Chapter 16

King Xavier's PoV

Reason...

"Oh, don't worry." She speaks, carsening my right cheek.

I felt a sharp pain in my eyes and the water started to come out of them, leaving behind the stinging pain.

"What did you do Rily?" I ask, looking directly into her eyes.

"Oh, I just added the whole bottle of blessed poison in it. So that... YOU CAN DIE." She speaks pushing me.

Those words shattered my heart. 

"Rily, what are you saying." I speak within the unbearable pain. 

She must've been kidding me. 

I forced my body to crawl to her.

I hold her hands and look into her eyes. Her eyes aren't the usual, they are just the balls of revenge and hatred right now. 

"Leave me, you bastard." She shouts by jerking off my hands.

"King?" Emma pops me out of my thoughts, I notice she's standing close to me and I feel something unusual all over my body. 

Her eyes look so soft, her shining skin and pink lips. So kissable.

I inhale sharply. 

"I had a bad experience with cake."

Did I just say it that loud!? 

I looked at her in shock but immediately converted my expression to nothing. She's already looking at me. 

Satan!!

She smiles before turning around and sitting back at her place. 

She picks up the plate and turns her head to me.

"Why don't you join me?" She speaks by tapping the ground. 

Part of me wants to sit there with her, listen to her and talk to her but part of me doesn't want to feel like I'm feeling right now. 

This girl…

I just said what I've never told anyone. 

'Just sit there if you want to.' This is making me angry. I scoff before sitting at a distance from her.

I sat here because the cold breeze is having a great effect on me, not because of her!

I see by the corner of my eyes, she takes a bite of that bloody cake.

"You know,"

"Once I had a very bad experience with ice creams. When I was like eleven years old, I was eating a chocolate ice cream and I felt some crunchy solid thing in my mouth." She says, not looking at me.

"And that solid thing was a frozen cockroach." She speaks and a laugh escapes her mouth.

Cockroach! I would've eaten it though. 

"Can you believe it, how disturbing it could get if someone like me, who HATES cockroaches, chews it."

"And from that day I never ate ice creams, especially the chocolate ones." She pauses as she shoves another bite of the chocolate cake in her mouth.

Can't believe someone is eating a cake in front of me, and I'm not saying anything… 

"But then after some weeks, I thought if that ice cream manufacturer mistaked, it doesn't mean every ice cream manufacturer will make the same mistake." 

"And then one day,"

"I built up the courage and ate it, the ice cream. And you know what?" She says, looking at me.

"It was so tasty." She finishes with a smile. 

I just look at her, her smile. I study that her face has some fine lines but it suits her. 

This human is right actually. 

That poison wasn't blessed, therefore, it didn't kill me. 

But the cake hasn't had any faults. It was the poison and her...

Can't believe I'm thinking like this.

"Emma, I…" 

My eyes trail to the faded marks on her upper arm.

 Is it done by me?! On the day of her orientation? 

"Does it…" 

"Does it hurt?" I speak.

She looks at me with a 'huh?' expression but soon realizes what I am talking about.

"It's fine, just sometimes I have to stop the work when the pain increases." She says looking away.

'You're an asshole!' Can't deny but I feel something strange when she says it. 

Guilt?

I inhale sharply before speaking,

"I shouted at you tomorrow and today as well,"

"I thought the file would be wrong or something. I didn't know you know Arabic." I speak, changing the topic.

"So, the file wasn't rejected?" She asks.

"No, it wasn't." I replied and she giggled. 

"Why are you laughing?!" I spat. 

"I thought you were shouting at me because the file rejected," 

"But anyways, I did it. That means no chance of getting rejected." She says, shrugging her shoulders. 

"But who told you that I saved Miranda?" I ask. 

She looks up at the moon and speaks.

"Miranda." 

Miranda told her!? 

It's hard to believe.

 I look at her and narrow my eyes, this human is so clever, she must've manipulated her. 

Emma, if you really are a part of that, I will kill you!

I sigh as I feel a twig in my heart. 

"Why didn't you go home?" I ask after a while.

She looks at me and I feel nervousness around her. 

"Uh, my roommate isn't home today so." She speaks. 

Her roommate? I thought she lived alone. 

Wait, is her roommate a guy!? 'Why do you care?'

"So, I didn't want to be alone there, therefore, I'm staying here today." She speaks looking away.

She's afraid to live alone. What a pity.

"Why are you laughing?" She spats.

I immediately thinned my lips, I didn't realize I was laughing. 

I look at her, she tucks her strand of hair behind her ear. And I feel something in my heart.

What's this? 

"I'M NOT LAUGHING." I shout at her, standing up from the place. 

She promptly stands up as well, she looks concerned. Why? 

I don't need anyone to worry about me.

"Kin-" 

"SHUT UP!" I yelled and left with my lightning speed.

I stop at my bedroom. I close my eyes to lessen the overwhelming emotions.

Her brown eyes. Bullshit.

The way she looks at me with her innocent eyes. This is bullshit !!

Her smile. Stop it!

She is just another selfish bitch!!

I feel my body getting heated up even more.