Chapter 7: Painful Past

“Rose, do you understand what all this means? You seem too indifferent to this whole situation.”

In Caritas’s speech, Lucas realized too, Rose seemed too indifferent. Knowing about all the things he said would normally make people too shocked, and many points would be raised. The biggest of them, Lucas realized from the start that Rose didn’t even touch.

“Do you know what it means to Lucas to be the Primordial God of Love Candidate? He cannot love you, and only you. You understand this?”

Rose nodded slowly, she looked a little confused.

“And you can’t love any other man romantically anymore, as that will bring pain to Lucas. Do you understand that too?”

Rose nodded slowly again, this time she seemed to have dropped the penny as she became thoughtful.

“To be the wife of the Primordial God of Love, you must love him with all your heart and have complete trust in him. Trust that he will continue to love you, no matter how many other people he loves, or how much time passes.”

“I’ll assure you beforehand: Lucas has passed the test, which means that he has the ability to love more than one woman, and his feelings are powerful and lasting, which means that if he loves a woman, he will love her for life and with all his heart, no matter if the feeling is mutual or not.”

Rising off Lucas, Rose sat on the edge of the bed as she listened quietly.

“In the future, Lucas will meet other women, you will not be the only one in his life. Maybe if he hadn’t gone through that door, you two could have had a future together on your own, and Lucas himself fought a lot during the tests.”

“He didn’t want to be polygamous, but the tests eventually changed his mind, and he has no limit now. It is important, however, to know how to manage this, as not every woman can bear to share her man.”

“I know you can do it, as you have successfully completed the marriage contract.”

“Marriage contract? What is it?”

Rose asked, something caught her eye. This did not look like a normal marriage contract.

“You are sharp. This marriage contract is not as simple as it sounds. The truth is that it will depend on Lucas’s abilities if in the future he will be able to conclude more contracts like this.”

“There are requirements to marry the Primordial God of Love. Even though Lucas is still just a Candidate, the requirements are the same.”

“There are several different requirements, and the contract judges those requirements. If the person has completed all the requirements, the marriage is approved.”

“Which leads me to congratulate you: You have been able to fulfill all the harsh requirements to become a wife of the Primordial God of Love. If you can finish some more, you might even become the Chief Wife, I’m rooting for you.”

“What requirements are these?”

“I can’t talk, which makes everything harder for Lucas. He needs his women to meet very high requirements, which he does not even know, to marry his women. Again, I compliment you, you fulfilled them all, and so quickly, that even I was surprised.”

“Although I can’t talk about everyone, I can list a few, and one of them is what I said before: the wife of the Primordial God of Love needs to be able to share him. Which means you have this ability. Honestly, I don’t know how you met this requirement, as it usually takes a whole process. It is not as if the marriage contract were omniscient, and could see the future to know if the person met the requirement. It is important for the person himself to recognize this. But ever since Lucas walked out that door, so far, you’ve never said anything like ‘I know you’ll have other women, I don’t care’ or ‘I agree to marry even though I’ll have to share’ or ‘I’ll learn to share you. ‘“

“The fact that you still met that requirement ... I can only think of one thing: You were ready for that, right?”

Rose fell silent at the question, and lay back on the bed, showing her naked body for Lucas to see as much as he wanted.

“In fact, I was ready for that.”

Caritas seemed pleased to learn that her theory was right, and she approached, hoping to hear the reasons. Lucas, who was silent listening to all the conversation so far, asked.

“What do you mean? You know I was always someone monogamous. My dream was to marry a beautiful, kind woman, have children, and grow old with her ... Not that I could do that, thanks to the drugs. Now, i have a life span of three hundred years.”

“Now that you really won’t make it.”

Lucas smiled bitterly as he listened to Caritas’s words. Rose, however, answered.

“Yes, I know, but it’s your mother ... She told me years ago that you wouldn’t be a one-woman man.”

“Just because of that, were you prepared for me to have other women?”

“No, there’s another reason: I always had that thought, you know? If one day I became romantically involved with you, I would just be your lover, and never have thoughts of dating and marriage.”

“Why?”

Rose was silent as she listened to the question. She seemed a little uncomfortable talking about it, but as she was his was now, Lucas decided to push her a little, she can’t just stop talking about something that seemed so important.

“Well ... Lucas, maybe you don’t understand what you means to me, so I’ll talk it straight out.”

“You’re the most important thing to me.”

Lucas was silent, confused by her words, but Caritas answered.

“Lucas, one of the requirements, remember? To love the Primordial God of Love under all things.”

He suddenly remembered that actually had such a requirement. Although Caritas may not have cited all the requirements needed to marry the Primordial God of Love, she had still spoken the main requirements beforehand.

“You may not understand what that means. Lucas, she means you are her world.”

Startled, Lucas looked at Rose. He still didn’t quite understand what that meant, but realized it wasn’t that simple. I’m her world? This is very extreme.

“To explain that, I would have to explain about my past, it will be a little long, can you hear?”

Lucas nodded, he always wanted to know about Rose’s past, but she never said much.

“Before your mother caught me at nine, I had some very painful times. My memories of that time today are pretty confusing, but the trauma is still fresh.”

“Do you know the difference between a professional killer and a serial killer, Lucas?”

“The purpose. Professional killers kill to make money. Serial killers mostly kill for fun or compulsion.”

“Yes, professional killers don’t kill for killing, they kill for money. So if there’s no reason, they don’t kill people. But serial killers kill for fun, or even for no reason, simply for the sake of it. Most of them are psychopaths.”

“I’m saying that, Lucas, because my mom and dad were serial killers.”

“A couple of serial killers?”

“Yes, they were really sick, completely sick. My memories of that time are confusing since it was over thirty years, but some of them are clear to this day.”

“My parents were psychopaths. They met at the university. At the time, they already were serial killers, and one day, the target of the two coincided:. A couple of lovers.”

“Serial killers are usually methodical, so while they kill for fun, they do everything according to their created methods. For example, there are serial killers who only kill virgin women, or handsome men. There are several reasons why they choose their targets, and they are usually for unhealthy reasons.”

“They also murder in different ways. Some simply kill, others torture, or rape befor ... There are several patterns, and they always follow those patterns, because psychopaths are organized, methodical, and perfectionist in nature. My parents were the same.”

“Even the reason for killing was the same: they killed couples, as they were jealous of happy couples. The method they used was similar too: Behind the scenes, they used various methods to make the couple fight, to prove that they really didn’t love each other. The two met while investigating the couple, and after many twists and turns, they started dating, and in the end they got married and had me.”

“My life in a family of serial killer psychopaths? It wasn’t pretty at all. My mother beat me too, sometimes almost killing me, and my father seemed not to care about my existence. My mother gave me a lot of attention, controlling me completely, and my father just didn’t care.”

“I followed my life like this, and for years I was beaten by my mother, she hated me. My father seemed to worry too much about other women and his murders. He cheated on her often, and though outside my mother didn’t seem to care, from the memories I have of when she hit me, she seemed to vent her hatred on me.”

“It wasn’t a pleasant life, but I could handle it somehow.”

“Everything changed, however, in one night. At the time, I was eight, a few months before being taken by Katia. That night I discovered something I didn’t know before.”

“I knew my parents were sick and murderers. At home, there was a basement, and I often heard noises coming from there. My father and mother often get out of there bloody. The number of times I saw them killing people, carrying bodies, torturing ... Not a few. I also had to learn to clean blood off the floor, walls, and dissolve bodies with chemicals.”