My Corpse Husband

“Yo-u, Chief?” Alexander struggled to talk with the immense pain he was enduring. His body was not moving to his will and stilled paralyzed from the moment he was given the drug from the needle.

“Why?” He managed to ask, still struggling to move his body.Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

Chief Radburn smiled sardonically and knelt down before the unmoving body of Alexander while giving a small laugh of victory to Lord Knight.

“Because you were getting close to discover my secrets, just like your father.” Chief Radburn replied harshly and patted Alexander’s cheek, giving him a fake sorry look.

Alexander sucked the air in gasp when realization dawned onto him. “You killed my father?” He asked, several emotions gushing into him at a same time.

His face was getting red due to the struggle also due to the drug and his breath was coming short after every moment. Alexander wanted to fight, he wanted to kill the person who killed his father and who was pretending to be a good guy before others.

“Few years ago, your father too got a whiff of something going wrong with the treasure we robbed. He suspected that the treasure was not given to help the poor and other unfortunate form of people so he started looking for the dishonest person who was using the money all for themselves in the name of service, just like you. You had be suspecting the same thing from a long time, aren’t you?” When Chief started confessing what had happened years ago, Lord Knight knelt beside Alexander with a sharp knife and stabbed him in the stomach brutally.

Alexander sucked another long breath trying to bear the pain and fight against the drug that was keeping him still.

No he needed to do something and help his people from the very person they trust so much!

“Nah, do not worry, we will not kill you until you know the whole story. At least you deserve that, boy.” Chief Radburn smiled amusingly at the trashing body of Alexander.

“So, where were we? Yes. You see, I work so hard to rob people, for what? To bestow them for poor? Do you see me like a fool? So one day, I happened to meet one of my very old friends –” Chief pointed his hand towards Lord Knight who was sitting beside him, “- and we planned to gain some good wealth for ourselves. The Lord provided me with the security I needed and I provide him with the half of the wealth I earn. A very beneficial alliance, don’t you think so?” Lord Knight chuckled amusingly at his friend’s storytelling skill.

Alexander, who was listening to the wrongs his chief was doing until then, wanted to rip both the men limb by limb. If only his body was not paralyzed, he would have given them the years of pain they had given to people.

That when he understood that the feeling of something amiss he felt all the time during the night. The plan to loot Lord Knight was a trap for him. They wanted to kill him without any one suspecting them so they had planned to show the world that Alexander was dead in the hands of Lord Knight’s soldiers when he was caught stealing.

“I – will K-K-ill you.” Alexander uttered with conviction to which both the men guffawed at the wounded man.

“How? You should be alive in the first place to hurt us, dear boy. Now that you know my deepest secret, you have to leave this world, I’m sorry. But do not worry about your mother and brother though; I will take care of them like my own.” Chief said and stabbed Alexander in the heart and twisted the knife to make it more painful.

Chief Radburn did not give Alexander even a moment to ponder on the revelation and just killed him brutally like he did the same to his father years ago.

“That night, Alexander Knavesmire was killed by the cowards who couldn’t face him openly in a physical challenge. For the first time ever, Alexander cried that night before losing his life. He cried not because he was dying, he cried because he wouldn’t be there to protect his mother, his brother and the people who trusted him.” Xander said, wiping the tears that were rolled down Ella’s closed eyes.

Though she was not conscious, her tears proved him that she was listening to him and so he prayed for life with a little hope sprouting inside him.

He was happy that she was reacting to what he was saying though he was not certain she would ever get up or would she ever remember when she got up.

“The story did not end there. In fact, a new story started with Alexander’s death.” Xander smiled, this time genuinely as if he was desperate to tell his wife this part of the tale.

“The moment Alexander opened his eyes again, he found himself in a small chamber which looked like dungeons but the difference was everything he saw around was dark and blank. He found himself in a chamber which was supposedly deserted from any habitat. There was no one around nor was there any sound. It was eerily quiet and dark.”

“After a long time of being in the chamber, locked and unfed, Alexander heard footsteps for someone arriving his way and he was desperate to who was it and where he was. The last thing he remembered was being stabbed by the bloody Chief so he thought they imprisoned him somewhere far away so he could not escape. The footsteps neared and he found two men with spears in hand walk by his chamber and unlock the door to the chamber.” He explained locking his hand with Ella’s again.

He couldn’t help but smile at the gift Alexander received that day.

“The two men pulled him across the large vacant establishment and several hallways and finally brought him into a very large room where there is a large throne on one far end of the room and there are another three thrones below the large one. Alexander did not know what was happening so he was quiet observing everything. Not long after three people in dark cloaks appeared in the three chairs below out of nowhere. And then another figure in same black cloak appeared on the large throne, but this figure has a crown on his head. It took Alexander few moments but that was when he understood that he was not on earth. He understood that he was dead and was present before the Lord of underworld and the judges of the life and death.”

Life sure has a weird ploy for everyone and it is unpredictable. Alexander did not think that his death would give him another chance of life to take revenge on the people who killed him.

“The judges and the Lord told him that they cannot send his soul to heaven nor can they keep him in hell because his soul was bounded in a pure relationship. At first Alexander did not understand what crap the Lord and the judges were saying but they explained him what happened to him. The God of death said that a soul will be going through trials in the underworld only when his human body was completely destroyed. That was the reason he was kept in a small chamber because they were waiting for his body in the human world to be completely festered as his body was cremated.” Xander said looking lovingly at Ella.

“The God of death said that someone from the human world has lit a life to Alexander’s body by an untainted soul on a special night where the stars and planets were in a very auspicious positioning. They said that they had no choice than to send him to the human world again as he was no more eligible to be in the hell or heaven. But the Lord of underworld told him since he was given a life after death by a propitious person, he would not be a complete human and so he will be burdened with the unusual abilities that could be his foe and a reason for his anguish if not sustained well.” Xander said and stood up from the bed.

Xander looked at his sleeping wife and opened his arms in air like an emperor and roared loudly, “Like that Alexander was born again in the same body but as a different person. And this time he was known not as Alexander Knavesmire but as Lord Xander Knight.”

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