~Zara Todd’s POV~
“I don’t hate him. I just don’t like his company. I just don’t like the way he challenges me on everything and the most, I don’t like the way he wants to get near you,” he says and my eyes widen.
“Getting near to me? Why would that bother you?” I ask with my brows raised up.
“Why wouldn’t that bother you? Whose wife are you? Who are you here for? Why are you here? And who are you responsible for? I don’t think that’s Asher. It’s me, Xavier. That makes a clear sense that you belong to me and I don’t have a habit to share my belonging and to let the people wander around my belonging,” he says.
Belonging?
Does he think that I am some stuff that belongs to him? It hurts me to hell when I hear him saying that I am nothing but just some belongings to him.
I know I am tied to him. With this so called legal relationship of hu
~Zara Todd’s POV~The wheel stops and after getting out of that wheel I realize that it was the most beautiful moment I have ever lived in my whole life. I have never been so much happy like I was on that counter of Ferris wheel.“Come on! Let’s get down,” he says as he offers me his hands and this time without any hesitation I take his hands. He holds my hand like I am going to leave him the moment he leaves my hand. I lift my brows a bit up.“It’s because the weather is getting quite chilly. Let’s get somewhere where we can get some hot drinks,” he says and I nod my head.“What about Asher? He is the one who brought us here and it will be quite unfair if we leave him alone here,” I say.“It’s fine. He is a wanderer soul and he isn’t a child. He will find his own way. I can see how much hard that guy tried to provoke me and I did get provoked by him indeed,” he say
~Zara Todd’s POV~Seeing your own teacher making out with each other is the weirdest thing that you will ever get to see in front of your eyes. I know I am hiding right below that table but seeing them going more than the board made me so much anxious that I end up shouting.“No,” Xavier looks at me as he hears me shouting out loudly below the table. His facial expression is something like, ‘You’re not supposed to do that but what can I do when you are stupid.’Yeah! I clearly find this expression on his face.“Damn it!” he quickly unzips his hoodies and covers both of our head with it.“That was from below the table, wasn’t it?” I can clearly understand that’s Miss Lily’s voice and she already knows from where the sound is coming from.“I guess so too. Let me check darling,” the maths teacher says. My heart beats so much loudly when I hear him te
~Zara Todd's POV~"How did you know I had a wet dream?" I ask him with my eyes ready to pop out of my socket. I mean I have never been so much shocked like this before. How can he pretend so well, like nothing ever happened?God! I feel so much ashamed now. I feel like the earth would swallow me up and never let me get out of there.Did I do mistake asking him that? I shouldn't have said that. Now he knows I indeed had a wet dream. God damn. This is more than just hilarious.He chuckles at my reaction and pulls me closer to his chest."Babe, I know a lot of things that you can't even imagine." He whispers in a low voice as I jerk his arms away from my body and slide to the corner of the bed.Xavier always makes way to make fun of me and embarrass me. No wonder I was blushing badly even after so many hours.After teasing me and making me feel awkward like hell, he makes himself a bed on the couch and gets a good night
~Zara Todd's POV~"What are you doing here, Zara?" His voice is enough for me to give a heart attack that I flinch on the place I am standing and maybe because he sees my image behind the curtains that he finds me quite easily.There is nothing I can do except hide my face with my hands. I cover my face with my hands and press my face hard with them making myself completely unable to look in front of me."Seriously, Zara. You are being shy in front of your husband. I understand girls are shy but what's with hiding behind the drapes? Is this the new trend of expressing you are shy?"he says with his voice mixing with laughter.He surely doesn't know how I am feeling right now. And will he stop saying husband again and again? I feel like I am so much old that he calls that in front of me.Not again, he starts to create his theory again. I uncover my face and yell at him."I am not shy. Don't use your head to create your theory, master Xav
~Zara Todd's POV~"Zara would you like to dance?" He asks me.Of course yes! I would.But I don't know if he knows how to dance cause I'm afraid if he even knows how to do that."You know how to dance?" I ask."Honestly no! I have never dances in my whole life but I can start practising if you like to," he says.I can see how much hard Xavier is trying to get into my environment. He wants to do something out of his league just for me and that makes me happy and sad at the same time."You don't have to try so much Xavier. I can be happy with the already changes you have in your life. No! I wouldn't say changes. I am happy with the good Xavier that's hiding right inside here and is coming out one by one nowadays. You don't have to try so hard on love. It's a natural thing and it will just happen the way it wants to and that's the absolute beauty of it," I say as I lift my head towards him with a smile.He smiles and then gently p
~Zara Todd’s POV~“What happened to you in the past Xavier? What are you so much afraid of?” I ask as I hold his hands.“What I am afraid of? I am not afraid of anything,” he says as he breaks the embrace and walks towards the table.“I’m really sorry Zara. I didn’t mean to. I just didn’t mean to ruin this moment but can we just get back right now. I am not feeling quite well,” he says.I can see the complete discomfort in his eyes. I think I should try to understand him rather than trying to argue more with him.Xavier Dawson has never been an easy topic for me. He has been the most difficult topic that I am not able to understand. The more I try to understand, the more I get entangled with the curiosity. I know Xavier has gone through something so much wrong but he isn’t telling me at all.And I should respect his decisions. I should give him the comfort so that he could tel
~Zara Todd's POV~"Do you think we should wear this on our next date?" I ask him as I show him the bag of couple hoodie."Next date? I can't wait till that time," he says as he takes the hoodie away from me and wears it on the car."I wanted to wear that on special time with each other," I make a face as I turn away from the steering and look outside, quite disappointed."Who said we won't have a special time together now? We're going for a movie now," he says as he forwards his car and my eyes blink towards his side."Movie? But we never planned about that?" I ask."You didn't even plan about this date. This was all my doing and I know where have I went wrong already. So we are doing something that actually makes happy. I know a great place for street foods and till then I will book the tickets for the theatre," he says.He cares. He actually cares so much for my choices. I have never imagined once in my life that somebody woul
~Zara Todd's POV~Devi brings us some snacks to go along with the movie and leaves the place. I am amazed by the fact that Xavier seems so comfortable with Devi more than his mother. They seem like they are actually mother and son instead of Jennifer Dawson.I keep on putting my hands on popcorn and eating them while watching movie.Then, I suddenly find his hands gripping mine on the pop corn."Stop it Zara! You're going finish em' all," he says as he holds my hands."Aren't they made to be finished?" I blink my eyes as I turn back my head to the television."Obviously but I'm sure you won't leave a single piece for me," he says as he keeps the bowl of pop corn on the side and slides himself towards me and keeps his arms around my neck."I hope this feels warmer," he says. I can never imagine how cheesy Xavier can be. Like I am almost melting on his actions every time he does something like this. When did he even learn these kinds of
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