Chapter 138

ALEISTER

I couldn’t say anything to her after what she said to me.

There is light in you, Aleister. It’s beautiful and I love it.

Her words kept echoing in my ears as I held her throughout the night. She didn’t push me to continue, and didn’t say anything as her fingers ran through my hair, her eyes soft on me.

After a tiring while, she fell asleep and her body relaxed in my arms. But I couldn’t even blink.

I had told her that I murdered so many people—my brother, my father, the woman I thought I loved. And she still slept so peacefully in my arms as if she was not scared of me at all.

It’s true. She will never stop surprising me. When I think she won’t be angry, she becomes a ball of fury and when I think she will be angry at me for keeping things from her, she tells me that I am beautiful instead.

I can’t understand her. So, I admire her. I love her. I respect her. And soon, I will make her my Queen if she will have me.

If…

That word scares me.

The doubt about her is killing me. I d