~ 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
~Zara Todd’s POV~Did he just cut off his finger right now?I can hear the guy’s bleats in the air like he is crying out loud with the pain but with his pain I see Xavier smiling so much brightly. I can see his face is filled with happiness with pains in his voice.Xavier finds happiness in pain. He finds happiness in bleats. Why?“Xav…Xavier st…op…that!” I want to tell him but seeing the scene in front of me is making me so much feared right now. I have never seen a person intentionally hurting someone with a knife. This is my first time and for the first time, I can see the fingers being separated from someone’s hands right now.“You bastard,” I can see another guy running to him with a knife behind him.“Xavier!” I shout at him and that guy hits him before he could
~Zara Todd’s POV~“Who the hell are you?”I steer my head towards the voice and my breathe hitches in the way like I have seen a ghost. The man I am seeing in front of me looks so scary with a huge scar in the middle of the face while he is holding his ear with one hand which is bleeding and his eyes are more than just intimidating.“I…I…,” I couldn’t just speak anything. I have the hunch that this man is against our side and somehow I am getting the clue that the reason he is holding his hurt ears could be because of Xavier.“You’re with him,” his voice creaks from between his teeth, and his brows bends as he walks towards me as he walks closer to me.“How did you get in here? And this uniform, are you from Hilltown High as well?” he asks with the anger infuriating on his eyes.
~ Zara Todd’s POV~“What’s you last wish? Trust me! I will fulfill all of your wishes,” he says as he points a knife on his neck and my eyes enlarges in shock.No! Not again. I don’t want him to do this anymore. I don’t want him to hurt anyone one more time. I don’t want him to show his devil shelf to himself one more time.I quickly get up from my place and run towards him and try to stop him.“No! Please! Xavier, please don’t do it. Don’t hurt him,” I say to him standing right beside him but he doesn’t seem to give any interest in anything I am saying right now.“Xavier! Please don’t do. Don’t kill him please,” I repeat but there seems no reaction of him. I just hate him so much for pretending something so much perfectly. Why the hell is he like that?So, I think
~Zara Todd’s POV~“You know what I hate the people like him but I should tell you, I hate the people like you in the whole world who are just so stupid,” he says with his gritted teeth. I can see the blood in between his teeth as he says that.We both hear the unclear voices of the people.“You can run, right?” he asks. I nod my head.“Let’s run,” he says as he instantly grips my hands and drags me down the alleys. I don’t know where he is taking me but my heart tells me that I should trust him this time. I should just do as he tells me right now. So, I don’t even question him for what he is doing right now.He takes me through the dark places where there isn’t even the light. I am afraid of the darkness in the place as I have never been to a place like this but even without darkness my life is quite darker but here even though it is dark and he is someone whom I don’t quite tr
~ Zara Todd’s POV~“Young miss?” I hear the voice and that voice doesn’t seem to be harmful at all. I squint my eyes because of the light as the light is focused at our faces.“They’re here. Young master,” he comes rushing to us with some of the people. They quickly carry Xavier and are taking away from there but then I suddenly feel his hands holding mine which makes then hard to carry him along. So, I walk along with them to the exit.When we come in the light, they see that he is grabbing my hand with his eyes closed. In the light, I realized that the person is non-other than his own driver and he looks at the hands quite shocked.“Miss, you cannot go with us right now. You have to go on that car. I am sorry but young master won’t like it. Please,” he says and I nod. I don’t know what does he mean to say but I am sure there might be some reasons behind it.I try to unclasp his han
~ Zara Todd's POV~My eyes turn towards the direction when I see Asher instead of Xavier. How can I forget that Asher had promised me that he will be attending the dinner tonight?"Hey dad! Ma," he walks to the dinner table and hugs both of them one by one and he approaches to me for the same."Hey! Zara," he leans and hugs me and the bruises kind of hurt when he does that."Hi," I say before he hugs me so that I can avoid him from hugging me but he does it even after that. I don't think I can ever avoid him.I look at the watch when he sits beside me and I feel kind of weird sitting beside him.It's already past eight and I don't think he is eligible to stay in the dining hall after this. My face turns to Xavier's mom when I look at the watch but she doesn't seem to be affected by it.What the hell is that? Was that rule just for me?Then I turn my face towards him."You're looking beautiful lady," he says and mother su
~Zara Todd's POV~What does he mean by 'for you'?"I don't get you. Did you say for me, is it?" I ask him one more time to assure him. My fingers are clutching the hem of my clothes while my eyes are fixed on him who is playing with my notebook."You're right. It's for you. I thought you were almost deaf. I feel quite friendly with you and I don't want some monster to ruin your life like hell. So, in order to protect you I am going to be your bodyguard in your section," he says as he stands up and bows down.What the hell is that?I feel something weird inside me. Something suddenly feels warm inside me with just his words.He is doing that for me? Why do I feel so much touched and quite emotional when he says that?"You believed that, don't you?" he breaks out into huge laugh as he places the notebook down on the table and walks towards me and flips my hair with one of his hands and plops down in the bed."That's my bed,