Chapter 126 - More Truths Unveiled

"Do you see him in the audience?" Alex asked, looking frightful as the witch.

Alex hadn't won over Prisana for the role of Snow White but due to her dark nature, she had convinced everyone of the witch role. Truly, Alex was a spectacular witch. With a long dark purple robe and exotic dramatic makeup, Prisana didn't think a role could had been more fitting. She truly seemed like the most evil and fairest of them all.

Prisana peered over the curtains and looked out to the audience again. She scanned over unfamiliar faces. Still, no sign of her beastly husband. He promised he would be here. Dane couldn't had forgotten as she had reminded him earlier. It was unsettling watching guests shuffle in and each one of them not Dane.

She sadly shook her head, "No. B-But there's still five minutes left before the play starts."

Theo walked in and chopped her head playfully, "I'm sure he'll show up. He's a busy man, isn't he? Just give it your all and impress him when he makes it here."

Prisana nodded, taking in Theo's side character role as a peasant. He wore a drabby brown shirt ripped at the sides as his face was covered in black marks. Some other newbie had landed the role of prince as per the new student initiation of the club. And so Theo stepped out of the way to let the newbie shine.

The huntsman was now played by Elliot while Noah replaced one of the dwarves. Everyone was geared up and ready for the play, as more of the seats began to fill up with no sight of her beastly husband. Before the curtains opened, Theo pledged his hand in front of everyone. Everyone else followed in a circle by their hands joined together.

"Here's to a good performance!" Theo shouted, moments before the first scene entered with Snow White and the seven dwarves.

Her whole entire being was shaking. Then suddenly, she remembered the magic trick Dane told her. Prisana closed her eyes and began to count down from ten. Three...two...one. When she opened her eyes and sighed, she really did feel as if everything would be okay. It was amaizng how she didn't feel as nervous anymore, knowing her beast instilled some magic inside her. The first half of the performance went along smoothly.

The play followed the usual Snow White story with a few twists and turns made the acting and drama club. By the time intermission came, she forgot all about her beastly husband because the nervousness of how she was performing took over so she forgot to look at the audience. She gulped down the bottle of water and sighed as the others also began relaxing before the intermission finished.

"You all did great in the first half," Theo complimented after nearly finishing his water.

Noah shook his head in disappointment. "Well, considering sleepy just sleeps, I think I had to do great..."

Elliot pat him on the shoulder. "Relax, at least you don't have to exert yourself. I feel like I'll faint underneath all this heavy armor."

"Oh but you look just dashing in that armor Elliot!" Alex pretty much openly flirted without much shame everyone already assumed they were a couple.

Some student came running over to Prisana and interrupted their little conversation, "...Prisana! There's someone here to see you."

Could it be?

She excitedly stood from her seat and gave Alex a knowing look as the boys gave her a thumbs up. Prisana wasted no time at all in gathering her bountiful layers of skirt at her feet so she could practically dash toward him. Surely he would be impressed by her beauty as Snow White? Would he compliment her acting? Call her a goddess again? She yearned to hear compliments by him alone.

Most of all, Prisana yearned to be in his arms so she could tell him how afraid she was but that thanks to his magic, everything truly was okay. She found his frame turned from her. But as she kept walking closer to him, she realize his stature wasn't large or beastly enough like her husband's. When the man turned around, Prisana stepped back in horror.

The man she once loved turned to regard her with sad and conflicted eyes. Giovanni. He stood there with dark circles under his eyes, along with messy unkept blond hair that was usually neat and slicked properly back. He wasn't even dressed formally as he used to but in regular shirt and worn out looking jeans. Flashback of when he forced her onto the ground surfaced in her mind, of when he tried to hurt her physically.

"...Giovanni...Why...Leave!"

Prisana immediately turned around but he was too fast and strong for her as he wrapped her in his arms from behind. She took a deep breath of disgust knowing it was him holding her. All the while, she was hitting him and struggling like mad with no progress in escaping. She wanted to scream but the whole audience would be able to hear.

"Let go of me!" she roughly shouted this and bit his arm hard like a wild lynx.

He cursed but still held onto her, dragging her further away from the stage and toward the exit door. "You're coming with me. We need to talk."

"I hate you. I want nothing to do with you," she spit vemon in his face without remorse watching him shrink away from her.

"Listen to me...It's about your mother."

Prisana blinked at him. Every resistant bone in her body stalled when she heard her mother's name. She stopped resisting him and looked desperately into his eyes. "W-What? My mother...What about my mother?"

"Come with me and I'll tell you everything," he kept trying to drag her but she finally managed to kick and push him away.

She had to quickly run and check the audience from behind the curtains and still, there was no sign of her beastly husband to help save her from this ordeal. A deep breath was all she needed while Giovanni persisted. Prisana had to be her own lynx in shining armor.

They'd be worried...Yet surely the crew would at least understand that something about Giovanni's expression and the way he was approaching her mother made her angsty to get to the bottom of things. Giovanni was a cheat and a liar. She shouldn't trust him but call it a gut feeling, something told her to leave, confront him, and finally end things once and for all.

"Don't touch me and stay far from me. I'll walk myself!" and then she stormed past him while looking back regretfully at everything she was walking away from.

Once they were outside where no one could hear them, she swiveled around to meet his gaze, "What about my mother?"

"Prisana," he breathed slowly. "I'm sick because I'm still in love with you...W-We're half siblings."

Half siblings? She slowly repeated his words, staggering back a little. Surely this all had to be a terible joke or plot of his. And then she just laughed like a mad woman who didn't believe a single word he was saying.

"Stop lying...No, I don't believe you!"

Giovanni grabbed her shoulders and shook her, "Listen to me damn it, the reason I forced myself to love other women instead of you is because we're half siblings. Our mother ran from the senator after she had you and then she found my father. It's all a big shit show! Look, I'm sorry for the things I've done and even with Erica. I hated the senator for treating our mother cruelly and I hated you for not knowing the situation or that I was hurting. I wanted you to feel my pain and yet, I loved you still. Prisana, I'm so sorry. Sorry...sorry...sorry..."

"...Why tell me this now?"

"Because you deserve to know and to make up for my wrongdoings, I wanted to warn you that the man you claim to love...Dane, he's in danger."

"Enough!"

She stepped away from him, away from lies or truths she couldn't decipher. Prisana kept backing away from him as he crumbled onto the ground. Her heart felt like it would beat right out of her chest. Everything felt so sick and twisted, it was beginning to warp her version of reality she thought she knew. Most of all, she really did feel something bubble in her chest to the point of throwing up.

Prisana took a deep breath and then walked back to Giovanni despite still going mad knowing this man she used to love was actually related to her.

She clutched him by the shirt and practically shook, "Did you say my husband was in danger? Tell me everything you know."