Arius POV
My world shattered into a million pieces. I fall to my knees and bow my head to the floor, no longer able to look at her.
She didn’t love me. She never did.
“Oh poor boy. Anyone would think he actually has a heart,” I hear Mattis' sly voice as he walks back over to his throne.
I don’t move. I can’t. I want to die. They can kill me now, I don’t care.
“He’s not even going to fight back,” Syrus croaks and they all laugh including Madeline. She bends down so she is level with me and pulls my chin up to look her in her eyes.
“You are nothing. You are no one. You weren’t even meant to be born and now you will cease to exist,” she whispers and sadness consumes me. Even now, with her betrayal and hatred written all over her face, she was still the most beautiful woman I had ev
