulled himself into my

arms and looked at me. His eyes turned from its usual gray to blue and he said surprising me,

“Mom, you were attacked by them weren't you? The next time they come to you please let them know

that they have gotten the wrong person. And what they wanted to prevent has in fact come to pass, I

have been born. ”

I saw that it wasn't my son speaking but his genie so I only nodded but he held my hand tightly and

insisted,

“I am serious here, please tell them to come to me directly because i am not hiding from them. ”

I wanted to ask him about the questions I was curious about to see if he could answer them but I

looked at him again to see that his gray eyes were back to normal. So i knew that my son was back. He

hugged me and asked,

“Mom, where have you being?”

I felt guilty for leaving him the whole day when I had not even gone to the office, so I took him in my

arms and slept beside him.

The next day, I went looking for my father once again and saw him in his office this time. As soon as he

saw me, he stood up, I was confused by his action till I remembered what had happened before. I

remembered how my father used to shout at me when I was wrong and felt awkward about the sudden

respect he was meting on me. So I asked him not to do that again and also to treat me as he used to.

He agreed and sat down on his desk then asked me what the problem was. I narrated to him all that Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

had happened and asked him why it was that way.

He sat down quietly for a long time looking into the empty space, i felt bored so i got up and started

rummaging through his books on the shelf. I then saw one particular book that caught my attention. But

I couldn't reach to it so i used the help of my genie which was rather magical, I had the book in my

hand without doing anything. As soon as the landed in my hands, my father took it and threw it back to

its place without even looking at where. I looked at him confused and he looked back apologetically

and said,

I am sorry but that book cant be seen by anyone but I had forgotten you arent anyone. But can I please

give it to you in my own time?

I nodded and told him I was only curious because it looked old on the outside but had very new leaves

in it.

He sighed and went back to the desk and told me that the news about the werecrocodiles was nothing

new to him. Then he narrated,

The Genasi and the werecrocodiles ruled the sea together and they had done that for a thousand

million years. All they had to do was, if it was a genasi who was a king, he had to rule for a decade and

leave the throne to a werecrocodile to rule for the next decade. And if anyone disobeyed this rule, he

would become half genie and a human and it went the same way for the werecrocodiles. And they lived

peacefully for so many years without any problems until, one werecrocodile decided not to leave the

throne after his tenure. And because of that, a prophesy was announced that because that king was

recarsitrant, a new king would be born for the genasis and he would be born of both a genasi and

another being and because of this he would have eternal life and rule forever. Because of the

prophesy, a war brewed among them and the werecrocodiles worn then killed every female genasi then

drove them out of the sea.

He finished narrating the story and told me to make meaning from the story. I thought about it but

couldn't understand, if every female genasi was killed then i was born, then it could mean that wanted

to kill me too. But from what that werecrocodile told me, they were trying to stop me from meeting my

mate. Why?..