Resurrection of The Destroyer

Apologize

Cedric clenched his fists, it would be a lie if he didn’t feel suffocated seeing Edith who looked so frustrated and desperate. But in the end the man only said weakly, “Edith, knowing a lot of things is not good for you. I just don’t want anything to happen to you in the future.”

Hearing that, Edith became even angrier, the woman roughly sat down on her study chair and started crying. Her pale face now looked so pitiful. Even the dark eye bags could no longer be hidden. “Cedric, do you know the rumors that are circulating right now?” Edith didn’t give Cedric a chance to answer. The woman laughed wildly before continuing her sentence. “They say that you used my money to raise a mistress. Oh, I’m so stupid.”

Edith had always been calm, she always ignored every rumor that was widely circulated. But this rumor really made her almost die of anger. Edith never minded how people laughed at her for being too obedient to the elders of the Ortega family.

But she would not accept it if a disabled man who was her husband always spent the money she earned with great difficulty to raise a mistress. It was very annoying and had already lowered Edith’s dignity as a woman.

“Edith, my wife—“

“Cedric, I have tried to treat you very well. My career is ruined and everything I have achieved has been taken away. But I never blamed you one bit. Cedric, why did you do this to me?” Edith covered her face, her voice sounded hoarse and sad. “Why do you treat me like a fool, Cedric?”

Cedric tried to approach again. He was very sad to see how Edith, who was usually so firm and independent, had turned into such a mess like now. “I’m sorry Edith.”

“Sorry, sorry, and sorry. That’s all you can say!” Edith exploded again. The woman threw all the things on her desk, venting all the anger she felt right now. “I don’t need your apology, Cedric. I don’t need all of that.”

“When the time is right, I will explain everything to you, Edith.” Cedric finally spoke again.

Edith shook her head quickly. “No. I can’t wait until then. It’s better for us to separate, Cedric. It’s better than having to bear the shame like a fool because of that rumor. You even treat me as stupid as the people out there.” The woman wiped her face roughly, her laughter coming out again. A sad, pathetic laugh.

Cedric moved again, the creaking sound of the wheelchair even made Edith sick over time. The man reached out his hand again and again, but the result was always the same, his wife refused him, brushed aside the outstretched hand without feeling. “Edith, please don’t be like this.”

“You forced me to be like this!” Edith raised her voice again in anger. She sobbed again. “I just hope you respect me, Cedric. This poverty is a marriage forced by my grandmother.”

“I always try to respect you, Edith.”

“No, you never did.” Edith snorted loudly. She shook her head weakly. “I’m tired enough with everything, Cedric. Everything I’ve achieved is now gone, taken by those bastards. And it’s so hard for me to start my career again. Everything is so hard for me and why are you making it even harder?”

“I’m sorry Edith, I didn’t mean to do it. I just hope you can live well,” replied Cedric. He kept muttering the word sorry, over and over until Edith even shouted in annoyance, asking her husband to shut his mouth.

The man tried once again to grab Edith’s arm but like what happened before, the woman immediately pushed Cedric’s hand away roughly. “You don’t deserve to be my husband, Cedric.”

“What?” Cedric was silent, he looked at Edith who was still panting.

“You can only depend on me, you don’t deserve me.” Edith said again softly. “You even use my money to raise a mistress. Cedric why did you do that when you still depend on me?”

“Edith, I’m not like that,” Cedric replied softly. “Please believe me.”

Edith shook her head, the woman laughed in frustration. Edith Ortega who looked so tough now really looked very sad and chaotic. “I want a hero that I can always rely on. Cedric, I also want to depend on someone. I want someone who can grant all my wishes, someone who can help me in every situation.”

Cedric did not answer, he let his wife pour out all the complaints she had had so far. The man only moved a little closer through the wheelchair he was sitting on.

Edith then laughed softly. She was still wiping her tears that for some reason continued to flow, not intending to stop. She even ignored her husband who looked at her with a sympathetic look. Edith hated that kind of look. “Cedric, do you know? I have the love of my life.”

“Who is he?” asked Cedric in a low voice. He stared at Edith closely as the woman moved to reach into her clothes pocket and took out a beautiful oval-shaped silver pendant. The pendant looked well-maintained, very shiny under the dim light of the study lamp.

Edith smiled, caressing the pendant with affection. “He was a hero. I saw him a long time ago. Maybe more than three years ago. He saved me on the battlefield at that time.”

The woman smiled between her heartbreaking tears. She continued, “He was the person I loved, Cedric. He gave me this pendant, and he also had a partner for this pendant. He was my hero.”

Edith still remembered it so clearly. The memory continued to be imprinted in her brain, shadowing her, strengthening her to be able to continue to survive. The figure was tall, with a face covered in dirt, whether it was dust or blood. In the middle of the turbulent battlefield, the man stood proudly, protecting his country. Edith still remembered how the man held out the pendant to her, asking Edith to keep it.

How is he now? Is he okay? The war had long ended but Edith had never been able to find any information about the man again. Even when Edith finally gave up on everything, she still hadn't found the man. As if everything she had ever experienced was just a dream in the middle of her fever.

Edith looked up, she looked at Cedric with a flat gaze, very different from the gentle gaze when looking at the pendant. It was enough to prove how the woman felt. “I can’t love you Cedric, he is my love. I will never love you. Not because you are disabled or useless, it’s because I already have someone I love.”

Cedric stared at the pendant for a while. No wonder he felt familiar seeing the object. The pendant was an object he gave to a girl he saved on the battlefield.

At that time, the battlefield was in a very hot situation. Cedric who was busy beating back the enemy troops accidentally saw an injured girl. He immediately stepped closer, helping the woman go to his troop camp to be treated.

The woman looked very weak and scared. Cedric had never comforted a woman and he was very clumsy at that time. So, the man took out a pendant from under his clothes, gave the object to the woman to comfort her. Saying that the pendant was a paired pendant.

Years had passed and Cedric did not expect that the girl was Edith. But what did Edith do on the battlefield?

Cedric then pondered where his pendant, Edith’s partner, was. It seemed like it had fallen when he was ambushed by the enemy last time. Its whereabouts could no longer be found.