Semua Bab NIRELLE: Bab 51 - Bab 60

NIRELLEAs I enter the living room, I see Lucien already waiting there. I was going to sit alone for a few seconds, staring at the moving images on the television, before I headed up to his study to tell him what had happened. His trust had included not reaching out to the bodyguards to ask about me, and from the way his eyebrows were knitted together, I could tell that he had been able to hold up his end of the bargain.He rushed to me and began to check my body gently; it was almost as if he wanted to find a bruise, maybe an excuse to send an attack on Cassian, or maybe he really did care about me, and this was his weird way of showing it. Why would he care, and why would I try to delude myself that he did?“Lucien… What are you looking for?" I asked, stiffened like a statue."Are you hurt anywhere? Did that bastard touch you?" He is nudging me, so I can't see his expression, but I can imagine his jaws clenched so tightly."He did not touch me; he did not need to touch me," I say, an

NIRELLEA few days have passed, and everything seems too quiet, almost too calm. Breakfast is done with Lucien avoiding my eyes as much as possible, and Theo has not been home. Lucien had said he was working on a project that would require him to spend a few more weeks with a crazy schedule. It makes me think of him; if he were going to work like Theo, then it meant he would have been so busy with work I wouldn't have gotten to see him.I wonder if it would have been a good thing or if the pain in my heart at the thought of it was real. "What are you doing today?" Luucien finally broke the wall between us, at least that was the way I saw it, given how avoidant he had been towards me."Aside from trying to lie down and see how many hours I can do that for?" I stop for a second and send him a smile. "Nothing," I finish.He does not look that pleased with my response because he frowns, but it does not linger on his face longer than a second. "Want to do something on your bucket list?"His

LUCIENI look to my side to see Nirelle dozing off. She looks so delicate, and even now, when her head is bobbing back and forth, my heart is telling me that I need to help her so her neck does not hurt, but my mind is screaming and stopping me from inching any closer to her. I have no idea what was going to happen if I got close, but I was not willing to find out. I swallow and try to make fear go away. I am a full-grown man, and I can control myself fully. I inch closer to her and catch her head before it can go down to the floor.She lay in my hand so comfortably as if it were a bed. I looked at her and how she had changed from the days she came here. She was not afraid of anything, stepped into the place, and was more worried about our intimacy than me being a monster. She was broke but tried her best not to show it. Her phone vibrates on the table in front of us, and my eyes catch the name that pops up: Cassian Wolfe.My jaws feel clenched at the sight of that man. I wish he had n

NAME IN THE HEADLINESNIRELLEI have Mara help me get ready; I wanted people to talk to. I wanted to hear the media call me Mrs. Vexley and say that I was Mr. Lucien Vexley's wife. I still could not wrap my mind around why that was my goal, but Mara got the goal. I was looking like a superstar, the kind that you'd see in magazines and think that they were created for that moment."You look very beautiful, Mrs. Vexley. I am sure Mr. Vexley would be pleased to see you like this," she says, and I want her words to be true. Would Lucien see me and think I looked beautiful enough? Would he say it to me?"Thank you, Mara; it's only possible because of you," I say, trying to catch my breath at how snatched the dress was. It felt so tight as if I wouldn't be able to breathe, but Mara had told me that this was what the young ladies wore now, and I wanted everyone to think I was the lady befitting to be Lucien's wife. He needed someone sophisticated enough to stand beside him, and I had to be th

NIRELLELucien takes me to my room and leaves immediately. I am assuming that he wants to go and take care of whatever was happening. I could not help but feel guilt raid my heart. They had been so good to me that they did not deserve any of this, so why did I do this to them? It's not like I would have known what Cassian wanted to do, but then I should have known that a manipulator like him won't sit back."Don't check the posts or the comments," Lucien had said before he hurried out of the room. I know he was trying to protect me, but I just had to see what the people were saying. As my eyes trail down the comments lined on my screen, I am led to believe that this was a deliberate effort from Cassian because there is no way that everyone thinks he is the best fit for me.'I think the beautiful Nirelle is a better fit for Cassian; he is handsome and a kindhearted doctor, unlike Lucien, who we can't see.' I read that comment over and over again and wondered if things would have been di