My Mistake, My Dark Adonis

"I do."

Two simple words with the meaning of commitment, agreement, "Alright I'll go for it."  A tiny little statement that even a parrot can mimic to perfection.  Just a small effort to whisper them.

But oh, the enormity of them.

I was trapped now by this simple phrase I had dared to utter, trapped in a life with no happy ending, trapped in a story where the villain won, trapped in a marriage I didn't want to be in.

Beautiful blue eyes with the intensity of the ocean amidst a storm, his slicked-back hair the color of a lion's mane, his teeth straight and perfect, his body a model, a living replica of the Greek god for beauty, a true adonis!  Oh, how his words could sweep you into a realm of fantasy that you believed in with all your heart, the slightest touch sparking the sweetest sense of romance.  One look and you would drop all defenses.

And I had, just as many other girls before me.  But unlike them I knew the secret of divine cruelness he held, the monster that lurked within his melting eyes.  He was a demon thrown into paradise, on the rampage for as many victims as he could sink his greedy claws into.

I was one of the many hopeless sheep the wolf had preyed upon.

Yet then why was I here, declaring my love and undying loyalty to such a merciless hunter?  Why was I giving up everything I had and had yet to be given to only be with him?

In the end, I believe, it was his eyes.  Those pools of liquid emotion, the raging fire that revealed only a lie of the soul he led you to believe he had.  Hm, well if I were to say it was his eyes, why not say his touch, voice, and body as well?  I was the fly perching on the lip of the Venus Fly Trap, and as I issued those words, the jaws clamped down around me and ended the future I had worked so hard to achieve.

"I do."

Oh, if only I could take back those simple words, if only I could flee the hold this Dark Adonis had over me.

If only, huh?

"I do."