*＊✿❀ ❀✿＊*
"Who the f#ck is Benjamin, Sera? "
A chill ran down her spine, hearing his dangerously lower voice whereas his predatory grey orbs had frozen her in her place in terror.
Seraphina was too shocked and terrified to reply to him and her silence made his anger convert into rage . He started taking his predacious steps towards her, all the while gawking into her terrified azure eyes.
"Who is Benjamin, Seraphina? " Stretching on his each and every word , he continued to remove the distance between them and now in fear, Seraphina started taking her steps back as she witnessed that deadly havoc getting closer to her but she had to halt because of her back getting pressed against her dressing mirror and now there was no backing back from her.
He gritted his teeth, watching her trying to get away from him and her that deed made his rage venomous. He closed the rational gap between their bodies and stood, towering her small fragile frame which now had started shivering slightly in fear of him.
Seraphina immediately looked down because his burning gaze was too intimidating and terrifying for her to even endure.
"If I have to repeat myself again then … " He groaned in his seething voice while glaring at her lowered head and her heartbeat dropped to its lowest when he placed his both hands on the mirror behind her, caging her body between him and that mirror.
"Then the aftermaths won't be endurable for you and him, Sera , "
Seraphina gulped hard because she knew about whom he was talking about. She fisted her palms tightly and answered.
"H.. He is my n.. new friend and c.. classmate, " She stuttered, still looking down and his gaze narrowed at her answer.
"You will not meet him from now on and will stay away from him and each and every man who is not known to me, Seraphina, " He uttered, still holding back his anger and his words finally made Seraphina slowly take her eyes upward and look at him.
"B.. But Ben is a nice and good hearted boy , " She stated in her soft trembling voice and the way she was calling him that and defending him had started Arzal's patience to start leaving him.
"He needs my help in his studies and is… "
"Enough, " He shut her up by slamming his hand on the mirror behind her.
Seraphina terribly flinched and she was sure he had cracked the mirror.
"I said you won't meet him from now on, no matter what. Are we clear here? " He spat angrily but his dominant behavior angered her too. How could he try to control her life this badly?
"No, I will not break my friendship with him, " She retorted back and her answer was enough to turn him voracious.
He leaned his face closer to her, almost brushing their lips.
"Then I promise I'll break every damn bone in his body and… " He halted and peered into her eyes.
"Will even take his life if I have to, right in front of your own eyes, Princess, "
Her eyes blazed up in angry tears at the end of his words.
"What is wrong with you? How can you be so inhuman? H.. He is just my friend who has done nothing wrong to you, " She accused him in her trembling voice.
"Him trying to even think about getting closer to you is enough for me to shred his existence into pieces, Sera "
Seraphina was beyond speechless by his confession. His gaze had turned venomously dark.
"So, if you want him alive then break this so called f#cking friendship and whatever is between you or . . .. " He brushed his lips on hers, featherly and whispered, gazing intently into her glossy orbs.
"I won't hesitate for a second to take another life for you, Princess, "
Tears aggressively streamed down from her eyes, staining her flushed cheeks. He was so brutal and barbaric that he didn't even think before taking someone's life and she was the reason behind it.
"What do you want from me? " Her lips finally dared to ask him that question.
An evil smirk crept on his face, hearing her question, making him look more sinister. He leaned back his head and gazed into her shimmering eyes while grinning.
"I want every beat of your heart, every breath of your life, "
Seraphina wordlessly heard his vicious reply. He again took his face closer to her, breathing into her air.
"Every inch of your skin, every ounce of your existence, Seraphina Aries Miller, " He completed his words, still smirking deviously and Seraphina was too startled to counter back.
"Now enough with this quarreling, " He leaned back and she just stared at him.
"You won't ever meet him or if you aren't capable of doing it, then don't worry, I will do it on your behalf, " He chuckled and Seraphina clenched her jaw at his wickedness.
"But you are not allowed to get closer to any other man who is not me, Princess, for any purpose, " He declared in his authoritative tone and then turned around.
"I am waiting for you at the dinner table. Come and have your dinner, " With that he left her room.
Seraphina gazed at his disappearing figure and then closed her eyes tightly which started falling the tears of anger, pain, hurt, frustration but most importantly helplessness. She was beyond helpless in front of her fate, in front of that cruel human.
"Here, have this, Seraphina, " Rebecca said, trying to extend the dessert to her.
Currently they were sitting on their dining table and were having their dinner. He was sitting opposite Seraphina.
"No, thank you, Mrs Grayson . I am already done, " Seraphina denied her, which made Arzal slowly take his eyes upward from his plate and look at her.
He was completely aware of her every action, the way she was ignoring him from the second she had come for the dinner and didn't even look at him for once. Her eyes were down all the time and most importantly, she had barely eaten anything. She had taken a very little amount of food and even left it unfinished.
"But Seraphina, you haven't eaten anything, dear. You have barely touched your food. What's wrong? Are you feeling well? " Rebecca asked, looking at that poor girl sitting beside her whose eyes were downcast.
No, she wasn't alright. She was feeling suffocated. She was feeling angry, hurt, afraid because his words, his threatening, whatever happened in her room before the dinner, every single thing was roaming in her mind badly. She wanted to take those things out, scream at him, yell at him, tell him how much he was hurting and breaking her but she was vulnerable, vulnerable to the extent that she was not even allowed to say those things to herself.
Seraphina slightly shrugged her head and answered.
"I.. I am fine, Mrs Grayson. Thank you for your concern, " She said politely and got up from her chair and still looking down, she uttered.
