NERO’S POVMy heart tugged in my chest painfully as I watched Zavier have his feast of punches on Athena. As always, I had to pin whatever was making me feel that way for her down. I didn’t want to care and I hated that a part of me did.When he was done, he and I left her on the floor unconscious. It took everything in me not to run up to her and check if she was alive.But I had to remind myself that she deserved every bit of what she was getting. I was going to allow Zavier do anything he wished with her except take her.During dinner when she didn’t show, my parents questioned me on her whereabouts where I had to pretend that I didn’t know where she was. I didn’t know if they were just respecting my wishes or they just stopped caring about her, either way I was glad she wasn’t getting pampered by them anymore nor did they pester me about where she could be.Things were back to the way they were supposed to be before she came into our lives and I was enjoying it.Once dinner ended
ATHENA’S POVEveryday I woke up, there was always something I hoped would happen. It varied from time to time but there was always something.Sometimes it was that I wished I’d just die and finally be free. Other times it was me wanting to give life hell and show it just how much I could survive regardless of the shit I get thrown at me.A cry escaped my lips when Nero stepped on my fingers without a care in the world. He kept on walking even when he knew what he did but it wasn’t like I had expected any ounce of kindness from him.I wiped my tears as I stared at my hand. It was badly bruised but at least it wasn’t broken.Each time Nero did something to hurt me, my heart broke. And each time I could feel my resentment for him build up to a point where I didn’t want to be anywhere near him. I wanted to allow my hate knit my broken heart. And I did, I stopped questioning why he wouldn’t love me like I loved him.Loved, I reminded myself.I had stopped loving him, instead I was question
CHANGE OF POV PLEASE NOTE News spread across the palace walls about what Prince Nero did to his wife Athena. It wasn’t something new they had noticed but this seemed to be the peak of it all. He had pulled her from the high ranking princess she was to the position of a mere slave. For the most part, the maids pitied the young wife of the Prince. Like everyone else she fought for a mate yet he didn’t want her. Like everyone else they watched how even after she won his beloved still attacked her which resulted in her own death. And now they were watching him take out his anger on his wife, a mate he should have seen the bravery she put up defending herself. From one maid to another, down to the guards patrolling around the palace walls and its grounds words spread and soon it got to the ears of the Luna Queen’s personal maid. She too like everyone else felt terrible towards the treatment Athena was getting from Nero. Like the rest of them she wanted to keep it to herself not wanting
ATHENA’S POVI never knew that in the entirety of all the times that Nero had hated me, I would ever side with him. But here I was with tears in my eyes, nodding in agreement to what he had just said.“We all know that I would never love her. I would never get intimate with her, which means there would be no heir so why don’t you both do us a favour and end this hell hole called marriage. Because let me tell you I won’t go easy on her just because you said so. And if she dies, her blood will be on both your hands and I wouldn’t give a damn about it.”The way that he spoke and kept his eyes locked on mine, I expected to break down from it and I would have, but I didn’t. Even though every word did what they usually did best, cut through me. My broken heart was too hurt that it was numb to his words afterwards.I dropped on my knees as I continued to cry. I felt like this was my only chance to actually get them to agree to the divorce even though it was the first time in a while he was m
NERO’S POV I hadn’t felt so much anger like I felt talking to my parents in a while. The last time had been when Zara died. But even then it was more grief I felt than the anger itself. Sure my dislike for Athena sealed into hate then, it just wasn’t like this. When I walked out of the throne room, I stormed out of the property entirely. The anger that roared in my chest was like thunder that usually came with a storm and a furious lightening. That was how it felt. And I could feel it at the tip of my fingers. I didn’t have a sense of direction on where I went, but my legs led me right in front of Zavier’s house. He looked surprised to see me but still let me in, well I more like pushed past him and walked right into the house. “What the fuck happened to you? I don’t think I have ever seen you this angry in a while.” He exclaimed walking right behind me and shutting the door. “Who do you think is usually the source of my misfortune?” I snapped at him not meaning to. “Easy there
ZAVIER’S POVNero stared at me like he was reading me. But I knew he wasn’t getting anything out of me. I was a master of deception and hiding my true intentions and this one was one of those times. Yes, we were trying to get rid of Athena but I already knew that he had started to feel something for her.Did I mention I was a good people reader? No? Because I was. It didn’t take a lot for me to see the changes in expression he had whenever she got hurt. Maybe at the beginning he really truly hated her, but now, he didn’t as much.Our last time at the training grounds that I had a spar session with her, he looked like he was about to explode or kill me for touching her. It was odd to see. She was the same girl who caused his woman to die, the same he told me he wanted to kill and be done with it but I had to stop him, the same girl he resented and was punishing and yet, at that moment his expression broke.It made me wonder who the sick one between us was. I didn’t want her and still c
NERO’S POVIf anxiety was a person, then I became it fully in both mind and body. I was edgy in everything and I found myself ready to snap at anyone who as so much breathed near me. I was that irritable.Maybe it wasn’t just that but the fact that there was nothing I could do to her other than stare. I minded my business with Athena but I just couldn’t get my eyes off of her. The way that she behaved and how her mood changed whenever she sensed me in the same room as her. I would relish on this fear months ago but why didn’t I have the same feeling as I did then?Zavier told me it would only take him a few days but it was beginning to take a lot more than that. I was mostly on my toes around her, itching to get the pull from her gone.How could I hate a person so much yet want every part of them? What does that make me?Athena was not making it easy for me to channel my hate at her and Zavier wasn’t making it easy either. If he took any more day, I could loose my mind and actually ha
ATHENA’S POVI wanted to believe that things were better for me. I could sense a shift in the air and I loved it. Nero hasn’t said a word to me other than stare holes at the back of my head.I didn’t have my walls down to believe that he was done hating or trying to get me killed. I sure minded my business in all that I could.And because of that, my life revolved around a routine where I did my work like I was required to, spend time with the maids who liked me enough to want to hang out with me around the kitchen area and also sleeping out on the balcony with hopes that rain didn’t pour down on my while I slept.I had also been given the task of making sure that the Alpha’s chambers were clean and so was the safe room.The first day I was to clean, I heard the maids talk about the room being the one to hold the most fragile and important object that the royal family owned. I always wondered what was kept in the room as no one was allowed inside it except the maid who was to ensure i