The past 2

"Althea, Go" I ordered her firmly when I saw her rooted to the spot.

"She can't" Smirked my father and there is an evil smile on my younger brothers face.

"Althea" I looked at her with dread.

"He somehow locked me here. I cannot move" she whispered.

"Let her go father" I requested him softly.

"Why should I" his careless answer grated on my nerves.

I cannot let die, this is the reason why i left her in the human world, all those months ago. I was afraid that my reality will kill the dream of having her as mine. She dose'nt deserve this, she is cannot die today. I will be shatered if something happens to her. I simply cannot live with out her.

That realisation opened my eyes to the situation in a new way. 

"I want her father" my brother Ornan asked my father, eying Althea with lust in his eyes.

I blocked his view from her and stood in between them.

"Like hell you will" I thundered.

I never yelled at him in my life. I always let everything he did slide, thinking that he is still young and will learn some day. But looking at him now, i realise that, my eyes were blinfolded with the love i hold for my younger brother, and refused to see the real him.

He is spoiled to his core and there is no turning back for him. First i have to send Althea away, then i will deal with him and my father. If i can send her away from the underworld, protecting her in the human world will be easy. Here they hold the power, there not so much.

"Let her go father" i demand firmly.

"No" he says delabrately pausing for a second giving me hope that he might consider my demand.

"She has nothing to do with any of this. She is an innocent girl i bought from the human world. Let her go. We can talk after she leaves" i try to make him understand that she is innocent.

"I always thought, we can solve things by talking. But the little display of anger you showed earlier, is not promising. So i need a bargaing chip, for which she serves the purpose just fine" he says with a cruel smile.

"She has nothing to do with us. Let her go" i say desperately.

"The fact that you are trying so hard to send her away is telling me otherwise" 

So he is suspecting that she means something to me. If he believes that, then Althea will forever be stuck here. I cannot let that happen

I need to save her if it meant to sell my soul to Satan.

"If you let her go, I will do everything you want me to do without asking any questions. I will even take over after you and be an obedient son" I bargained with my father.

"No" Althea yelled horrified.

"Please keep quiet" I requested her, scared that my father might change his mind if she spoke wrongly.

"Hmmm.. interesting" hummed my father. His calculating eyes on Althea.

Just then Ornan blasted hell's fire on Althea, burning her body to ashes.

"No" I turned towards the place where once Althea stood and shouted, horrified and heartbroken. I stood there rooted to the spot.

"If I cannot have her, neither can you" he said nonchalantly.

"Have you lost your mind. He finally was willing to do what I always wanted and you blasted that idea because of your jealousy" my father snapped at my brother Ornan.

Nothing matters now, she is gone. My reason for breathing is gone. I am a spineless piece of shit who could'nt protect a girl who believed in the good in me. She is my only light in this dark world. We are forbidden from the start, i know it, she knew it, but love happened anyway. 

She is a strong girl, she came after what she wanted even though she knew its out of her comfort zone. She stayed in the enemy territory for a long time knowing fully well that, she would be killed if she get caught. 

Me being a asshole and a selfish prick, let her stay here, even thought it would cost her life. I kept craving her like an addict and postponed her departure. If i put my foot down, like i should have done she would have had no other choice left but to leave the underworld permanantly.

But i let her stay anyway, let her risk her life. Now she is no more. I don't deserve to live anymore either. I will give my father, what i am going through, pain. 

I will let my brother experience the burden of expectations and responsibilities.

 I did the only thing that would hurt my father most. Even though it's not he who blasted her, he is the one who groomed my brother. He is a culprit as well.

"You wanted me to obey your every whim like Ornan do, right father?" my father eyed me skeptically.

"What if you have only one son left. I failed her today. That one person who thought there is something left in me which is redeemable. That one person I loved the most. Let's see how you feel if you lose someone you need the most, now shall we father" he didn't say anything for a second, but soon realization of what I am about to do sank in. 

"Don't you dare Azza..." 

I jumped into the pit of the hellfire. It cannot kill me, but can hurt me all the same. It will keep burning me and my body keeps regenerating.

It will never stop hurting and I will never die. This is for forever, I cannot get out of here even if I wanted to. Even my father cannot get me out of here.

This physical pain though doesn't dull the pain of losing Althea. The thought of never seeing her again and never talking to her is much more painful than this.

It's better than the guilt I have after I kill the Innocents.

My eyes became moist at the thought of her. My lost love...