"Good night, "
And with that, she turned around and left that place and his gaze just keenly observed her every action.
After she disappeared from his sight, his eyes trailed towards her plate which was almost looking untouched, making him sighed heavily. He dropped the spoon of food he was holding on his plate and then got up from his seat.
"Arzal, what happened? Why are you… ? "
"I am also done, " He halted Rebecca and then left the place, leaving his own plate almost full with food.
The night had wore its deepest shade of darkness as it was almost middle of the night. Everyone and everything was silent, every pair of eyes were probably drowned in their sleep but those grey eyes were wide open because they had no calmness, no peace in them. They wanted to get some sleep but weren't capable of it and today they were beyond restless, after what had happened in her room.
He sighed heavily, staring at that dark sky of the night from his balcony and then stepped inside his room . He opened his bed's drawer and took out that dark- tiny glass bottle which was the only source of his sleep, every night .
He opened its cap and tried to take out its content in his palm but stopped when his mind again started flashing images of tears in those beautiful azure eyes. How afraid and hurt they were looking. How much he had hurted and terrified her. He knew that's how he was. He was a cunning merciless sinner but even now that sinner inside him had started feeling restless after knowing how much he had broken her that innocent soul.
A sharp breath escaped from his mouth. He capped the bottle and without using its content , he placed it back in his drawer and walked out of his room, in search of his real calmness and peace.
He stood in front of her door and with a soft push, he opened her door because it was unlocked. He stepped inside the room, which was engulfed with darkness and the only source of light was the dim table lamp which was present beside the bed and was on.
After wandering all over in that darkness, his restless eyes finally fell on his peace, who was present in her bed.
He walked towards her carefully and then looked at her whose body was curled up, her head was leaned against her teddy's shoulder which was present beside her. Her one arm was wrapped around her teddy bear and the other was placed on her abdomen where he saw her holding something.
Her eyes were closed. She was asleep but the table lamp beside the bed had made it possible for him to see those tears still rolling down from the corner of her eyes. Those tears and their stains on her slightly pink cheeks. She had cried herself to her sleep and even her closed eyes were still shedding tears . That painfully he had broken that beautiful innocuous doll.
Arzal suspired and then placed the tray of food he had brought for her on the table beside the bed because he knew she hadn't even eaten properly. He gazed at her tear stained cheeks which made his chest ache and then something caught his attention which really stabbed him harshly.
She was holding her and her brother's photo frame in her hand which was placed on her abdomen. They both were looking so happy in that picture. She was looking like she had her entire world in her arms.
She was right, he had really taken everything away from her in just some mere seconds. Gulit wasn't something he had ever felt after doing anything to anyone but right at that moment, her broken state was making him feel that feeling of guilt. In his selfish motives, he had really started ruining her but he couldn't help it. He wasn't capable of controlling his own emotions when it came to her and even after knowing that in the end, his vicious motives for her were going to wreck and taint her completely, he wasn't still not capable of letting her go away from him, not even for a moment , let alone forever.
Arzal bent down his head and tried to make her lay down comfortably on the bed. He tried to take that photo frame from her hold which made Seraphina immediately wake up from her sleep and then slowly opened her eyes.
In that darkness, her teary eyes became visible to those grey orbs of his which made her eyes fill with more tears. Seraphina clutched that photo frame more tightly and just silently gazed at him. All the tears which started rolling down from her cheeks made it clear for him how much he had hurted her. How much he had terrified her.
Not a single word came out from both of their mouths but their eyes didn't dare to leave each other until Seraphina noticed his gaze softening by watching her eyes, like her tears were really affecting him but why would it be when he himself had given her those tears?
Their gazes bored into each other's trances until Seraphina witnessed him leaning his face more close to her but neither she flinched , nor she got away, she just closed her eyes slowly and waited for him to engulf into his darkness but he halted in his action when he saw her to tightly shut her eyes.
Seraphina waited to feel his warm lips on her but it didn't happen, instead she felt his warm breathing tickling on her face which made her to slowly open her eyes again and then their gazes fastened with each other.
Their faces were only an inch apart from each other. Their breathing collided whereas their gazes were fixed on each other but still not a single word dared to come out from both of their sealed lips and broke that cavernous silence prevailing between them.
Continuously falling her tears, her shimmering eyes continued to stare at him until Seraphina noticed a sudden kind of emotion started emerging into his eyes but before she could understand it, he pulled back and straightened his stature.
Seraphina clutched that photo frame more tightly whereas her eyes burnt up in more tears when she saw him turning around and straight walked towards the door to leave her alone, to endure that pain all alone.
Her blurry vision waited for him to step outside of that closed door but he stopped . She saw him halting before her door for a while and then noticed him clenching his fist vigorously.
She didn't know what he was feeling in that moment, what actually she was feeling in that moment ? She just knew that if he left her alone, then her already broken pieces of her being would be shattered more badly.
Her eyes waited for him to shatter the last ounce of her existence by leaving her alone but just in a blink of an eye, before she could process anything, Seraphina saw him dashing towards her and then without any prior warning or anything, she felt him crashing his warm lips against hers in urgency and pushed her back on the bed.
And right at that moment, she finally understood one thing very clearly, he wasn't the one who was tainting her but she was actually the one who needed to get tainted by him entirely, fully and in every possible way by him and only him.
*＊✿❀ ❀✿＊*
Hey! Hope you all are well. Just want to inform, you can reach to me through Instagram. My username is @taevya369 on Instagram and there you will get notified in advance about my announcements related to my all ongoing and upcoming books.
Till then
Love you, take care 💜