His Incurable Omega novel Chapter 24

"You let her go," Gavin whispered, voicing his thoughts.

The Prince was back in control of his emotions. His stare once again blank.

"She would not have wanted me," he whispered.

"August," Gavin hissed but was surprised when the Prince cut him off, standing in front of him. The Prince did not like talking. Did not like expression any emotion to anyone. Gavin knew in the world the Prince lived in, showing your emotions would make you weak. But the Prince spoke voluntarily.

"I keep so much inside me.

I grasp my anger...my loneliness and hold it in my chest. It has changed me into something I never meant to be. It has transformed me into a person I do not recognize Gavin," the prince paused and looked at Gavin with such suffering in his eyes, "But I don't know how to let it go."

Gavin's eyes suddenly opened. With the Prince's words, he saw him in a new light. In the light that the Prince should have been seen in but that no one noticed. A silent suffering man.

"She ran away," The Prince closed his anguished eyes. "Eventually, in the end, they all run away."

You spent so long

wondering

and asking

"How can anyone love me?"

and you counted your flaws

but didn't have any fingers left

for strengths

and when someone finally

said they loved you

all you could ask

was "Why?"

instead of telling them

that you loved then, too.

- AKR

The sound of water pounding on flesh could be heard from the next room.

Lizzy and Jane sat quietly together, for once the pair silent and lost in thought.

The silence was broken however by Jane's quick movement up from the bed.

"We need to help her," Jane said.

Lizzy blinked her eyes owlishly at her, trying to regain focus on reality. She had been so lost in thoughts of the past.

"How?" Lizzy whispered. She seemed to have curled up into herself, with eyes that were far away from the problem at hand. Jane knew what she was thinking of, and quickly gave Lizzy's shoulder a shake.

"We are focusing on Fayette right now Lizzy. Focus."

Lizzy nodded and her eyes cleared up. Whatever train of thought she was traveling, quickly abandoned her as she got up from the coach and followed Jane to the bathroom door.

"It's my fault," Lizzy whispered, as both girls leaned their heads in to hear better what was going on. "I told her to dance. To have fun. And now this happened."

Jane shuffled closer to Lizzy and rubbed their shoulders together. "Fayette is in charge of the choices she chooses to make."

Her chest hurt.

And her heart wouldn't stop its stuttering pound rhythm.

And his name.

Ringing over and over within her head.

Alto. Alto. Alto. Alto. Alto. Alto.

"I met him," Fayette said.

The girls waited knowing she would say more.

"And then I ran away."

They both closed their eyes at the same time.

"Why?" Lizzy whispered out in a voice full of pain. "You found your life mate. You found what so many people are looking for Fayette. And you ran away from it."

"He...He..." Fayette tried to grasp her feelings and reasons. "He wanted me to be a Princess. He...the way he looked at me...I don't think...I couldn't...no one has ever..."

A single tear made its way down Fayette's face.

Lizzy and Jane watched it run down, not moving to stop it.

"I can't be what he sees," was all she whispered, before closing her eyes and hanging her head.

Lizzy and Jane said nothing. They had to get back to the light show and complete their job. All the while Fayette sank into her own darkness further and further.

The ceremony finally came to an end, and the King and Queen moved from their balcony to the door to wish people well as they left.