BETROTHED HEARTS

CHAPTER3

A different kind of numbness had completely engulfed me and as a result of that, I felt nothing. Absolutely nothing. The shock had been so much that it had physically rendered me incapable of behaving like a sane or stable person would under these circumstances.

I leant my head against the car window, pressing my head against the cool glass as a relief to my pounding headache. I felt ill, a temperature of 108 Fahrenheit,and it was a miracle how I survived that ceremony without my legs giving up on me halfway through.

I didn't tell my husband, I couldn't have had the courage to look him in his face since the ceremony had ended without wanting to wrench my own heart out.

What had happened, how did my life go from being perfect to being this chaotic?

How did I go from being so in control of my life, to being plunged into the biggest nightmare of my life?

I, Dana Morgan, was married to Sebastian Bach. The thought alone made me want to hurl and the only thing I wanted was for someone to wake me up from this horrendous nightmare.

But it didn't happen, no one woke me up.

My family had abandoned me, left me to navigate all of this on my own. I was in a car, being shipped off like some sort of package to a man who wasn't supposed to be my husband.

I couldn't even bear to look at him, knowing how much he must resent me.

The car came to a halt outside a huge mansion, the Bach mansion to be precise. It looked so daunting, so intimidating. It was engulfed in darkness as the mansion was situated in the outskirts of the town.

I peered out the window, trying to get acquainted with my new environment. The gates opened and let the car in and I could feel the stare of the watchman following my face as the car slowly came to a halt at the entrance to the main house.

No sooner had we stopped, had Sebastian sprang up from his seat, not being able to bear the thought of being in the same space as me anymore.

A migraine made its way to my head and it increased the sensation of my burning fever and that did nothing to ease my condition.

I tried to move but my body felt too weak to even be able to move a single muscle. The driver quickly noticed my discomfort and opened my door with a slightly concerned look on his face.

“Are you alright?”

I managed to squeeze out an answer, a sharp pain hitting my forehead even more as I did so. I gripped my temple and laid my head back on the seat.

Everything was starting to spin around me,my eyes began to water. I distinctly heard the driver call out my name before it all faded to black.

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“ Will she be fine?” He asked,not even an ounce of empathy peeking through his voice. He didn't care, the carefree tone of his voice made that very clear. He'd left me alone in the car and now he was putting on a show, acting like he cared.

“Well, I've prescribed the required medication and a nurse would be arriving shortly to stay with her as you requested earlier on. I'm sure that once she regains consciousness, the temperature would be considerably lower. There's no cause for alarm Mr Bach.”

A doctor, I assumed and then I proceeded to tune them both out. Couldn't everyone just let me be? I was already experiencing one of the most daunting days of my life.

I'd prefer to be in the unconscious state forever than to wake up and have to face reality, one that had Sebastian in it.

A reality in which I was married to Sebastian, a reality in which my family had left me to be fed to the sharks, a reality in which my parents had quite literally abandoned me.

A pain shot through my chest, just at the thought of my family. Everything was happening at the same time and I felt overstimulated. My head felt like it was being crushed with the weight of a thousand boulders.

I couldn't hold it in any longer. A low scream erupted from the depths of my belly and I immediately felt someone rush into the room.

Sebastian hovered over me in an intimidating manner and I shrunk inwardly at the size of him. He towered above me as I lay on the bed, his features masked by lack of light in the room. I couldn't see the expression on his face. Was he angry, sad, worried?

“ What happened now,Dana?” he asked, not even being able to hide his irritability.

He was near enough for me to take a whiff of his cologne, an expensive one at that. Not like something I had ever smelt before.

“ My head…” I managed to choke out in between the spasms of pain that were now rocking my entire body.

“ Here, take this. The doctor said it'll ease the pain.”

Sebastian made me sit upright as he took note of how much the pain had disabled me. He made me open my mouth, placed some of the pills inside as he placed a glass of water to my lips, urging me to drink.

This simple act of “kindness” stirred up all sorts of emotions once again.

Voluntarily or not, I was already occupying a space in Sebastian’s life that was not originally meant for me. I had invaded his world, all because I had to save my family.

After laying me down, Sebastian walked out of the room, switching off the lights as he walked away. The last thought that was heavy on my mind before the drowsiness of the pills started kicking was, how unusual it was for someone to be so fond of darkness.

Not a single light illuminated his way as he made his way through the darkness. Is that how he perceived his life to be now? Full of darkness and sadness, was there no room for light anymore?