The Devil's Betrothed-Chapter 705: Lovely Cat

The next day, Aaron returned to the military prison along with the other three. As they walked towards the end of that long corridor, the thick smell of blood and what not started to engulf their senses, that an ordinary person might puke at it.

All the prisoners in the cells were sunk back like scared rabbits and no one dared make a sound after they witnessed the cruelty the entire night. The screams of man which died down eventually, might haunt them the entire life. There was a dead silence as if not a single soul existed there despite having prisoners in the cells.

As they reached the end, a dead body of a man was lying on the floor, surrounded by blood, limbs seemed to be dislocated, the view as if the beasts had tried to tear him open. One could tell whatever must have transpired here was nothing but downright cruel.

Aaron faced the cell which had Elord imprisoned in it. The man barely breathing, and utter anguish seemed to engulf him as he had watched his son going through the cruelty. It was as if despite breathing, his soul had already died. his own tears and snot had dried along his face and he looked worse than even a lowly outcast beggar.

Aaron did not have an ounce of pity or any kind of emotions in his eyes as if he had long stopped feeling anything. All he knew was his revenge and for that he was going to go to any length-- a man with no emotions indeed.

"Seems like you have another tale to recite to others," Aaron cold and emotionless eyes echoed in that dead silent corridor. "Just the difference is that, it’s not you who fucked and killed someone innocent, but your pathetic son died while being fucked by others. I believe from here you saw each and every detail to recite it without a miss like how you still can recite how my sister died."

Elrod lifted his gaze to look at Aaron, but instead of anger, his eyes held despair, but no word could leave his mouth. His soul was broken and entirely shattered.

Lucian looked at Elrod as well. This man had killed his parents and he wished to kill him as well, but now seeing him he could tell he was worse than meeting his own demise.

Lucian glanced at Aaron, and wondered how hurt he must be when his ten year old self was watching his own parents and sister being killed mercilessly, which led him to be cruel to this extent and even now he was showing no trace of emotions at all. Lucian could not help but feel worried about his cousin, whether it was good to lack emotion to this extent.

"If you are done with your revenge, kill me already," Elrod finally spoke, his voice hoarse, weak and barely audible.

Aaron didn’t even bother to look at him, and turned to the next cell where a sacred man looked at him with wary gaze, his heart sinking as he glanced at his daughter who was scared to her bones and had not uttered a single word since the last night.

"Lord Wynter," the man, Luis, crawled forward to the cell bar. "I...beg you, please spare my daughter. I will do anything you say or you can kill us all right here, but don’t do this to my daughter."

Aaron didn’t even bother to look at Grace while he talked to Luis, "Then how about your two sons? Just like Zymer, I am sure you would enjoy their screams as well."

A shiver ran down his spine as well as his two sons who were in a nearby cell. The two could not imagine all that to happen with themselves as well.

"Lord Wynter, though I had been cruel, you can ask anyone who had ever known me, I never disrespected or humiliated any woman and neither did my son," Luis defended, "I admit it was my mistake to let Elrod take away your sister and trust me after her death I regretted it. My wife was enraged that she even hated me for this, she hated me for what I did with both families and that was the reason she died early.

"At that time, I don’t know why I didn’t stop Elrod, but don’t take that out on my kids. Other than helping me rule the territory and having part in other illegal works and killing someone, they never did anything bad to a woman. You can set the enquiry for this. If any of us are guilty, you can surely punish us."

Aaron knew what Luis told was the truth. He was simply greedy for wealth and power and had no personal involvement in mistreating women.

"My sister’s unfair and cruel death weighs more than I can even bother to care about you," Aaron’s voice cold, unaffected by Luis’s pleading.

"I am ready to sacrifice myself," the eldest son, Adam spoke, "Spare my sister and brother and I will quietly accept what you want my father to see us suffer."

Aaron turned to look at him, "So brave, huh?"

"You are doing it to avenge your sister and I am doing it to protect mine," Adam straight looked at Aaron, "As a brother, I can understand your pain so I won’t call you on being wrong for avenging your sister, but that won’t stop me from protecting mine. You can do whatever you want with me, I am ready to suffer like how Zymer did.

Aaron was quiet, looking at Adam with still gaze.

Adam continued, "All I can do is apologize for what happened to your sister. If I was not a child and was there at that moment, I would have asked my father to stop Elrod, but what happened had already happened. I sincerely apologize to you and I mean it. So please, as a brother yourself, let me protect my sister. Punish me instead of her."

"Adam," Luis weakly cried out as one way or another, one of his children was going to suffer and all because of his mistakes. "Lord Wynter, I apologize to you as well. You can kill me, but spare my kids from cruelty. I beg you. Trust me I deeply regret what I have done till now. I should never have been greedy. I truly regret it. Spare my kids." He cried and sobbed.

Lucian stepped forward, "Aaron, you had punished one, leave Luis to me."

Aaron said nothing and walked ahead to leave, only to stop midway in front of the cell which had Grace in it, a small figure curled up in the corner as if she was trying to hide her existence from the world.

It scared the hell out of Luis and his sons as if Grace was in utter danger, like Aaron was some demon from hell and was going to throw her in the depths of hell.

Sensing Aaron’s presence near, Grace already started sobbing in fright.

The next moment Aaron walked ahead and left while Nathaniel followed him and Arthur stayed with Lucian.

"Take this dead body away and clean all this," Lucian ordered the guards.

He then pulled out a small dagger and tossed it inside Elrod’s cell which fell next to his feet. The man looked at it as if it was what he wanted the most.

Lucian then turned to Luis, his gaze and voice cold, "Your and your kids’ turn will come soon."

It made Luis shiver to think what this man was going to do with them and watched Lucian and Arthur leave.

Just as they came out, Arthur asked, "You look worried."

"I worry about Aaron. Something doesn’t feel right with him," Lucian replied, "I am not sure what exactly I am feeling, but I can’t let him handle any of the cruel parts. It’s not good for him."

"You worry today he was going to truly harm that girl?" Arthur asked.

"No, I know he was simply scaring away Luis or he wouldn’t have listened to me so easily. He never planned to harm her," Lucian spoke, "But, I don’t want him to lose himself."

"I know what you mean," Arthur replied, "Past two decades he had been living with every night of his life being haunted by those memories of that day, pain, despair, utter helplessness and thinking about nothing but revenge. What do you expect from a man who has lived every moment of his life in hell. Maybe once this is all settled and you all start to live like a family, he would start getting normal. I will talk to Nathaniel as well. Aaron listens to him."

Lucian hummed, "I will find a way as well."

"You indeed have a way," Arthur commented.

Confused, Lucian asked, "What way."

In response, Arthur simply offered a smirk, "A lovely cat." freēwēbnovel.com

It only confused Lucian even more. "Cat? I don’t have any pet."

It made Arthur laugh, "Your brain is truly dense, Lucian."