~Zara Todd’s POV~
My eyes flutter as I see him from the small separation of the hospital clothes. My eyes couldn’t stop staring at him. Is he the same guy that I know for the last two days?
I can see him taking off his hood and on his white school uniform. His wide and broad shoulders don’t sadden me for being so much gorgeous and manly. Does this kind of body even exist in the whole world?
My eyes couldn’t close their shutter after looking at him. His large biceps were rarely seen through the black hoodie but right now, I can clearly see how huge they bump out through his arms even in his white shirt.
“Can you please pull up your sleeves?” the nurse asks and I can easily see how she is gulping the saliva through her throat.
He tries to pull up the sleeve but seems like it is quite tight so he just unbuttons his shirt and sits naked in fr
~ Zara Todd’s POV~I stay as silent as I could ever be inside her car. It wasn’t completely my wish that I was getting inside her car but I can’t get out of there as per my wish now.I lift my head to meet her eyes in the front mirror as she sighs when she sees me.“So, you meet him? I am really sorry for the trouble he has caused to you,” she says and I don’t understand her sudden apology right now. What does her apology mean? Does that mean she knew that her son has done something destructive to other people? Is it so?“You know what he has done?” I ask.“Yeah! I heard about it. I heard that he fought with you and Asher. I can’t just meet his eyes anymore. Why would he hit him off all people in the whole school? Sometimes I think he just wants me to drown in my own pool,” she hits her hands strongly on the steering
~Zara Todd’s POV~“She is all yours,” my eyes widen as I hear that. What the hell does he mean by it? At least as a human he could have helped me. At least he could have thought of me as a human but no, he indeed is a monster as people call him.When I saw him some moments ago, I thought that I am saved. I thought that not only darkness is in my life but sometimes, light can even radiate in my life but I was wrong. I was all wrong about this.How can I even think that I am so much lucky to get that opportunity in my life? How can I forget that I am nothing but the lump of bad luck? But even I have bad luck I still can’t give up my life to someone like those guys in front of me and get destroyed in their hands.“Please! Xavier! Please don’t do this. At least have pity on me. I am your to-be-wife. Please! How can you let this happen? Just how?” I tear out with
~Zara Todd’s POV~Did he just cut off his finger right now?I can hear the guy’s bleats in the air like he is crying out loud with the pain but with his pain I see Xavier smiling so much brightly. I can see his face is filled with happiness with pains in his voice.Xavier finds happiness in pain. He finds happiness in bleats. Why?“Xav…Xavier st…op…that!” I want to tell him but seeing the scene in front of me is making me so much feared right now. I have never seen a person intentionally hurting someone with a knife. This is my first time and for the first time, I can see the fingers being separated from someone’s hands right now.“You bastard,” I can see another guy running to him with a knife behind him.“Xavier!” I shout at him and that guy hits him before he could
~Zara Todd’s POV~“Who the hell are you?”I steer my head towards the voice and my breathe hitches in the way like I have seen a ghost. The man I am seeing in front of me looks so scary with a huge scar in the middle of the face while he is holding his ear with one hand which is bleeding and his eyes are more than just intimidating.“I…I…,” I couldn’t just speak anything. I have the hunch that this man is against our side and somehow I am getting the clue that the reason he is holding his hurt ears could be because of Xavier.“You’re with him,” his voice creaks from between his teeth, and his brows bends as he walks towards me as he walks closer to me.“How did you get in here? And this uniform, are you from Hilltown High as well?” he asks with the anger infuriating on his eyes.
~ Zara Todd’s POV~“What’s you last wish? Trust me! I will fulfill all of your wishes,” he says as he points a knife on his neck and my eyes enlarges in shock.No! Not again. I don’t want him to do this anymore. I don’t want him to hurt anyone one more time. I don’t want him to show his devil shelf to himself one more time.I quickly get up from my place and run towards him and try to stop him.“No! Please! Xavier, please don’t do it. Don’t hurt him,” I say to him standing right beside him but he doesn’t seem to give any interest in anything I am saying right now.“Xavier! Please don’t do. Don’t kill him please,” I repeat but there seems no reaction of him. I just hate him so much for pretending something so much perfectly. Why the hell is he like that?So, I think
~Zara Todd’s POV~“You know what I hate the people like him but I should tell you, I hate the people like you in the whole world who are just so stupid,” he says with his gritted teeth. I can see the blood in between his teeth as he says that.We both hear the unclear voices of the people.“You can run, right?” he asks. I nod my head.“Let’s run,” he says as he instantly grips my hands and drags me down the alleys. I don’t know where he is taking me but my heart tells me that I should trust him this time. I should just do as he tells me right now. So, I don’t even question him for what he is doing right now.He takes me through the dark places where there isn’t even the light. I am afraid of the darkness in the place as I have never been to a place like this but even without darkness my life is quite darker but here even though it is dark and he is someone whom I don’t quite tr
~ Zara Todd’s POV~“Young miss?” I hear the voice and that voice doesn’t seem to be harmful at all. I squint my eyes because of the light as the light is focused at our faces.“They’re here. Young master,” he comes rushing to us with some of the people. They quickly carry Xavier and are taking away from there but then I suddenly feel his hands holding mine which makes then hard to carry him along. So, I walk along with them to the exit.When we come in the light, they see that he is grabbing my hand with his eyes closed. In the light, I realized that the person is non-other than his own driver and he looks at the hands quite shocked.“Miss, you cannot go with us right now. You have to go on that car. I am sorry but young master won’t like it. Please,” he says and I nod. I don’t know what does he mean to say but I am sure there might be some reasons behind it.I try to unclasp his han
~ Zara Todd's POV~My eyes turn towards the direction when I see Asher instead of Xavier. How can I forget that Asher had promised me that he will be attending the dinner tonight?"Hey dad! Ma," he walks to the dinner table and hugs both of them one by one and he approaches to me for the same."Hey! Zara," he leans and hugs me and the bruises kind of hurt when he does that."Hi," I say before he hugs me so that I can avoid him from hugging me but he does it even after that. I don't think I can ever avoid him.I look at the watch when he sits beside me and I feel kind of weird sitting beside him.It's already past eight and I don't think he is eligible to stay in the dining hall after this. My face turns to Xavier's mom when I look at the watch but she doesn't seem to be affected by it.What the hell is that? Was that rule just for me?Then I turn my face towards him."You're looking beautiful lady," he says and mother su
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