~Third person's POV~
"And the groom enters," the microphone announces with a loud sound and all of the people they keep on staring at the entrance door to watch the groom.
There are all the members of the political parties that Xavier's new dad belong to and the business partners of his mom exactly like on Zara's birthday party.The faces of the guest are quite similar as they are the only important persons in their eyes.
It's been quite a minute that they have been looking at the door but there seems no entrance of groom at all.
And when he doesn't appear in time, there starts a gossip among the guest.
The groom might have ran away!
He might have hated this marriage or he might have hated the bride more. She isn't of the class, you see!
He might have ran away, I heard that her son is quite out of the mind. His instruments in head doesn't work.
Or maybe he hates his own mom!
These are some of the rumours that have b
~Zara Todd's POV~"So, Mr. Xavier Dawson! Will you take miss Zara Todd as your lawfully wedded wife and help her doing all the things for her and never leaving her hands in worries and in anxiety and always be together with her on every steps of her life. Can you do this?"While the pastor is saying this, I can see Xavier walking few steps back. I am just afraid right now. I don't know what's happening to me but I am just so scared that he might leave me alone in this and leave me ashamed right in front of everyone.It's not a new thing for a guy like him to do things like that.God damn! Xavier please don't do something stupid like this. Please not right now. I am going to tolerate all of your stupid scolds but please I don't want to get ashamed in front of so many people.I am literally praying to God clutching the bouquet I'm holding in my hands so firmly with my eyes closed.I can't take this same and I can't just
~Zara Todd's POV~What the hell did happened just now? Did he just kissed me one more time?You're not a fool, Zara. Of course he kissed me right now.My whole body goes numb and weak on my knees and I feel like I can't hold my body anymore.Trust me, if he wasn't holding me on my waist, people would be discerning me, how easily I am being melted with his actions. I would be the laughing stock in front of all of them.He parts our lips but my eyes are still closed and his face is just some centimetres away from me. I can feel his hot breaths against my skin and his another hand still behind my head."Open your eyes, Zara. You love Asher don't you?" he asks.My eyes shut open all of a sudden. What did he say just now? Did he take Asher's name right now?I couldn't help but stare back at his eyes which are quite mad right now."I am never letting Asher to win over me. I have to win and Asher will never ha
~ Zara Todd's POV~"You're doing it wrong. No wonder you are a fool," my breath hitches when I hear the sound and my body freezes all of a sudden.He called me a fool! God damn what's wrong with his common sense? Sometimes he calls me lazy bones while I am not and sometimes he calls me a fool which is absolutely not me."Why are you here? What took you over here? This is my room," I say as I stand up quick from my seat and turn to him all of a sudden but this damn gown doesn't allow me to turn to him as per I expected.What a scene spoiler is this gown?"Your room? This one?" he looks around the places and then plops on the couch and rests his head over his hands."All of this place is my house and I can go anywhere and everywhere I want to. You're not going to tell me where I should and I shouldn't go," he rudeness extends more with his arrogant remarks.I know it's not my house and it's his and that doesn't mean that he has to
~Zara Todd's POV~"Ashh...," I rush towards him and jump into his hug. I don't know but I suddenly feel like I am relieved and someone really an angelic person came to save me."Zara! What happened? Where's Xavier?" he shouts all of a sudden and I cry out with all the pains and fears in my heart."Ashh...," I just couldn't say anything to him but instead I could only cry my heart out."Stop it! Now! It's already a dramatic over this place and I don't want this thing to be more out of hand right now. Go back to your room and take rest," mother tells me and I quickly get out of Asher's embrace and walk towards my room.Somewhere in my heart, I still know that Xavier might be there and I just don't want yo go to place where he goes.Then I rush back to mother."Mom please, I don't want to go over there. Xavier might be there," I get scared all of a sudden and she tells me that he isn't there anymore and I can rest assured over ther
~Zara Todd's POV~Two billion dollars!God damn! It's not even thousand, it's two billion dollars!I just don't understand why did she pay two billion dollars to my relatives? What is so special in me?I just don't get it."Why? Why did you pay two billion dollars for me? What's so special in me that you paid two billion dollars for me?" I ask.She doesn't speak for a while and she stands up all of a sudden."I don't think I should answer all of your questions. Some questions should always be unanswered," she says."If you want a divorce then you have to pat back all the two billion dollars of mine including your tuition free and your luxurious treatment over here. You have to pay for everything that you enjoyed all this time," she says.That's impossible. She has kept forward something which is completely impossible for a poor eighteen year old girl to fulfill and I know she intentionally did this.
