Chapter 26

**CHAPTER 26**

**"Is there something you want to tell me?"** she looked into Dane's hazel brown eyes. She loved his eyes, it showed every emotion he felt. She never failed to read whenever he was happy or sad or bothered.

He looked at her with uttered surprise, like she just read his mind. Even though it was cold, he began to sweat, his Adam's apple went up and down again and his shaking eyes showed that he was nervous.

"What is it, Dane?" she encouraged him to speak, begging him to do so with her gaze.

"I...I..." he tried to muster and gulped.

Suddenly, he stood up and placed himself in front of her. Allison looked at him wondering what he had done that he would act this way. His gelid hands held hers then did what she thought the last thing he would do. He knelt before her.

"Dane?" she called his name.

"Allison..." his breathing became ragged and his voice was thick. Tiny droplets wet her knuckles, but they weren't the raindrops but his tears.

"Dane?" she started panicking, fear was growing inside her chest.

He held her shoulders. "I'm sorry."

As he cried, she didn't notice that she was crying as well. She didn't know what was troubling him but it affected her badly, it made her cry without any reason. He felt heavy, she knew it.

"I'm sorry, baby..." he cried, "I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."

"Why are you saying sorry, Dane?" she asked with her voice thick and croaking.

"I'm sorry, Allison..." he apologized once again before raising his head and looking at her eyes. His lips trembled and he was sweating too much. "...I cheated on you," he finally confessed and wrapped his arms around her in an embrace.

His words broke her heart. He cheated on her. How could he do such a thing? She was faithful to him in the span of their relationship just to end up him cheating on her? How could he do this to her?

She began to struggle against his embrace. Trying to free herself from his arms. He hurt her. He didn't love her anymore. Dane's grip on her became tighter, he didn't want her to go. He didn't want to let her go.

"Allison, ba..." he wasn't able to finish when she finally freed herself and gave him a sharp, painful slap.

Allison was breathing heavily, her tears running on her face. "You cheated on me..."

"Baby, I'm sorry. It's just that..."

"It's just that what?!" She was getting hysterical. Her blood was running to her face, making him terrified. It was clear that she was deeply angry.

"Allison please..." he pleaded with her to calm down. But she wasn't herself right now. She went on her feet and walked out. She needed to leave. She wanted to leave.

"Allison!" a pair of arms embraced her.

"Baby, I'm sorry please..." he begged as he placed his lips on her cheeks. She felt disgusted. She struggled against his embrace, wanting herself free.

"Allison please, just let me explain..." he cried.

"No!" she shook her head as she struggled. She didn't want to listen, she didn't want to get hurt. Knowing that he cheated on her was enough for her to break up with him. No need for explanations and other complications. The damage was done and she was hurt badly. She didn't want to feel the pain once again.

Hades was fast asleep in his office that was just two doors away across from where Allison was sleeping. Even though he was fast asleep on the divinely soft sofa bed, the series of loud cries and whimpers reverberating from the walls woke him up. It was clear that the whines belonged to his fiancée.

Worried, he flew his eyes open, forced himself out of bed, groggily scratched his abdomen, and walked out of his bedroom where Allison was sleeping. As he went closer and closer, her cries were getting louder as well. He knocked on the door once, twice, thrice but no one answered. He waited a few moments but Allison's whimpers became frequent and thought the last thing he would do tonight: opening the door and letting himself in.

He drove a sigh as he hesitated, thinking what he would do would affect how Allison would think of him. He knew his actions earlier were irredeemable, he hated himself for letting himself be carried away by his urges and he dared not to do it again but he wanted to make sure that she was all right. No, he must make sure of it.

"No... let me go!" Allison cried behind the door and he immediately made his decision. Whatever the outcome, it didn't matter as her safety come first.

He held the knob around his palm and hastily pushed the door open. Right then and there, Hades' eyes widened and grinded his molars at the sight before him.

Allison was on his bed, squirming and crying. Her face was pale and wet with tears that were endlessly streaming from her tightly shut eyes that had the lines on her lids that showed that she was scared and hurt. Her facial expression showed pain and she looked like she was close to crying. She was struggling like she was trying to get away from someone's grasp. Hades was flabbergasted. It was his first time to see her so vulnerable and broken. She looked much worse compared to the first time they met. Hades sat on the edge of her bed.

"Love? Love, are you all right?" he held her by the shoulders and began shaking her gently. She whimpered again and began struggling with much force. His heart broke when he saw another tear escaped her eye. He panicked. He didn't know what to do.

"Allison!" he shouted out of fret and her eyes flew open. He looked at her and saw the pain in her eyes.

"H...Hades..." is what he heard she said and in a blink of an eye, she was grasping on his shirt and her face was buried on his chest. Seconds later, she was crying again but this time, with a painful bellow.

He made his position comfortable while holding on to her back, making her legs rest on his lap. "It's going to be alright," he said, trying to soothe her by making his voice sound warm and smooth. His bulky arms wrapped around her small back, caging her in his body.

Seeing her shaking and whimpering broke his heart. His shirt began getting soggy with her tears but he didn't care, as long as it was hers he would gladly take it. He caressed her back with his hand, comforting her soothingly. Warming her tear-wet cold hands with his body heat.

"Shh, calm down now..." he did his best to comfort her with his voice gentle, but instead of calming down, her cries began to get louder and her grip on his shirt got tighter like she's holding unto her dear life.

"H...He ch...chea...ted on m...me..." she muttered between her cries. Even though she wasn't able to speak the words vividly, Hades got her message. He knew she was pertaining to Dane, the guy who broke her heart.

Anger ran over his veins. His face had gone dark, his jaw clenched and his grip on her became tighter, squeezing her even more into his body. No one should dare to hurt his woman or else, that person would face his death on such short notice. His mind was full of thoughts on how to make that Dane suffer from pain. He thought of how he would torture the man with an unbearable ache that would make him cry and scream and beg for mercy. He wanted to hurt Dane. He wanted him to feel the same pain Allison felt when he left her, though, Hades wanted to be five times more than how it really felt.