" You say I burned you?

Oh darling if only you knew. How many times I burned myself.

To give you the light which you synonym with fire."

- Suzangill

........

Aaron's pov

My eyes lock with those beautiful brown orbs which I made my world.

And my heart. Which I thought has long died and forgotten how to beat.

Suddenly starts fluttering like a fuc*ing butterfly caught in a prison.

It's thudding audible in my mind. And I suddenly go oblivious to everything. My eyes refusing to leave the sight in front of me.

Fuc*!

She is looking more beautiful than before.

" A-Aron"

She speaks. And hearing my name from my lips broke all the restraints inside me. So tempting ! How I want her to repeat it again.

Just once say my name with her melodious voice.

How I fuc*ing missed her voice, her face, her smile, her eyes, her scent.

Even her Stupidness.

But I know it won't be possible anytime soon.

Instead I wonder how she hasn't shouted profanities at me or slapped me twice or thrice atleast.

I deserve it. I know.

For bringing tears in her eyes that only deserved happiness. For loving her when she deserved someone better.

My thoughts are interrupted by a voice that thunders in the silence, drawing everyone's attention.

" How dare you step into this house you bast*rd!"

I sigh. Expecting this. Placing my hands in my pockets. To finally break her stare. Looking at Albert who seemed to be raging seeing me.

Before I could say anything. Andriana rushes to my side in defence.

Looking at her uncle.

"Uncle Al! How can you say that to him! I invited him here!"

Looking at Andriana in disbelief. He steps forward. Approaching me.

" What fuc*ing game are you playing huh? What is this bullsh*t!"

I don't say anything in defence. Just let Andriana wrap her arm around my shoulder. As she defends me.

Making my task simpler. Saving my energy.

" What game Uncle! I love him and he loves me. And very soon we will get married!"

Albert looks at Andriana in disbelief.

" Married? He is your sister's husband! Are you even hearing yourself?"

" This is just rediculuous!"

" This man leaves my Ezra alone for 7 damn months! Not even once asking if she was fine! "

"And now you say he loves you! Ryan! Your daughter has lost i-"

" Uncle! For your information. I think your dearest daughter may have not told you."

Andriana smirks looking at Ezra. Who just stood there like a statue. Seeing the unfolding of the events.

" But Aaron and I dated for 5 years while we were studying in Seattle. If only we hadn't come back...all of this wouldn't have happened!"

" He came back. Ezra always used to have this crazy crush on him. And then your daughter kissed him and took advantage of him a drunken night. And on her day of ceremony with another man. Those pictures got leaked."

" Aaron married her that day. To save her honour. He gave away his love for me just for her!"

" It's not me that interfered in their love! It was always Ezra!"

" She was infatuated with him. Crazy in love with him. "

" And she got him. But his heart? She could never earn it!"

Andriana was speaking. Loosing her calm. While I just stared at those brown orbs.

That were blankly staring at Andriana. Not defending herself. Not saying a word.

Just listening.

Look at me Ezra. Look into my eyes.

Please.

I plead in my mind. Desperate to see how bad Andriana's words were affecting her. Desperate to know if there is a hope to repair the damage I am causing.

But they don't meet my stare.

Lost. Cold. Emotionless.

Fuc*! This is bad.

" Andriana! I don't know the circumstances under which they were married. But it's not a fuc*ing game! That you can leave any time! "

" Exactly uncle! And my love for him was not a game!"

" We both suffered so much! Aaron tried so hard to accept her as his wife!"

" But we couldn't.... it's easy to fall in love uncle. But it's impossible to pull out of it!"

A silence stretches. As Andriana finishes breathing heavily. Tears falling down her eyes. As her father comes to her defence next.

" Brother it's a matter of hearts. I tried explaining her so many times. But she was almost going crazy these past few months."

" She even tried hurting herself."

Ryan speaks finishing.

Gasps follow. With no one expecting this.

But it was true.

Andriana is as crazy as I am. If not less. After all only one crazy person can manipulate another.

But there was a difference in us.

For her ,I am an infatuation. Someone she lusts for. Someone she wants at any cost because she is addicted.

For her, it's a question on her ego.

While for me? It was love.

Crazy, insatiable and disastrous love.

Yes. Love. I will finally admit the feeling without any doubt now.

Because nothing could be as strong as it.

After all I have experienced it.

" It's not right Ryan. Marriage is not a joke. And Ezra's feelings? What about them?"

Ryan sighs. Rubbing his forehead.

" I leave it on the man brother. After all it's their life. They have the right to make their decisions."

And that's when everyone's eyes stop at me.

Expecting my answer.

Including her brown orbs.

Sh*t! This is more difficult than I thought. How am I going to do this with her looking at me like that?

" Aaron son. Make your choice. This shouldn't wait any more."

Ryan says. Tired of arguing and explaining everyone. Knowing Andriana won't settle down till she gets what she places her finger on.

" Baby?"

Andriana looks at me with big hopeful eyes. But I couldn't look at them for long. My eyes drifting back to those hurt ones.

That had a flickering hope in them.

That I was going to kill.

" Tell them your decision Aaron! Tell them you love me!"

She whispers to me. And I gathered all the strength in me To finally do it.

With my eyes fixed on Ezra's brown orbs.

