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THE VOW OF A LIE

JARED

Seeing the way Lerna embraced Koro, forced a question from me.

“Why do I get the impression that you know my wife?”

The response was one that felt as if the rug was being pulled from under me, before trying to fucking suffocate me.

“Because she was never your wife… but, she has always been mine.”

Wife…his fucking wife.

What… The… Fuck?!

I swear, my mind could barely process the arsehole’s words. Hence why instead of standing around with my mouth on the ground, feeling like the biggest fucking idiot ever, I scoffed.

“Your wife… oh right, but of course she fucking is,why the fuck not?!”I shouted.

The irony of it all was like being struck with venom I had first begged the snake to bite me with. I tossed the sword that I had picked up, ready to use to save her life, to the ground. This before walking away from this fucked up lie of a life she had spun me.Like a fucking fool.

A fool that had believed myself to be in love.

All these fucking years.

Every single one I wasted.

Oh yeah, it was a bitter pill to swallow alright. It was a fucking grenade of mockery that exploded in the pit of my stomach. That’s what it fucking was!

“J… hey, J, wait up… where are you going, brother?” Orthrus asked, now catching up with me.

“Where do you think?To find my woman,”I snarled.

“And what about…”

“I don’t give a shit! They can do as they fucking please!” I told him angrily as my mind spun in a million fucking directions.

“We both know that’s not true,” my brother said, making me stop so as I could grab him by the shoulder, gripping him tightly and walking him backwards.

“Listen to my words, Orth… I… Do… Not… Fucking… Care!”I growled out each word, making him raise his hands in surrender. So, I let him go and carried on walking. Of course, I should have known it would take more than that to shut my brother up on the matter.

“But you know, that’s some heavy shit you just heard and…”

“Fuck sake, you just don’t quit, do you?” I moaned, scrubbing a frustrated hand down my face, tempted to add claws.

“No, I don’t, but that’s beside the point.”

“What do you wanna hear, Orth? How I wasted over three hundred years on a fucking lie?! You wanna hear how many days I wasted trying to get her back? How many hours I wasted thinking about her, or how many fucking minutes I spent fucking hating myself for getting her killed?!” I bellowed, knowing that they could hear but I didn’t give a flying fuck. My last fuck given had already fucked off and left me.

“Okay, so maybe I see your point,” he conceded.

“Great… good talk, brother,” I said dryly, storming back towards the way we had been traveling before this fucked up drama.

“But aren’t you even curious as to find out why?” he asked, making me roll my eyes as I should have known the tenacious fucker wouldn’t let it go. And I just knew what Ella would be saying right now, asking me if that was enough fucks and well…no it fucking wasn’t.Hence why I replied with,

“No, couldn’t give a fuck.” And it was true. Right now, I couldn’t have given two shits as to what bullshit excuse for fucking up my life she gave me.