~Zara Todd's POV~He locks my room's door as we enter inside and presses me against the back of the door and stares at my face."You must be quite sad that the person you like must see you everyday with the different man every night. The pain in your face and the anxiety in his face gives me so much of happiness," he says as he punches his hands on the door above my head and walk towards the bed.He plops down in the bed with his shoes on and if I tell him about it, I know he is surely going to tell me that it's his house and this room is part of it. So, I should better not tell him anything."Don't tell me you are really going to stay over here from now on?" he opens his eyes and gets up and then looks at me in a weird way."Do you think I am so much interested that I would tolerate staying with you in a same room? I can't tolerate you and I can't tolerate that bastard. So, I will stay here until that bastard sleeps and I will get away from here w
~Zara Todd's POV~My eyes opens wide as he says that. Asher has randomly making jokes about me and my life lots of times that it's quite impossible for me to realise whether he is lying or whether he is just telling the truth."Ash...," I want to say something but he holds my my hands in front of Xavier and looks with those pitiful eyes."I am not lying Zara. It's the truth. If you weren't forced to marry this monster, I would have just married you," Asher says and like always he seems to be so much serious right now.Now this is getting too much. I mean he is making lots of jokes and this is quite extreme now."Don't make so much joke Asher. One day you will tell a truth and I might not believe you," I say and I jerk off his hands away from mine."I'm telling...," but before he could speak, Xavier fires on."Now, it's over. Get the fuck out of this room, now. I don't want to listen any of your nonsenses," he says.
~Zara Todd's POV~"Just wait and watch!" he says. My heart trembles with fear. What's so wrong with this man?"Stop! Please, just stop your car," I shout and hold the handle that's above me.This man is for god's sake a totally crazy person!"I am nauseating. Can you please stop the car?" I shout and he stops the car.I quickly get out of the car and start to vomit out all the little of breakfast I had in the morning."Are you mad?" I shout at him."Did you know just now?" he says as he drives his car away from me leaving me alone over there.What the hell?Why did he leave me alone over here?I don't even know where in the hell is this place?I know it's better to walk alone rather than walking with him but I don't know the way at all."You came alone. You have to go alone and you have to search your way alone. You aren't giving up, Zara. You sure can't give up. Two billion dollars
Epilogue~Zara Todd's POV~I walk down the graveyard. The day, I have been fearing all this time has finally come up. I never wanted Melanie to leave my side.But what was supposed to happen will always happen. Sometimes we can't just take control of our lives. It just goes on the way we never want it to be.We all stand in front of her grave, all of the friends of our class. She has been such an amazing friend to everyone.The whole class mourns in front of her coffin and you won't believe who is mourning the most right now.Yes, it's Nathan. I can see how much hard it is for him. He has been in love with her in last one month. I never thought that the last wish of Melanie could ever be fulfilled. I thought it was im
~Zara Todd's POV~"What?" Xavier freezes at that same point."You liar! You must be lying," he shouts."Why would I lie at the edge of my death? I'm not a fool to joke with my own life," uncle mumbles and Xavier leaves his hands away from him.He becomes hopeless all of a sudden. He surely hated his mother. She never loved him. She never even cared for him.But how much we hate our parents, how much they don't care about us, it's certain that we won't love to hear any bad things to our parents.I don't know what is it called but it's a special bond that connects us with our parents. Even we don't love them we can't hate them hundred percent and that's because they are our parents.Uncle runs away as he leaves his hands from his body and aunt follows.One more time, it's just two of us standing in the midst of the room, speechless and lost.Before, I thought it was me and at that time, it hurt him.
