"H.. How could y...you love someone else after m.. making love to me?"
Never a couple of words had affected him that much, like those words of hers were affecting him. He was beyond startled.
Seraphina buried herself more in his body
"You made l...love to me that night then how can you m.. marry her?" She whispered in between her sobs against his skin.
Arzal unburied her face from his neck and looked into her teary, half-closed eyes and there he noticed she was under the intoxication of her medication because her eyes were slightly red. She even had a light fever. Now he understood why she was saying and doing those things which she would never do in her proper senses.
"Sera, is your head hurting, Princess?" He asked, placing his palm over her heated up cheeks.
She slowly shrugged her head and then held his hand. She placed his palm over her chest, where her heart was.
"It's hurting me there, very badly," More tears fell from her azure eyes.
Extreme amount of guilt washed over him, hearing and watching her because he knew he was the real reason behind her every pain. He sighed.
"It's cold here. Let's get you inside," He tried to take her up with him but she stopped him and shook her head more.
She snuggled her face in the crook of his neck.
"No, I.. I can't breathe inside the room. I want to be here, please," She stuttered because she was feeling suffocated, caged inside the 4 walls of that room. That was why she had come outside on the balcony.
He didn't protest over it further because he knew those were the symptoms of her high dosage medication. Arzal stretched his arm and pulled the duvet from the sofa.
He sat on the floor properly and then settled her comfortably on his lap. He wrapped the duvet on her from her behind and covered her with it.
He embraced her back and started sliding his palm over her head, who was snuggling her face in his neck like a little kitten.
"Why do you love her?"
He stopped, hearing her question. Seraphina pulled back her head and looked at him with her teary eyes.
"Why d.. do you love her? Nevada told me, she's not a good girl. She doesn't love you, she loves y.. your money," Like an innocent kid, she told him everything she knew.
A soft smile crept on his face at her words. She was intoxicated but yet her innocence was too pure and virtuous.
He cupped her face and then wiped the tears on her cheeks.
"Who said to you that I love her, Sera?"
Seraphina blinked innocuously, at his question and again shook her head.
"You don't love her?" She asked and he smiled. He kissed her nose bridge softly and answered.
"No, I don't love her. I can never love her,"
His answer made her eyes fill with a sudden kind of happiness.
"So can you love me?" Her innocent heart wanted to know the answer to that question.
His eyes gazed at her innocuous gaze before he answered.
"Do you want me to love you, Princess?"
Seraphina immediately nodded.
"Yes,"
A tingling sensation ruptured inside his chest, at her words.
"Will you ever love me, Sera?" He asked her because in that moment, not only just her mind but his mind had also stopped moulding the emotions inside him.
Seraphina gaped at him for a while and then again buried her face into his neck.
"I already love you more than Tinnie,"
Those tingles inside his chest bursted out at her words. He pecked her head and hugged her.
"Do you promise to love me forever, Princess?"
Seraphina lifted her face at his question and then pecked his lips sweetly.
"I promise, forever,"
His smile widened. Nobody could guess it was that same person who felt no mercy while taking the lives of other humans but in front of that little azure eyes human, he had submitted his entire being.
"But you also promise me that you will never love someone else?" She stated, extending her palm to him.
Gladly he held her palm in his gently and kissed her forehead delicately.
"I promise I will never love someone else except you, Princess,"
Her heart felt a beautiful satisfaction at his words, which started reflecting in her eyes and in her smile. Seraphina again snuggled her face in his neck and closed her eyes.
He covered her with the duvet and then kissed her hair, while embracing her in his arms securely. No luxury or desire of this world had ever given the peace and satisfaction which he was feeling by holding her in his arms right now. For this satisfaction, he was even capable of giving up on his life.
He started patting her head while staring at the bright moon and slowly and slowly, a peaceful sleep washed over both of them and those beautiful shining stars and that gleaming moon became the witness of that unsaid feeling which started prevailing in between that obsessor and his obsession.
