Aron POV
"Aron, I am sorry. Don't be upset with me, please." Jerry turned on the light in my room.
"Jerry, please leave me alone. I don't want to talk with anyone now." My eyes stayed focused on the oak tree outside the window.
"Please don't punish yourself in this way. I don't have any idea that the business conference was in the same hotel. I won't let Sara wander the hotel by myself if I have the slightest suspicion that Sara might run into your dad." She apologized for what had occurred in the hotel.
"Why are you feeling sorry for me now when you are the only reason my dad hates me?" I turned angrily to face her.
"Aron, I am genuinely ashamed of my past deeds; please give me one chance to prove that I am a changed person now." She kneeled in front of me to apologize.
Her behavior seemed different from her acts, so I watched her with suspicion. Why did she suddenly turn into a kind person? Perhaps she's trying to fool me by pretending to be innocent while concealing her evil intentions.
"Jerry, please go to my dad and tell him the truth if you truly regret your past behavior so that he won't continue to despise me." I wanted to feel his fatherly love, but all I got in return was hateful looks when I gazed into his eyes.
He did not intend to insult Sara today, but he wanted to hurt me. He saw Sara with me. That's why he used Sara as a pawn in his vengeance-filled game against me.
"I'm not brave enough to tell your dad the truth, Aron, so ask me something else instead." She looked at me with tear-filled eyes.
I am still not sure why she pretended to be sorry for me. I always saw her as vicious, but now that I see her in regret, my mind is filled with doubts. How can a woman like Jerry change at night?
"Jerry, why do you ask for my forgiveness when you didn't admit your mistakes?" With bitterness in my voice, I recited all the torments she had inflicted upon my body, mind, and soul.
"I can't go back and undo what I did in the past, Aron, but I promise that I have changed for the better. I made you the object of my desires because I was consumed by wrath and hunger. I was so blinded by my past wounds that I forgot I was damaging your life for my selfish gain." She covered her face with her palm and sobbed uncontrollably.
Though I'm still not sure if she's truly remorseful or if she's just pulling a ruse to entangle me once more, her tears warm my heart, and I bent down to give her comfort.
"Jerry, please stop sobbing.' I consoled her by patting her shoulder.
"Aaron, have you forgiven me?" With a hopeful gaze, she removed her face from her hand and stared at me.
"Jerry, if you were at my place, what would you do?" I exhaled deeply to express my confusion with her.
It's not easy for me to forgive her after seeing her tears. Just because I had a heated argument with my dad, why is she asking for my forgiveness?
"Aron, I understand your predicament, but I sincerely hope you will pardon me soon as I truly acknowledge my error and feel awful about what I did in the past." She rose from the floor, wiping away her tears.
"Jerry, why did you change like this?" I can't resist posing this question to her.
"Sara.
She was the reason behind this change." She told me with confidence why her behavior had changed.
"Sara? What she did to transform you." I looked at her in confusion.
"She worked the same magic on me as she did on you, causing you to fall in love."
"What?" My eyes widened in shock after listening to her.
How did she know that I loved her? I gave her another confused glance.
"Don't give me a shocked expression. From the moment I moved into this house, I sensed that you loved her, and as time went on, my suspicions about you became more and more intense, and I realized that you do care about her." Her revelation completely threw me off guard. I didn't even disclose my feelings to Sara, so how did she find out about them?
"I could tell you loved her by the way you behaved." She responded to my question, even though I didn't explicitly ask it.
"What actions?" I fear that Jerry might harm Sara now that she knows my love for her, so I made every effort to deceive her.
"Why are you learning to cook when you've never boiled water? I watched you develop from a young boy to an adult, yet you never showed the same level of affection for anyone as you do for her. When you noticed her with someone else, you were envious.
You were so possessive of her that you wouldn't even allow her to spend time with another woman. Her tears affect you. Your mood abruptly changed when she stopped talking with you. The most significant shift I observed in you is your loss of interest in engaging in sexual activity with any woman, even after receiving an injection. Sara's love is so strong that even my medications couldn't affect you."
"What?"
I didn't even realize that I had changed so much after Sara came into my life.
"What do you think? I don't differentiate between a real dick and a dildo. I was testing your ability to control your lust, a test you successfully passed. Do you truly believe that I am a fool for failing to recognize the reason for my altered sleeping pattern? I knew about what you did to me, Aron."
"What?" When I heard her, I was scared. She now knows everything, so she showed me her cruel side and beat me.
"Don't beat me, please." My body trembled in fear upon seeing her evil face.
"Relax, Aaron; I am not going to do any harm to you. Do you still believe that even after learning everything, I haven't changed?" Since she promised not to beat me, I now think she has changed for the better.
"Jerry, I am sorry. I didn't mean to give you sleeping pills, but I don't want to get involved in sexual activities with you." I lowered my head and told her the truth.
"I know, Aron; you only want Sara. I understand that you two are only interested in each other; there's no space for a third person, as evidenced by the day you both left me alone in the bedroom."
"What? Are you also aware of this truth?" I felt like the most dimwitted fool alive when I thought she couldn't possibly understand what was transpiring right before her eyes.
"If you don't want to face my dad, Jerry, maybe tell Sara the truth. That way, it will be simpler for me to tell Sara how I feel." I asked her to tell Sara that Jerry and I were not in a romantic relationship.
"Aron, please don't tell her the truth. Imagine what would happen to me if she found out that your aunt mistreated you physically to sate her lust. She is aware of my sex addiction, but I fear that revealing this truth could erode her trust in me. I will help you in other ways to win her heart, but promise me that you will never tell her this dark secret."
I let out a deep breath upon seeing her pleading gaze, knowing it would be difficult to share my life's dark secret with Sara. My love for her is genuine, but I don't dare to confront her with the secrets of my life.