~Zara Todd’s POV~ She walks away from the room and we are left in the room together. Both of us being unanswered of the secrets that she wasn’t even willing to tell both of us.“Xavier! She said I killed my parents,” I want to stand up and walk to him but I don’t get to stand up from there. My knees feel so much weak right now. I don’t have any energy to cope up with anything right now.I feel like the whole world around me has become dull and even the air isn’t moving around me. I feel both the hot sensation of burning on my skin while the inner part of my body shivers with the pain.“That’s not truth. I am sure she is telling a lie. She is such a liar. She has been lying to me all her life and she is lying to you as well,” he says as he walks to me and kneels in front of me.He pulls me into his arms and caresses my shoulders a little faster than he u
~Zara Todd’s POV~‘You don’t deserve to hold that picture.’That sentence triggers Xavier all of a sudden. He looks at her with a mad eyes and then looks back at me and I know what he is going to do the next.“No! No! Don’t do that,” I run to him and quickly grab the picture from his hands and take it away from him.“Zara!” he calls my name with a soft voice as he sees me holding that picture against my chest and tearing out loud.“What the hell are you doing Zara? What’s going on? Who is this man?” he asks.I know he has the same curiosity that I had some moments ago. We young people are so much out of patience. We want everything to be quick and just to be at the time in which we feel okay with.We don’t like when people try to keep us in dark. We have lots of secrets with us. We can hold a lot of secrets tha
~Zara Todd’s POV~“How do you know them?” I shout at Jennifer. This thing is just knocking the air off me. I don’t understand what the hell is my dad and mom’s picture doing with her. And they are together as well.I only had a single picture of my parents and for the that single picture of them is the world. I don’t remember lots of things that I did together with my parents. I just have some vague memories of them creeping on my mind. I wish I have more of their memories.But still after that, just with a single picture of them, their image is deeply engraved in my heart. Just with that picture I have imagined my mom and dad in so many of my dreams and have cried for them. So, I know the image of my dad and mom clearly.How can a daughter do a mistake in knowing her own parents? I know these person along with her in those eighties picture is non-other than my own parents.“Yo
~Zara Todd’s POV~ “You lied to me. Why did you lie to me?” I ask this question in front of Jennifer without even being afraid. Why would I be afraid?She tried to trick me with her such an unbelievable game which is so much nasty and unfair. Why the hell did she do that for god’s sake.“I didn’t lie. That’s the truth,” she says.“Oh! Please! Would you please stop being fake? I have asked Xavier about all of this and he knows nothing about Jack and the relationship was never fake for him,” I say.“And you believed?” she raise her brows.“Yes. Why wouldn’t I? He is my husband and he wouldn’t lie to me. I have heard every bits of truth from his own lips. Why would I believe in you instead of believing in my husband who loves me so much,” I say.“You’ve gained the courage.
~Zara Todd’s POV~“What the hell are you speaking right now? What kind of hospital? Who is in the hospital?” he asks me with the shock plastered on his face.“Xavier, please don’t lie to me now. I know everything and I ... I saw him in the hospital. Hurt, with so many injuries and so much bandages in all his body. How can you do that? How can you just do that Xavier?” I grab his clothes on his chest as I lean my head on his chest and cry so much on his chest.“I don’t get that. I just don’t get the things that you are telling right now. Just fucking tell me what the hell are you talking about?” he shouts as he grabs me away from his body and fixes his eyes on my face but I just cannot face his eyes. I look down on the floor as the tear rolls down my eyes.“What is it Zara? Just fucking tell me,” he shouts.“I met Jack! I met Jack in the hospi
~Zara Todd's POV~As soon as we enter the venue, the colorful lights welcome us. This all seem to be extravagant to be just a normal high school ending party. This party feels more than just a high school farewell.I can see all the students who has been so much studious and quiet in last few months are all different today.Beautiful dress, amazing bodies, that huge smile on their face for coming out of that locked prison like study compartments, is making them so much happy.They look different. And when I look around I don't see any teacher over there. Seems like this party is just for us. Just for students."Let's get inside," Xavier says as he holds my hands but I just don't feel that warmth from his hands. Is it because now, I know about all his truths which he has been hiding from me? Or is it because I see him differently now?I just nod my head and we walked in. Asher follows us from behind.
~Zara Todd’s POV~I rush to the hospital where Jack has been right now as soon as possible. Everything inside me is breaking into pieces. Everything within me is making me weaker from deep within. I don’t want to believe the single thing that she has told me. Who would want to believe all those things?No girl in the world would love to hear and believe the things that she told me some time ago. I hurriedly walk towards Jack’s room and open the door. And …He indeed is lying on the bed. He has the bandage on his head and there are bruises in his face. His right leg is bandaged and hung on the air as well.“Jack,” I close my mouth with my palms. I can’t believe I am seeing Jack like this right now. And the foremost thing is I can’t believe Xavier did it.It can’t be. It just can’t be. How can Xavier do all of this? He was changed. He is changed. At least I thought t