A TWIST OF FATE || Rewriting

Ch. 56 || Valentine

Zaria 🌹

"Let me do it." Lucien says, kneeling in front of me to put the bandage on my wounded big-toe of my foot. That’s what I get when I stumbled on my feet and hit a hard rock on the beach.

"I can do it myself." I grunt at him and snatch the bandage from his hand to apply it myself.

The wind blew past my hairs, the beautiful sounds of waves crashing against the shores is a therapy in itself.

We're sitting in an open lawn, facing the shores right in front of us. This is the only place where I feel peaceful and calm since the day I am kept here. And now, this bastard is even showing his not-so-bad face to me, sitting next to me on another chair and his bodyguards surrounding us.

One of the guards holds an umbrella above us, shadowing us from the sun rays that gives me energy to survive this nightmare.

Lucien rested his elbow on the small round garden table and placed his chin in his hand. His white loose t-shirt waving by the wind that is messing with his golden hair as well.

"I know you hate me for what I am doing but, this is the first ever thing I did for my own selfishness. First ever thing that made me cross my morals." He spoke, looking at the ocean.

I do not reply to him back, I don't even turn my head at him.

"He must have told you what happened to him but how much do you know about me?" His voice takes that sad tone that I am sure would gain a lot of sympathy. But I am not falling in his trap.

"If you are going to tell a false story to make me sympathise with you to forgive you, then you are only setting yourself up for failure." I mumbled but he heard it.

"No, I won't tell you a false story. The abuse I have faced is at the hands of my own grandmother, the bullying I have gone through in my school life, the way the world always blamed me for something I never did nor had I intended to do, it wasn't false. The pain I have suffered is true even if you don't believe it."

My head swiftly tilted to him. Is he saying the truth? I don't know. I don't have a good reason to believe him. He can go to any lengths just to win me back, I can't believe what he is saying, it's a trick, for sure.

Even if it is true, it doesn’t justify him trapping me here against my own will. No. I can’t go soft on him no matter what.

"Thora..." He pleads.

"Zaria." I corrected him.

He gritted his teeth before speaking again, "I was never heard by anyone but I always told myself to ignore them. I always controlled my anger and hurt because I never wanted to be a bad person, but then… then you came into my life and I realised that you too were being snatched away from me because of him. Again. And then, I lost my control. I have had enough pain and lost enough things but I can't afford to lose you."

"You never had me to lose me." I faced back at the sea.

"Why is it so hard for you? I am doing everything. Even the things he did." Lucien smacked his fist on the table and raised his voice at me. "Or was Helios just a better fuck than me? But how would you know that when you haven’t given me a try..."

"Keep your voice low if you don't want your tongue departed from your body and pathetically wiggle on the ground." I said sternly, having no idea where those words came out on my tongue or the sass came from.

"Meson and Gerard, go inside." All the bodyguards headed inside on his orders.

Lucien stood up and grabbed my both arms harshly in his hands to yank me up..