A Loveless Marriage

Chapter 1

Magnus’s POV

I knew since the day I married her that she is going to be everything to me and my family except my wife. I don’t care what they say or do for me she is the reason, because of her I have lost my wife and the mother of my 9-month-old daughter.

Yes, 4 months ago I lost my wife in an attack by one of my enemies and I knew who he was because of the threats which I was receiving continuously because of harming his business and the legal matters that men dealt with.

But where was I wrong? I trusted him thinking that he is my friend and I can trust him and helped him financially and gave him a partnership in my business but the little bit I knew at that time was that he was never a friend.

He used me for his illegal dealing and when I came to know about it, I helped the cops to catch him since then I knew he would come back for revenge, but little did I know that he would take his revenge on my wife.

Yes, he killed my wife and she left me leaving a five-month-old Xenia in my hands and with a promise that I will take care of our daughter. Since that day I am living for just one person and that is my daughter Xenia who just got injured because of that filthy w***e of mine whom I married in the name of marriage.

Seeing my daughter crying uncontrollably, I yelled, “Natalia” and received no response.

“Natalia”, I again shouted, and here comes she running from the kitchen and I left in between my sentence, “Nat-” and seeing her running to me take Xenia from me, I lost my temper and held her with my one free hand and asked, “What the f**k did I ask you when I brought you here?”

Her face was terrified and I knew she knew very well what was going to happen to her, “I will not get into your room.”

“And?”, I asked and heard the most irritating voice, “I will take care of Xenia.”

“What if you fail to do that?”, I asked putting the pressure on her air pipe and she replied with great difficulty, “I will get punished.”

“Then what the f**k you were doing when my daughter fell from the couch?”, I yelled to ask and she closed her eyes, seeing my rage-filled, and tried to talk, “I just went to bring her-” and I interrupted her, “Natalia, I said it before and I am warning you again.”

“Look at me”, I yelled and she opened her teary eyes and looked into my eyes. I replied, “Never ever try to challenge me. My daughter is my weakness and your single mistake can cause you a painful death.”

I looked into her eyes to make sure she understood what I said and when I didn’t hear anything from her I pushed her to the floor and turned to leave. I was about to take the stairs when she yelled, “Why?”

I stopped on my track and she asked further, “Why Magnus?”

I turned and found the maid standing at the door. I motioned her to come and gave Xenia to her so that I could deal with my w***e personally.

Once the maid was out of my view, I walked near to her and she asked with tear-filled eyes, “Why am I getting punished like this?”

“I loved you with all my heart and -”, she was saying crying when I held her neck and pulled her body into mine and completed her sentence, “And now you will hate me from the bottom of your heart.”

She was looking into my eyes with so much pain and I continued, “I will make sure that you get everything you want but at a price.”

Her shivering lips were proof that she wanted to speak but she was quiet because she knew what could happen to her.

“And I will make sure that you pay the price, Natalia.”, I warned her, and I was breathing heavily and my anger was getting out of control when I heard, “Boss, we got the CCTV footage of that day.”

I didn’t reply to my manager and he again called me, “Boss” I turned to him, leaving Natalia’s neck, and sat on the couch taking the package from my manager.

I was about to open the package when I found her still sitting on the floor shocked and I asked, “What are you waiting for? Thinking of a way to lure my staff?”

“Magnus-”, she tried to speak but I showed her my palm and ordered, “I want you out of my sight right now.”

I waited for her to leave but she didn’t budge from her place so I yelled, “Get out.”

She stood immediately and ran from their crying and she tripped many times but didn't stop. I get back to my work.

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Same day at night

I was sitting in my study on the king-size chair and was gulping alcohol nonstop. It’s my routine to drink like this and fall asleep only to find my wife in my dreams. She was the most perfect thing which happened to me and I know I will never be able to give her place to anyone.

I hugged her picture and started talking to her, “I love you a lot baby.”

“Why did you leave me alone to suffer?”, I asked like a child and waited for her to reply. But like all other days, I heard nothing and I knew no one would answer my questions.

“Can’t you see our tiny Xenia needs you?”, I asked her and saw her smiling face in the picture and her nine-month-old tummy.

“Please come back.”, I pleaded to her and kissed her picture saying, “I want you.”

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Natalia’s POV

I opened the door of Magnus’s room and found him drunk all day on his chair and said, “Magnus?”

He looked at me from the picture which he kept to himself and I never saw who was the lucky girl who got his eternal love. I told him, “It’s late. Please go to bed. Xenia is waiting for you.”

“Xenia”, he said, went to Xenia’s room with me and took her in his arms. He cooed to her until she slept and for some time she was sleeping soundly and I saw tears in Magnus’s closed eyes.

I wanted to ask the reason for those tears but I knew he would not tell me. He never did. He has been punishing me for the last two months since we got married, and I still don’t know why he hates me so much.

Since the time I married, I have been caged in this mansion and I rarely get out of here.

Suddenly, I heard sobbing and looked at Magnus who was hugging Xenia. Unable to control myself, I moved close to him and asked, “Are you crying?”

He cried more and started speaking, “I was the reason for whatever happened but my daughter-” and he stopped looking at her.

He finished and looked at the sleeping figure of Xenia and asked, “What was her mistake? She is just nine months old and she doesn’t have a mother.”

“Will my daughter be like this forever?”, he asked, looking into my eyes and I had no words.

Seeing him in this condition broke my heart so badly.

His maid Xenia lay on the bed and asked, looking at her, “Will she never get the love of her mother?”

“Why?”, he said, and I palmed his face in my hands and made him look into my eyes, and assured him, “Magnus, I am here. You are here.”

He was breathing heavily and I continued, “Xenia is not alone.”

“We are her family. Her parents.”, I said and he hugged me. His strong arms were crushing me but the pain he was feeling was nowhere close to mine.

“Why?”, he asked, and I rubbed his back, saying soothing words in his ears, “Magnus, please try to calm down.”

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