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Love is funny that way. Once it’s there, it's almost impossible to get rid of it. It doesn’t matter what was said, or how badly the ties were severed. When you truly love someone, you love them for a lifetime.
I love them.Regardless of whether or not it’s reciprocated. Regardless of what happens next, I love them, and a part of me always will.
“You’ll never be my choice, Dimitri.” I say simply. “And you’re right, they may not want me. But that doesn’t change the fact that I’ll never want you. You can try to manipulate the truth all you want. How I feel about you will never change.”
Dimitri stares at me, holding my gaze for longer than anyone should. I feel uncomfortable under the weight of his stare, but something about the look in his eyes keeps me locked in place.
“It’s a shame it had to come to this.” Dimitri murmurs, shaking his head with a sigh. “I thought with enough force, you’d agree and I could spare you, but it seems you’re too stubborn for your own good. I offered you another option out of the kindness of my heart, but in truth, I never needed your hand in marriage. You’ve only been gone a few days and already The Reaper’s crowns are tarnishing. It won’t be long until their loyal subjects turn on them and they lose everything. Congratulations Kroshka, you’ve finally accomplished what dozens of men have tried and failed to do. You crumpled their kingdom.””
Whatever he has planned won’t be good. I can sense it in the way he looks at me. Like deep down, he pities me for what he was about to do.
“Sleep well, Kroshka.” He calls over his shoulder as he heads for the door. “Something tells me you’re going to need all the rest you can get.”
I cling to my detached expression like a shield of armor as he walks out of the room. The lights shut off and after he closes the door behind him, I’m in the darkness once more.
He’s going to kill me. I think to myself as I clench my jaw and shove the storm of emotions trying to come to the surface back down.I’ve refused his proposal and now he’s going to kill me.I think again, sinking my teeth into my bottom lip.Why wouldn’t he?I’m worth more dead to him than I ever would be alive.
I really fucked up this time, didn’t I?
It’s ironic. Every choice I made was to protect the people I cared about, and in the end, I still ended up losing everything.
Maybe all of this was inevitable. Part of some grand scheme already written in the stars. I loved, I lost, and now I’ll die because of my choices. I can live with that. Well, I guess, die with that.