I step closer to Andriana and did what no one present there expected. Showing them my decision.

Placing my hand behind Andriana's neck and pulling her to me. I kiss her lips.

In front of Ezra. While staring at her.

And I won't lie.

Something ached so bad in my chest that I just wanted to push aside Andriana and hug Ezra.

To tell her I didn't mean all this

To tell her I always had her back.

To tell her ,she was the one.

But I couldn't.

Killing that feeling in my chest I continue to kiss Andriana. And with each second, I see that spark in Ezra's light fading.

Yet she doesn't lower her stare.

She bravely stares at me, her husband.

Betraying her. Right in front of her eyes.

And what happened next. Made all my thoughts in my mind to halt for a second.

Someone pulls me back from Andriana. And a sharp pain hits my cheek.

Albert has just slapped me.

I breathe heavily. Holding my jaw. To again look up at those widened brown orbs only.

" You assho*le! How dare you played with my daughter's feelings like this!"

" Look at me! How dare you even look at her!"

I still continue to stare at Ezra. Don't paying heed to his words.

When another smack hits me.

" No! Uncle! Don't hurt him!"

Alexandria comes in front of me trying to protect me. But there was no stopping to Albert Richardson.

Grabbing my collar. He shakes my entire frame. Seething.

" You betray her! Huh? You think you can get away easily by breaking her heart!"

" I will fuc*ing kill you!"

Next I know. A more harsher blow hits my jaw. Making me taste the metalic taste of blood. My long hair falling in front of my eyes.

But he doesn't stop there. Punching me again.

Making me stagger back.

As I refuse to defend myself. Letting him hurt me.

But no matter how much he tried. I didn't had it in me to leave those brown eyes.

She closes them whenever a punch hits me.

And I sickly smile.

She does care for me. Seeing me hurt it hurts her.

Everyone tries to stop Albert. Ryan tries to hold his brother. But all invain.

Albert keeps pushing them to hit me again.

Holding my collar, dragging me to his door.

" You fuc*er! Get lost from here!"

" Get out!"

I was almost near the threshold and Ezra's figure was growing distant from me. My vision going hazy.

When will I see her next?

Why is she still standing there looking at me like that.

She shouldn't look into my eyes.

She won't find anything in them anymore.

They were dead. Just like I am from the inside.

The blows were going harsh. And I refuse to counter attack. When suddenly.

" Aaron!"

Andriana screams.

And a very strong force hits my head. Making drops of blood to fall down my forehead into my eyes.

" Fuc*"

I curse in pain. Holding my bleeding forehead. To again stand up. Realising my head has just hit a wall corner corner when he pushed me.

" Get the hell out ! Now! "

Albert scream and I nod. Breaking the stare with her eyes finally, turning around.

So this it huh? A goodbye?

When a voice booms behind me, making my heart to thud.

" Stop"

I clench my fist. Not turning around. Letting the silence to seep in.

When the clicking of heels approach me becomes audible.

Heels.

A small smile comes on my lips. How she hated them with passion. But again this was not just Ezra now.

An orphan without parents.

She was the Ezra Richardson.

The heir to the most wealthiest empire in the world.

A real princess.

She stops behind me. And I clean the blood in the corner of my lip. Trying to show her presence didn't affected me.

" But daughte-"

" Papa please. Let me handle this."

It felt different. There was something in her voice that wasn't there before.

She wasn't stuttering. She wasn't crying.

She was cold. Stone cold.

And I felt anxiousness hitting me. Making me nervous. But I refuse to show it.

Stepping in front of me. She folds her arms. Meeting my eyes.

" You are forgetting something Mr Reed"

She speaks with redefined coldness. And I furrow my brows like everyone.

Sh*t!

Don't do something stupid. Don't please. Please!

However what she did next blew my mind completely. It made me feel so many things. But what stood out the most.

Was emptiness.

Taking out a piece of paper from her pocket. She opens it's folds.

And places it on a table.

Opening her palms she asks for a pen and a guard slides it in her hands. Gulping. She looks into my eyes.

With a coldness that froze my very soul.

To only sign the papers without seeing them. Not taking her eyes away from me.

Just like I had kissed Andriana without breaking her stare.

Once done.

She steps closer to me. Offering the papers to me.

" Here."

Keeping up my guards ,I try to look down at the papers in indifference. When my heart was ready to leap out of my chest.

Those were the mere sheets which will determine our future from now on.

" The divorce papers."

Gasps are heard. While I just clench my fist. My stare not wavering.

When she steps closer to me. Seething. . . . . . " Don't forget to invite me on the date of your wedding."

She says and I was too shocked to say anything. I was so wrong.

Only her attire hasn't changed. Only her confidence hasn't changed.

She has really changed.

She was not that naive stupid girl anymore.

She was a disaster, waiting to be unveiled.

Damn that confidence.

I could feel the burn.

And I don't know why I smirked.

She looks at my lips. To stare back into my eyes. And seeing me not take the papers from her hands.

She folds it back to place in my pocket.

Whispering slowly in my ear before walking away.

Leaving everyone of us to stare at her back. Unable to believe what has happened. . . . .

" Hope no women loves a man like I have loved you." . . . . . " Goodbye Aaron"