Threatened

Adrian Pov:

She looked breakable.

That was what unsettled me.

Nuria stood between us like someone who still believed the ground beneath her feet was solid. Her eyes searched our faces—not for mercy, but for familiarity. For the boys she had known since school.

She still doesn’t understand, this makes me smirk that how innocent our butterfly is.

How could she? She had never needed to understand danger. We always removed it before it reached her. Redirected it. Silenced it. Controlled it.

And now she wanted to leave.

The idea made something dark coil in my chest. Leave us? To where? Some other man, who would come in her life and can love her. But she don't know that no man is allowed to look at her and we both have to make sure that no one can and she doesn't need to know that. Sebastian and I are the only men she is allowed to see, cry, smile and love. And I will make sure that this will happen.

And her idea of leaving us? After everything we had done to keep her untouched by the world?

“She thinks she has a way out,” I said quietly, almost thoughtfully.

Sebastian didn’t answer immediately.

He was watching Nuria too.

Sebastian Pov:

She was shaking, but she was still standing.

That was courage—misplaced, naive courage.

I always admired that about her. The way she believed, people meant what they said. The way she trusted love to be kind.

Such a small mind, I thought—not cruelly, but with something close to affection.

So innocent, it hurts her. We need to keep our butterfly protected from this cruel world, so that no one can harm her or even see how beautiful she is, because she is an angle made for only us two devils, who will never let any eye look her, touching is the next to impossible.

“She needs to be scared,” I said calmly to Adrian “Not hurt. Just… aware.”

Adrian nodded once.

I reached into my pocket. Let's scare our butterfly a little bit, so the thought of leaving us left her little mind.

The Moment Everything Broke

The click of the phone unlocking was quiet—but Nuria heard it.

Her body stiffened instantly.

“What are you doing?” she asked, voice unsteady.

Sebastian stepped forward and turned the screen toward her.

Just enough so she can look what is playing in the video.

Her world collapsed.

The color drained from her face so fast it frightened even her. Her lips parted, but no sound came out. Her knees buckled, and she barely managed to catch herself against the wall.

“No,” she whispered. “No… that’s not—”

Her breath shattered. In the phone, there was a video where she was changing her clothes when she had stayed into their apartment for the night in the Sebastian room. She was wearing her undergarments, but still this was too much obscene for her to watch.

But it was hers.

A private moment she had never known was being watched.

She tried to reach to the phone, but Sebastian pulled the phone above so her hand didn't reach it.

Her chest convulsed as sobs tore out of her uncontrollably. She slid down the wall, curling into herself, hands clawing at her arms like she could erase what she had just seen.

“I trusted you,” she cried. “I trusted you both.”

Her voice cracked completely.

“You were my best friends. You promised to protect me. How could you do this to me? How can you record such a video? You both are a bad person, I was wrong about you.”

Her breakdown filled the apartment—raw, broken, real.

Adrian Pov:

I watched her cry with clenched fists.

It wasn’t satisfaction, It was frustration.

Why does she need to break before she understands?

We had never planned to use it. Never planned to let her see this video. But she needs to understand that she can't refuse our proposal when we handle everything in her life.

She is mine.

Our's.

Not the world’s.

But fear was a language she would understand.

We both watched her for a few minutes to let her cry and understand that there is no way she can go away from us.

The Threat

After some time when her cries slow down Sebastian crouched in front of her slowly, his movements careful, controlled.

“We would never hurt you,” he said softly.

Nuria laughed weakly through her tears. “You already did.”

He didn’t deny it.

“If you accept our proposal,” Adrian said from behind her, voice steady and cold, “this stays with us.”

She looked up sharply. “And if I don’t?”

Sebastian answered gently.

“Then it doesn’t.”

Her breath hitched violently.

“You mean—”

“University,” Sebastian continued calmly. “Social media. Family. Everywhere.”

Sebastien said,"baby we don't want to, but you need to understand you left us no choice."

She let out a broken sound, shaking her head in disbelief.

“You wouldn’t,” she whispered. “You care about me.”

Adrian stepped closer.

“We care more than you do,” he said.

And that was the truth.

They would never release it. Never let anyone else touch or watch what belonged to them.

But she didn’t need to know that. They will never release this video as they care about her more than she itself do. But she doesn't need to know. She needs to fear them, so she knows never to go against them or refuse them again.

Fear would keep her still.

Fear would keep her safe—with them.

Sebastian Pov

She was staring at us now—not as friends.

But as strangers. This hurts me, but it was important to teach her this lesson.

And finally—finally—she was beginning to understand.

“This isn’t a proposal,” Sebastian said quietly. “It never was.”

Nuria’s voice trembled. “Then what is it?”

Adrian’s gaze never wavered.

“A future,” he said. “With us.”

She realized it then.

They hadn’t asked for her answer.