The Broken Prince - Chapter 144

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“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.” Lucifer was gritting his teeth in anger. His insides feeling like they were boiling and it was as if his eyes were going pop off from its socket. But when Archemidius answered the question he asked, he fell apart even more.

“Yes! I loved her! And I was happy being with her!” Lucifer was gawking at the other with his response. His heart was clenching that it made breathing hard for Lucifer. It seemed like his brain wanted to shut down at any moment, his body went cold and it was as if he just felt betrayed just like the first time but now, knowing the truth, it was like he was killed. He slowly lied on the ground with his tears falling down on the cold floor.

He did not make any sound and just stayed silent even if he wanted to scream and cry but he chose not to. He was both mad and hurt. His mind was ablaze in thousands of thoughts and memories that he chose to linger in his mind so that even if the time went on and even if something happen, he will never forget how he feels for that single person who will be the one that he will always come to love in his lifetime but now, those memories did not brought any relief or any taste of happiness as it instead filled him with hurt and bitterness.

“Luci-”

“Was I not enough really for you to find love in another?” Lucifer broke his silence, his voice sounding calm but has an underlying threat in it that was so evident to Zeus.

“I gave you my all. My everything and you knew that I would turn my back on anything for you. I gave my body to you. My trust and most of all, my love that you so easily threw on the garbage pile.”

“Lucifer let me speak-”

“So you mean to tell me that after all of the years that has gone by with me still aiming for us to have our happy ending, you already found yours?” Zeus could hear how Lucifer tried so hard for his voice to not crack.

“So while I was here being miserable for thinking that you were the same. While I was dreaming for us to have a tomorrow of happiness. While I was here contemplating whether to commit a crime and while I was here thinking about you all the time. You were there, already closing your chapters with a happy ending. Closing your life with a smile and with a content smile?”

“Can you please let me speak-”

“You mean to say that you already finished your story while I was over here thinking how to write my next page!? How could you betray me this much! Archemidius?! How in the world were you able to smile at Athena with all of your adoration without thinking of me!? How were you able to write the words in your story without thinking as to how I might write mine! A-And how could you move on without me. Without even saying goodbye? How?”