LOST (SEQUEL TO COLDHEARTED) ROAN THE 100 FANFICTION

17.ROAN POV

"Does he mean something to you?" I couldn't read Jessica clearly, but I could read her movements enough to know that this topic was extremely uncomfortable.

"No." She replied flatly.

During the time I spent banished, I was instructed to never return to Azgeda, to never make contact with Jessica. As far as she knew, I was killed in combat, but that didn't mean I never hid in secret just to see if she was okay. That didn't mean I didn't have spies within Azgeda who kept me up to date on what was happening. I knew, or I believed I knew everything that was going on while I was away.

"Roan...what are you getting at?" Her face was full of worry and I could see tears starting to form again.

"Are you sure Rover's my child?"

"Of course! Why would I lie to you about that?" Her worrisome attitude shifted to anger as I had offended her with my question.

"Why not tell me the first time we met in Arkadia?" I retorted, now feeling the rush of adrenaline throughout my body as I became more worked up about the subject. I shouldn't have asked, I thought to myself, this is gonna end up badly and turn into a full out argument. I need to stop this before it starts...but I can't.

"I had just found you, Roan!" Her arms were being thrown in the air now as she tried to explain, her aggression coming out just as quickly as mine, "what was I supposed to do?! Be like, 'Hey! I've been looking forever for you, I love you, by the way...you left me when I was 6 weeks pregnant and you're son is almost 3!' Should I have done that instead?!"

"You could have! I'm just saying I know that while I was gone, you and Tethos had a relationship."

"A RELATIONSHIP?! Who the hell told you that?" She was screaming now. The sound of the search parties from outside were loud enough so they couldn't hear our yelling but if Jessica got any more angry, her voice might drown out the sound of the guards.

"It's not important about how I know, did you or did you not have a relationship with Tethos?"

Her entire face blushed with anger, her brows furrowed, nostrils flaring and eyes glazed with angry tears about to fall. "I was FORCED to, Roan. You 'died,' and that meant I was to take over the throne of Azgeda. The Queen thought I needed to have a King to help me rule, Tethos was our best warrior and guard at that point. She told me I had to at least make the people think he and I were together." She took a deep breath and turned away. Her voice softer and more vulnerable, "I hated every second of it, Roan. It was torture...he'd try to touch me," her voice faltered into a whisper. I could see her shoulders shaking from holding back more tears as she cried, "I was pregnant and he tried to touch me. I couldn't let him do it, but I couldn't fight back. I don't know why I didn't, I just-"

"Shh." I wrapped my arms around her regretting ever bringing Tethos up in the first place, "I'm sorry, love."

She turned around in my arms and looked at me, "Rover is your child. Every aspect of his being is a copy of you. Tethos means nothing to me."

"Tethos will be nothing." I said through gritted teeth, "Tethos won't be touching anyone else anymore."

"Roan?"

"When I find him, I'm taking his head."

"Roan! What?!"

"No, Jessica. It's what he deserves, even back in the day when we were kids he's always looked at you in a perverted way. Now you tell me he's attempted to touch you, that's not okay. He is no longer a guard, and when I see him next, he'll no longer be alive." After we find Rover, I plan to find Tethos and make him pay for what he did to Jessica. No one touches or humiliates a woman like that, especially not my woman.