Sir Ares, Goodnight novel (Jay Ares and Rose)
Chapter 919

Zayne stared uneasily at the clock on the wall.

Josephine sat on the bed, her hands tied behind her back.

After the nth time of turning to look at the wall, Josephine could not help but tease him. "This is already the 99th time you've looked at the clock, Zayne. Do you want to hug it? Maybe even live the rest of your life with the clock?" 1

Zayne sat anxiously next to her.

"Josephine, what if I tell you that tonight's the night of Doomsday's and Tourmaline Estate's battle? What would you-"

Josephine's eyes widened with fear at the implications of his words. She began to yell and scream, "Let me out. I need to go."

Zayne was taken aback by her sudden outburst." Josephine, I just said maybe-"

Josephine began to struggle against the ties. "What if this maybe becomes a reality, Zayne? That means I'll never get to see my family ever again after tonight. You're taking away my last chance to say goodbye, Zayne! How could you be so merciless? You monster!"

Zayne felt his mind crack under the weight of Josephine's angry words.

"After tonight, Josephine, when morning comes tomorrow, I promise I'll untie you, okay? I promise."

Right at that moment, a thunderous echo rang from outside the windows. As if a thunder strong enough to split the sky had sounded, its vibrations left no corner of Imperial Capital untouched. Zayne and Josephine felt their eardrums about to burst.

The two shared a look.

Pulling open the curtains, Zayne looked toward the direction of Tourmaline Estate to find it engulfed by a dark fog.

Zayne muttered to himself, "Is it actually happening?"

Mustering up the force of 1,000 men, Josephine tried to break free from the rope around her wrists.

Zayne turned to see her face contorting from the effort put in her hands and the breathtaking red in the corner of her eyes. She was being driven by the pain in her heart.

"I hate you, Zayne Severe.

"I hate you."

Josephine yelled, "It's my fault for loving you.

"If you can't marry me, that's fine. But why can't you even let me fulfill this last wish of mine?

"You sure are good to me."

Zayne's breath hitched at Josephine's words.

"I'm doing this for your sake, Josephine."

Josephine yelled, "For my sake? You'd respect my wishes and help them come true if you were really doing it for me."

Zayne trembled as he walked toward Josephine, pulling her into his arms as she wailed to her heart's content.

"Please, Josephine. I'm begging you. It's just for tonight, okay? Don't cry, it'll be over soon."

Josephine's voice was laced with anger. "No. If anything happens to the Ares family after tonight, I swear, Zayne. I swear, I'll kill myself then and there." Zayne gaped in reaction to her words.

The crying, the tantrums, and the kicking had left Josephine exhausted.

Limply, she fell onto the bed and began to accuse Zayne of his sins. "You have no idea what it means to love, Zayne."

"We used to just be the eldest daughter of the Ares family and the son of a downtrodden family. You felt like you weren't enough and you wouldn't dare to accept my love, so I chased after you instead. You loved me, didn't you? So why didn't you accept my love? You just had to push a Shirley Thomas between us. You just had to burn away every lingering thought I had of you.

"Alright, you did it. There's nothing left for me to stay. All I want is to die with my family, so why do you have to stop me?

"Why do you always have to go against my heart's wishes? It hurts, more that it'd hurt to die.

"I shouldn't have loved you.

"I mean it, Zayne. I should never have loved you."

Zayne's eyes glistened with tears as he struggled to breathe. His chest was being weighed down by a boulder over his heart.

Staring at Josephine's spiritless eyes, he muttered sorrowfully, "You're right. You should never have loved me. I'm not someone who deserves the love you're willing to give."