Good-byes

Coming to another room. Iana tugged the kids on bed and they doze off quickly. The kids were tired because of the day. She went to sit On a chair. Zeek sat opposite to her. "arson is your son?" zeek spoke bluntly.

She looked at him and replied "yes "

"who is the father?"

"i don't know and I'm not interested to know"

"is it the one you met in club in VWX country "

Her head snapped towards him. Questionable face. Zeek chuckled bitterly

"so, Arson is my son" he spoke barely heard.

"wa--was it really.....you" she asked him and he replied her

"yes, it was me. I was there finding Mr. Blackwood. But when I heard you're there, i thought to visit you. I saw you drunk as hell and helped you to room. But my Miss sugar had some other plans." she looked at him stunned. So, it was always him.

"i even gave you a medicine with a note, you didn't see?" he asked her.

"i did, i thought it's a random guy" she replied him and he asked her how could this be possible because she clearly remembered him. And called him there. "i was drunk. I was on liquor how am I suppose to know my hallucination is reall. And after all you made me realise to trust any thing easily. I don't trust anything now. Especially hallucinations." she spoke clearly pointing him for the medicines he used to give. To stop her hallucination.

"Isabelle, i love you and our daughter. Please try to understand my situation " Isaiah explained her everything.

Isabelle was stunned by the truth. But she still can't risk her and her daughter's life. "yes, I do. But I can't live with you. My daughter's life was in danger for two time because of your work"

Isaiah looked at her with plead eye.

"i'm sorry Isaiah I can't live with you, I'll take my daughter away from your work."

"atleast permit me to meet her" Isabelle was stunned, her eyes were filled with tears. He didn't appose her decision but just asked her to let him meet his daughter once or awhile.

"if i do, your enemies will know about us." she spoke making herself sound like a warrior trying to protect her realm but in real her voice was breaking.

"i won't..... I won't let them know. You're dead for them, you'll be like for always." Isaiah spoke with his heavy throat. To be honest he never want to leave them but he has to because she wants this. He wants to show the world that he have a daughter, a wife. The family he wanted. But he can't because of their safety.

She agreed, and he pulled her by her waist kissing her softly like she's a delicate flower that could be torned.

"iana, will you marry me?" zeek asked her, finally as a gentleman and not a freak. She was tormented and done with her love life. She rejected him. "please love, sugar. I can't live without you anymore. I have done so much bad things to you. And I'm ready for any punishment love but just don't leave me again"

"I loved you then, and a part of me still does. But after what I've lived through — after being trapped with someone who killed the people I loved just to keep me — I don't know who I am anymore. My heart is still yours, but if I go back to you… I'll lose the last piece of myself I fought so hard to save." she spoke referring to her friends that were killed by him. The family she once made.

She can't forget Rhiley, who was like a sister to her. Zade a best friend and others being her supporter.

"you can still meet him, if you would like too"

She spoke, wiping her tears.

"I'll take this as my punishment for hurting you. I know what I've done…

and I'm not asking you to forget it — hell, I'll never forget it. I don't deserve your love.

I don't even deserve your forgiveness.

But I need you to know — I'm sorry.

For the blood. For the fear. For making you live through that nightmare.

If carrying your hatred is the price I have to pay to keep you safe... then so be it. I never stopped loving you. But this time… I'll walk away. Even if it kills me. I was not a husband you deserved but I hope let me be the father our son needs, i want to support you with Arson, in everything, school, bills, PTM, his first heartbreak, his big wins, even his little ones. Every moment of his life... I want to be by your side atleast as a father of your son. Not as an obligation — but because I choose to."

"Sometimes love isn't about holding on — it's about letting go with grace, and choosing to show up in the only way that doesn't break what's left."

Author Note

There's no Happy Ever after.

I have written this because I wanted to let us know we worth everything.

If no one will, we would.