Unwanted Bride Of Atticus Fawn

Clarrissa's POV

I don’t want to believe I’ve heard her correctly. How could she ask for the wedding to be next week? That was impossible! I could barely survive this engagement night; what would happen on his wedding day?

Anya knew what she was doing. At this point, she was intentionally trying to ruin my life. And she was doing a bloody good job at it. I had to stop her. I had to do everything in my power to prevent this from happening.

There was no doubt in my mind that she was rushing to marry Damon. She knew that I didn’t want it to happen. She knew that I was willing to do anything to stop it, and she wouldn’t make it easy for me. After today, she was more determined than ever for this wedding to happen. She knew that I was a bigger threat than she initially thought.

How could she not care about the engagement party? She was willing to skip it as long as it meant she could quickly marry Damon. This wasn’t about marrying him anymore.

This was personal. This meant I had even less time to convince Damon to fight for us instead of letting me go. I couldn’t play safe anymore; I had to take all the risks to make Damon mine.

Anya kept proving to me that she never loved Dante or Damon. She knew Dante could hear everything she was saying, yet she moved up the wedding while he listened.

I could sense his pain for the entire walk back to the house. He didn’t bother repeating a word after her announcement.

How could she so easily hurt him when all he’s ever done was protect her?

Dante has always been crazy about her, his eyes have always only been for her. Atticus was interested in Autumn even if he never knew it until after their marriage, and Damon, I knew where his heart really was. But Dante has always loved Anya and only her. She never deserved him, she never deserved any of them.

It bothered me that Damon didn’t try once to say no to her. He could have asked for the date to be a later one, but he just left her to do as she pleased, even after what had happened earlier.

He was determined to make me forget about him even though it was clear that his decision wouldn’t just hurt me but him as well.

“Where have you been?” Atticus demands when he sees the four of us walking through the gates.

“Please don’t tell me you were in that forest again, Clarissa.” He adds as he takes one look at me. “Have you learned nothing after what happened there in the past?”

I bite my lip as he glares at me. I did not want to disappoint anyone, and I didn’t want to cause any trouble for them; my emotions always made me act without thinking.

I was not proud of it. But I would not change it either. I did what I had to do. I wasn’t going to sit down and watch the person that I loved get engaged to an awful woman who did not love him.

“I have something important to discuss with everyone,” Damon says as he tries to distract Atticus and the others from scolding me.

I knew that he intended to protect me yet again. Protecting me was always the one thing that came first for Damon; it came naturally for him. That’s why I’m not that surprised by his actions anymore.

I wish he could see into my heart; I wish he could feel my emotions. Only then would he realize that he was making the wrong decision.

Most guests must have already left since the house was almost empty when I stepped inside. They must have already announced that the engagement party was canceled.

“We think that it’s possible we are being targeted by witches again,” Damon tells our family the second he had everyone in the family room.

“Why would you say that?” Atticus demands.