Burn Me Right

Chapter 75

"You won't talk?" he asked. Her silence was enraging him.

Autumn lifted her head and stared intently into Zyler's eyes. He couldn't help but feel a rush of emotions coursing through his veins. Her piercing gaze held him captive, and he couldn't look away. The intensity of her stare was like a magnet, drawing him closer to her with each passing moment. He tried to resist, but something about those eyes always made him feel weak. They were like two shining stars, illuminating the darkness and guiding them towards her. And as his heartbeat grew faster, he knew he would always be under her spell.

At that moment, Zyler's heart shattered into a million pieces as the woman he had given his all to, the woman he would have gone to the earth for, revealed that she had deceived him and brought about his downfall. The pain and betrayal were almost too much for Zyler to bear as he struggled to come to terms with the fact that the person he had loved and trusted had turned against him. But even in his darkest hour, Zyler knew he would not let her escape it.

"You got what you wanted. Why are you here?" he scoffed, almost stopping his tears from escaping.

Despite his facade of strength, his blue eyes betrayed a sense of inner turmoil and exhaustion. It was as if he carried the world's weight on his shoulders, and the facade of power he projected couldn't hide the fact that he appeared lost and emotionally drained.

"It is not enough," Autumn began, her voice quivering as she fought back tears. She tried to convey the depth of her regret and longing, but Zyler interrupted her with a bitter outburst before she could continue.

"Do you want to rip my heart out for you? Would that be enough?" There was a vicious edge to his words, a raw pain that cut through the room like a blade. Each word he spoke seemed to shatter his heart into a million pieces, and his voice trembled with the anguish of feeling hated and betrayed.

"Why did you do it? Do you hate me that much?" the façade of his strength slipped, unveiling his vulnerability. His voice cracked, and he breathed, inhaling huge air. The room felt suffocating, and he was slipping to the ends of darkness.

"Answer me, Autumn. Why?" A heavy hand slamming against the table echoed through the room, causing Autumn to jump in her seat. She looked up at him, her heart pounding in her chest, as he glared at her angrily. "Do you love someone else?" he bellowed. "Is that why? Do you want another man?" With each question, his fists pounded against the table, the force of his anger palpable in the air. Autumn's mind raced as she struggled to find the words to answer his relentless questions.

"Because you raped me with your cigar pipe," she screamed at the top of her lungs. Her breath searing with anger. His accusation rubbed her the wrong way. Her breath was searing with rage, and his accusation had struck her like a cruel blow. How dare he say such a thing? How dare he accuse her when he had been the one who had shattered her world in the first place?

The accusation cut to the core of her, reopening old wounds and exposing the raw pain she had buried deep within her. She had given him her virginity, and now, he threw this accusation at her. The injustice of it all overwhelmed her, and her scream reverberated through the room, a primal expression of her fury and hurt.

"You chased me through the forest like I was some kind of an animal," Autumn's voice quivered as she recalled the haunting memories of their past. The terror she had felt, the countless times he had pursued her, had etched themselves into her memory as if they had happened just yesterday. The fear that had coursed through her veins felt as fresh as it had on those fateful days.

Her voice quivered with the weight of her emotions as she continued, "You ruined my life. You took everything I held dearly—my hometown, my life." The sadness and pain in her words were palpable, a testament to the devastation that Zyler's actions had wrought upon her. The scars ran deep, and the wounds were still far from healed.