Exquisite Pain (Garmau)

Chapter 34 Trust

You know it's love,
When you want to know their dark.
When their random twitches,
Give away their inner demons at work.
You know it's love,
When you would give everything
Just to ease the pain,
To ease the tears
To lessen the fears.
The blessing of love
And the curse of it's demons.
Babe, let's let our demons play.
~Chrissy Pinney
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(Aphmau's POV)

I sat at the table that I had been forced to eat my dinner at. My father sat at the head while I sat at the opposite end.

"Remember that Garroth boy?" He suddenly brought up. My fingers fumbled as the fork slipped out of my grasp.

"Yes...."

"What a wimp."

I stood up harshly, my chair skidding behind me.

"I love him, and he loves me."

"Silly girl, he never loved you," he shook his head with a chuckle.

"I've lost my appetite," I whispered, running away to my room.

It wasn't true, he did love me.

He had to of.

He just had to.

I laid on my pillow, stuffing my face and sobbing. The whole time, I hadn't cried that hard in awhile. I believe I was seven, and my pet wyvern had just been murdered.

"Aphmau?"

"What?" I sat up and then jumped as far as I could until my back was pressed against the wall. "Lauarance, you scared the living daylight out of me!" I held a hand to my chest.

"Listen, I can't take you away, but I just wanted to make sure you were alright."

He reached out and touched my shoulder, only to have him jump back in pain. He held his hand to his chest and looked at me terrified.

"What?"

"Y-you burned me..." He looked down at his hand and inhaled, "don't worry, it's not your fault."

My breathing became uneven as I realised I had unintentionally hurt him. Laurance opened his mouth but stopped at the sound of footsteps.

"I got to go," he put on a shadow knight helmet and snuck out the window.

I hurt him....

"Aphmau, dear, can we talk?"

My father walked into the room and sat on the edge of my bed. I sighed and laid down, keeping my back towards him.

"Listen, I know you'll hate the idea, but I want to arrange an attack on O'Khasis. Now that I have you back here, I have no use at all for Garte or anyone over there. So I want it out of the picture."

I kept silent, not even caring about whatever he had to say about a petty war.

"I want you to be a commander."

"What?" My voice croaked and I sat up slowly.

"I want you to be my second in command, seeing as how I cannot possibly be over there to do my work, so I'm having you do it for me."

And that was my opportunity. It was my moment. It was my chance. My chance to see him again. See my family again. It was my second chance.

I opened my mouth to say yes eagerly, but my father held up a solemn hand.

"Before you say yes," he spoke, "you must gain my trust."

"Gain your trust? I'm your daughter, how is that not enough?"

"Because there has been countless times that you have escaped, or at least attempted to escape, this place. Putting you in charge is the perfect chance for you to escape once again, so just know what I'm thinking. And now that you know what is on my mind, maybe you would begin to take head in my warnings and think twice before snapping at me. Because honestly, I do not appreciate the lack of respect you show to me. So from now on, any slight slip up, and I will revoke the title of second in command and you will be here for the rest of eternity. Do I make myself clear?'

"Crystal."

(Garroth's POV)

I stared out the window, emotionless.

And then I made a decision, one that could either make me or break me. I stood up and walked slowly out the servants' way. I made it seem as though I was going for a stroll like I normally did, but then I slipped through the back gates in the castle gardens. There was an opening in the fence and I could sneak into the forest.

I went through, looking for signs.

"Garroth?"

I looked and smiled at Nicole. She quickly turned us invisible and I felt her grab my wrist and pull me. She guided me to the camp and then removed our cloak.

"Why did you bring him here? He's a traitor," Travis sneered at me. I inhaled sharply.

"I did it to save Aphmau."

"Well how well did that turn out?" He stood, walking towards me.

"I didn't know something would go wrong."

"You trusted your father, how stupid do you have to be?!"

"Listen, you cannot blame this all on me, all I did was what I thought was right!"

"Well you fucked up big time, didn't you?!"

"I love her, do you really think that I would do that to her intentionally?!"

Everyone fell silent.

"Listen, I want to come back, trust me, I do, but there's nothing in my power that I can do."

Everyone stared at me, not sure of what to say, and if I were being honest, I was in as much as shock as they were.

"Well then the decision is clear," Katelyn stood up and smirked, "let's go kill the king."

A/N Another slightly shorter, but I'm trying, really I swear. I love you all devils, byeeeeeeeeee.