47. Not, Barmaid, you are my Mermaid

Ivan Shirk, who witnessed their romance, finally felt happy for his friend to open up his mind toward the girl. Ivan was stopping Nora from time to time not to disturb their romance.
Dev asked Akshara again, “What’s your name? How do I call you?”
Akshara replied in frustration, “Name? I am just a barmaid. Men call me wench, wine lady, damsel and with all low names. I am none of your concern. Don’t bother it.”
Dev listened to her disheartened answer and tried to pursue her, “A Barmaid! You look like a mermaid in this dress. Are you Siren...?”
Akshara replied repulsive in her action, “I am not siren or horn... Oh my god, move away... You are heavy to carry.”
Dev smirked with his words, “You will get used to me as time goes by... What is your name?”
Akshara answered with much frustration in her words to him, “Why does it bother you... What do you think of me…? Do you think I am a wench like people here call me and I will readily come with you at your command…? I won’t. You may own this kingdom, but not me.”
Dev asked her with knitted eyebrows, “Do I appear to you like a man calling you to enjoy your physical pleasure? I know you have a feeling for me. But I don’t know why you are hiding it”
Akshara answered him, “I heard you are the crown prince. Now I am just a barmaid, your so-called Wine Lady with the lost memories. I am no match for you to serve you and your kingdom.” she finished her words with a heavy heart and tried to convince Dev and his perusal of her inner heart’s emotions.
Dev placed his hands under her head to push her towards him, to shut her mouth with his kiss. Though Akshara tried, the wine effect of Eternal Bliss caused her to surrender to him and she spoke in the middle, thinking she was talking in her mind. “I wanted to come, but I can’t. Try to understand my situation. You can enjoy me since you own every inch of this land.”
“Since every inch of this land is mine, you are mine, too. I don’t have any intention of bringing any disgrace to you. I want you to take my hand to share my life until deaths do us apart.” Dev replied.
A tear escaped her eyes to his words, Dev continued, “I will honour you with a respected title. Trust me.”
Akshara replied, “Only trust can’t seek anything. Kingdom will curse you for your actions.”
“Let all the curses fall on me. I will crush that all if you are with me, my true love,” Dev looked into her eyes.
Akshara embraced him by wrapping her hands around his neck and looking into his eyes with a smile on her lips.
Slowly her clouded mind calmed down and kissed him in return to mark him that he had won her heart. Dev took the chance and transferred some of his jinxes to her to regain her memories and strength by pressing her roots of the brain with his hands under her neck.
Akshara looked deeply into his icy-blue eyes. She felt a sudden sparkle in her veins and breached their action. “Why are doing like this...”
Dev placed his hands around her waist and asked her, “Like what...?”
Akshara caught his hands around her waist and replied to him, “Like this... Others might misunderstand us... That we are sharing... that kind of relationship...”
Dev smiled at her, “Tell me the time when we have not shared that kind of relationship since we met?”
It left Akshara with a lack of words. Her heart bleated as fast as it can and was startled by the voice of Nora. An unknown fear occupied the mind of Akshara again as she felt a little dizzy, lacking some oxygen resulting from Dev’s intimacy.
Nora shouted to her extreme, “Dev... What the hell is happening...?”
Akshara asked Dev while panting, “What do you want from me…?”
Dev responded by removing the hairs on her face and said with eyes to eyes, “Love in return…”
The crowd pushed Nora away from that place and left her in the opposite corner. It bubbled Nora in anger toward Akshara and it made her build an evil grudge against Akshara, even killing her.
Akshara tricked him with her words and gestured as if something got into her mind. “Don’t… You arrange this party for...?”
Dev replied quickly with a bright face, “You are quick-witted... How did you find this...? I arranged this masquerade party only for you... Are you enjoying it? I can see that with your outfit’s choice?”
“This outfit? Is it from yours?”
“Of course, my eternal bliss.”
Akshara widened her smile and moved her lips towards his earlobes. Dev got a different feel from her action since no girl touched him that close and her action thrilled Dev in surprise while Akshara roared at his ears, “Move away...”
Dev got onto his feet and helped Akshara to get up. “Come with me... To my castle”
Karen was searching here and there for a glimpse of Akshara and finally reached the place where Akshara and Dev were cuddling each other.
Akshara was nodding her head negatively, which untied the mask over her head and the mask fall behind to reveal her beautiful face. Dev grabbed her wrist and took her inside the Ice Cave Bar.
Karen cannot be penetrated through the crowd, was struggling to look at the face of the girl. When the crowd finally let Karen pass, he rushed his foot toward the girl in the corner who figured exactly like Karen’s love, Akshara. But a hand from behind Karen stopped him.
Ivan talked to Karen, “Hey man... What are you looking over there; it’s a conflict between my friend and his lover... It happens every time they met.”
Ivan took Karen to the corner of the table to greet him with wine. Karen replied to Ivan, “Sorry... I have mistaken that girl for my lover...”