Chapter 12
1000 Words
She jumped off the bed and screamed, only to feel a strain on her throat from the dryness.
On a normal day, she would have recognised the person in the room even in her sleep, but with her mind occupied with past few days incident and mixed thoughts and emotions, it took her a while. When she did, she tried to calm her racing heartbeat.
She went to the table on the corner to get a glass of water, chucked down half of the glass, with a shaky hand.
She is overwhelmed by the presence of the dark figure that intensely glared at her.
She tried to calm her rapidly, beating heart by focusing on something else other than the wobbling glass in her hand.
The moon is bright today, it's light is seeping through the floor-to-ceiling window, shining directly at her as if promising to protect her from the darkness that is about to envelop her.
She looks like a goddess, the bright side of the moon, with her silver hair reflecting to the light of the moon. While the hidden figure looked the demon, the dark side of the moon.
If we were in the fantasy world, it would have been the story of the moon-goddess who came to save mankind from the evil lurking in the shadows, waiting to pounce on any unsuspecting humans.
"You must be happy today. Everyone knows that you are my wife. ”A raspy voice resonated through the quiete bedroom.
She took a deep breath to prepare herself for what was to come.
“Why did you leak those slides?”. He spoke in his raspy voice.
She shook her head, no “I did not leak them, I-I…” she was speachless.
He interrupted her by asking, “Then who did?”
She shook her head again, causing her silky hair to move side to side. At that moment, it looked like she was mocking him, which added to his displeasure even more.
“I don’t know.” She looked at the glass in her hands that was wobbling even more, then she looked at her bare feet as if they would help her out of this situation.
She has always wanted to have a conversation with her husband, but she has never thought that their first conversation would be like this.
There was a heavy silence in the room.
Christina felt like she was suffocating. She took another sip of water, and then she took a shaky breath.
From a point of view of a person who isn’t as observant as Byakuya; she would have looked like a guilty person.
“I-I-I-“ she cleared her throat before she started again “I can't think of a person who can do this”.
She then inhaled sharply.
His upper body is in the shadows, and his lower body is illuminated by the moonlight; in the fantasy world, it would have looked like Christina’s light was trying to save him from the darkness.
A glass of scotch in his steady hand, one foot on his knee, and black shiny custom-made Italian dress shoes.
Christina couldn’t see his upper body.
When he didn’t say anything after a long time, she started to feel uncomfortable with his gaze, as scared as she was; deep down she feels happy to receive his attention even if it’s for the wrong reasons that could get her killed, yet her happiness overshadows her fear for him, it even showed in her sapphire eyes, sparkling like rare diamonds they are. Her heart is filled with a little hope that maybe just maybe…
Byakuya looked at the shaking leaf in front of him that is in her own fantasy world; that he is about to cruelly crash in the next few seconds.
The devil smirked at his evil thought. He will enjoy watching this diamonds spark turns dull, as she realizes all that was just her own fantasies, and she will have no one to blame but foolish, young herself for being naïve and stupid.
“Whatever it is that you are planning with whoever, I won’t let you win. You are just fooling yourself. Save your heart while you still can”.
After a short pause, he continued,
“You are only fooling yourself”. Said all these with a low and cold voice that sends shivers down her back.
Tears started to pool in her eyes with a satisfied look. He gracefully gulped the remaining contents in the crystal glass and then put it down on the small table.
He stood up and walked to her with slow strides as if prolonging her miserable fate.
He stopped in front of her with his dress shoes tips touching her bare toes.
His cologne that was once engulfing the room like a fresh breeze after the rain was now clouding all her senses.
It was intoxicating that her nose got greedy in smelling it in, like her favorite drug.
Her heart picked up speed; it was now hammering against her rib cage, that she suspected he was able to hear it considering. The man has super heightened senses, and that contributed to her body shaking more, that she felt like she was close to collapsing with how close he was.
To make her situation even worse, he leaned in until he was whispering in her ear.
Even from a mile away, you could feel the cold waves that could put the arctic to shame. Even the polar bears would feel blessed, not be the ones on the receiving end of all that coldness.
With a dark and stoic face, he said to her. “You mean nothing to me and never will. You are just a liability that I will get rid of sooner or later.”
Then he leaned back and paused to look into her eyes that were now filled with tears, flowing like a river. With his still expressionless voice, he continued,
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