21 - HIS GIRL

-SAGE-

" This is your room ?" Hades chuckles bouncing on my bed.

" Yeah." I smile at him as he picks up my stuffies, looking at them.

" It looks like a Disney land." he chuckles pulling me on the bed.

" What did you want say ?" he whispers stroking my cheek.

" I have to tell you something." I whisper as he chuckles.

" I'm listening."

" Hades, I'm nn-not a . . . umm . . . not a virgin." I dig my nails into my palm as tears prick into my eyes.

" Nor am I. It doesn't matter, Sage." he smiles kissing my nose.

" You don't mind ?"

I was shocked at this. His mother there was killing me with her eyes and he is so relaxed about it.

" Yeah, my heart aches to kill that b*stard who touched you but I love you more to care about that." he whispers rubbing his thumb on my bottom lip.

" I want to tell you something else." I mumble.

" Yup, I'm listening." he smiles waiting for me to say it.

Seat beads formed on my forehead as I looked into his deep chocolate brown eyes. I was scared, I'm scared that he'll leave me just like everyone else after knowing my truth but I have to do this.

" I-I wa-"

" Sage." The door bursts open as my father peeks in.

" Mr. Romano, dinner is being served. Please come." he smiles at Hades.

" We'll be down in a minute." Hades mumbles looking back at me to complete.

" We can go down, we can talk later." I whisper.

" Okay, lets go." he offers me his hand, pulling me up from the bed.

" Mr. Romano, can I have a talk with Sage, please ?" Father smiles at Hades.

Hades looks back at me, I nod at him saying yes as he walks out of the room.

" You told him didn't you ?" Father growls.

" I was going to." I whisper.

I shriek when he backhands me the next moment, I sob falling on the floor as my cheek throbs in pain.

" H-he needs to know, I can't betray him." I sob when father pulls me up by my hair.

" I'll kill you if you utter any of that to him. Trust me, I'm not joking. Or I can just, drop you off at a wh*re house so you can pay the money, he is paying to marry you. Either you forget that nightmare of yours or I'll make you live it everyday. Men will use you like a doll there and there'll be no escaping. Do you want that, Sage ?" he smirks.

My body shook as I joined my hands in front of him.

" Ple-ase no. No. Not that." I sob hugging myself.

I can't do that. I can't go through that again. I'll rather die a thousand times than being in that situation ever again.

" Good. If you don't want me to send you there where you'll be treated like a semendump, you better begin listening to me." he snaps, slapping me again.

" Now, fix yourself up and come outside." he growls buttoning up his blazer before he walks out.

I sob trying to get up but my legs felt so shaky that I ended up on the floor each time. I sobbed crawling to the bed before grabbing it for support to get up. My hands shook as I wiped my face and applied more makeup. My lips trembled as I applied lipstick on them.

" I won't say anything." I whisper to the Sage in the mirror. She looked just like me, a little prettier than me but she also had tears streaming down her cheeks and agony in her heart.

Wiping my tears again, I walk out of the room. My head spinned with my father's words as I walked into the hall, Hades was sitting there with an empty plate with a grumpy face.

" Hi." I whisper sitting beside him.

Sabrina, Elena, Jace and Elliot were also sitting on the same table, eating their dinner quietly. Hades looks at my face with a frown before he raises an eyebrow at me.

I smile at him, looking down at my plate.

" Hey baby." Shawn chirps as he sits beside me. Enrique also joins in, sitting beside Sabrina as they begin eating from the same plate.

" Come, let's eat." Shawn mumbles serving me some meat.

" No, I don't want it." I say pushing that plate towards him.

" Something else ?" he questions looking at the different dishes on the table.

" I'll just have salad." I mumble dropping the chopped lettuce and tomatoes in my plate.

" Really ? You're joking." Elliot laughs.

" Sage and salad can never go together." Shawn chuckles teasing me.

" No, I'll just have the salad today." I whisper stabbing the tomato with my fork.

My face twisted in disgust at the sour and bitter taste of the raw tomato. Eew.

" That's enough, stop this." Shawn grumbles taking the plate from me.

" Let her have it, she's getting too fat anyway." Sabrina snaps at Shawn.

