Page 44 of Caged Heart
Monica nodded and gave us a reassuring smile. She’ll be fine, and I’m glad, but neither I nor Mars ever will be that… the realization of that gutted me so hard and snatched the air from my lungs.
“Goodnight yall. Don’t be super freaky with me in here, I don’t want to hear y’all.” She teased and I smirked.
“Come on, Moni, I like making my Goldilocks feel good. I haven’t had her in awhile, let me have this.”
“Oh my God!” Carmen coughed and playfully shoved me toward the door.
“Night, Moni.” Carmen said.
We walked out and she closed the door behind her.
“Ares! Oh my God!” She whispered as I scooped her up around the waist and slammed her back into the door.
“Did you miss me, Goldilocks?” I groaned as I sunk my nose in the crook of her neck. “I missed your scent, soft touch and that sweet fucking pussy. Tell me you miss me.”
“Ares…” Carmen moaned out as she wrapped her arms around my neck.
“Tell me, baby.”
Her breath fell softly from her lips as I felt them on my shoulder. “I missed you, babe. I really missed you.” She hugged me tight against her. She held me close and her chin rested against my shoulder.
Carmen was hugging me; for the first time in my life, these arms were where I felt safest. They were the arms of love.
Chapter31
Carmen
Itake it back if I've ever complained about my life before, and I take it all back. While my mother wasn't the best woman around me, she seemed like a cakewalk compared to Ares's father, or rather, the only other thing I was afraid of was the fact that I told him I loved him.
It wasn't that I didn't believe it because I did, but to be able to admit it, I didn't believe that it was something I could do.
My mind and my heart sped up a bit when the memories of how Monica and I were taken to that room. The darkness surrounded us until they removed whatever they had over our heads. A flash of movement caught my eye as men came in with Ares first, and he didn't see us because he still hadn't looked up from the floor.
The chilling feeling that something would go array shoved at my chest so hard that I felt light-headed. When our eyes connected, Ares stopped in his tracks.
"What are they doing here?" Ares asked his father, who was standing near me.
This wasn't something I thought was meticulous or somewhat manipulative at first, but then the blazing fire in Ares's eyes told me it was.
"You should've introduced your friends to me, Ares." Those were the last words I heard before they covered our view again. Everything was dark, and tears fell as fear took over everything else.
"Get away from them!" I heard Ares say above a whisper, and the broken tone in his words caused me to feel hopeless.
We weren't going to come out of this unscathed.
Time felt like it was going so slowly as we were dragged backward until the back of my legs touched a chair.
"Sit." Words that came out of the mouth of a man's voice, Kronos Wolfgang, that I will now never forget.
My eyes were obscured, and I couldn't see what was happening, but I heard a scuffle, then a thud with a humph sound but nothing more… then finally, light flooded my vision as they removed the sacks they had over our heads.
My eyes watered, and more tears fell as I saw Ares's position.
"Don't cry for me, sweet Goldilocks. Save your tears." Ares tried to soothe me, but that made more tears fall down my face as his dad held his head down on the table. I looked up at his dad, but Ares shushed me, making me look at him again. "Don't look at him; keep your eyes on me, love. Keep them on me."
The pain in his voice was something I would never forget. No matter what.
"Goldilocks?" Ares's voice called me back to the now, and I realized that I had been washing my hand for too long after going through my nightly routine.
