"Hey, look at this," he grinned, pointing at the couple I had created not more than month ago.
He snapped his fingers and the second after, to my horror, the man and the woman broke their hands apart, turning to each other with angry expressions, before starting to argue.
"Stop it!" I demanded, turning his attention to me. "Stop ruining my couples! They are meant to be together and you can't just snap fingers and break them up!"
"That's the point, sweetheart," he smirked. "I break them up, because I can. I don't believe in love and I think I'm doing that man a favor by making him see that being single is much more awesome than being tied down to a woman."
"You are just a meanie, who is jealous of their relationship!"
"No, sweetheart," he chuckled. "I'm the anti-cupid."
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Lela Heart is one of the cupids of the world. She's bubbly, cheery and lively and loves her job of bringing two people together. But good things don't last forever.
She is pulled out of this world, where there is no screaming or fighting, by one man, who titles himself as the anti-cupid. He'll not only destroy Lela's work, but tries to make her understand that love does not exist.
Lela ignores him and continues shooting people with love arrows, but how can she go on much longer, when there is always a stubborn, arrogant and conceited anti-cupid on her back, waiting the perfect moment to break those arrows?
Aila Seymour, my life and my death. Touching her gives me life but she stares at me with her eyes brimming with tears. Her look of innocence will be the reason of my perish. She holds the gun to my head, the arrow to my heart.
"I shall continue being your wife." I gasp at her answer, not expecting her decision. Aila takes my hand and put it on top of her chest, "Take it. Take my heart. I do not care if you have lovers. I will turn a blind eye to all your mistress. I will endure the heartbreaks and the painful words. I will be with you." She held my gaze and whispered, "I love you, Caelon. I want to be with you, always."
I pulled away and whispered in a small voice, "You will die."
"I do not care."
"You'll cease to exist. Like you have never existed in this life and the next."
"It doesn't matter."
"You will be nothing." Aila tugged at my hand and snuggled her head upon my chest, "As long as I am with you, Caelon Rouen, as long as I am with you."
*
We have faced death. We have been separated by fate.Love opposes our match. It is all in vain.
I will die on her hands and she will mourn me. We are not supposed to meet but fate brings us together just to separate us, again. I am walking away from the path only to lead myself closer to it.
And yet, there is a way to end the cycle.
She has to hate me back as much as I hate her. She must stop loving me. This is the reason why I married a cupid so I can break her enough to make her despise me.
Will her hate be enough for her heart to stop loving me?