Chapter 30: Chapter 30

"By capturing you forcefully, I claimed my victory

I continued hurting you not even caring about your misery

I thought it was my right but why I couldn't see

My foolishness was the reason that send you away from me

My greediness drew the blinds over my eyes, my mistakes sealed my fate

And by the time I realized my fault, it was already so late."

To say Evelyn was scared would be an understatement. After all these days when her life started to get on track when the fog of gloominess started to get clear, when she finally started to smile again then again, she got trapped by the beast who snatched away all her happiness and left her in despair. But this time, the motive behind his stubbornness was not his greed rather his madness. Evelyn can easily notice the glimmer of craziness in his dark brown orbs. The dark aura around him was screaming danger and the way he was glaring in her scared teary eyes meant that he had gone insane this time.

Evelyn squirmed in his hold while Dylan only tightened his possessive grip around her crushing her dainty figure. He cupped her face in his large callous hands but she kept struggling which for sure triggered him. Her vague struggles and continuous resistance were triggering the beast inside him. Dylan harshly gripped her chin making Evelyn mewl as he bellowed on her face.

“Stop resisting me. You're my wife Evelyn Black”, he chuckled darkly. Evelyn's heart sank to the bottom as she heard his menacing voice. The amused look on his face was only fuelling up her anger but the creepy smirk was forbidding her from even saying a word.

“D-Dylan, please let me g-go. I did whatever you told me. Please let me live now. Don't d-do this to me anymore,” she cried as she tried to persuade him one last time.

Evelyn closed her eyes while hiccupping hard. Dylan's gaze turned soft as he stared at her trembling form. He immediately pulled her in his arms and hugged her tightly. Evelyn flinched. Her posture immediately turned stiff. His weird behavior was messing up her mind but Dylan, unbothered by her confused state, kept calming her down.

Dylan then broke the hug and looked down at her. He noticed her swollen eyes and blotched face. His heart twitched noticing her pitiful and scared condition. He cupped her face and slowly wiped her tears with his thumb and caressed her cheeks. He lifted her face and tried to look into her eyes but Evelyn kept her gaze down as she couldn't muster up the courage to look into his eyes anymore which were filled with craziness and anger.

Dylan then took a deep sigh, his heart got filled with remorse. He removed his hands from Evelyn's face and held her right hand gently. He slowly pulled her forward. Evelyn hesitated a bit but still walked along with him. Dylan then made her sit on the chair. He then crouched down on the floor and sat on his knees. Evelyn was baffled by his continuously changing behavior but kept quiet. He then held her both small hands in his large ones and kissed them softly.

“Eve.”

He spoke softly, his voice shaking a bit. Evelyn didn't reply although her heart was beating erratically, not in love but fear.

“I-I am sorry Eve. I am very sorry. I know my sorry won't change anything nor it will reduce the pain which my brutality had caused to your innocent soul and heart but I-I don't know what should I do now? I am such an ungrateful person. God had gifted me with everything, flooded my life with so remarkable and precious gems that one won't be able to get even if they spend their whole life searching for them. They say that we should work hard to become successful instead of crying for the moon but I got everything in just a snap of my fingers. My road was paved with gold Eve. But see, even after having everything in life, even after being a billionaire, see where I am now today? Lost in the dark abyss of despair and unhappiness. My shoulders who always were held up with pride have now slouched with guilt as that pride which made me Dylan Black had now shattered down into smithereens that even if I'll be able to collect all the pieces, I won't be able to mend my broken ego and my hollow reputation ever.”

Dylan spoke in a heavy voice; his tone staggered a bit indicating that he was on the verge of crying. Evelyn battled her eyelashes and glanced at him but his gaze was pinned on her hands while his face held a pained expression.

“You were right Eve and I was wrong. I am indeed a rich spoiled jerk and I knew that damn well. I was so blinded with an arrogance that I didn't notice when my voracity for money started forcing me to target innocent people. Hurt the ones who loved and cared for me so much without any benefits, without any selfishness. I was a jerk, a rich brat, a cold-hearted man who loved to treat people inferior to me as trash but I had never imagined that I would turn into a Heartless Devil one day.”

His hands started shaking making Evelyn look at him in shock. Dylan lifted his face and looked at her. A small gasp escaped her lips when she noticed his face which was drenched in tears.

He was crying.

Dylan Black was crying.

His eyes had turned red and were shedding tears continuously. Evelyn was about to speak but Dylan cut her off immediately, “No Eve, not today. Please listen to me once. I can't take this anymore. Just listen to me once.”

He stared at her innocently like a child. Evelyn sealed her lips into a thin line although her mind was reminding her constantly that this could be one of his traps. She just wanted to jerk his hands off her and run away but she decided to stay. We can't always run away from our problems and today was the day she finally decided to confront her worst fear and make everything clear.

Dylan smiled sadly when he noticed her hidden consent. He leaned forward and rested his head on her lap. Evelyn was becoming too uncomfortable, her body turned stiff but still, she kept quiet waiting for him to end his explanation.

“I know I took advantage of your love, played with your feelings but the day I saw you, I thought you are mine. Call it my foolishness or my childishness but I thought that whatever I am doing with you is right as you were my mine. Do you know my parents even asked me why there was a need to marry you when I can fulfill my wishes simply in just a blink of an eye? After all, I was richer and more powerful than you, there was no way you or your parents could have stopped me.”

