Chapter 20

Chapter 20

“Lucas, can you please just listen to me first?!”

I began to chase my breathing as I blocked Lucas. We are already outside the building of my company. He was taking his huge steps earlier that I had to chase him down.

“Stop trying to cover him up, Faith. I'm so done with this,” his baritone voice was firm and sharp that goes along with his eyes right now.

My heart was pounding so swiftly while I was doing everything I could to stop him.

“You have to calm down, Lucas. It's still Elijah. He was still a friend to us,”

“A friend?” Lucas laughed so loud, as if what Lily said was the funniest joke he has ever heard.

“Do you hear yourself, Lily?!” He paused to take a heavy breath.

I know that Lucas was holding himself back in front of us. The blazing anger from his eyes couldn't be hidden anymore. However, I also see agony along with that madness he currently feels. He's mad because a friend that we had who became my husband is laying his hands on me and Lucas couldn't do anything because I decided it myself and my decision doesn't even waver beyond my given situation at Elijah's hands.

“He was a friend, right. But you also know that he doesn't treat us as one anymore ever since Freya passed away.

His eyes now shifted at me with the same anger.

“So stop thinking that he was a friend to us. Because the old Elijah died with Freya and he will never come back, Faith.” He pointed it out right on my face. Slapping me with the truth that I am turning a blind eye.

“Lucas!” I tried to call him again, but he was unstoppable. I was not able to do anything to stop him. I watched him leave with his car while I was left there tearing up. I washed my hands on my face, carrying the world again.

Everything keeps colliding, falling into pieces; and no matter how much I try to catch it all, fix it up, it's still tearing apart.

I froze when a car beeped loudly. The window rolled down and showed who was inside.

“Aren't you going in?” It took me a moment before everything sank into me.

“Lily,” I was still trembling when I immediately went inside. She didn't waste any time and drove as fast as she could to follow Lucas who was on his way to probably teach Elijah a lesson.

If we don't stop them, they would probably kill each other.

“Thanks, Lily.” I uttered while we were on our way.

“Don't thank me. I'm not doing this to stop Lucas from hurting Elijah. I'm going there to be on the same page as him, Faith.”

“Lily,”

“Don't try to stop me, you know you won't succeed.”

I couldn't calm all along. When we arrived at our house, I quickly came out of the car when I saw that Lucas had just arrived as well.

“Lucas, please! I'm begging you!” I shouted, chasing him again while he was barging into our house with no one who can stop him.

“Where's Elijah?”

“What's happening, Ms. Faith? He's inside—”

“Lucas!”

He didn't let the maid finish when he heard that Elijah was inside the house. He kicked the door and sat foot inside our house, while I was dying to stop him.

“Lucas, don't do th—”

“What are you doing in my house?”

My world stopped when we found Elijah in the living room. His blank eyes were pinned at Lucas who had been crumpling his hands like a piece of paper and greeting his teeth to the point that it might break any moment.

“Lucas, plea—”

“You fucking bastard!”

“Lucas!”

It happened. I failed to stop it again. Lucas wasn't listening to me anymore. He just threw a punch at Elijah's face, which made him almost fall on the ground.

But then, he was able to stand up and give back the punch that Lucas gave him.

“Elijah, stop!”

I couldn't do anything. All I could do was to shout and beg them to stop. I was hoping that they would listen to me while they kept throwing punches to each other.

“I told you not to hurt her, right?! How can you fucking do violence towards Faith?!”

“Lucas, please!” I shouted again and again.

Elijah's face was half covered with blood already while it was only Lucas' lips that were bleeding. He wasn't content yet and grabbed Elijah's collar as he dragged him out of the house.

“Lucas, stop this! What the hell are you doing?!”

“Ms. Faith, what should we do?” Marie asked, shivering. All the maids were already out, watching the two of them fight and kill each other. Beyond Elijah's situation, he managed to fight back.

“Lily, we have to stop them! Lucas might kill Elijah!”

Everything's driving me crazy. I don't know what to do anymore. She didn't say anything; she just stood there and watched the two of them kill each other.

I ran towards them and tried to pull Elijah away.

“Elijah, stop it!”

But then, he was too strong—they were both too strong for me to stop them.

“I will kill you, Elijah! So you wouldn't touch her again!”

“Lucas, please…” I begged not just to him, but to the two of them.

A tear slipped out of my eyes. I slowly looked above when I saw how dark the sky was. Does it feel the pain, hatred and anger we all feel right now? Any moment, the sky will pour its tears and shower it to all of us.

