ADK II: Cupid's Slave (✔️)

Chapter 19: Opinions and Truths

If love was so simple then why such providence let this happened? Why her heart was now slowly shattered by her complicated situation? Why did her silent tears fall when they shouldn’t have? Why did she have to feel this way?

“Fate!” Ayden called out her name.

Pero wala siyang lakas pa para lumingon sa taong nagparamdam sa kanya ng ganitong malungkot na damdamin. She shouldn’t act like this but she couldn’t help it. Pinahid niya ang kanyang mga luha gamit ang sariling mga palad at patuloy na tumatakbo nang mabilis palabas ng lagusan.

Ayden didn’t know what to do anymore. Hindi ito ang inaasang mangyari sa usapan. Hindi ito ang nasa isipan niyang magiging reaksiyon sa mga salitang nasabi nito kanina. Hindi niya alam ang nangyayari at mas lalong naguguluhan siya sa mga reactions ni Fate pagkatapos niyang marinig ang lahat.

Hinahabol niya si Fate na patuloy pa ding tumatakbo palayo sa kanya.

He needed to know something. He needed to understand something from her.

Nahabol niya si Fate sa may labas na ng mansiyon na para bang humihikbi pa din.

Damn.  Seeing her like this, made his heart ached even more.

Where did he go wrong?

Hinawakan ni Ayden ang kamay ni Fate kasabay nun ang pagyakap niya ng ubod ng higpit. He never wanted to let her go again just like that.

“Let me go, Ayden.” She pushed him away.

But he tried to hold her so close that she couldn’t lose from his strong grip.

“Let me go, just this once. I want to be alone.” She murmured. She needed time to breathe.

“I don’t want to let you go again.”

Nagtama ang kanilang mga mata. Pinilit ni Fate na ngumiti para sabihing may dignidad pa ding natitira sa sarili niya. Isang ngiting parang kutsilyong sinasaksak ang puso niya nang palihim.

A sad smile curled up her lips as bittersweet pain lacerated her heart.

“Hindi Ayden. You never let me go, not even once. Ako si Fate. At hindi si Nimfa. You are only here with me because I have her soul. But you didn’t care for Fate but for Nimfa alone.” Dahil sa nasabi, mas lalong tumitindi ang hapdi sa pusong hindi naman talaga dapat kasi wala naman talaga dapat na ganitong pakiramdam. Pero hindi kayang itago ni Fate ang sakit. Kahit ngayon lang…. “Please. Leave me alone.”

 

Pero hindi pa din siya binitawan ni Ayden.

Fate stiffened as she narrowed her gaze on him. “Hindi ka ba marunong umintindi? Sabi ng bitawan mo ko eh!” Naiinis na siya sa isang ‘to. “Hindi ako si Nimfa at mas lalong wala kang karapatan para salungatin ang mga desisyon ko. This is my life. Not yours. And you don’t own me.”

Those were harsh words she had uttered. Na kahit siya ay nasasaktan din.

Walang sabi-sabi, pinilit ni Fate na kumalas sa pagkakayakap.  Pinilit niya habang kaya pa.

At nagsimula na namang maglakad.

Palayo sa kanya.

She had thought that they had something for each other.

For her alone.