SUZIE
The car stopped in front of a registration office. I frowned in confusion, looking at the huge board. Monty grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the car. “Why are we here?” Before we could march toward the office, I was able to gather enough courage to ask him the question I had been willing to ask him.
“Have you lost your eyes or your sight? Can't you see? We are at the registrar's office.” He replied to me in an annoyed tone. I didn't know if I was supposed to protest or what. I was too shocked to even argue with him. I went with him without uttering a single word. My brain had frozen. Because my insides were screaming at me to tell him no. But I didn't even try to stop him.
I quietly watched Monty preparing to marry me. They talked, they settled everything. Now it was my time to sign the damn papers. I had a pen on my hands. With shaking hands, I stood before the table. The registrar and Monty waited for me to sign those papers. I let my nails dig into my thigh so I could pull myself out of the daze I was in.
I slammed the pen on the table and took a few steps away from the table. Before I could get away from them, Monty grabbed my hand and pulled me back toward his tall figure. “Sign the damn papers.” He growled at me, trying to make me submit to him.
“Punishment is what we agreed to. Not marriage. I will not marry you.” I was firm with my words and very loud, so everyone would hear me. I saw the registrar having second thoughts as he heard me. Monty turned to look at the registrar.
“Give us a second, will you. She's just nervous. I need to talk to her alone.” Monty whispered, trying to drag me away. I was trying to fight him but it was no use. He was way too strong and I had gone way too weak in the past few years to fight that tall monster.
Monty cornered me in the store room, that's all the registrar could offer us. “You said, you want to be punished for all you did to me.” Monty growled at me angrily.
“Punishment is what I agreed to. Not marriage. You can't marry me. I can't marry you.” I tried to argue with him. Since he wasn't under the four walls to protect his lies and his violence. I knew he wouldn't try to lay his hands on me when we were in public.
“This is your punishment. I am your punishment. You will marry me, let me fuck you the way I want to, every single fucking day, you will bear my children, not one or two, as many as you can have. You will suffer forever, I will make sure of it.” My soul shivered at his plans he had made for us.
I knew whatever I had done was unforgivable. I knew I was part of everything since I decided not to raise my voice against my mother's schemes. The truth was that I was equally greedy as my mother. I thought if Ariana had dad's children, then his heritage would be divided. But if I separated them in any way, and they wouldn't have kids, my heritage would be safe.
How I was foolish for doing this to the man who had been nothing but kind to me. He believed that my mother's sins and her lies had nothing to do with me. That I was innocent. If only he knew that I was no innocent. I was as guilty as my mother was, as greedy and bitchy as she was.
Of course, I was her blood. How could I be any different from her? She and I were exactly like each other. And about my father, even she had no idea who my father was and where he might have been. She picked a random guy, who looked a lot like my dad and hooked up with him so dad wouldn't know. After all the lies, the bitch accepted everything on her own one night, after being heavily drunk.
Monty grabbed my wrist and squeezed it to the point that my eyes started to water in pain. “If you don't sign these damn papers, I will kill you in the most painful way. I will torture you until you beg me fir your death. And then, I'll torture you more until you stop praying to any gods and I will become your new God. Then I'll kill you, in the most painful way, as slowly as possible." He wasn't just trying to scare me, he was making sure that I would submit to him in a way that I'd never raise my head in front of him.
“So be it! I don't care. Kill me, torture me, punish me. I know I deserve it all. But I will not let you manipulate me into this marriage.” I tried to scream at him but my voice was constantly cracking.
The man who used to wipe my tears, was becoming the reason I cried and he was merciless. “Oh! My baby girl has grown wings. She is all brave and bold.” He whispered, brushing his fingers against my collar bone, making me shiver in disgust. His touches disgusted me.
Then he suddenly grasped my jaw, squeezing it in a way that it felt like he was gonna break it. “Then how about this? I'll tell your bitch of a mother where you are hiding. And how much boss has compensated you for everything you went through.” My heart trembled in my chest as I heard his threats. And he knew well that it was working.
“Then I'll go to boss, tell him everything, including how you seduced me just to get Ariana out of his life. How you spread your legs willingly for me, acted like a slut, just so your dad won't have more children, so you can have all of his money for yourself.” By then, I couldn't stop my tears from spilling. He had pressed the right buttons.