"Don't you dare lay your filthy hands on my face."
"You killed my mother, now you wanna console me? No man! It is not done that way."
" I did not kill you mother!" He raised his voice
"Hey, you!" I shouted.
"Don't you dare raise your voice at me, don't you even try," I said in a fury of my loss as I pointed my index finger towards him.
"Fine, young woman!" Jeremy said.
"I did not. I repeat, I did NOT kill your mother." He emphasized.
I was becoming angry by the minute of his denial.
"You DID," I said.
"You caused the accident, you caused my loss."
"If you did not go after us as you did, I would have been at the airport."
"You made me miss my flight, and you killed Jessica. I don't even care anymore, I don't want to care." I said after pouring all the blames on him.
I was breathing heavily.
"I wanted you." He interrupted me while gasping for air.
"You are a liar. A big liar, Jeremy. I mean what I said and I've said it." I concluded.
"I was wounded, but with the help of a kind-hearted person, I got help and I was able to still go to New York that same day."
"After all these years of running and escaping you are still after me"
"Ain't you tired? Can't you give up?" I said while raising the pitch of my voice with each word.
He couldn't turn towards me and looked at me closely.
"I did not kill Jessica. I mean, why should I do that?" He said while smirking at me.
I was crying and he was smirking at me. Over an issue that means the world to me? Who would blindly believe such a person?
"I wanted you, just you," Jeremy concluded.
"You just keep lying to me. Do you know what aches more? That you keep lying, Jeremy! You do it over and over again. Where in hell did you dump your conscience, cause you need to go back there and stay with it." I said.
I could just believe my ear, they were lies. I was hurt by the whole situation.
"I do not want you, please. Please, leave me alone." I said.
Maybe being polite will make him consider it.
How will he even consider it after so many years?
"I will never accept you," I concluded.
Suddenly, Jeremy started laughing. He laughed so hard and it seemed like he was holding it all along. At that point, my heart crumpled and shattered into miserable visible pieces.
"It is very much useless for you to say you don't accept it. Do I have to ask permission from all women before I have intercourse with them?" He said coldly.
"Of course not! I don't even see myself in any way doing such."
"I will only sleep with my destined partner, you scumbag!" I scolded him with sprinkles of insults.
Why should I respect someone who doesn't give a damn about respecting me? He doesn't care.
That was just sad.
"Then, that is very interesting. I am your destined partner and you can't change any of that." Jeremy said.
While grabbing my hands tightly, he brought his lips closer to mine.
My heart was racing and falling away from its place.
"It's too late because the wedding is in a few days."
He said. My eyes widened in shock.
"Isn't that amazing? Huh?" He asked. He sounded dumb.
I was shocked. He pursued me, that was bad. He assaulted me. That was horrific and now he went ahead to arrange my marriage with him. It definitely sounded like craziness.
"Why?" It was the only word I remember, the word I could ask him and the universe. My life was gradually falling away from my hands, from how it is supposed to be.
"Everyone attended the adulting ceremony, what are they going to say?" I asked.
"You were even present at the ceremony. How are you going to explain that to everyone?"
I looked at him waiting for another crazy answer.
"Is that what is bothering you? That should be the last thing, darling. You were just talking about caring less about what people think or say, right?"
"So why should I…sorry, we. Why should we care about people's opinions now? How does that even matter to me?"
Exactly, that was his problem. The feeling of being there didn't matter to him. It was nothing important to be considered. It was not something that will ever matter. If it actually did at any point, he would have let me go a long time ago after considering my feelings.
But, no.
"It's the Alpha's marriage. It should not bug anyone because the Alpha just wants to marry a woman." He said. Another dumb sentence!
I was calm and shocked at the same time. I did not expect the last action. Suddenly, he called on Cory to fetch my things.
"Stop please, I will do every single thing you say but don't adopt me. I will listen to and respect you in every single way but please don't adopt me. I'm begging you, Jeremy!!!"
I was talking to deaf ears even though I didn't mean all I said. I just had to try and I did. it felt like I did not even try at all.
What a fate!
I begged Jeremy a lot of times. I cried till I had no strength and voice. It did not move his decision by an inch. It was happening—my biggest fear was happening.
Jeremy took me away for a few days. It dawned on me that I was not going to see my hero. I wasn't going to see Max. I don't know what he was going to think.
I was kept indoors. My skin did not smell of sunlight. I felt suffocated in my fate.
The room was empty and food was thrown inside the small passage.
I became a prisoner. I would have escaped, but the room had high windows and rough walls. There was nothing I could use to help myself.
I thought of everything I knew, but it wasn't related to inside that room.
The food was good-looking and tasteless. The first time I tried it, I stayed close to the stainless sink. I felt sick but I wasn't paying attention.