Marcus stared at them. redith didn't know how long he had been here, or what he had witnessed, but the look in his
eyes was the most painful thing she had ever seen.
Marcus's shoulders slumped and his face twisted in dejection as he watched her. He seed to ponder over what to say to her. He looked at her, his jaw tightening and his red eyes glistening.
"Marcus..." She whispered , and he looked at her with such sadness in his eyes that she was afraid of what was about to happen next.
Her heart thumped hard against her ribs.The lump in her throat was unbearable. She was still frozen on the spot, not believing that he had seen them.
She didn't want him to see this. It was cruel for him.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't an to - fuck, I'm sorry'"
Marcus finally spoke frantically as redith stayed
frozen in the spot.
She stared at Atlas with wide mortified eyes,but he only stared back at her with a smug smile.
"It's okay, you didn't interrupt anything." Atlas replied with a hint of a smile in his voice.
Marcus glared at him and blurred out of the room without any word.
redith's heart fell into her stomach as she looked at the expression on Atlas's face, his smile looking gloat and almost spiteful.
Did he do this on purpose?
Did he really touch her because he knew Marcus
would co and walk in on it?
She swallowed the lump in her throat as she stared at the tiled floor, tracing her eyes around the patterns on each of them to try and distract herself from the emotions lodged at the base of her throat fighting to co out.
The small mont she had of feeling happy was crumbling into a thousand sharp pieces lodging into her chest.
She felt humiliated, that he had just used her for
sothing like that, just to feed his stupid ego. Her eyes started to burn with tears.
She felt too ashad to even look at Marcus again.
Atlas knelt in front of her and wiped the tear on her cheeks, "Hey….what's wrong?"
He asked, grabbing her hand.
redith pulled her hand from his grip with such force, like his touch was poison. And there in
those blue eyes flickering with gold glints, She saw more pain.
redith stood up, anger brewing inside her.
"You knew right?"
Atlas stood up too, confusion marred on his face.
"What?"
"You fucking knew he would co. You planned all of this to feed off so stupid ego didn't you? You humiliated
in front of him because you wanted to exhibit how I am a slut for you!"
redith kept
backing away until she reached the wall and slid down, burying her face in her hands as she tried to make sense of all of it.
Atlas just stayed silent watching her.
redith didn't even know what she felt about what he had
done, She was not angry at him, but she didn't know how to describe it and the empathetic part of her understood that he felt the need to do sothing,to show Marcus that she belonged to him.
Maybe it was his own twisted way of showing dominance?
redith felt
Atlas' presence in front of her, and she didn't
dare look when she sensed that he was
crouched down in front of her.
"Angel.. can you please look at .."
The anguish in his voice was the only thing that gave her the nerve to pull her hands away,it was funny how she could never say no to him. It was like her body had been programd to obey his every command.
redith looked at him. He pressed his lips together firmly, reaching his hand out apprehensively to touch her face but pulled it away
as if she had slapped him when she flinched.
"Please don't do that…I'd never hurt you" he said
solemnly.
"How do I know that? I never thought you could do
sothing like this, and you did"
She croaked , bringing her hands up to wipe the tears under her eyes.
Atlas gave her a pained look, as if he wished she
would let him do that instead.
"Because you're the only person I don't want to
hurt"
He searched
his eyes over her face, and the
sincerity in his voice was wavering the part of
her that was so disturbed by him.
redith didn't say anything, She didn't know what to say.
"I'm not a good person redith, I never pretended I was. You know ." he stated, watching carefully for her reaction as he reached his hand out again "but you make
want to be better, to be good for you..."
redith closed her eyes, squeezing them as her heart constricted
when he cautiously cupped the side of her
face, swiping the pad of his thumb across her cheek to get rid of the moisture.
"You know I'm always selfish when it cos to you."
He let out a breath that almost sounded relieved,
that she wasn't pulling away from him.
"I saw him, yes but I didn't humiliate you to feed my ego or to make him jealous. You know how twisted I am but I won't do anything to hurt you.
I was thinking about pleasuring you before anything else and he seed to be enjoying the show so I let him. Also from where he was standing he couldn't see your nakedness. Just hear your moans and see
kneeling in between your legs.
Atlas shuffled closer, resting his other hand next to
her on the floor. "It seems our dear prince has a kink of his own and I had discovered that. That's why I was smiling, not because of anything else. Knowing soone's weakness is power."
redith furrowed her brows and let out a sigh that cracked in her voice as she relaxed her
face against his hand, hanging her head to try and hide how everything he just said was not making any sense and he brought up his other hand to cup her jaw, continuing to caressed his thumbs against her cheeks.
"Your people are waiting for you. Once you finish the ritual I will explain in detail the reasons for my actions to you okay?"
redith gave a subtle nod, "Okay."
"Trust ." Atlas added softly.
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