CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
“Look, I was trying to tell her she can't come here anymore or look for me before she kissed me, I swear I didn't mean it,” Xavier explained for the umpteenth time today but I wasn't having it.
"You didn't make any move to stop her! She was completely chewing your lips and you just stood there! Just like you didn't do anything when she recruited Theresa to mock me in my own house!" i cried out, honestly fed up.
"I'm sorry about all of this, forgive me. Look, just tell me what you want me to do. I need us back to where we were before,"
"You mean nowhere? Because after that grand speech of forever and a day, you haven't done anything different except for actually talking to me like a human being,"
"I didn't want to rush or choke you, baby. I've been holding back so you won't feel overwhelmed," he explained.
He was totally different now, smaller. I didn't like it.
He came closer to me and knelt down, his posture pitiful at this point.
"Just tell me what i can do to make it better and I swear I will,"
But I was done with him for real this time.
He'd spent the last few months making my life a living hell and I was officially done. The back and forths, the rude remarks, making his people look down on me with how he treated me and placing his people over mine without any form of consideration. Now he's kissing his ex in the middle of our living room. I mean, why was she even here in the first place? I remembered Anna saying they didn't believe in cheating and considering how selfish of a species they were, it made absolute sense. I couldn't sit here and allow myself to get entangled in a lifetime of being an afterthought.
“I want out, Xavier,” I grumbled, my bed dipping as he got up and sat near me.
“Out of where? We're together for real this time, I swear it,”
“Your crown is shiny and all but I want out. I'm tired of lying here, waiting for you to realize what love actually means but it's obviously not ever going to happen. I want out!” I demanded, heaving with pent up frustration.
“I'm sorry, I can't do that. Anything but that, baby. I swear it, just ask and I'll do it,” he stated, looking at me with a deep fondness I knew he didn't feel.
“Where's Rosa?” I asked, remembering that in my state of emotional breakdown, I'd completely forgotten his promise to get her back.
“I have some soldiers on his trail. She'll be found by tomorrow,” he answered flippantly.
“And you want me to ask you for more?”
“I don't understand,”
“You can't do this one little thing you promised yet you want to give me more blank cheques,” I folded my hands as I said this, done with the tears I'd been raining down since I ran into that elevator as he chased after me with silly promises of an explanation.
“I swear, I'm on it. My men didn't see him earlier when I had sent them and the response they gave me was hidden under a pile of other messages so he's gone quite far or he's really good at hiding but we'll get him. He's a councilman and can't actually run anywhere that we won't find him so please, ask me for anything and I'll do it,” he said, a silly part of me seeing sincerity in his eyes.
“I want you to build a new school for the humans all over the world, not just the capital and hospitals too. Then allow more humans into the school Anna attends so she won't keep getting bullied as she's the only human there,” I rapped out, thinking he'd say no as he was pensive for a few seconds.
“Fine, done. Construction will begin first thing tomorrow morning and in three months, the ones in the capital will be named after you,” he promised.
“Fine. We'll talk afterwards,” I said dismissively.
I got up and left him to his thoughts, heading into the bathroom to prepare for the bed.
I walked back to the room and he was still there, waiting.
“I want to sleep,” I snapped.
“You don't want to sleep in my arms?” He asked and I ignored the hope in his eyes.
“I'd rather be chewed by sharks. Can you arrange that?” I hissed angrily and he looked as though I'd bitten him.
“You really hate me that much?” He asked incredulously.
“You? No, I don't hate you. I hate how every act of kindness from you is inherently directed to how it benefits you, I hate how everything and everyone is created to please you, it's like we're all in your own world and in a way it is so I hate that. I hate that through me, you have all these new powers and you've never appreciated me. Because of this supremacy of yours, you play with my feelings for little to no excuses every single time. One week you're an angel and the next you're like a demon from the pits of Tartarus!” I shouted, breathless after the tirade.
He breathed deeply and disappeared.
As I walked closer to the bed, I matched a wet spot, his tears.
***
As promised, the next morning, Rose was escorted by Ky’rhan soldiers, and she was nearly due for birth. The bags under her eyes were so thick that I feared she must have been on permanent crying duty.
“Tessaa,” she whisper-yelled as she saw me and I quickly ran to her, so happy to finally be with her
“Oh my God Roe! What the hell happened?” I asked as I led her to the elevator.
“He was erratic. His first direct conversation with the King was about me and it ended with the King being upset with him. So he took it out on me,”
“A pregnant woman?!” I screamed in shock, which made Roe flinch a little bit. “I'm sorry, I just don't understand how these alien men want from us,”
“Everything Tessa, they want everything this earth has to offer,” she answered cryptically, looking me in the eyes with panic.
“What do you mean?” I asked in panic, her words confusing me as well.
“They are carting off so many things over there. Food supplies, energy, oil, water, people!” She whispered, like she was scared someone was going to jump us in the elevator.
“Humans?”
“Yes, they're carting them off in pods and I don't even know what they're using them to do,” she whispered again, spiking my blood.
Now it made a little more sense.
“We have to stop them,”
“How?” She asked, scared.
“I have a plan,” I said resolutely.
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