𝙑𝙞𝙭𝙚𝙣 || 𝙏𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙧

Twenty five.

When the woman got up and walked away, Margo's features hardened and she scoffed, folding her arms and clicking her tongue in distaste. She wondered how people could be so rude. Did they not know what she's capable of?"

Talking to herself, she muttered. "Why can't people just answer fucking questions?"

"She's right, you know."

Margo whipped around and the familiar voice of William. He stood with his back straight, his head held high and a smile played on his lips upon watching her expression soften. With a hat on his head, frontwards, he was nothing like Benny who always wore his backwards with a narcissistic smirk. His arms were tense but they were strong and Margo suddenly remembered how hard he worked to gain muscular masculinity. In other words, he looked perfect and Margo was breathless for numerous reasons. 

"Why are you here?" Margo was confused. "Where's Ben?"

"At the hotel." He was a little bit hurt that she'd immediately jumped ship to Ben but he continued. "I just-I don't know why I'm here. I guess I just need to tell you I'm sorry for walking away. You're right and you know what? I am happy for you. Ben loves you and you deserve each other."

She didn't smile and arrogantly, she couldn't help but want his constant need to change her mind. "What happened to fighting for me?"

"Do you want me to fight for you?"

Margo couldn't respond. Her eyes were fire in water, as though that were possible. With the passion now overshadowing the flames in her rage-filled lenses, William swallowed a lump that formed in his throat and he quickly learned that her feelings for him never changed no matter how long they were apart. After all, he was her first love and he'd always have a special place in her heart.

"Margo." William sighed, his brows in knots and his stomach in twists. "This is wrong. He's my brother and no matter how much I want to strangle him at times, I can't hurt him the way he hurt me. Not like this."

The cloud of hope soon diffused, bubbling guilt instead. "You think I wanna hurt him too? I know this is wrong but I can't help the way I feel. It's not something that I can get over in two seconds!"

"But you an get engaged in two seconds? You left and came back for the money, not for love. And now, all of a sudden, after being with Benny for what, a day? You're planning on getting married? What else am I supposed to do? I have to let go."

With his volcanic eruption of love, it was hard for her not to be swept under the surface and become scorched. "I have four minutes. You tell me what I'm supposed to do."

"You ain't even gonna address what I said?"

"No." She spoke truthfully with sorrowful eyes. "I know it's far too soon and yeah, I did come back for the money. But you should know that I accepted his proposal because-"

"Because you had to? He put you under pressure and-"

Margo cut him off just as quick as he did to her. "I accepted his proposal because I wanted to."  

"So you accepted it even though you don't love him and you're unsure of your feelings for me?" He scoffed and looked to the timer ticking on the clock above. "I figured as much. You're selfish as fuck."

She was taken aback by his honesty but he wasn't wrong. "If I'm so selfish then why the fuck do you still love me?"

"Because I'm selfish too." He sneered with anger directed at himself. "Imagine falling for your brother's girl."

Margo sighed with emotional pain. "Is it really like that? Or is it finishing what you've started?"

Glancing back to the board, she had two minutes left and she looked back to him with a sense of unimaginable detachment. Nothing else needed to be said but when they met in the middle, embracing one another as though they'd never see each other again, it was clear that she was worth the fight and they hated themselves for being so cruel to a man so kind. 

When his lips brushed against hers, the battle within of pure and impure thoughts, it was wrong but he craved it. He wanted her more than anything else in the world and should his brother really be in the way of that? Rings were just a circle but bonds were eternal and connected the souls forever, so could a diamond separate their love affair any longer?

Every fibre in her being told her to close the gap but she could only feel as though the air in her lungs had been sucked out and replaced with venom to remind her that if she sealed the deal, it would only make her worse than William, and so after a moment of contemplating, the same way he did, they reluctantly pulled back and without looking back, she walked to her gate, leaving William standing behind her, watching every move she made with misery.

The woman who hadn't given Margo a cigarette earlier had been watching the entire thing and she walked over to William and placed her hand on his shoulder. She'd been without her husband for three years but she vividly remembered how it felt to watch him leave, and so, she understood the man's pain.

"Is that your girlfriend?"

"No."