Chasing And Claiming My Rejected Omega MateAlpha’s Severe Regret [BL] - Chapter 158

Chapter 158: In the palace

Rory

“Wait, you didn’t say a thing about this before.” I called out as my mouth fell open in shock. Her next dinner?!

“You mean sha might not appear to me I’d sha deen me not worthy enough? Then this whole journey would be a waste?! I questioned and Ella let out a low sigh, her lips in a small line.

“I guess I forgot to mention that.” She breathed out sheepishly and I felt myself blanch even more as I kept staring at her.

“This is insane.” I whispered, dragging a hand over my face just as my head began to pound. Movements of my hand caught my eyes and I glanced down at my hand after holding it before my face and I grimaced at the blue of my skin.

“Don’t overthink this. The Queen mother isn’t that difficult to please, and you clearly have a good energy, so I’m certain she’ll appear to you and won’t actually eat you up.” She offered but I still felt extremely nervous and uncomfortable and I let out a long sigh.

She beaconed for me to swim the rest of the way along with her and I hesitated before falling into line along with her. In a bit; we met up with the rest of the guys and they all hooted on seeing my new appearance. That made me blush a little before clearing my throat awkwardly. I knew they all wanted me to stay back here forever and I was certain not all of them understood my reason for wanting to return back and some of them might even feel like I’m being ridiculously, but I didn’t care. I want to return back to earth and that’s what I hope would happen at the end of my meeting with this queen mother.

“What do I have to avoid saying to her to avoid her getting angry at me?” I asked and Issa snorted.

“Nothing, actually. She’s not that hard to pick. At the end of the day, it depends on your energy. If you’re a great person, she’ll appear to you without any hassle.” He explained and I knew that should probably calm me down but I still felt perplexed because others might say that I was a good person, but I wasn’t sure I could actually call myself that.

I sometimes lie, I’m sometimes selfish and the likes, which is why my nervousness began to grow more and more as we neared a large palace that loomed right in front of us.

The palace was glittering and sparkling. I could feel a sheer force around the palace and I couldn’t put my fingers on it but within me, I could feel it when I took in a deep breath just now.

“Here we are! This is where we’d have to stop.” Ella announced, tugging me out of my thoughts and I instantly stiffened as her words resounded within my head.

“Wait, you guys aren’t following me in?” I asked as the nerves within me began to grow even bigger and bigger just now. The guys all shook their heads slowly and Issa reaches forward to pat my shoulders as if he was trying to give me emotional strength.

“We wish we could, but we can’t. Only the one who wishes to see the Queen mother must go the rest of the journey alone.” He explained and my eyes widened even more. I grabbed his wrist before he could pull away, panic evident in my eyes and my voice as I spoke next.

“But- I- I don’t know how I’ll do it. I don’t know her exact room in this large palace. How am I supposed to find her? Or know who she is??” I questioned and Elia swam forward to take my other hand and squeezed a little.

“You’ll feel it within you. Just, trust your heart as you walk through the gates. We’d really love to see you throughout the rest of the journey but it’s against the law of the sea.” She explained and I pursed my lips, my nerves intensifying when I glanced back at the palace for a moment.

“Have any of you ever visited the Queen mother?” I asked as I glanced between them. “You must have, right? I’m asking cause I’d like to know what she looks like before going in, so at least I’d be able to recognize her when I see her.” I asked and they all exchanged a glance before shaking their heads at me at the same time.

My eyes instantly widened as I stared between the four of them. Jeremy spoke before anyone else. “We’ve never gave a reason to come see her.” He clarified and I reached up to massage my pounding forehead almost immediately.

“Wait, if none of you have seen her before, how are you are she exists and is in that palace right now?” I jabbed a thumb yh the direction of the palace as I spoke this time and once again, the four of them exchanged looks before Ella stepped forward while shaking her head.

“Trust me, Rory. The queen mother created you, I and and everyone else here under the sea. She is very much real.” She assured me, then her hands settled over my shoulders and she steered me around till I was facing the palace, then she gave me a small push.

“Go on then. We’ll be out here waiting for you. Good luck!”

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My heart was lodged in my throat and right now with my blue skin, I felt like some sort of freak that didn’t belong gets at all even though I look like every other person here underneath the sea.

After I stepped through the palace gate, when I glanced backwards, I realized the gate had vanished and instead of panicking, I just began to walk forward without looking back. Of course I was worried about the gate, but right now my focus was on finding this queen mother.

Within this palace didn’t seem like the outside at all. The outside had been so sparkly and beautiful. But right now, this inside looked like it was a whole new world.

Everything looked shabby and old and beyond rough around the edges. As I walked even further, I began to question if I was in the right place right now or not, because the pile of trash at random spots on the ground was starting to get me away and more confused than I already am. This didn’t look like the inside of any palace at all. Instead, it felt like I had missed my way, that I was in a completely different place.

There were nothing like guards around. A palace is supposed to have guards, right? Thinking about it right now made me remember that there had been no guards outside the supposed palace. Does that mean this was never a palace?

My heartbeat was starting to increase as fear and nervousness began to gradually increase within my insides. I kept glancing around frantically, desperately wishing I could be able to see something else with the hopes of finding out where this place is from the person.

But the more I kept walking, no one showed up, and I panicked even more. At a point, I began to wonder if Ella and her friends had completely led me to a wrong place entirely. The more I kept thinking about it, the more it kept making perfect sense to me.

Did they do that on purpose or not? Did they lead me here to get killed by something so that I can die a second death? I mean, I shouldn’t have trusted them in the first place, it should have been suspicious to me from the onset that the guys all easily agreed to help me out when I was practically a stranger to them. But what was I supposed to do? Just sit by while my memories of who I am slowly disappear?

I kept walking forward till the sun fully went down and having no other choice, I chose to stay beside a tree and spend the night there, then when the day breaks again, I’ll resume walking and walking till something make a little sense to me down here.

I didn’t sleep a wink throughout the night. I kept my eyes wide open till the day began to break. At this point, exhaustion had fully engulfed me, and I was so sad, my bones rattled when I got up. I was about to start walking forward again when a sight caught the side of my eyes. I quickly whirled around and almost did a double take on seeing an old woman struggling to walk. She was frail and looked like she might fall at any moment. She didn’t notice me, because she was being very careful to not fall. Her legs and stick shook with each step forward. I remained in the same position for a few moments, turn between ignoring her and resuming walking forward while minding my business because that’s the only logical thing to do in my situation.

After a few more moments, I let out a resigned sigh, having already lost the battle with myself, right before I closed the distance between us.

“Hello, grandma. Are you okay? Need some help?”