𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬

Chapter 64

Why was I doing this? Why was my friend kneeling on the floor with tears streaming down his face? Why did my heart ache so much at the sight before me? All he had to do was tell me the truth.. just tell me the truth, and I wouldn't have to hurt him.. my mates wouldn't have to lay a finger on him. He only had to tell me the truth, and that was it, I wouldn't do anything to him anymore.. but he.. the way his eyes looked at me with little to no life, and the way his lips trembled told me he wasn't willing to talk.. when talking was the very thing that could save him right now. I hated it, he was making it even more difficult for me! If he just said the truth then.. then everything will be okay, but he wasn't saying anything!

Frustrated, I ran a hand through my hair and began pacing all over the cell as I said to him, "You only have to say the truth! Nothing but the truth, and I won't have to hurt you! I don't want to hurt you! But if I don't then Weiss will, and everyone knows Weiss tortures to kill, not to interrogate!"

Panting, I stopped pacing and looked at him with pleading eyes, "Please, Harvy... You don't have to make this so difficult!"

I tried to maintain my cool earlier, I desperately tried to, but now my nerves were taking over me. I just... I was feeling so much mixed emotions.. betrayal, doubt, guilt, sadness, anger, sorrow, despair, and what? I didn't even know anymore! If I failed at getting the truth out of Harvy... Weiss will have no choice but to step in, and I did not want that to happen at all. If my sister were to interrogate Harvy, who knows what she'll do to him? He might not even make it out alive, or he might lose every part of him whilst still breathing... Even though Harvy was a potential traitor, I didn't want to see either of those possibilities happening to him. I didn't want to see him dead, or injured... I just.. fuck, I didn't exactly know what I wanted, but I knew I didn't want to hurt him, and I definitely did not want my sister to lay her hands on him.

Then there was his families and friends.. now that Harvy was suspected of a serious crime, they were, unfortunately, dragged in as well. If Harvy continued not to say anything, my sister may do something absolutely foul and she may target his family as a last resort... With how serious she takes treason, Weiss will definitely not let his family and friends escape from her wrath... If he just told us the truth already, everything will be avoided, and no harm will befall every person he loves, but.. he still wouldn't say anything!

"Harvy, do you not understand your position? If you don't say anything now, we'll have no choice but to target your fami-"

"D-Don't you dare!" He screamed, his eyes glaring into me with so much hatred and disgust that I was taken aback. "Y-You don't know anything, W-Willow... You d-don't know anything!"

"Then tell me! Tell me so I can help you!"

"H-Help me? Oh please, y-you're too busy having t-the time of your life w-with your mates! How t-the fuck are you supposed t-to help me?!" He spat out, his venomous words creeping under my skin as he continued to glare at me.

Beside me, Mallory took a step forward and threateningly raised her fist at Harvy as a warning, "Watch your words, bitch." Harvy cowered under my mate's gaze, but the damage was already done.

Every time I closed my eyes, I was reminded of how his chocolate orbs used to be so kind.. so friendly.. and so caring, and now, they were turned into eyes full of nothing but hatred, disgust, anger, and cruelty. It sent chills down my spine, and it formed a knot in my stomach. It was as if a switch flipped inside of him, and it exposed just who he truly was... I wanted to vomit, I wanted to puke everything negative out of my body, but I couldn't, and I remained frozen, as frozen as his cold heart, whilst my mind replayed the icy glare Harvy gave me over and over and over again. It was like a broken record inside of my brain, and it just wouldn't leave me alone, no matter how much I tried to throw the record away.