"Althea, Go" I ordered her firmly when I saw her rooted to the spot.
"She can't" Smirked my father and there is an evil smile on my younger brothers face.
"Althea" I looked at her with dread.
"He somehow locked me here. I cannot move" she whispered.
"Let her go father" I requested him softly.
"Why should I" his careless answer grated on my nerves.
"I want her father" my brother Ornan asked my father, eying Althea with a disgusting look on his face.
I blocked his view from her and stood in between them.
"No" I said firmly.
I need to save her if it meant to sell my soul to Satan.
"If you let her go, I will do everything you want me to do without asking any questions. I will even take over after you and be an obedient son" I bargained with my father.
"No" Althea yelled horrified.
"Please keep quiet" I requested her, scared that my father might change his mind if she spoke wrongly.
"Hmmm.. interesting" hummed my father. His calculating eyes on Althea.
Just then Ornan blasted hell's fire on Althea, burning her body to ashes.
"No" I turned towards the place where once Althea stood and shouted, horrified and heartbroken. I stood there rooted to the spot.
"If I cannot have her, neither can you" he said nonchalantly.
"Have you lost your mind. He finally was willing to do what I always wanted and you blasted that idea because of your jealousy" my father snapped at my brother Ornan.
Nothing matters now, she is gone. My reason for breathing is gone. I did the only thing that would hurt my father most. Even though it's not he who blasted her, he is the one who groomed my brother. He is the culprit.
"You wanted me to obey your every whim like Ornan do, right father?" my father eyed me skeptically.
"What if you have only one son left. I failed her today. That one person who thought there is something left in me which is redeemable. That one person I loved the most. Let's see how you feel if you lose someone you need the most, now shall we father" he didn't say anything for a second, but soon realization of what I am about to do sank in.
"Don't you dare Azza..."
I jumped into the pit of the hellfire. It cannot kill me, but can hurt me all the same. It will keep burning me and my body keeps regenerating.
It will never stop hurting and I will never die. This is for forever, I cannot get out of here even if I wanted to. Even my father cannot get me out of here.
This physical pain though doesn't dull the pain of losing Althea. The thought of never seeing her again and never talking to her is much more painful than this.
It's better than the guilt I have after I kill the Innocents.
My eyes became moist at the thought of her. My lost love...