Darkest Seduction

Aria

Writing this instead of my philosophy homework 🎀

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I drop to the floor, covering my sobs as I hear Ares and Helen outside.

I can't breathe, his voice almost kills me. I won't survive this.

Helen continues to cry harder and I have to take deep breaths to try and calm down, I can't listen to my sister cry and sob. For me.

She's crying for me.

"Helen, what- calm down," I hear Ares tell her, the floorboards outside creak and I assume he's crouched down to get eye level with her.

Helen continues to cry, blubbering nonsense I can't understand and I assume Ares can't either.

"Helen I need you to fucking tell me what's happened or I'm going to lose my shit," Ares tells her and I close my eyes.

I can't. I can't.

"She's not marrying you," Helen choked out and I covered my face in my arms, falling back on the floor.

"She- fuck is she mad at me? We can sort it out."

I can't. I can't.

"No, I mean... the deal is off. Papa called the deal off she's not marrying you," Helen says, she's crying softer now.

"Who the fuck is she marrying?" Ares spits out, I know that tone of voice, he's furious.

"Alejandro Perez."

I hear Ares's sharp intake of breath, I want to open this door. To run outside and hug him, kiss him. I want to beg him to fix this, to save me. I want him to fight this, but I can't.

Only an hour prior Papa told me Alejandro had offered to marry me for five million, which is less than Ares paid but he also offered Papa a better business deal. I had refused and told Papa he promised me I wouldn't have to marry into that psycho family but Papa told me he didn't care about what I wanted.

Helen had lost her shit, she screamed at him and cussed him out. She even went for Mamma, calling her pathetic and a joke. I thought Helen might have fucking shot one of them. She was furious they'd even consider marrying me off to someone almost guaranteed to hurt me.

Papa had hit Helen then, he backhanded her but his gold ring had cut her face. He hit her so hard she fell back, Papa told me if it wasn't me marrying him it would be Helen. My sister was crying, begging me to let her do it but I wouldn't. I couldn't.

So now in a month, I was marrying Alejandro, and I'd be moving in with him effective immediately. And I was never allowed to see Ares again. And I couldn't tell him any of this or he'd try and stop it and I was so scared Papa would hurt Helen, or marry me and her to worse people.

So I didn't tell Ares anything, instead, I stayed in the spare room listening to him lose it outside the door. And after an hour I heard him leave.

Helen opened the door and cried, I held her tightly as we sobbed together.

I had realized too late I loved Ares, and now I'd never get to tell him.

It would be cruel, to say I was in love with him and then tell him I'd never see him again. I couldn't do that to him, couldn't do it to myself.

It's okay, I'll be okay. This pain will fade I'm sure of it. The memories will grow hazy and one day I'll forget the darkness of his eyes and his raven hair that never quite could be tamed.

The thought breaks my heart and I know it will never be healed again.

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