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Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 130
Chapter 130ALEJANDRO POVSilence. Nothing but agonizing silence. Everything hurt yes, but nothing gutted me more than Rayana’s cold shoulder. We arrived at home, and I helped her out of the car. Everything inside of me would have killed to pick her bridal style and carry her to our bed, but she gently swatted my hand off before she climbed the stairs that let to the house, alone. I stood there feeling like my heart had just been yanked from its cradle from behind me, not knowing what to do. I missed her so much. Even when she royally hated me, I just wanted to be beside her all the times. So I followed her. I walked closely behind her carrying her hospital bed. ‘Through better or worse; in health and in sickness’That was what we vowed towards one another. And I refused to watch my liberation slipping through my fingers without putting a fight. She didn’t say a word, neither did I, but I walked behind her until we reached out bedroom. I walked in after her and then placed the
Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 129
Chapter 129RAYANA POVI stood in the hospital bathroom glued in one spot as I stared back at the stranger in the reflection of the mirror. Her eyes were distant, cold, like she had lived all three lifetimes, seen all kinds of evil and yet she stood still, unwavering. Unyielding. Fading bruises marred her perfect face, her cheeks hollowed and her frame slightly lean. She was fragile, but I knew better than to mistake her fragility for weakness. The look in her eyes was that of a phoenix after rising from the ashes for the hundredth time. She looked like a ghost of her former self, yes, but she was stronger than a thousand armies combined. A loud sigh escaped my lips before I finally looked away from the mirror and walked to the sink. With my good hand, I opened the faucet before watching the water run, then cupped my hand to scoop some. I drank three cupfuls before closing the tap, then stared at my reflection once again. The sound of the phone vibrating against the marble counte
Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 128
Chapter 128ALEJANDRO POVMorning came, and I erupted from the couch where I had dropped last night. My eyes skittered to my neatly made bed and a dull ache panged through my chest. I gripped my t-shirt tightly before dragging my body from the couch and into the bathroom, then stood under the shower before turning the knob, causing steaming water to hit my body. It was a pleasant assault on my abused body, a soothing balm to my aching soul. A slight headache throbbed under my skull with a rhythm, dull, but very much alive. I let the water soothe my achy muscles before I lathered up my body and washed up. My mind was a silent graveyard of all the things that lay still, awaiting to come alive and wreak havoc all over. But one thought remained, chaffing at me slowly and eating away at my soul. My wife couldn’t even look me in the eye. The thought of losing her was enough to bring me to my knees. But I refused to cower. I wanted to remain strong until I had dealt with the poison that
Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 127
Chapter 127VLADIMIR POVRayana fought tooth and nail to stay awake. I watched from the hospital couch where I was sitting as she shook her head, pinched herself, and moved her bad arm just so she could stay awake, but it was all futile. The rhythmic beeping of the heart monitor might as well have been a lullaby. After a few heartbeats, her eyes drooped, and she went down with a tired sigh. I smiled to myself as she finally gave up, her head tilted to the side. I stood up and walked to the bed, then pulled the comforter until her whole chest was covered. I stood there for a few minutes just watching her breathe. Her innocent face; it was clear she wasn’t wired for this life, but everything that had happened forced her to be strong, to fight, and to conquer. Pride blossomed in my chest, and I shook my head at the hysteria because, at the end of the day, the fact remained that we were practically strangers. But calling her my little girl felt religiously right in all shapes and for
Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 126
Chapter 126 ALEJANDRO POV “I know I lied to you, used you, but if it means I get to sleep beside you every night and call you my wife, then I would do it all over again.” The becursed words fell off my lips like pieces of a delivered anathema. I wish I didn’t have to say them to her, but she needed to know that there is nothing I would change about us. If given a chance, maybe I would bring her father back; but her brother? I would fucking plant a slag in his brain one more time. The look on her face might as well have been my death sentence delivered in a glorified package of tears and hurt. I felt her pain, tasted it on my tongue. It was fucking bitter. I watched on a broken reel as her insides warred, her brain shutting down on her, and I just sat there, once again strung dry by humbling helplessness. I wanted to pull her to me, to hug her close to my chest and tell her that if I fucking could, then I would turn back the hands of the clock and go back to the time where it all
Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 125
Chapter 125 RAYANA POVWarmth pulsed beneath my skin like a steady heartbeat; but the pain still simmered- dull, deep, but just… there like a warning. My mind kept playing one broken ‘what the fuck is going on’ reel over and over again. Just when I thought it would stop, it started yet again. Every passing second felt like pure torture of unsaid words and broken promises as I laid cradled in Alejandro’s arms on a hospital bed. His heartbeat was a steady thump against my ear, his breathing low, calculated. Silence? It was fucking deafening, broken only by the sound of the machine beeping on the side of the bed; a dull reminder that I was infact; alive. I massaged his chest, pressing my finger right where his heart thumped with a steady beat. A heavy sigh escaped me, unable to continue any further down the rabbit hole. “Lorenzo told me things,” I whispered. His hand that was on my back, froze for a second before it resumed its path across my spine. I waited for him to ask me what
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