CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE
I was too shocked to say anything at first, his stare immobilizing me.
“What were you doing?” He growled, his tone deeper than I'd ever heard it.
“Um.. nothing,” I squeaked, quickly rearranging my clothes and covering myself.
He took in deep breaths and walked away from me, pacing around the room like he was having difficulty processing his thoughts.
He walked back to the side of the bed I lay on, his focus on me again.
“You shouldn't do this, okay?”
“But why? It's not like you're ever going to touch me and I'm not allowed to be with anyone else so am I supposed to be a virgin forever?” I vented, really seeing the sexually bleak future I might have.
“I didn't mean the whole ‘surrogacy’ thing. I'll never be able to get another woman pregnant,” he answered flippantly.
I sat up, the buzz from my orgasm dissipating.
“So why did you say that? Why are you even trying so hard to make me hate you?” I asked him, genuinely concerned.
He looked at me with those piercing eyes of his
“Because you should! I'm a monster and you shouldn't be with me but I'm also a selfish man so I can't let you be with anyone else!” he snapped, his hand going to his head.
I stood up and went to him, my body on autopilot.
“Monster? Why would you say that? I mean, you're not completely human but that doesn't mean that the other part of you is horrible. It's all about what you choose to do with it,”
“You're just saying that because I've scared you to hell and back,” he grumbled, making me laugh out loud.
“You did a good job with that, I won't lie but all it did was make me more determined to figure you out. It's better you're opening up on your own, I was getting tired of the bipolarity,” I said, holding his big hand in my small ones.
“I'm really sorry about that. I've been trying so hard to push you away from me but I swear, I can't anymore,”
“Oh really? What made you change your mind?” I asked him, wondering about it myself because this was so out of the blues.
He took my hand and made us sit on the bed, his eyes following me as I followed his lead. Before answering me, he swiped a strand of hair away from my face, our eyes connecting in the process.
“Well, kissing you earlier was one of my weakest moments. I've always wanted to know what those plump, red lips taste like and I was successful at resisting them but I just couldn't and the experience shattered every bit of fight I had in me. So this is me deciding to be absolutely selfish. I'll chase your heart till the ends of the earth and Zorvath, until you're mine in every way and I'll imprint my heart on yours so hard it will be difficult to distinguish which is whose. You don't have to feel what I feel right now because I know I've hurt you with my actions while trying to keep my distance but I'll spend as long as possible getting you to forgive and love me back,” he confessed, his words gripping me in a chokehold.
When Corbin had mentioned how much Xavier felt for me on the evening of his coronation tests, I'd thought the man was just yapping but hearing these words come out of him, after everything he'd said and done these past few days confused the hell out of me.
One part of me was ecstatic, over the moon really because I can't lie, I like him.
Deep down inside of me, I crave for us to be endgame but there's been so many things between us and I always thought my heart was too foolish for wanting such with him.
But now, I'm not angry at him for what happened to Brendan because he's not responsible for it and he's not being an asshole anymore so the only thing standing between us is me.
On the other hand, I was scared of him flipping over again, like he did out of the blues earlier. I mean, one moment he's taking me out on dates and rescuing me from his horrible father and the next minute, he decided to treat me like crap.
“So you want us to give this a chance for real? It's not gonna be a contract anymore?” I asked tentatively.
“Give me a minute,” he said and disappeared into thin air. I'm never gonna get used to that, I swear.
I adjusted myself on the bed, propping the pillows so I could relax while waiting for him as my mind went over the incidents of tonight.
The fact that he'd been torturing us just because he thought he was a monster shocked me.
Why would he even believe that? I mean, I've seen his ky’rhan decimate people without much stress but the alien can also be such a goofball.
The real monster was his father who tortured a small boy for what he was made to be. The more I thought about it, the more I pitied him and wanted to make him see himself in a better way.
He appeared out of thin air again and turned on the lights in the room.
“This is the contract, you can burn it or whatever but I want you to know it's hereby null and void. From now on, we'll take things at our own pace and make this a proper relationship. That's if you're okay with that,” he said as he handed over the piece of paper he'd Forcefully made me sign.
I was beyond shocked at how much he was willing to do to prove he was serious about this.
“You realize we're still married in real life, like, we can't undo that one. Not that I want to, I've just kind of clogged them together as the same thing,"I spluttered.
“Oh, we're going to have our own wedding, just the two of us. Something that isn't dominated by my people's sense of entitlement and like I said, only if you want that,”
“Yes, I really do,” I replied excitedly.
It was weird but I felt a tiny fire growing in my heart at the thought of us being together for real.
“So, can I sleep on your bed tonight?”
Wait, was Xavier Seth Night actually asking for permission?
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