Ignited ✔️

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-RIVER-

"Y-you what?" She stutters as she slowly slides away from me.

I watched as her eyes became glassy and her hands began to shake. I was terrified of losing her.

"Say it again." She demands in an eerily calm voice.

I didn't want too. I didn't want to say it again.

"Say it!" She screamed as a tear slipped out of her eye.

The pain I had felt before was nothing compared to this. I knew this was going to ruin me, I knew it was going to forever break me.

"I killed your father Emery" I whisper

A sob escapes her lips as she collapsed to the ground in a shaking, heaving mess. A mess that I caused.

My heart broke as I watched her crumble in front of me. She was so close to me yet I pushed her farther away than I could bear.

"Princess-" I try as I reach out to her.

"How could you do that! How could you lie to me like that?" She screams at me. "I-I trusted you River!"

Venom was laced through her voice as she spat my name.

"I- I don't have any excuses for the things I've done but I need you to trust me Emery"

She scoffs. "Trust you? Why the hell would I do that? You've spent the last three months lying straight to my face!"

"I know but baby-"

"Did you even care? Do you have any remorse for it? You murdered someone and lied to me. How could you be so heartless?"

Whatever light was left inside me died when those words left her lips. And as much as I tried to deny it I knew she was right. I was heartless. I'd have to be to put her through this.

I didn't just murder her father I tortured him. I made him suffer, I starved him, I beat him. And I didn't care that he had a family. My family was ripped away from me right in front of my eyes and it numbed me to the point of no return.

I didn't care what I did to others or what I did to myself and my own life. Until her, until Emery came into my life and turned it around.

Louis was right. She ruined me, but she ruined me in the best way. She made me feel again. She made me human.

Then I went and fucked it up by lying to her. I used her and I made her trust me and I was ashamed.

Everything I told her was a lie.

"I hate you and I don't want you anywhere near me" she's says in a scarily even voice.

She was calm, almost too calm.

"Prin-"

"No!" She screams at me. "I hate you River! I hate you!"

I stand frozen in place as tears stream down her cheeks. I didn't know what to do.

Louis takes this time to speak up.

"Emery if you leave now and never talk to River again, I'll leave you alone"

Her eyes narrow into thin slits as she spits venom at me with her sharp words.

"Don't worry." She states. "We won't be near each other."

"That's what you wanted anyway wasn't it?" She asks me. "You wanted us apart so now you got what you wanted River. Congratulations"

I couldn't say anything, what was I supposed to say in response to that. It's true I said that but I only did because I wanted to keep her safe, not because I wanted to be away from her.