He chuckled. Evelyn balled her fists. Tears of anger flooded in her eyes but she bit her lip to stop herself from crying.

“But you know why I married you?”, he whispered.

“I wanted you to be mine, all mine.”

Evelyn looked at him in shock. He then lifted his head and looked at her who was staring at him with wide eyes.

“I don't know but your innocence bewitched me, Eve. Your piquant face with large appealing innocent eyes, your kind, and humble nature, your modesty, your generosity, your simplicity, your elegance made me crazy for you. You were not at all my kind. You were right, you don't fit in my world because Angels like you are born for Heaven, not for Hell,” he spoke deeply while staring in her teary-eyes deeply as if he was staring in her soul. Evelyn was stupefied and agape at his words which seemed so genuine as if he was speaking from his heart. Dylan then pulled her towards himself and leaned towards her face.

“You are an extraordinary girl, sweetheart. You are a girl full of principles, so humble even when you are so intelligent and a born genius but still there's isn't an ounce of ego in you. I am so lucky to have you in my life. I won't lie but I got attracted to you as you were so different, different from me, my class, my world. But with time I became more and more obsessed with you. I wanted to make you mine, I wanted to snatch you away from the entire world. I wanted you to just be with me, just mine, only mine.”

His eyes slowly started turning into a darker shade with each word. Evelyn noticed the emptiness and darkness in his pitch-black orbs. Her pupils started dilating in fear as Dylan started leaning towards her face. Her heart which was beating normally started palpitating wildly. His minty breath fanned her lips making her breath uneven and her heart uneasy.

“I couldn't tolerate you away from me, not even for a second. I just wanted to trap you in my cage forever. I wanted to snatch you away from everyone and keep you with me always. And see I did; I did what I wanted to,” he spoke while smiling creepily. Evelyn looked at him horrified. All the blood got drained from her face as she stared at his menacing orbs which were shining with evilness.Evelyn's P.O.V.

I was scared out of my wits. Lord help me. This man is crazy. He is so unpredictable. The way he was looking at me, the way he was smiling at me, I just wanted to disappear in the air. Dylan raised his right hand and started caressing my cheeks with the back of his hand. Goosebumps ran all over my body as soon as his hand made contact with my skin.

Dylan then tilted his head and stared at me like a psycho, “And when I made you mine, I became satisfied. I thought I won but”

Suddenly his smile got dropped. The evilness in his red eyes disappeared in a flash and got replaced with sadness and remorse.

'What is wrong with him?'

“I hated when I saw your tears when I used to cause you pain when I heard that you hate me. You don't know how much that mere word from your mouth hurt me? It felt as if someone had stabbed thousands of knives in my heart. I couldn't take that pain anymore. I was in a dilemma, captured in a storm of mixed emotions when Brandon and Xander entered our lives. They made you smile which I was never able to, they showered you with love and care which I was never able to give you. They made you feel wanted, they made you feel loved, and I-“

He stopped midway and heaved a deep sigh and looked down. I kept staring at him with confusion and fear.

“I was never able to win your heart back, to get your love and care back, to become someone who can fulfill that vacancy in your heart but how could I? When I was the one who had erased my name from there.”

Dylan spoke while pointing his index finger towards my heart. My breath hitched and I immediately flinched back. He chuckled and shook his head.

“See, even my mere touch scares you, burns you then how will I be able to make my way to your heart, how will I be able to become a part of your life? How will I be able to make things right as I am well aware I can't justify my wrongdoings. How will I be able to survive? What should I do Eve?”, he spoke in a broken voice while tears started flowing down from his eyes. I was so confused but I couldn't see in his eyes any longer so I averted my gaze down. I tried to remove his hands but he only tightened his grip.

Dylan was staring at me sadly, his face holding a heartbroken expression but still, I can't forgive him.

If it would have been some other day, I would have forgiven him and accepted his apology easily but now I can't. I don't trust him a bit. Not only him but Xander and Brandon also. They lost their trust also the day I got to see their real faces. It may be a small thing for others but not for me. People may say I overreacted and can throw mudsling at me but they seem to forget the most important thing. If you wish to see the real face of people just see the way how they behave with someone poor to them. I agree that the waitress was wrong that day but no one has the right to demean or humiliate a person so cruelly. I can forgive them for their mistake but I can never forget their vicious act. That day they lost my trust in them.

But the betrayal I received from Dylan is far worse than anyone else. The man for whom my heart learned how to beat fast, the man whom I had loved with all my heart played with my feelings so mercilessly and stomped on my emotions so viciously that now if God also roped me in to change my beliefs for this man, I would strictly deny it.

I have suffered way too much. My parents repudiated me and left me alone only because of this vile man. He can't win my forgiveness so easily. No, not this time. Once I vowed my life to him but this time his fake tears can't convince me anymore. Enough is enough. I am done now.

“Say, Eve, what should I do? What should I do to ease this pain? How can I make things right? I don't want to hurt you anymore. Neither I want to be the reason for your hatred nor do I want to force you to love me. Tell me what should I do?”

His cracked voice laced with pain brought me out of my trance. I took a deep breath and turned my face to him. I looked dead in his eyes and finally spoke what I wanted, what my heart wanted.

"Then let me go."

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