Chapter 117
Dimitri:
“I wouldn’t have expected her to be leaving the two of us alone, I have to admit that much.” Charlotte said, standing up as she looked at me.
“She knows that I have eyes for one woman,” I said, and Charlotte held her breath for a second.
“I can assume that it is not me.” She said, and I took a deep breath.
“You know why I am here, and I think, after hearing what you told Aurora, that the two of us are on the same page. The question is, can I trust that you are not going to betray or turn against me when things are done?” I asked, crossing my arms over my chest as I looked at the woman. “You know, you tend to have your ways of manipulation, and I do not intend to bring a snake into my house.”
“You know for fact that I can turn against you whenever I want, but I have no one to back me this time…”
“And that makes you weaker, doesn’t it?” I asked, stopping her. “It does the one thing that you don’t want to admit to yourself, but it makes you think and feel like you have no one to depend on.”
“You know that I never wanted to get to this point, Dimitri. I tried to fix things between us but nothing seemed to work and I never did expect them to…”
“You lied to me, Charlotte.” I said, stopping her. “And if you know anything that broke us off, you would know that it was the lies that got between us in ways that I wouldn’t have wanted for them to do so. While I am not going to open the past with you right now, the two of us have a lot to discuss and we are going to mainly start with the fact that I am going to need you by my side.”
“You know for fact that my father will not allow it with Aurora…”
“And yet, he has allowed you to attend the wedding today, despite knowing that you would be here. Don’t tell me that Ademide has eyes on you because you know, as well as you know
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your name, that she doesn’t give a fuck what you do.” I said, and she frowned, knowing that I was right. “She is going to have one aim tonight, and it seems to me that not only do you know about it, but you also don’t want it.”
“I don’t want to find myself being violated, but that doesn’t mean that I want to be at your mercy.” She said, and I scoffed. “And don’t think because I spoke to your mate that I am going to be willing to accept the bullshit that you are going to be throwing at me. You know me well enough to know that it is the least of my concerns and while I do care about myself enough not to want to get hurt, I know that I don’t want to find myself being held as a hostage point for you to stop the plans of another man.”
“I want to stop them because, just like me, you know that he will not only hurt you but he will be hurting innocent people. And while I don’t care what you might think of this, you are still a woman that I dealt with, whether or not the two of us are exes doesn’t make a difference when it comes to having a spec of humanity.” I said, looking her dead in the eye. “I don’t want to do this because I care about you personally, but even my wife agreed that wedding you a monster, regardless of how much it would be deserved, if I might add, is unfair.”
“I didn’t do anything more than be born to be forced into a fate that no man would want for his daughter…”
“No man who loves his daughter would drag you the way that yours was taking you, house to house, wanting to show off your body to the men for a bargain.” I said, stopping from the woman. “If he loved you, had one ounce of mercy toward you, he would have stopped you from giving up your titles when you came to the pack. Face it, Charlotte, even he wants to legitimize his sons against you and you are giving him everything that he wants on a plate of gold.”
“As if I have another choice, Dimitri.” She said, glaring at me. “I am alone in a fight that I know that I cannot win. My mother died leaving me with a monster that chose to wed his consort a month, not even allowing me to mourn in it, after she died. Do you know how much pain I was forced to drown down to survive? Or do you not even care to actually think that I too have feelings? I was abused, beaten, yelled at, locked in a room for days with no food, my hair was cut in different ways, and mind you it was never with scissors.”
“If I held onto you and if I refused to lose the one person that made me feel like I was wanted, it was because I knew that you were all I had. Everyone else just wanted a bite, a taste, or a scratch out of me, and I couldn’t anything to fight them back.” She said, taking a deep breath as she looked away. She wiped the tears that welled up in her
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fell from them, silently letting me know that she didn’t want me to see her weaken.
“I didn’t know, Charlotte.”
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“I didn’t want your pity and that was why I never opened up about it,” she said, not bothering to look at me. “Anyway, I am open to your help. At this point, you and your mate are my only hope. If I marry the bastard, then I am going to end up dead within a few years. That is, of course, unless I manage to have more miscarriages to ensure my survival. And I know that he is not going to be allowing it.”
“I never forced you to…”
“You didn’t have to,” she said, making me frown. “With a mother like yours lurking around like a hawk would its prey; I lost three of our children long before they grew inside me by her. But doesn’t matter, does it? You all got what you wanted in the end and I was the one who was left to deal with the consequences. The one person who actually was innocent of all your bullshit is the woman that
you call a mate.”
“And it took you this long to realize that?” I asked, frowning at the woman who shook her head at me.
“I was foolish enough to think that you would be choosing me in the end. But then again, I never did put in consideration that you would have your duty to care for instead.” She said, taking a deep breath as she tried calming herself down. “What is your plan? I am sure that you have one by now, and if we are going to stop this arrangement; I think that we best do it now…”
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