I Can Hear Your Heart

14. Devil's Nest

"I got it back. Everything I have that I've lost includes Niken. She fell back in love with me like she loved me the first time. We make love almost every day and come back to life together. Then I realized he was lying to me. She's pregnant with Iko's son."

"You know where it came from?"

"Iko told me with the baby's ultrasound photo."

"You believe it?" We talked while whispering. He's nodding. "Then you sacrificed her here?" I read his mind. He's nodding. Then silence was reborn between us. Just as I did not understand why he told me his story directly, I also did not understand what I had to say when he said:

"The truth is I'm not a human being anymore."

The night is getting late. I clasped a kitchen knife tightly the only thing I found behind the kitchen set, more to protect myself from Rosta because I wasn't sure if the demons could be killed with a knife, while Rosta he was still bound in his mortal human body, the wounds on his body would slow down his movements due to the pain and if he tried to chase me by coming out of his body - he would be completely finished. He knows it. So here we are half demon and a weak human hiding from the evil demons outside this room who are still looking for us.

I just prayed in my heart that they would not find me and that someone would come to save me tonight. Save me, God, please.

Rosta closed his eyes in silence. Only his heart fought over all the sins he had committed. For his actions make some girls that he is able to attract as a collision for the new life he gets including Sarina and Niken.

***

Crick.

The kitchen door is open. My body and Rosta stiffened. We sharpen our ears. Hush.hush... The sound of breathlessness could be heard, if he were a human, it would not be terrible even if he had the title of a cold-blooded killer with the sound of such breaths I believe I still have hope of survival. But this is satan.

Then my eyes hit a strange figure flying above the kitchen ceiling. The winged woman of kalilawar. I almost squealed if Rosta didn't snap my mouth fast. But unfortunately, because Rosta moved too fast, his arm hit the closet under the kitchen set made of wood - where we hid and made a sound. Just a slow sound, but the pointy ears of the mystical creature seemed to hear it. His wings flapped and he flew towards the kitchen set.

Rosta was still smothering my mouth, I even held my breath - if I could I would pause my thumping heartbeats so loud that the creature would not hear any sound. But that's impossible? He's sniffing. Then came down flying around the kitchen back. He flew for quite a while without any direction, then somehow he nosedived and perched on the kitchen set down just as I was tilting my head about to confirm his whereabouts. Our eyes meet.

"Akkahh!" He screamed and I stuck the knife in my hand into his mouth. "Aaaakkkkaaaahh!" The creature shouted longer and louder.

Rosta's hands and we ran as fast as we could out of the kitchen. From a distance we could see an army of demons running towards us. At the forefront were ugly creatures with bodies blistered by hard water, huge tall black shadows like giants and human-like body-like creatures with dog-like legs, his body was covered in dense feathers and his teeth were fanged long.

"He was the result of a marriage between man and dog, he loved his own mother and killed his father, even eating his father's heart. Don't get bitten by it" Rosta told me as we ran. "His poor temperament at the expense of his own father as well as his morals of wanting to marry his own mother, might have kept him stuck in that form."

We chose to enter a room and rushed to support the door with an old sofa that was even broken, dirty, dusty and filled with cobwebs.

Boo! Boo!

That door was broken from out there. The loud sound made my heart almost jump from my chest cavity. Rosta moved standing more in front. His eyes turned to look at me and the door became more and more fragile.

"I don't know how.., but promise to release my soul from that creature. Even in hell it still seems better than being his abdicator."

"I can't promise." My words made her look at me in despair. But I don't want to lie to him with false hope. Getting out of here alone would be a boon to me and I make sure I don't want to be involved in this kind of thing anymore.

I was still on my mind when a loud noise from the direction of the door sounded and it not only opened wide, but floated loudly towards me. Rosta pulled my body before it hit me. He brushed me off until I turned around and still with a dizzy head fell down on the other side of the floor.

"Aarrrghhh!" The creature ambushed Rosta. Rosa is now under her body. I tried to find the dagger that was still in my hand. Nil. I didn't find it. "Run Emely. Run!" Rosta shouted as the creature clawed at him. I stabbed him in the back with a rusty dagger I found at the end of the room.

The creature was staring at me. Throwing Rosta, he turned to chase me. But Rosta asked.

"Biggling! Ikikikikik!!"

Then another figure appeared in the room. A woman with long hair. His face was pale. He laughed even though there was no happy expression on his face. His laughter made my heart grow weak.

The hairy creature stared at the female ghost as she pulled Rosta's hand. Not happy prey taken by a hairy creature with human body berjajakannya dog beat the ghost of the woman.

"Movie!" Rosta protects the ghost of the woman.

Okay. This seems to be a personal affair between Rosta and the female ghost. But instead of being protected, the woman looked at Rosta angrily. He beat Rosta so hard that he flew a few meters and slammed down and then his cries sounded. A cry that could even make my ears hurt so much.

"Give me my son!"

The hairy thing turned to me, he quickly ambushed me and immediately pulled me out of the room. Don't imagine me being pulled like a human being pulled by another human being, that being pulled at my feet and my supine body dragged along the corridors of this old building.

"Rose!" I called her name for help. But the pain rained down on my body. The female ghost slaughtered Rosta. He threw her here and there. Rosta was silent.

I want you dead! You killed our son!

I heard the severity of that sentence in Rosta's shocked mind. I could feel how devastated Rosta was when she found out that Niken was leaving her not because of an affair, but because she was pregnant. And the night before his departure - when he was wondering about Rosta, Rosta said he didn't need a child. Rosta says marriage is not his priority at this time especially in the time of the downturn of his career. Niken just wants Rosta to realize his importance to the man's life. He asks Iko to pick him up because the man has been kind and sweet to him, Niken never knew Iko could have a spark. But Rosta instead stuck to Iko's words and sacrificed them both.

"You can take my life." Rosta looks resigned. "At some point I'm dead the day you walk out of my life."

"Don't try to seduce me!" the female ghost bellowed furiously, her voice even reaching the entire building. Then I felt a joy from Rosta's heart.

Okay. I think they need time to talk from heart to heart. If ghosts have hearts.

Gedebug!

A jet-black shadow attacked the hairy creature. And the hairy thing made me some kind of weapon to beat up his opponent. My legs felt like they were being pulled out, my body hurt when it was hit by the demons. They fought.

Then the greatness of another shadow hit the body of the hairy creature. The creature was in pain, just as it was falling down the white shadow caught my body before the demons reached me first. The shadow hugged my body. Slowly the fog solidified and I could see clearly. A handsome ghost in my room.

I sobbed in his arms until I was shaken. It feels good to be able to hold her back. "I thought I would never see you again" I sobbed as I hugged her even tighter. Not talking, he just hugged me back. Eased my crying.

"I'll face them." He who was in a hovering position now landed and slowly he lowered me. Ready to face hundreds of demons who are now running fast with a group heading towards us.

I'm holding. Holding his arm, this time could actually hold it. My head shook. Our eyes meet. "Stay by my side" I asked.

He hugged me before falling back down due to the pain all over me. I can tell you there are a lot of wounds on my body. His hands were coiled around my waist before he carried my body. I wrapped my arms around her neck and my eyes only looked at her face - the only beauty in this place.

"Always," he whispered in my ear, a calm and security for me. Somehow that word gave me confidence that I would always be safe with him.

I'm going home.

Heart begged. His eyes are looking at me softly. There was no rejection of his lips. As we were leaving I could hear a loud moan of anger from the demons of the occupants of this abandoned hotel building.