" Is this what's its all about ? You're doing this to get slim ?" Hades really sounded angry this time as he glared down at the salad on my plate.

" N-no." I whisper.

" You're not fat. Eat your food." Hades mutters picking up the salad.

He dumps the salad on Sabrina's plate making her gasp loudly.

" What is this, Hades ?" She snaps.

" For making my girl believe that she isn't perfect." Hades snaps.

His girl . . .

" Don't talk to her like that." Enrique growls.

My heads snaps towards Enrique. He just speaks when Sabrina is embarrassed but he doesn't even frown when I'm beaten in front of the whole family, he doesn't care when Ethan ab*ses me, he didn't care when Mrs. Romano was throwing dirty words at me but now, just a pinch of insult towards Sabrina and he is burning in.

" Or what ?" Hades smirks at Enrique.

" I will talk to her that way. In fact, I'll say that she is an imperfect wh*re who is tired of hiding her imperfections and is jealous of my Sage being so perfect that she manipulates my girl to think that she isn't good enough." Hades smiles at Enrique.

" What're you going to do about it, Enrique?" he smirks.

" You're one big motherf*cker, Hades." Enrique growls.

" Thank you, it took me years of practice and hard work to master it." Hades winks at Enrique.

" Aye, he smooth." Elena giggles pointing at Hades.

" Enrique looks like an angry bird." Shawn whispers to me.

I giggle nodding my head when Enrique's eyes snap towards me. He glares at me in anger as I whimper looking away. I didnt want the anger of Hades to be directed towards me.

" Eat." Shawn mumbles feeding me the rice and chicken.

I eat from Shawn's hands happily, smiling up at my brother. Hades kept watching us with a smile before he also begun eating. Shawn wiped my lips after I was done, he made me drink water before planting a kiss on my forehead.

" Don't ever diet again." he whispers.

" I'm sorry." I mumble, peeking a glance at Sabrina who was playing with her food.

Enrique was doing the same but occasionally stealing glances at Hades.

" So you're f*cking Sage tonight ?" Ethan opened his mouth making Hades smile.

" Jesus, just stop it." Elliot growls banging his fist on the table.

" Ethan, control your tongue." Shawn growls.

" No, I'm actually going to love her." Hades mutters making Enrique choke on his food.

" Look Hades, I don't approve of this." Shawn mutters gripping my hand.

" She needs time, you've just met her and can't do all this especially considering Sage is very sensitive," Shawn says.

" Trust me, I won't hurt her." Hades mumbles placing his hand on Shawn’s.

" I'll break your bones if you do." Shawn chuckles.

" I won't stop you if I ever hurt her unintentionally." Hades winks at me.

I shift awkwardly in my seat looking up at Enrique to find him already staring at me. Enrique glares at me, placing his arm on Sabrina's shoulder before he pulls her into a kiss.

I whimper, immediately averting my eyes from them. It still fucking hurts.

" Hades."

Hades stands up as Mrs. Romano comes to our table.

" You and your fiance can go now and make sure if she isn't clean, she isn't stepping in my house." she snaps at him, looking at me angrily.

" Hold on madam but I don't think my sister is craving to step in your house, anyway," Shawn growls, glaring at Mrs.Romano.

" Don't you disrespect me, boy?" Mrs.Romano growls.

My father had a smile on his face as he walked up to us at the same time.

" Is there a trouble, Mrs.Romano ?" he asks sweetly.

" No, your son just has a hard time obeying my words," she mutters glancing back at us.

" I'm extremely sorry. Shawn, I'll have a talk with you after this. Sage, go with Hades now." he growls.

" N-now ?" I mumble holding Shawn's hand tightly.

" Yes, now. Go." Dad growls.

I look back at Sabrina who was smirking at me. She knows, she knows Mrs.Romano will call off this marriage tomorrow morning and that's what she wants, she wants to see me humiliated.

Enrique on the other hand was fuming in rage. He glared at me with red, teary eyes before he hid his face in the crook of Sabrina's neck.

Hades holds my hand, pulling me with him as we walk up the stairs. He guided me to my room, I sat on the bed when he closed the door and looked back at me.

" Ready?"