Chapter 208: Why Can’t You Hold Me [2]

[HAWI]

"But Hawi… if Razia is one of the Seven as she claims… If she has magic, and it's that strong, is there a chance that she can see us here now? That she can feel her daughter's lifeline, or even know that we are pulling some prank here?

"It takes a special kind of madness to want your child gone in the name of a greater good that could probably mean a greater loss for you. I don't understand her and that's scary," Mbali asked the question that Rukiya had been having the whole time.

"Nothing can beat the magic of a protector, Mbali. Nothing. I let the blade pass and hit Rukiya," Malika admitted, and Rukiya and Mbali stared at her like she needed to explain more. There was just no way they went through that when it could have been avoided.

"But—"