Chapter 28: Grievance Part I

"Don't you dare to step on it…... you vicious Angel!" Jessica shouted with deep hatred in her voice.

Duke was mortified on his place retreating his right foot. His eyes became like stones of marble. He was shocked to hear the word 'angel' from a human after he got banished to this world. He couldn't move his lips as if his voice was stuck. Somehow, gulping down the lump on his throat he asked with a shaky voice,

"I-I am sorry but w-what are you talking about"

Duke already felt like a thief who got caught red-handed but he still tried to deny it.

"How many more lives does God need to leave our house? Tell me!!!" she shouted once again as she moved forward to Duke.

"I-I think you are misund...."

Before he could finish the line five prominent finger marks landed on his left cheek. The sound echoed so loud that Jessica looked back upstairs to check if anyone came out. Then she almost dragged him in her room and closed the door shut.

Duke was still reviving that slap. He couldn't understand what was going on. Jessica went in front of the side table beside her bed and took the photo frame in her hands. It was a photograph of Jason in the wedding suit from their marriage day. Jessica insisted Jason to frame this particular photograph of her choice. She touched the smiling face on that photograph, and a tear drop escaped from her eyes on the frame. Duke was watching her but he couldn't understand the whole situation.

"You know what, I told him we cannot be together forever but he just smiled at me and took my head in his chest saying, even if it was one day on earth, he was granted to live on he would still choose me to love on that only day because that way he would die without any regrets. He loved me unconditionally even knowing that he is just walking on the eggshells every day." Jessica paused for a moment to wipe her eyes.

"It is not your fault that he died. It was an accident that took away his life. You were not the cause of his death." Duke said looking at her.

Clenching the frame in her left-hand Jessica came in front of Duke to prominentize the lightly faded marks on his cheek. This slap was more vibrant than the previous one. Duke's head turned to the right as her hand landed on his left cheek once more. His right hand slowly touched his bottom lips to realize that he was bleeding from the corner of his lips.

A mere human having this much strength to make an angel bleed was impossible for Duke to even think about. Though Duke was banished, he didn't lose all his angelic power to get injured by a human being. He was surprised that Jessica's hand was totally fine after slapping him twice.

"What do you even know you stupid messenger of God! You just go around and lead the ways for the dead to the afterlife. What do you even understand about their feelings? You keep their memories at the gate of the afterlife in the memory hall, so that they can have a smooth journey of reincarnation. What about the left out persons the dead ones loved when they were alive?

WHAT ABOUT THEM??? HOW YOUR STUPID GOD PLAN FOR THOSE PITY SOULD??? HOW DO THEY LIVE THEIR LIVES???

Have you ever tried to learn that? No, you guys don't care for them, All angels despise humans, you are forbidden to feel emotions, you can never disobey the almighty..... but why? Just because that is the way of life? Just because he wrote all the human fates? Just because humans are bound to follow him? Just because angels are mere servants of him?" the stream of tears was flowing down Jessica's eyes. The whimpers filled the room with a gloomy atmosphere.

"I understand you have grievances against God but you cannot talk so ill of him in front of me. I am his servant, I should take down anyone at once who talks bad about Almighty in front of me. Please restrain yourself from saying those things." Duke said while he clenched his fists.

"What??? would you kill me? Huh? You can do that? Huh? Really? Can you really kill me? Then please do so. Kill me and free me from this life. I would be better off in Hell than living in a world without him. Kill me c'mon kill me!!! KILL ME!!!!" Jessica shook Duke by grabbing his arms tightly.

Duke took a step back looking at her dishevelled self. Jessica again started,

"What you can't??? The servant of God can't kill me??? Then what kind of powers do you even derive from him? Ohhh! I forgot!!!

HOW CAN YOU KILL ME WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN KILL YOURSELF!"

Duke's ears started to ring. It was true what Jessica said. Angels cannot kill themselves. They have eternal life only to witness and guide the Humans to afterlives. They become Angels created by Gods, whether they live, whether they banish, whether they die, none of them can be controlled by them. They are just some guards to keep peace and motion between life and Afterlife.

"Who are you? How do you know these things?" Duke questioned in a serious tone.

"Who? Me? Why do you want to know suddenly? Afraid that I may tell you more about the dark side of your dear God?" Jessica chuckled in a creepy way as she sat on the bed. She whispered like a lunatic again,

"You know what, your god is very jealous of Humans. That is why he made the human lives bind in a time frame but his own as eternity.

He is jealous because Humans can experience the most beautiful EMOTION called LOVE while he has to let go of his own emotions to judge everyone unbiasedly, unconditionally. Even if it is a small leaf that is dearest to him, he cannot keep it with him forever. That is why he does not like any loved ones to be toge..."

"NO. NO JESSICA, YOU ARE WRONG." Duke raised his voice to stop her from slandering him anymore.

"The Almighty is not jealous of Human Beings. Because it is the most painful thing for him to watch his own creation die before his own eyes. Even with the ability to create life, he still cannot save that small leaf from withering. You said it right he is unbiased. Because one part of him is always crying for the loss while the other part is creating the new world. He is constantly stripped off his emotions of love for the living beings in his journey. If there is anyone who is being truly tortured from the beginning of this Universe then that is the Almighty alone. Because he knows if he doesn't let go of that small leaf, the new tender ones would never sprout again. The balance will be distorted and the world will come to an end".

"Wow! You are still so loyal to him! But will he respect your choice of loving Juliet?"

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