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Chapter 16: Opening Up
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2026-06-23 21:14:32Merin’s confession of love once again changed the power equation in the mansion. Lisena could sense her sweet victory. She hadn’t just controlled her body, but had won Merin’s heart as well. She therefore used this opportunity to make her next move… to make Aries accept this new form of relationship and completely draw the cold Alpha into their twisted family.
That night, Lisena walked into Aries’s dimly lit office. The owner of the room was sitting and looking at the documents in her hand, but her gaze was vacant, staring out the window.
“Do you know… what our favorite toy said today?” Lisena started the conversation in a casual tone.
Aries didn't turn to look. “What nonsense of yours this time?”
“It’s not nonsense,” Lisena smiled faintly. “She confessed her love to us… both of us.”
Aries’s hand, which was holding a pen, froze instantly. She whipped her head around to look at Lisena with eyes full of disbelief and suspicion. “Don’t be ridiculous, Lisena… that’s just your plan to make me let my guard down, isn’t it?”
“This time, it wasn’t a plan,” Lisena affirmed seriously. “It came from her heart… and you know very well why.”
Aries fell silent. She knew… she knew very well how their actions had molded and twisted Merin’s mind. But to hear the word ‘love’ from the person she had hurt all this time… it was hard to accept.
“So what?” Aries retorted curtly, trying to hide the turmoil within.
“Nothing… but the ball is in your court now, Aries,” Lisena said, walking closer to the desk. “Merin has accepted us… but she’s still afraid of you. Afraid of your baseless violence… if you don’t open up, if you don’t show her that you’re more than a hungry beast… in Merin’s eyes, you’ll only ever be the perpetrator she both loves and fears… as for me… I’ll be the sole comforter.”
Lisena’s words hit Aries where it hurt.
Yes… she didn't want to be just a demon in Merin’s eyes. She wanted Merin to see… to see the real her hidden beneath this icy armor.
That night, Aries didn't go to Merin’s room to claim her rights to her body, but she went as someone who was about to show weakness for the first time in her life.
Merin, who was about to fall asleep, flinched slightly when she saw who had opened the door. She automatically sat up, ready to face her fate.
But Aries didn't walk straight to the bed. Instead, she walked over and sat down on a chair in the corner of the room… keeping a safe distance.
Silence fell for several long minutes, with only the soft sound of two people breathing.
“I…” Aries was finally the one to break the silence. Her voice was hoarse and faltering in a way it never had been before. “…I was never taught how to love.”
Merin looked at the female Alpha with surprise.
“My family… they didn’t want a daughter, but a weapon. A perfect successor,” Aries continued without looking at Merin. Her eyes stared out into the dark window. “I was trained to fight since I can remember… taught to eliminate all emotions… crying was weakness… pity was a fatal flaw… and love… was the most dangerous thing of all.”
She rolled up the sleeve of her shirt, revealing several faint scars that Merin had only just noticed.
“This is the punishment… for when I showed weakness,” she said flatly. “I was trained to endure pain… taught that control and violence are the only languages this world understands.”
Merin sat frozen, listening intently to every word Aries said. The image of the silver-haired girl in the orphanage surfaced in her mind again.
“There…” Aries said as if reading her mind. “…the orphanage… it was the first place I saw the world outside my own walls… I saw true weakness… and I hated it.”
She paused for a moment. “…But I hated it more… when the strong bullied the weak.”
And that was the whole explanation… the explanation for why she had protected Merin that day.
“I don’t know how to touch… without destroying,” Aries finally confessed. “I only know how to possess… how to control… because it’s the only way I know… to protect something… from shattering.”
Tears streamed down Merin’s cheeks silently. It wasn’t just an explanation… but a confession from a heart as broken as her own.
Now… she understood everything.
The cruelty… the coldness… the jealousy… it was all born from fear… the fear of losing what she wanted to protect.
Merin slowly got out of bed. She walked barefoot on the cold floor… towards the Alpha who was sitting engulfed in her own darkness and pain.
She stopped in front of the chair where Aries was sitting, before reaching out a trembling hand… to touch Aries’s face ever so lightly.
Aries flinched slightly, but she didn’t brush the hand away… she didn't pull back…
For the first time… she allowed someone to touch her vulnerability.
Merin used her thumb to wipe away the tear she hadn’t even realized had fallen from the strong Alpha’s eye… before she leaned down… and placed the gentlest of kisses on the scar on her temple.
It wasn't a kiss of lust… but a kiss of acceptance… and a kiss of forgiveness.
That night… there was no physical violation. There were only two broken hearts… that had begun to learn how to heal each other… for the first time.
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