Chapter 2

"You said I was your only lover!” She screams. I don’t know when my hands quiver with shock as the phone slips away from my hands and crashes to the ground. I’m freezing on my spot as I stand firm like a statue without even being moved by the breeze coming through the window. I'm in such deep shock that I can neither scream nor cry; it’s as if my voice is trapped in my throat.

“ Honey?” Charlie shouts my name as he walks out of the bathroom. I turn to stare at him as if he were a ghost as tears trickle down my cheek.

“ Goodness, Are you okay, Lily?” Goodness, his voice is so gentle and filled with so much fake innocence; he is painfully gorgeous. With a natural tan, light brown hair, and a slicked back, his square, masculine jaw was sharper than a knife. He looks like sweet sin and regret.

He steps forward until he can see the tears flooding my cheek. I watch the sudden shock in his eyes, and then the confusion sweeps across his green hazel eyes as he sees his phone lying on the floor.

"What is going on?” He swallows hard as he quickly picks up his phone from the ground.

"Charlie, who is Elisa? She just called you for sex; she needs you at her apartment to give her some good sex.” I say it boldly without bursting out in tears. I still do not want to believe that he is cheating on me. A man who I had abandoned my family to follow, a man who I left my palace, taking nothing with me!

No, no. This is all a joke. 

Relax, Lily.

His face is full of shock, and then I suddenly see his face changing to something that seems like anger so swiftly in a flash, as if he wants to suck in all his guilt and convert it into a different feeling that wouldn’t make him feel horrible.

"Did you go through my phone, Lily?” His voice comes out rough. My eyes widen slowly as I stare at the fierce anger on his face. I know this tone; he is about to gaslight me—not that he always does, but that’s what his gender does when they are caught in this act: they find ways to hide away from guilt by turning the tables down. I've seen it so many times in the books I've read, but I didn’t know mine wasn’t an exception.

"Charlie, I'm your wife. Why can’t I check your phone or decide to answer a call for you when you were busy in the bathroom?” I shout back, matching the energy of his voice.

“ So? Do I check your phone? Do I invade your privacy?” He continues to yell. Jesus, who is this man? I'm not sure he is the Charlie that I got married to.

“ Privacy? When did you start having privacy with me?” I force out the words when my throat suddenly feels dry with tears that I'm fighting back.

"Gosh, Lily, when we got married, I didn’t state that you must always go through my phone.” He grits his teeth, squeezing his fist as though he is trying to suppress the anger he is about to unleash on me.

"For fuck's sake, what is wrong with you? I don’t just go through your fucking phone; I just decided to help." I explain, I feel like a bone has been trapped in my throat.

"Help what?!” Now he yells as if he is the victim.

"Do not try to gaslight me, Charlie; stop trying to hide your sin; damn it, you have been cheating on me!” I yell out, tears breaking through my furious gaze.

"Who is she?! Why would you want to sleep with someone else? Am I not enough for you?” My throat feels sore as if I drank some terrible liquor.” I demand, but he remains speechless. What did I do to deserve this?

"Stop asking me those stupid questions; they make me sick. You sound like you have done so much for me; don’t fucking use that tone on me because I never asked you to abandon your family and come with me!” He steps closer and yells at my face. My whole body stops functioning immediately as I go completely pale after listening to what he just spat out.

"D..did you just say that, Charlie? Goodness, I did all of that for you! for us! because we wanted to be together. Jeez, where are all these coming from?” My hands tremble as shock fills my entire body. “ Are you cheating on me or not?!” I shouts getting stun by my own boldness.

"You shouldn’t have done that; it was the most stupid thing I have ever seen. Now we are both suffering, trying to make a living every day throughout our damn lives.” The looks on his faces immediately made me crave a pit in my stomach.

I open my mouth to speak, but the words don’t seem to come out. Then he beats me to it, giving me the shock of my life.

" Yes! I have been having an affair with Elisa, you don’t have to know her by the way, it’s none of your business, it’s my life!

Look, I'm done living this fucking life with you. I’m done, because I better be with Elisa instead of you!” He throws the towel off his neck and stomps it on the floor. "I need to start over with her. I just don’t want this life with you anymore, so whatever shit we are doing here, it's over."

No..

“ You are leaving me for a girl who has no clue of what we have been through?” I laugh in pain, blinking off the tears in my eyes.

This must be a bloody prank; he doesn’t mean it because he can’t abandon me after all we have been through. I have no where to go. I lost my home because of him. I have nowhere to go except the home we have built together since we got married.

He is about to walk out on me when I grab his hands with my shaking hands, "Charlie, you can’t do this. You can’t leave me! Please, I forgive you for cheating on me. We can make things right. Please do not leave me." I cry in his hands as I clench against him fiercely.

“ Seriously? I think you need to properly decide on what you want to do with your life from now on. Now let me go, and for the last time, I'm fucking done!” He pushes my hands off him, storming into the same bedroom we share.

I remain speechless as I watch him run to the closet to pack out his stuff. "Charlie, you can’t leave me; you promised you would love me forever. You promised to never leave my side; what is happening to that promise now?!” I roar, my eyes getting bloodshot, and my wolf gets mad at what is going on right now.

I didn't know humans can break their promises, just as Charlie is doing right now, and they were full of so many lies, just like this man right now.

I run to him, " Charlie, forget about Elisa, please. I forgive you for cheating on me with her, but we can start all over. You can’t leave me; what did I do to deserve this?! I only loved you and proved my love to you by leaving everything behind to come with you because we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together when nobody was in support of our union! Have you forgotten I’m a princess? The only princess of Yonger Island Kingdom." Tears roll down my cheek as my heart breaks into a million pieces. He isn’t listening to me; he is so focused on packing out his stuff.

My knees completely feel numb; I can barely stand with my two feet as the wave of shock vibrates through my bones.

"Then fucking go back to your kingdom!” He turns to face me, yelling with bloodshot eyes. I do not think he has the right to be angry; I, Lily, have all the right to be angry, but I'm not. Instead, I am choosing to fucking forgive him, implying that I have no where to start from! No where to go!

My father will kill me if I ever step foot in his palace again because I defiled him by running away with Charlie when none of them were in support of our damn union!

"God, what have I gotten into?” I finally crash on the floor when my two feeble legs can no longer keep me standing firm.

He is done packing, and as he takes his luggage down as if he is about to leave, I stare at him with hope in my eyes not to please leave me.

"By the way, the house rent is expiring tonight; I don’t know how you will fucking do it, but this is my good-bye to you!” He says it without remorse, as if he hasn’t made the biggest mistake of his life, as if he hasn’t hurt someone who has never hurt a fly, as if he hasn’t just crushed my heart and fed it to the dogs.

He storms out of the bedroom as he slams the door behind him. I lay on the floor as I’m dumbstruck of what just happened as if I had suddenly developed epilepsy.

I have been constantly fighting back the tears, but now I can’t anymore.

I pull down my long blonde hair as I scream out my pain, dragging my hair painfully, but it doesn’t hurt as much as my heart is hurting right now.