Everything began to move slowly around me. Elijah and Lucas were still fighting on the ground, bleeding so much. I got tired as if I don't have any strength left in me. I felt like I lost all my hope and lost my voice from trying to shout earlier, stopping them. I only stood there while my tears betrayed me. Perhaps, it is a sword that was pierced on my chest that makes me bleed inside and out.

Just like what I have anticipated, the sky poured its hatred on us and started to soak us all. But even the rain failed to stop Elijah and Lucas.

“STOP IT! THAT'S ENOUGH!” Lily now meddled with them and went under the heavy rain. She pulled Lucas away from Elijah and the four of us were being soaked there.

“WILL YOU KILL HIM, HUH?! WILL YOU KILL EACH OTHER LIKE YOU DIDN'T BECOME FRIENDS AT ALL?!”

“That is the worst past that I have. To be friends with that evil!”

“And I despise you so much, Lucas!”

“THAT'S ENOUGH!” Lily yelled it all.

All of us stopped and only the heavy pouring of the rain was all we could hear.

“How did we end up like this?” I uttered, which captured all their eyes at me.

I finally have the courage to look at them again. Do you know what I see from us? A broken glass who was forced to be fixed. We are all fucking wrecked and now, we're hurting each other.

“W-What happened to the friendship we had?” My voice broke. Thanks to the rain for hiding my tears.

“It's dead,” Elijah said.

“It dies with Freya,” he added, coldly looking at us. It is true that eyes are bad at lying. Because Elijah's eyes speak differently from what he said.

“Look at her,” Lucas now intervened. Both of their faces are ruined. But they don't seem to feel the pain from their bruises that they gifted to each other.

Hatred. That was what filled Lucas’ eyes when he pointed at me with his finger.

“Does she seem fine to you, Elijah?” His voice became weak while he kept his gazes at Elijah.

“What did you do? You slapped her which made her lips bleed and her cheek burned because of what you did? And this,”

“Lucas,” I called, shattering. He ripped my sleeve just to show my wound on my arm.

“Do you see how deep this wound is?!” His voice raised again. He speaks for unfairness and seeks for justice that Elijah couldn't even defend himself with.

I did nothing but cry in front of them.

“It was an accident,”

“Accident?” Lily uttered.

“Did you accidentally just slapped her, too?!” I heard her sobbing as she turned to all of us.

“I know that we have all been wrecked ever since Freya died,” funny, right? We are all bringing this up when we are under the heavy rain. No matter how much it soaks us, I know that it won't fade away the pain and hatred we all carry. It stays with us. It's engraved on our chests.

“But how can we do this to each other, huh? How can you marry Faith just to hurt her?” Elijah wasn't looking at any of us anymore. His eyes were on the ground and I saw again how wrecked and miserable he is.

“We can all just heal together,” Lily added.

“You can't heal me anymore,” Elijah replied.

“I'll die with this pain,” he added, accepting his fate.

“Let him die instead of making Faith’s life a fucking hell,”

“Elijah!” Lily exclaimed when he grabbed Lucas' collar again.

“You don't know anything!”

“What is it that I don't know, Elijah, huh? Tell me!” Lucas shouted back.

I lost my hope even more to fix whatever we all have. I lost hope that our friendship will be fixed and come back even without Freya.

“Why don't you admit the truth, Lucas? You like my wife, don't you? You like Faith and that's the truth you cannot even admit so you're throwing everything to me!”

“Shut up,” Lucas said firmly.

The fire wasn't extinguished yet. The fire is blazing even more.

“What? Tell me, Lucas. Do you fucking like my wife?! Are you in love with my wife?!”

“YES, I AM!”

That answer made us all stun. My lips parted as I glanced at Lucas.

“I DO LOVE FAITH SINCE BEFORE! BUT SHE WAS TOO BLIND LOOKING AT YOU WITH SO MUCH LOVE!”

Then again, my shattered world crumbled even more. Lucas is in love with me?

“And look at you, hurting her with violence. She could have been better if she didn't marry you. She could have been better if I'm the one who married her! But what can I do? She's fucking in love with you that she's blinding herself from your cruelty.”

His eyes landed at me, looking so tired and hopeless of me. I didn't know that he felt something for me. How can I be naive all these years?

“You heard me, right? Yes, Elijah. I am in love with your wife and your wife is madly in love with you while you're still in love with Freya.” He laughed crazily, losing it all.

“You're wrong, Lily. We cannot heal together when we are wrecked because of each other.” He chuckled with a glimpse of pain from his voice before he marched out of there, leaving us behind.

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