Bride Of Hades

She tried to scramble off the bed, "I… I think… we should..,"

"What? Say it! You were so brave last night, why can't you say it now?" he yelled.

"You're a liar! You're a cheat, and you always bully me," she sobbed and broke under all that pressure. She couldn't take it anymore, first, he cheated on her, and now he's screaming at her. What did she do to deserve this?

He cursed, "Shit! I raise my voice a little, and you end up crying. How do you want me to talk to you when you won't tell me anything?"

"I want to go home," she pleaded.

"Violet! Stop this nonsense! You cannot run away whenever you face a problem. Talk to me. I'm your boyfriend, for crying out loud," he snapped.

Violet covered her mouth to control her sobs. "Boyfriend? How can he still think he's my boyfriend when he loves another woman?"

Her tears were his weakness, and his heart softened when she wouldn't stop crying. He sat beside her and wiped her tears away.

"Violet, you must know I love you a lot. More than you will ever know. I cannot and will not break up with you no matter what happens." 

"Until when will you want me like this?" she frowned. Why is he spouting all these lies when she knows his secret?

"Forever, my love," he smiled as he caressed her cheek, "Forever."

"Lies! Everything is a lie! All your promises are fake!" she tried to push him away.

"Why do you keep saying that I'm lying? What happened? I am asking for the last time," he threatened in an icy tone as he held her hands tightly. The tone he used could make even the hardest criminal fearful, and that is how she felt.

"You love someone else, you even sent her to break up with me. And don't lie to me, I saw you at the mall with her. I witnessed you giving her a gift, being all sweet and stuff," she blurted.

"And who is this you are talking about?" he frowned.

"Alya, your first love. The one you can't wait to get back together with. The love of your stupid life," she said with repulsion in her tone.

Gabriel was shocked. How does his innocent Violet know Alya? He would never send Alya to her, ever.

"What are you talking about? When did you meet with Alya?" he was confused.

"Stop lying!" she yelled. 

"I already know the truth about you and her baby. I know everything. I didn't think you'd be so cruel to send her to break up with me," she accused.

"We never had a baby. Tell me everything she told you, or god forbid I will strangle it out of her," he said, angrily.

Now she was confused, why was he angry at Alya? Something did not make sense here, and her gut told her to trust Gabriel and tell him the truth about the visit and what they talked about.

"Oh, that fucking bitch! No wonder you tried to distance yourself from me." he felt relieved, now it all made sense. For a second there it broke his heart to believe that Violet did not really love him anymore.

"Let me tell you the truth, the real one, that is if you still trust me. Because my version of this story is the real truth and not hers. 

The only truth in her story is that we met when we were teenagers. We were initially friends. I learned in the course of our friendship that she came from a poor family and had a hard time surviving. She acted like a goody-two-shoes and was always pitiful, so she gained everyone's sympathy, including mine. 

I fell in love after some time thinking that she was a good person. It was all innocent, we held hands a lot and maybe kissed sometimes, but nothing more. I introduced her to my parents, and they accepted her with open arms. They did not care about money and status. I know she said they were superficial, but my sister-in-law came from an orphanage, and they did not care as long as she loved my brother. 

When my brother took over the business, he was overwhelmed and it took time for him to gain control. So in order to help him, I volunteered to be sent to another city to take care of the negotiations there. 

Alya did not like that and tried to stop me, but I could not let my brother take all the burden. So I convinced Alya that the faster I take care of business, the sooner I could come back, and she reluctantly agreed.

We promised to always stay loyal and committed to one another. And so it happens that I was busier than I expected, but whatever extra time I could get, I tried to spend with her, talking on the phone. I always believed her when she said she was waiting for me to come back. There were a lot of temptations where I was, but I resisted all of them for her.

Finally, when I came home, she started acting distant towards me. I thought it was just because we haven't seen each other for a long time, but now that we are together, everything will go back to normal. 

Boy, was I wrong, she got irritated with everything I said and did that we always ended up fighting. One night I was waiting at her house, as usual, she was taking forever to get ready, so I started looking at the stuff on her desk, and that's where I found her pregnancy reports. 

I was shocked since we've never slept together. When I asked her about it, she said it wasn't hers. But her name was clearly on it, so she relented. She started crying, saying that someone had forced her while I was gone and she did not know how to tell me. And because I loved her so much, I told her that I would marry her, and keep the baby as mine.