She said Yes

The room felt smaller now.

The petals on the floor looked trampled, wilted—like something beautiful that had overstayed its truth. Nuria stood in the center of it all, tears slipping down her cheeks unchecked, her chest aching with a pain she didn’t have words for.

Adrian stepped closer. His voice softened, deliberately so.

“Let’s try again, baby,” he said, as if nothing had shattered minutes ago. As if fear hadn’t been introduced like a lesson. “This time, your answer will be different.”

Her body tensed at the word again.

Sebastian moved to her other side, close enough that she could feel his warmth, his calm presence pressing in around her like a boundary she couldn’t cross.

They lowered themselves onto their knees.

Again.

The rings caught the light—perfect, polished, waiting.

“Nuria,” Sebastian said gently, like he was afraid to scare her. “We love you. Say yes.”

Her vision blurred.

She stared at the rings, her hands trembling at her sides. Her mind screamed to run, but her body stood frozen, trapped between fear and disbelief.

This couldn’t be real.

These were the boys who had walked her home from school. Who had celebrated her birthdays. Who had promised—promised—to always protect her.

“How long?” she whispered hoarsely. “How long have you been like this?”

Neither answered.

That was answer enough.

Her sob broke free then—raw and unstoppable. She lifted her hands to her face, shaking her head as if denial might rewind time.

“I don’t understand,” she cried. “You were my safe place.”

Adrian rose just enough to reach her, his fingers wrapping around her wrists—firm, grounding.

“We still are,” he said calmly. “You’re just scared.”

Sebastian looked up at her, eyes steady, patient.

“Say yes,” he repeated. “And this all stops.”

Her heart cracked.

Slowly—mechanically—Nuria nodded.

“Yes,” she whispered.

The word tasted like ash.

They stood immediately.

Adrian slid the ring onto her ring finger with careful precision, his touch reverent, possessive. Sebastian followed, his ring joining the first—different, but just as permanent. Then both rings joined and make a single diamond ring which has a butterfly in the center.

“There,” Sebastian murmured softly. “See? That wasn’t so hard.”

Nuria’s sobs grew quieter, emptier—like something inside her had gone numb.

Adrian cupped her face, wiping away her tears with his thumb. “Don’t cry,” he said. “We don’t like seeing you like this.”

Sebastian pulled her into his chest, one hand smoothing down her hair, rhythmic and soothing. “You’re safe now,” he whispered. “With us.” Adrian also hugged her from behind and hold her waist.possessively. She was feeling like she is trapped between them.

She didn’t respond.

Her eyes stared somewhere past them, unfocused.

She couldn’t understand how trust had turned into this. How love had learned the language of fear. How long they had been watching her—planning her—deciding for her.

The rings felt heavy.

Too heavy.

And as they held her between them—one steady, one warm—Nuria realized something terrifying:

She wasn’t crying because she said yes.

She was crying because she knew—

She would never be able to take it back. And she would never be run away from them as they know her whole world.

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