Bounded
1473 Words
I scurried up to my room, twist the door knob, push the door open, take steps in before I shut the door behind me and went to sit on the trundle. Everything that happened earlier in his room came rushing back to my head as I buried my face in my palms, embarrassment washing over me.
I still couldn't believe the fact that hero said such things to me without any ounce of shamelessness in him.
I thought to myself and somehow, I began imagining everything he said to me about washing my body.
Just the thought of it ran shivers down my spine, butterflies filled my tummy and my heart began to race.
Shaking my head,
Ella, what the hell is wrong with you?
Why am I thinking of such nonsense?
I slammed my palm on my forehead, this man is sinfully beautiful and shameless and I'm becoming just like him.
No...
I need to stop thinking of such nonsense, I shouldn't allow his words mess with my head.
I thought.
Heaving out a sigh, I stood up from the trundle, walked up the closet, wrenched it open and picked out some clothes before I headed to the bathroom.
Walking out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around my body, I walked up to the dressing table and stood in front of it.
Turning to my left, I made sure my scapula came into view as I stared at my reflection.
I wanted to be sure if the scar was the same or probably I was mistaken.
But, I was proved right.
It was exactly the same.
The same length, the same color, no difference at all.
I couldn't help but narrow my brows as I kept my gaze fixed on it.
How is this possible?
How can Raman and I share the same mark?
Could it be a coincidence?
I asked myself before I slowly moved my fingers to touch the mark on my scapula.
But, the instant my fingertips touched the scar, something strange happened, something that had never happened to me before.
A rush of strong power ran through me, a strong force that felt like it sucked me in filled every part of me, making me suck on my breath and shut my eyes tight.
Picking up a dager, she walked up to him with a smile on her beautiful yet blurry face. She pulled down the left shoulder of her dress, before she lifted the dager and brought it close to her scapula. She winced in pain a bit when the dager cut through her skin, making her bleed a bit.
Bringing the dager forward, she smiled a bit when she could see her blood on it, before she walked up to him and used that very same dager to cut him a bit at the top of his left shoulder.
With a big smile on her face, "Now... With my blood running through your veins and with this mark I've placed on us, we're bounded for eternity. I love you..."
I let out a deep breath the moment I was drawn back to reality.
What was that?
What did I just see?
Who were the two people in this blurry vision I saw?
What's going on?
I asked myself, my head in a mess.
I just couldn't put together the things that I just saw, the more I thought of it, my mind became more clouded and my head began to hurt.
Whatever it may be must have some sort of meaning or could just be my imagination.
I finally told myself and concluded before I walked away from the dressing table, walked up to the trundle and picked my clothes.
Peeping into the hall from where I stood, I was glad that Raman was nowhere to be seen just yet before I hastily walked into the kitchen to prepare breakfast.
Walking up to the kitchen island, I picked the veggies, a knife and a chopping board as I began to chop the veggies quietly and peacefully.
In an instant, my body froze.
I could feel it.
Again.
Someone or something was behind me.
Just like yesterday, I could feel a presence around, just behind me and strangely, the memories i couldn't recall when I woke up came rushing back.
I could clearly and vividly remember the dark shadow I saw standing behind Raman when he arrived last night.
No... Not this time, I won't be scared, whatever it is that won't allow me feel calm will have to be hurt by me today.
I'll do anything, anything at all to shake away this feeling and get rid of whatever it was.
Slowly, I moved my shaky hand further a bit and gently picked up the rolling pin that was lying there.
I immediately turned around and lifted my hand in the air with the rolling pin in my hand to strike this person behind me but, I suddenly felt a strong grip on my hand that pulled me and I immediately shut my eyes in fear.
"Please don't hurt me I beg you, please I beg you not to harm me." I pleaded, my voice shaky, my body trembling as beads of sweat began to roll down my forehead.
I was almost about collapsing from fear when I heard someone giggling.
I opened my eyes and raised my head and the first thing I saw were those pair of piercing sliver eyes.
Raman couldn't stop himself from giggling at her reactions. Someone's who had summoned courage to hurt what was behind her was now pleading and trembling from fear.
Staring down at her, he giggled again when his gaze fell on her angry yet cute face.
He was loving the moment just before something ruined it.
His demon.
Just like every single time, it was waking up again and it was already beginning to crawl its way out. Somehow he had managed to keep his demon under control but each time he tames it, it becomes more hungry for her.
Breaking free from his embrace, I pushed him back a bit, "Why did you scare me like that hero?" I asked, almost yelling at him but he remained quiet.
"Why did you scare me like that even when you knew just how much I was scared last night when I saw that dark shadow behind you. So, why did you have to scare me like that?"
What the...
She was not supposed to remember that part cause he had wiped it out of her memory so how on earth could she have remembered?
He asked himself but he just couldn't turn to his face to her. No matter how insane he can be these days, he'll never allow her see him taking on his demon form slowly.
"I'm sorry." He said but didn't gaze at me, it was almost like he was hiding his face from me.
"What's wrong hero?" I asked in curiosity, my brows creased but instead of giving me a reply, he hastily walked out of the kitchen.
I watched his walk out of the kitchen and I couldn't help but wonder what could be wrong with him.
Letting out a deep breath, I turned around and returned back to what I was doing.
Dragging his hand through his hair, he finally stopped pacing around in the hallway and let out a deep breath. He had once again managed to tame his demon, the faint red colour in the eyes had finally disappeared and his fangs had returned back to it canine form.
Who the hell is this lady that tends to wake his demon almost every single time?
How on earth could his power not have worked on her?
Now, this was starting to mess with his head.
What the hell is going on?
He asked himself before he finally decided to go to the dining room, he wouldn't want to raise any suspension in her mind. At least, not this morning.
Walking into the dining room, his gaze fell on Ella who was already well sitted on her usual spot as he grabbed a seat and served himself and began digging in.
I lifted my gaze to Raman who was already helping himself to the meal, though he wasn't hiding his face from me anymore but, he was being quiet.
I stared at him for a while and a question couldn't help but raise in my mind.
At first, I kept hesitating cause I didn't want to ask but then, it was necessary.
Extremely necessary to ask... And with every passing second, I was becoming more eager to ask.
"Hero..." I called out and moved my gaze to my meal.
"Hmm..." He hmmed.
"Can I ask you a question?"
"Hmm..." He hmmed again.
"Who are you? What are you?"
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