Can we change it? (Prequel To It Ends With You Or Me)

part 21

Chad started reading the next chapter.

It has been a few hours since mal had faked her death infront of her mother, and still is unconscious, because of all the torture she had been through.

Ben whimpered slightly at the thought of wife going through that torture.

Ben, never left her side, and watched her, carcessing her face, and running his hands through her hair, doing everything he could do. He even treated all her burned marks and wounds, and bandaged them carefully.

Every one cooed at them.
"You're the best husband, Benny" mal whispered to him after pecking his lips.

Right now, he was holding her hand, and carcessing her face, when he noticed that her eyes were fluttering.
"Mal, honey?" He asked carefully while she groaned in answer.
She slowly opened her eyes to see her husband smiling down at her.

Everyone sighed 8n relief that mal finally regained her consciousness.

"Oh my.." Ben said and hugged her tightly.
Mal could feel him crying as tears were seeping down her side.
"Oh my god, you're okay!" He exclaimed and group hugged mal again along with their children.

Mal, Ben and their children smiled as Chad read the line. While Ben put his hand on one of her shoulder and squeezed it.

"Mal, how are you alive after all that torture you faced?" Ben asked still hugging her.
Mal gulped, it was now time for the truth.
She explained to them about her plan with the tree gaurds and the plan of her faking death. She is alive, because beforehand she had casted a spell on herself, by which she will only get burned, and be weak.

Everyone remained silent while mal whispered a 'sorry' to Ben.

Ben's eyes showed that he was hurt.
So mal agin hugged him and explained that without doing this she would not be able to defeat her mother in future.
"She now knows that I'm dead, so she will remove much of her gaurd, and that is the time when we will attack." She explained to the audience.

"We understand Mal" Belle said while the others agreed with her.

"I'm sorry" mal added but was again hugged by her family, who told her that they've understand her plan.

Everyone smiled, especially mal who smiled with relief.

Now, it was time to wait. To wait for the perfect opportunity to attack.
And they were determined that maleficent will be defeated next time.

"And we will beat her" Hades said while Mal nodded wholeheartedly.

Chad passed the book to Ben, who wanted to read next.