~Zara Todd's POV~
"Oh my God! You look absolutely stunning," Adrian's mouth stays open when I stand in front of them.
"You're right! She looks absolutely gorgeous, just like a princess," Camilo adds and I smile slightly. She turns me to look at the mirror and even when I look at the mirror, even I couldn't speak for a second.
"This is me?" I say and all of them laugh for a while.
"Yes, dear. So we're done here. We will be leaving now and please have a quite good time with yourself first," they say and start packing up their stuffs and walk out of the room.
I can't help but stare at my own self. I have never seen myself as like this. Not with the attire and make over like this.
The crimson colored velvet gown extends from my wide neck to the floor like I am the real princess if some movies.
It's cut off shoulder showing off beauty bones. The golden border around my neck design, below my chest and on the bottom of my flair makes it so s
~Zara Todd’s POV~“NO! No! Don’t do this to me. Please uncle, it hurts. Aunt! Aunt please help me,” I cry for help but there is no one to help me. Jane isn’t in the home and even aunt isn’t in the home. He is my own uncle. Own fucking uncle yet he tried to do something bad to me.I am just fifteen years old, the same age like that of his daughter and I am his daughter too but he did that to me. He tried to sexually abuse me and not only him his friends tried to do the same with me but every time he would try to do that Diva always saved me.I haven’t told this to anyone, not even to aunt just because it might ruin their relationship and somewhere I knew that she would never believe me. So, I always kept quiet. It all stopped when I was at my late fifteen when Jane saw that and even after that she kept quiet and started to bully me even more. I was such a easy target for everyone, for their lust desire, for their em
~Zara Todd’s POV~ “Hey dad!” a cheerful and also the bold voice comes inside the house and this is the first time I have ever heard this voice in the house. I lift my eyes to look at him and I am almost blinded by the beauty of the guy that is walking towards the dining table. He wears the similar uniform as that mine. We go to school together? So, does that mean he is a Xavier? I can’t actually tell but he is completely different from what people have told me about him. He hugs Mr. Andreas and to the mother. “Good morning dear,” she says with a smile and he smiles too and gets seated on the chair next to his dad and catches the fork. I feel like I am non-existent and invisible in front of me. He just can’t see me, maybe. And then suddenly his eyes meet mine and then he smiles suddenly. “Oh! We have a new person in the house?” and then he looks at his dad and mom for the response. “She is going to get married with Xavier. She i
~Zara Todd’s POV~“Get out.”That voice isn’t only a voice to me but it sends the shiver to my whole body. That voice is the most bold voice I have ever heard in my whole life time. It makes me puzzled whether to look at his side or not.I am uncomfortable to look at him but this is the only seat that is available in the whole classroom and I can’t just get out from there just like that.“B…u…t there are no seats elsewhere,” I try to stay as gentle and as calm as I can. I am sure he can sense the fear clearly on my voice.“I don’t care just get the hell out of there. I don’t want anyone sitting right beside me,” he says and this makes me quite infuriated this time.Is he blind? Does he even have mind?He is telling as if I am dying to sit right next to him. I have no choice right now than sitting right beside him.“No!” I say with
~Zara Todd’s POV~I am surely on my full consciousness I know where I am right now. Asher’s chest feels like it is my safest home where I can dwell.I don’t feel like getting away from there but this is a school and the girls might be cursing me like hell right now.“Asher! Asher! Please get me down. I’m fine. I don’t need to go anywhere.Please get me down,” I say.“You have to get some medicines,” he says.“No, it’s fine. I am completely alright. I have gone through so much more than this so I am completely fine,” I insist and he gets me down.No wonder people are watching around us. This is my first day at school and I am already being noticed by the students which I really hate to do.“I’m sorry but I need to get back to the class,” I say and storm away from there.This is embarrassing. So hell embarrassing!I quickly get back to
~Zara Todd’s POV~“I…I can’t just do this. I mean not because I am getting married to him but at least as a human. I know he is a monster but I just can’t do this. I can’t just leave someone who is just near to dying in this state,” I crease my forehead as I look at him.“You’re going to regret this Zara. He isn’t someone who could be pitied by you. He doesn’t deserve this,” he says and grips my hands more firmly.“I don’t care whether he is what right now. I just know one thing right now and that is someone is dying over there right now and I have to save him. Let me just save him, please,” I plead but he doesn’t seem to leave my hands.“Don’t pity him. He is a monster,” he still insists on saying the same thing again and again. Through his behavior I can easily understand that he doesn’t quite like Xavier. I mean who likes
~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
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