The Broken Prince - Chapter 147

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“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?” Lucifer cried and hollered until he just fell to Zeus’s arm and the other caught him.

Zeus could now feel everything catching up to him. He admits to himself that he did lost his thought about his unfinished past and to see that side now, the journey that the lost half of him has taken, he feels like a criminal. Lucifer cried in Zeus arm as the other just let his tears fall down silently as he held the other in his embrace. It has been a while since he held someone with such emotions and he knows that it was because it was him. He did get to remember and reconnect about the wonders of his past but what was the price. It was the price of his wife’s life and the cost of his forgotten beloved’s heart.

“Will you let me speak now?” Zeus spoke his tone much softer than how he came barging in here moments ago. The other did not speak but just kept silent and hung loosely on the other’s embrace.

“When you said that you were about to get married, that time I knew that you will come back to me no matter what and that eased me. I thought about it in a while and I never did gave you a clear answer so the time where you left me alone to think, I did think about us. I thought about how can we live together in a simple life with just us and our dreams in a deserted place. Thinking about that was my joy when you were gone. I felt like I have planned everything and it was thrilling. I thought of telling my father about it and I ended up trying to do it b-but things happened.” Zeus spoke with his voice going weaker.

“I was about to speak to him regarding about me stepping out of the royal family because I will be going away with you. I planned to tell him about us and no matter what may happen, I will still choose you because you were my happiness and my life and I knew that you thought the same towards me too. Then there I came, with all of my plans and happy vision about our future backing me up to face my father. I came to his room only to find a girl that was the same age as us. I thought that she was a special visitor as she also had some personal guards around her. Then when father called me with a smile, I never knew that moments after that will be the darkest pits of my life.”

“Father spoke to me with his smile glowing and I thought that something was absolutely happening and when he did say that the girl in the room will be the girl that I will spend the rest of my life, I walked out without any word and was about to head to fetch you so we can go away from both our cases but I was already too late. Father already knew about us a-and h-he threatened me. H-He threatened me that once I step out of the gates, I will find myself in the middle of a war between our kingdom because he will kill you if I did tried to run away. And during that time, I could not let you die b-because you were my life and my everything.” Zeus let everything he was go and just held the person whose heart got broken by him. He let all of his guards down and just wanted to be open and transparent with the person with a broken heart.

He looked and teared upon how the other was looking. Lucifer was helpless and was completely broken that to Zeus, he looked almost like a dead person in his eyes. Zeus then just hugged the other tight like there was no tomorrow and just wanted to let everything that he wanted to be said be interpreted with that hug but he knew that it was not possible and he did thought about speaking any further about his reason and decided to just tell Lucifer all of the things.

“So now you see why I could not go back. It was because of you-”

“But we could have just ran away a lot earlier before they could find us. We would have been able to live happily without any restraints and responsibilities-”

“Did you hear what I just said? My father is a man who you can’t mess with. He is a king for a reason and you know, I know that no matter how far we run from all of which we chose to forget and leave behind, we know that he will find us. He already knew about us so that would mean that he already had his plan before confronting me about it. At that time, I did consider for us to go out of the mainland and just find an island but then I knew that we would not be able to leave the mainland. If I lost you then, what was the purpose of taking the risk. I was backed in a corner where I could not escape. How would I ever live my tomorrow when you are no longer there. How would I be able to see my future when you are no longer there. I planned the future with you but what if pursuing that future leads to loosing you. I did not have anything to choose upon at that time because no matter where I looked, I became blind by the reality that I could not and will not be able to face and live the future that I wanted and that was the future where our promises where.”

“It did pain me so much knowing that I had no other choice. You know that I am a very confident person with everything that I could do and with my power but at that point, I was just beyond heart broken to know that despite my possession of this power, I am still not able to do anything. I was slapped with the reality that I was still just a normal boy who holds a throne and a name. I held no stance in the real life at that time yet so how could I be so selfish and pursue our dreams when the price is your life. I did not want to hurt you Luci and I very much so wanted to talk to you and just cry in your arms at that moment.”

“When I was in my room contemplating my life and what could have been our tomorrow, I just wanted to be in your embrace. Just wanted to hear you say that everything will be fine but how could I come to you when I was restrained and chained. Father is a kind man but everyone knows how he gets when it’s about the image and reputation of the family and I was no exemption to his stance in life. I did hated Athena the first time we met, I wanted to yell at her but then she did not became the person I wanted to hate. You know why? Because she never wanted to push herself to me. She did not demand anything, she was just there for me during that time and what made her even more as a person was that she knew about us. She knew about our relationship and never did wanted to take your place. And to have her taken away? It feels like loosing you again but more pain because it is my past that came to haunt my future that I came to love.”