65. I am your entirety

The day passed with the tiresome work of Akshara. The pearls of her tears rolled from her dark circled eyes, which once used to be exotic and admired by Dev.
Nora had little conscience within her dragon scales, "It’s enough for today. Leave my room; you are dusting my exuberant room with your ugly, crying face. Get out of my sight."
Akshara hurried her way to the dungeon, forced her body against the walls of the dungeon, and cried loud enough to wake the drowsy, ferocious beast.
Akshara doesn’t even mind the ferocious animal’s presence and thinks, "I don’t mind being eaten by any beast. I prefer death to live in this hell. The Devil is to be blamed for my condition."
She closed her eyes hard and tried to search for Dev in her dreams. Akshara ran to the shadow of a man who exactly looked like Dev. The shadow dissolved in the air, deceiving her into a vein.
Her tiresome mind reflected the image of Dev in all the empty corners of the realm of dreams. Akshara ran after them, touching, hugging, and hoping to get hold of Dev.
Akshara cried loudly, "Devil, please show up. I need you terribly. It’s like... like my soul has been sucked out. Please show up; I won’t leave you ever, even after all my memories are back, even if you throw me away from your heart."

Akshara knelt, burying her face in her hands, and sobbed heavily.
"Abandon me,
Ignore me,
After you killed me,
With your love!

My soul will reach out,
Because you are my only world,
I am calling out
The love is deep in my heart...

You bind my soul
With your endless love,
Now dissolved into nowhere,
Lead me to where you are in the world.

You are the devil.
Tempted me to befall
If love traps you,
I’m here. Where is my trap?"
Akshara whimpered constantly, singing mournfully when her sweet, chilling voice reached the ears of Dev, who had just now tried to catch slumber after struggling to rebuild the energy shield to conceal the evil. He soon rushed his legs towards her.
Dev smiled through his eyes as soon as his eyes spotted her and readily took her in his arms and twirled her around, "Sara... What stops you from sleeping on time? Why did you take this much time to meet me in your dreams?"
Akshara felt relieved to be in his fold and stayed in his arms for a while, forgetting her anger and frustration with him. She wept like a baby, crying loudly.
Dev wanted to look at her face, so he loosened his grip on her, but Akshara was attacking her body next to him like a leech that attached to its host to suck the blood.
"Let me see your beautiful face," Dev demanded. Akshara shook her head no and tightened her embrace. Dev was elated in her embrace; his face was fully covered by her flocks of hair and he talked in her ears, "Do you miss me that badly?"
Akshara nodded her head quickly, letting her flocks penetrate his nostrils and asked him, "Devil, you are surely a reincarnation of the Devil himself... Why didn’t you inform me about your departure? I’m so angry at you. I wanted to kill you, and I wanted to punish you for abandoning me alone."
Dev pulled her and cupped her face and replied by looking into her eyes, "I was in a hurry... Well, huh, I am so sorry for not... Sara, how have you been these days? I am worried about you."
Akshara hides her face by looking down, but Dev holds her chin and raises her face to look, "What has happened? You look skinny like you were depleted of food. "
Akshara replied, "I am fine... My eyes were tired from staring in the direction of your arrival for a long time, so I got dark circles under my eyes. I am worried about your health, so I don’t prefer eating. So it’s your entire fault."
"Sara, I am the crown prince of this Ayruzglow kingdom. There are many people to take care of me both in and out of the castle. Also, I have your brother Ivan with me. Stop worrying about me and take a little care of yourself. I don’t want to see my bride sick with me." Dev explained to her with raised eyebrows, while Akshara decided not to reveal her sufferings to him for now.
"Shh, don’t talk; let me get the warmth from you since your castle is made of ice." Akshara giggled and embraced him tightly. Dev held her for some time and removed her hair from her shoulder, then sided to the other side and placed his kiss on the crook of her neck.
Akshara hissed seductively, signalling to Dev that she wanted more. Dev too understood her wanting and kissed her more until they both ripped each other’s clothes. Dev was more indulged in lust for her; he started to rip her clothes off her body.
Akshara was frightened suddenly. "If he saw my wounds, he would then load me with questions. He might come to Ayruzglow abandoning his task assigned by the mother queen. I must not allow him."
Akshara pushed him and blushed at him, "Devil, stop, we can’t do it."
"Why not?" While Dev questioned her, she pulled him towards her to seal his lips with her kiss.
Akshara parted her lips and told him, "Uh, if we do it in our dreams, then you might lose curiosity about me in real."
"How do you think you can ease the lust appetite of a few centuries-old dragons just by a kiss, huh?" While his hands were busy ripping her clothes off, he was thinking about how he could make her feel the same way he felt when he was with her in his dreams, "My curiosity about exploring you increased day by day and I don’t think I can handle the decency of seeing you in real. So, Sara, let me show you what real eternal bliss is, at least in our dreams."
Akshara started to indulge in his touch while nodding and asking him, "I want to learn some defence mechanisms."
"Why... Is there any need?" Dev asked her with curious eyes, "Don’t defend my love for you, Sara."
Akshara pulled away Dev from her, who was attached to her like a leech who never stopped sucking her. She caught him by the shoulder to stop his actions, but Dev’s hands never stopped trailing over her. She told him, "How long will I be dependent on someone to protect me?"
Dev seized his actions and asked her, narrowing his eyes, "Am I, someone, to you? Am I not anything to you...?"
Akshara’s heart pumped more blood into her veins, which eventually made her amulet glow, but she concealed her feelings from him, "You are... crown prince "
Dev untied his hold on her by looking at her amulet deeply and stepped back, "Crown prince to the kingdom. Who am I to you?"
The brightness increased gradually with every question, but Akshara tried all means not to express her love in words. Akshara replied to him by stepping forward, "Devil... You are a good friend"
Dev showed his palm to stop her and said, "A good friend to Ivan. Who am I to you?" Dev wanted her to open up her heart to accept her true feelings for him.
Akshara asked the same question with little disappointment by his action, "Tell me, who are you to me?"
The hasty Dev rushed towards her to hold her cheeks in his hands and crushed her soft cheeks with his hands. "I am your everything. I am the only one who can make you happy, the only one who can make you smile, the only person who can make your heart beat faster. I am everything to you. You are mine. Do you hear me? "
Akshara nodded with a blushed smile and rubbed her cheeks to ease the pain, "Devil... it’s hurting."
Dev calmed down his anger and felt sorry for being hard on her, "Oh. Your attitude of not confessing your love got on to my nerves." Dev rubbed her cheeks gently and asked again, "Does it still hurt?"
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