Chapter 88: Obsessive Conflict
Releasing a sigh as though he was starting to feel suffocated by the tension crowding the dining room, he finally looked down at the woman who was currently blocking his path, stopping him from walking away and avoiding her presence.
"That woman you’re referring to is my wife." He clarified bluntly, not giving a damn about the lady who was currently devastated before him. "And I don’t seem to understand what you mean by hurting you intentionally, when have I ever done that?"
"You were supposed to marry me!" Catherine blurted out, stunned by his audacity to play dumb as to what she was visibly referring to. "You knew the arrangements had been made, you knew how much I loved you, but you got married to that..... to that thing!" Catherine couldn’t hide her disgust as her eyes followed the path Madeline had taken, and that’s when Cassian stepped closer, forcing the young lady to meet his Amber-brown eyes that flashed with silent fury, one he wouldn’t wish she invoked out of him.
"Call my wife a thing and I will not be held responsible for what happens to you." The air instantly went chilly as Cassian’s gaze visibly darkened at her remark, sending fear trickling down her spine. "You speak of pain when I haven’t even started with you. To be honest I’m not jobless enough to impact silly pains on anyone, so whatever terrible feelings you’ve got you inflicted on yourself."
He snapped his fingers at her face, startling Catherine as she took a step back. "This is not some fatuous fairy-tale, I’m only holding myself back because of the friendship I have with your brother, else you would hate me for what I planned on doing to you, this will be the last time you disrespect my wife in front of me, do you get that??"
"Cassian." Her voice immediately turned weak after taking notice that she had angered the young lad, and she looked at him with pitiful teary eyes. "Believe me I have tried to get over you, I did everything I could but I just....I just couldn’t and you know this." She confessed. "I was heartbroken when I figured you got married, you didn’t think about the embarrassment it would leave on my name, but...but why that girl?"
Catherine had tried her possible best to see what was so different about that lady, was it beauty? Was it her shape? Was it her attitude? Catherine couldn’t tell how she lacked all these qualities. She’s always loved Cassian right from her tender age even when he didn’t bat an eye in her direction.
She had always treated him right and respected him even when he never took interest in her, while she hoped silently in her mind that in the future, he would take notice of her feelings and reciprocate them in return.
When Cas and her brother became close, she thought it would be her opportunity to seize Cassian for herself while she still had the chance, to the point she privately met the Duke so he could assist her win over Cassian, and everything would have gone fine if he hadn’t met that woman who snatched him away before she could.