The Broken Prince - Chapter 143

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He hugged him for a while but the other did not return the gesture which confused Lucifer and was quite shocked after wards by the action of the other as King Zeus pushed the other so harshly that Lucifer fell on the floor.

“Do not touch me, Lucifer” King Zeus mustered lowly, his eyes glowing as his hands clenched into fists. He was a single nerve away in jumping on King Lucifer and just take him six feet below the ground that they both stood in. He could not understand still that is why he is here to get some answers as he could still not wrap his head around the idea of this.

“W-What are you talking about? What happened?!” Lucifer spoke, his eyes wide as he stood up slowly and recovering from the sudden action at the same time. King Zeus just stood there and looked for any lies in the latter’s eye and he could see none. The other may as well be just as confused as him. Thus he sighed and was about to apologize and have a normal conversation when Lucifer spoke that made King Archemidius see red.

“Is this about me killing your wife? That pathetic excuse of a sea fern?” Lucifer spoke with no sense or sight of regret in his face. He let it out like it was just a normal thing for him. King Zeus was beyond perplexed, disappointed and was just straight up angry that he could not hold his fist as it landed on the others face.. He could hear a cracking sound and he was sure that he broke the others’ nose as bleed tainted his knuckles.

“You dare say and admit that you did that?!” Zeus spoke his voice ringing across the room.

He was beyond enraged and his thinking was already unclear. He just wanted to get everything out of Lucifers’ mouth as he still could not believe how such person he swore to know became such monster to be able to do such a thing to another.

Lucifer looked up with his eyes tearing up. He could not believe that the person he waited for a very long time did this to him. When all he could just think of was to save both of them from their responsibility as he saw how Zeus got caught up in his position as a prince that will take the crown and act as the king.

“W-Why?-”

“You dare ask me why?! Are you out of you senses? Huh Lucifer?! How can you do that and why must you?! Did she do you any wrong?! You have become another person-”

“That is because you made me become another person!” Lucifer yelled and pushed Zeus back as he got to his feet.

“You have the face and the audacity to speak of such when it was you who made millions of promises to me! How you promised me that we will stay together and would say together no matter how things will be! You said that you will abandon everything for me and more promises came! You made me believe in your words that I was a fool to not see it get broken somehow!-”

“This is not about us-”

“It is about us! How you left without any goodbyes! How you just disappeared and then reappeared with the announcement of your marriage?! How was I supposed to react! Did you ever wonder how broken I was!? I did not see even the edge of your shadow around me to check and ask how I might have felt! Because you are selfish! You are a coward! You were not strong enough! But guess what!? I was still there!” I was the one that kept holding on when you have already let go. It was I that threaded our relationship even if I knew that you were no longer coming back! I mostly gave up but whenever I saw you, you looked so sad and unhappy! Seeing you like that pained me even more because I know that you still loved me, you needed me but could never utter a word! I did this for you! I wanted you to be happy! I wanted us to be happy! I wanted us to do the things you said that we would do! Zeus you came barging in here with your words but did I ever came barging at the doors of your kingdom asking for an explanation that I know I deserved! Did I ever hurt you physically?!”

“I remembered you being so unclear about us when I was first announced to get married but I told you that I will fight for us and I would run away with you but you kept quiet so I left and you went rogue. When you did came back, you were married while I was still struggling to delay mine! I left you alone for a while to clear your head and tell me how things will be! Not for you to find someone else, get married and leave me in the pits of blood that I cried when I figured! I gave you my all! Was that not enough! Was that not enough for you to fulfill your promises! Because whenever I looked at you back then when I was in the middle of getting excuses just to delay my wedding, I knew deep inside that I would turn around and leave everything behind because I know that your worth is nothing compared to what I may have! It pains me now, knowing that you might have not seen the same thing! You left me broken and bleeding but I still yearned for us to be together! I would never do such thing like this and you know that but it was all for you! I kept holding on still even after all those years because I hoped that one day, you will come back and now that you have, you greet me with nothing but disrespect and hypocrisy that you became more disgusting that me.”

Lucifer snarled.

Zeus was taken aback for a while as he looked at Lucifer whose eyes held nothing but pain. His heart then started to ache and realization hit him. Although he did Lucifer all the wrongs he could, he still thinks that Athena still did not deserve to suffer. She was good to him and would never hurt anyone. Then it dawned on him, how this and everything was his fault. He left Lucifer without any explanation and the latter searched so much for an answer and held on still that he became to this point. It was not Lucifer who is to blame. It was himself.

He clutched his hand on his head before tears fell from his eyes. The ground kissed his clothes as he fell down as he cried silently. He was wailing silently after figuring that he was not just the reason why his wife dies but he also changed Lucifer for the worst and remembering his broken promises that he thought would be his vows to Lucifer made him even more upset because at the end of the picture, he was the only one to blame and no one else.

Both men were on the floor crying not because of how they fought but because they are now able to face and confront each other with their past where one tried to bury it shamelessly and the one held on still ever so dearly. Lucifer moved closely to Zeus and he punched the others chest so weakly as he just could not think anything but cry and ask for answers.

He knew that during the past year, even if he already had his own family and had his own son that he too love so dearly, but he just knew that he could never love his wife thus he just pretends every time and it kills him inside as well as he thought that his real beloved was also experiencing the same thing. But now that he thinks of it, it seemed like it was only him that felt all of that like he was suffering an caged to be this person. The realization made him cry even more his hands on the others face as his nails grew sharp and dug through Zeus’s skin. Zeus could feel the latter’s nails sink in but that was nothing compared to the pain that he felt for hurting two people at a time.

“S-So now that I saw how you reacted, I assume that you l-loved her?” Lucifers’ voice shattered as he asked the question with an answer that he knows will break him. The other did not answer which pissed him even more so without thinking, he slapped him so hard that the other was swayed to the side.

“Answer me!” He demanded his eyes brimming with more tears as his voiced was laced with nothing but anger and betrayal.

“You better give me your word Archemidius because you damn well know how I do when you piss me off.”