56. For design sake

The Sun and Shine of Akshara chirped in the ice castle of Ayruzglow. The outlook of the beauty of Ice castle which gave her a unique feel of chillness under her nerves mesmerized Akshara.
Ivan asked Dev, who was coming behind Akshara, “Dev! Where do you plan to make her stay?”
Dev followed her like a lunatic and was stopped by Ivan. “Where else... in my room?”
Both Akshara and Ivan turned back and gave Dev a sharp look. “What... your room?”
Akshara replied, “No... I can’t be in your room...? Does this castle lack a guest room?”
Ivan asked Akshara, “What is the guest room?”
Akshara replied, “Hm... The guest room is a room for your guests... Like me, the person not related but known the owner of the house.”
Dev blocked her in a place with his hands on her adjacent sides. His action shocked Akshara and Ivan rolled his eyes to turn his face away from them. “Dev, hold your romance... I am still here”
Dev replied to Ivan without taking his eyes away from Akshara, “Why are you still here... Get lost, you firefly”
Ivan scoffed, “Well, yes, I should have gone already.” He hurried his way to his room while Akshara shouted, “Ivan... don’t leave me behind... Ivan... Ivan?”
Ivan bid her, “Good night Axe... Let us see in the morning.”
Dev asked her, “How did he call you...?”
Akshara replied quickly, “He called me Axe.”
Dev asked her, “What’s mean by that...?”
Akshara replied with much irritation, “That’s my name. You don’t even know my name, but you wanted me to stay in your life.”
Dev asked her again, “What is your name?”
Ivan stood before his room and laughed vigorously, “You don’t even know her name? But made her come this far... Hahaha.”
Dev jinxed Ivan to move inside his room and the door closed with a bang sound by just wavering his hands and it dazed Akshara to witness such action of Dev. Dev looked deeply into the eyes of Akshara to ask, “What’s your name?”
Akshara turned to look at him, who was indeed too close to her, and replied to him, “Akshara...”
Dev repeated by lowering his eyes to her lips, “Nice name... Akshara... Then why did you want to be called Axe?”
Akshara replied with fearful eyes by guessing his motive for kissing her, “That’s my wish. I don’t have to get permission from any.”
Dev took the amulet on her neck and said, “This is my token of love... That gave me all the access to you. Only I have all the access to you, I must cause even a frown on your face. Feed this in your mind.”
Akshara pushed him away. “You can’t own me unless I wish to be yours...”
Dev replied, “I know... I can wait. Wait till you accept my love. I know you too are in love with me, but I don’t know what’s stopping you from accepting me fully?”
Akshara turned her face away from him and said sarcastically, “I don’t love you.”
The amulet on her chest glowed and Dev smirked, “The amulet is made of my body parts — my dragon scale, my feather, and my hair. So you can’t escape from me. It will glow when you feel love in your heart for me. I also can locate where you are whenever you are away from me.”
Akshara frowns at her brows. “I don’t want it. Take it back.”
Dev told her, “You can try; you don’t need anyone’s permission.”
Akshara tried to remove the amulet from her neck. The amulet was attached to her neck tightly, not letting Akshara throw it away. She was exhausted from the amulet and looked angry making her ears turn red.
Dev got her face with his hands and told, “Sara, you can’t take the amulet from you, since it reads the inner feelings of your heart. You love me, so it won’t be removed. It’s bonded with your soul. If you are intending to take it away, it won’t let you. Does it indeed bother you? You want me to take this away from you?”
His caring words touched Akshara and calmed down a while, but pretended to be angry with him. “You saved me to escape from hell. I owe you, so I am keeping it. Also, I like the design since it is heart-shaped, my favourite blue colour. I am keeping it only for design sake not out of love for you... mmph”
Dev sealed her lips with hers with a deep passionate kiss and the amulet shined with bright blue light, confirming her love for him. Akshara broke the tangles of their lips and took the amulet in her palms and wondered about the light emission.
“You have installed torched into the amulet, it turned on automatically. I don’t know why and when it would turn on.”
Dev felt happy to watch Sara wondering about his token of love and in a little while he grabbed her wrists to rush her inside his room, “Come with me.”
His actions shocked Akshara and resisted going with him after knowing his intentions. She grabbed one pillar of the ice castle and attached it like a leech. “No... Devil, I am not coming with you. No, I am not sleeping with you.”
Dev halted and turned to look at her with a tilted head and cunning smirk. “What did you say now?”
Soon Akshara sensed another meaning of her words. “No... I mean to say, I can’t be with you in your room. It’s too quick in our relationship. It is improper for a woman and man to spend the night under a roof until they are legally...”
Dev threw her against the wall; caged her hands behind her and moved closer. “What do you say for the last night? We stayed together, tangling each other and making love in dreams.”
Akshara closed her eyes in blush, the amulet glow again reflecting her inner feeling, “How did you know about my dreams?”
“I too shared your dreams, it was... eternal,” Dev husked in her ears which made her blush, “I know you enjoyed it as well. I liked your blushful face. Sara! You are killing me with your innocent beauty.”
His words tingled her veins to burst with lust and awakened her desire for him, Dev released his hold on her hands, Akshara rested her hands on his shoulders, foreheads joined and talked back, “Devil... it may arouse peace-less situation among people of your kingdom. It’s better, too, if we maintain some distance for a while.”
Dev, without parting his forehead, replied, “The words–YOURS, MINE don’t exist anymore. What is yours is mine, what is mine is yours. It’s always OURS. Tell me, how long is ‘for a while meant?”
Akshara answered with a much deeper sense, “It’s until everyone in the kingdom accepts me to be with you. It’s when I accept you as my husband whole-mindfully without hurting or waking any rivalry.”