The first ray of the sun fell over her closed eyes. Seraphina slowly rubbed her face and felt something hard yet warm engulfing her. She unlatched her lashes and the first thing which caught her eyes was his alluring sleeping face.
Seraphina blinked to make sure if she was dreaming but no, she wasn't. She lifted her face up and noticed she was on his lap. His arms were wrapped around her. She looked at her surroundings and noticed they were in the balcony but how did they end up like this? She remembered coming to the balcony but after that her memory was blurry.
What had happened between them? What did she say to him last night? These things terrified her. Seraphina immediately tried to get up from him but hissed because her burned hand got grazed against the duvet.
Arzal shot open his eyes, hearing her hissing.
"Sera, are you alright?" His worried gaze met with her. Arzal checked her burned palm by grabbing her arm gently. It was looking slightly healed than yesterday.
Seraphina noticed the extreme amount of worry in his eyes, like he genuinely cared but he didn't have to, not anymore. Seraphina freed her arm from his grip and then got up from his lap.
"You know I wasn't in my right senses. You could have tried to stop me last night?" She said, making him scoff.
Arzal stood up on his feet and uttered.
"And exactly why and for doing what? Because as far as I remember, we haven't done anything wrong, last night,"
Seraphina frowned at his reply.
"Because I was sitting and sleeping on your.. " She stopped because it was embarrassing for her to say that to him.
A smirk crept on his face at her embarrassed reaction.
"Well, I don't think so it's wrong in any way. You're always welcome to sleep and sit over me, Princess,"
Seraphina clenched her jaw at his remark.
"How shameless you're, Mr Grayson? You're going to get married and yet you're saying these things to me?"
Arzal chuckled and took a step towards her.
"Well in that case, you're as shameless as me, Miss Miller because last night, you have also said so many not so good things to me," His voice deepened.
"I wasn't on my senses, Mr Grayson so, I wasn't aware of the things I was saying to you," She retorted.
"Really? But I have heard, intoxication makes people say and do those things which are buried in their hearts and they are afraid to speak and do them in their rational senses," He countered back, still grinning.
Seraphina had nothing to say in her defence because he was right and she didn't even know what she had said to him last night.
"I don't know about the things I have said to you, last night but I apologise for them and I can assure you that those things mean nothing to me, Mr Grayson," Seraphina declared and tried to walk past him but he stopped her by standing in front of her.
"Each and every single word you have said to me, last night, you mean them with your everything, Sera," He bowed his head before her.
"Because Seraphina Miller can lie to herself but my Sera can never lie to me," He leaned to her ear.
"Whether she's in her senses or not," He pecked her ear gently.
Arzal lifted his face and looked at her angry eyes. He chuckled, how adorable she was looking.
"Don't wet your hand and be careful with it," He told her and then walked out of her room... .
"Mam, I can help you,"
"No, thank you very much. I can manage," Seraphina stated, looking at the staff girl whom Arzal had sent for her to help her in doing her morning routine.
"But mam.. "
"No, please," She denied the continuous request of the staff girl to help her in bathing because Seraphina wasn't feeling comfortable, showing her nakedness to anyone.
The staff girl sighed and just nodded.
Seraphina weakly smiled and went inside the bathroom to take her bath. She started stripping her clothes. With a lot of effort she was able to remove her shorts and top but she was having difficulty opening her bra's hook with her one hand, as she couldn't use her burned palm.
Seraphina tried for a couple of minutes but didn't succeed, so she sighed and decided to call for that staff girl, who was waiting for her outside.
"Can you please come inside? I need your help," She shouted from the bathroom.
After a minute, Seraphina heard the door of her bathroom open. Steps started getting closer to her. She was back facing the door.
"Please open this clasp," She stated, removing her hairs from her back but a shiver ran down her spine when she felt the roughness of those palms on her naked skin.
Seraphina turned around and her heart froze by watching those sinister grey eyes staring at her.