The Court of Redemption

Prologue

What is love?

By definition, love is when you feel an attraction, towards someone. Some say it's an indescribable feeling, and yet we still say we love them. It's a feeling that somehow makes us want to protect someone. It's a feeling that makes us want to be with someone more than anyone else. It's a feeling that makes us want to spend the rest of our lives with that person.

It's funny how love can make a person do many things.

But does love make us cheat on our partners? Does love make us lie to them? Does it makes us leave them?

Some will argue that you do things for those you love, even if you know it will hurt them or yourself somehow. Why? Well because we think that it will hurt them or us less of we lie, cheat, or leave them. But is it true?

What about those who are cheated on? The ones who find out the lies their partner has told them. The ones who watched as they were left by the one person they thought would never leave them. What do they feel?

Betrayed. Used. Helpless. Alone.

Do they continue to feel love?

What is love?

Is love the pain in your heart when your loved one betrays you? The one that makes your heart sink and feels as if it has broken into many pieces that can't be fixed, or at least not how it was before.

Is love the depression you feel after you've cried your eyes out? The one that drains you and makes you lock yourself in your room in solitude.

Is love when you've been hurt you say 'it's fine' because you finally reached the point where it was too much pain for your heart to handle? Or because you're used to it? The one that makes you blame yourself for why they did what they did and for what others will do to you.

Is that love?

It's always the people we thought that loved us that hurt us. They all say the same thing, making us believe it's true. There's a saying that says that the enemy will never betray you. Does that mean the enemy loves you? Is that true love?

No, it doesn't and no, that isn't true love.

There's another saying that says that we never stop loving those who left or betrayed us. So how can you love someone else after them?

Some people say that you learn to love them differently, or that your love grows stronger while the love you had for your past lover gets weaker. Others say it's as if there is less love in you, or you don't love as much as you did before, because you're afraid of losing more of yourself. You don't want another heartache.

It's as if your heart runs on love, and when that love dies out so do you.

No matter what their intentions were for lying to you, for cheating on you, for leaving you. They ended up hurting you.

And what did they say? What did they always say?

There's no one else. You're the one. I can't live without you. I need you. I miss you. I love you.

They said the same words you told them and meant with all your heart and soul. The words you later wish you could take back. They said the words you wish you would've told them sooner, thinking it would've made things different. They said the words you will have a harder time telling others.

You then start to think it will happen to you again. That they will hurt you again.

And you can't let yourself go through it again. You know what it will do to you. You know what it has done to you. So what do you do?

You don't love, or at least don't love those who you think will hurt you.

Can you love again after your heart has been burned by a loved one?

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It feels so good to be back. So sorry for keeping you guys waiting, but I've had a pretty rough couple of months. Things are still quite hectic for my family and I, but I missed writing. I missed you guys as well. All your comments, votes, and messages you've sent me have make me very happy. Thank you for all the love!