What am I getting myself into?
A bullet on her head should have been easy but damn those eyes and the way she stared through my soul. It's like she’s undressing me without seeing how ugly I become.
She's pure that much I knew.
‘And besides, I can’t afford to give up my time and the progress of what I had started just to do my laundry and some petty chores.’ I thought justifying my actions.
While eating her breakfast she managed to write a letter to her friend saying she’s okay and well taken care of. She needs to run again because someone recognized her from her village, etc., etc. Like seriously. Who is she? And it looks like she’s running from someone.
Maybe that's the reason why she fainted last night when I say those words. It's obvious she's not afraid to die but just hearing those words from me knocked her down.
She's not afraid to die, that was a given.
But she's afraid to be found by the people she
Alaric's POVShould I knock? Or just enter her room? It was my place after all, right? But she would be mad at me if I barged in without knocking. Why am I even afraid of what she thinks and feels about me? What if she is still awake or nude under the sheet?The last thought set my rigid body aflame, spreading like wildfire on a winter season that eager to break through the cold and barren land and create chaos and destroy anything it licks.This is bad, really bad.‘For f*ck's sake, did I just turned into a poet?’Dang‘I’ll just give it to her in the morning.’ Decision made, I started towards my room but stopped short.‘What about her wrecked apartment? Should I tell her about it? Maybe I should, then maybe I could take some hints of who she is.’I have a strong feeling that she isn’t using her real name. And the reason that she did not fight or tried to run aw
It was still early in the morning when I started my day. I already had a cup of coffee and toasted bread. I was so bored that I decided to mop the kitchen floor even if it was spotless.While mopping an idea hit me, causing me to grin like a lunatic. Blame that on this lonely apartment. The silence was just too deafening and would drive me crazy if I would not make an alternative. So while cleaning the floor I hummed one of my favorite classic songs and dance with a mop on hand making it my dance partner.“When I fall in love it will be forever for I never fall in love…” I started, swaying with the wooden stick thinking it was the sexy devil in a room next to mine. I imagine we're dancing like there’s no tomorrow, a dance full of love and passion, making the world around us to blurred into nothingness.Just me and him dancing with our heart's content and desire, unhindered with the world outside. The passion burni
Alaric's POVShe's engaged.A foreign feeling shoots through me at the thought that she has someone back home. Suddenly, I want her for myself. I want her to stay with me. To never leave my side.I shook my head, in hopes to clear my head. She can't be with me. She's just my captive.My willing captive.I marched to my room before closing it with so much force I could hear the hinges rattled. ‘Why am I so pissed? I just knew the girl and my gut is telling me that she's not who she says she is.’ I thought, mentally berating myself. I sat at my computer, opening my laptop but my mind was somewhere else, nowhere near the task at hand. I felt powerful but with the woman outside my door, I felt helpless. Though, it's a different kind of helpless.The kind of helplessness that doesn't make you weak but makes you stronger.Sarah Brewer, what are doing to me?After I hacked thro
My ears were ringing as I felt my body getting suck in, back from the horrible month following the events after my father declared my upcoming nuptials months ago.I shuddered.The terror I felt the moment I knew my family was trading me and my future for their mistakes and the stigma of being guarded twenty-four-seven in fear that I would do something they don't want was overwhelming enoughI'm not a selfish person but at that time I want to be selfish for myself.I don't remember having that defining moment of clarity of my own wants but I remember the night before the wedding when my family was sleeping peacefully in their beds while all the servants were working for the big day. I remember vividly waking up in the middle of the night with no one in sight. Neither guards nor servants were in my room. That simple moment spurred me to peeked through the slits of the door with not a single person in sight.That moment, realizing that no one was wat
Naive.My family often called me naive. I don't know if I should take it as a compliment or a flaw on the never-ending list of reasons why my existence should be kept in secret. It was probably another softer word to use when calling me stupid.For years they let me believe that I'm living the best version of life yet as I broke free from the past I get to experience feelings and emotions so new to me.As soon as he was gone I ran to my room to find refuge, making myself believe that everything was all just a part of my imagination. But it's too damn impossible to look past the horror I felt when he blurted out those words.‘And your still a virgin.’Those damning words played over and over again, mocking me, making me squirm. I was only thinking about it because it's been pounded on my head since I was a kid that losing my virginity would also mean endangering my life. A simple sex could be fatal to me.But why did they have to
Alaric’s POVAfter locking the apartment door close we awkwardly stand close to each other, both of us not knowing what to do or make in this situation. To be perfectly honest either I, don’t know what to do or how to justify my weird behaviors, all I know is I want to be close to her, to protect her, and to shield her from things that terrify her.I am still in the trance of conflicting thoughts when my phone started ringing. My brows furrowed in confusion at the caller ID flashing on my phone.Then, she awkwardly clears her throat, getting my attention. “I…Uhm…should go to my room. Excuse me.” Then she runs out of my sight.I sighed.I sigh for all the things warring inside me. Hunting my family's murderer had been my only goal for the past three years but within a few days, things had been blurry to me. I started to lose track of the things that matter the most to me.I sta
I sprinted to my room flushed with a shit-eating grin plastered on my face.I think I’m already in love.Sparks. Check.Flushed cheeks. Check.Constantly thinking of him. Check.Dreaming of him. Check.Daydreaming of him. Check.The erratic beating of my heart. Double-check.Oh. My. Gosh.This is a dream come true.There’s so much happiness in my heart I’m going to burst. But at the same time, I felt scared and unsure of the future. I think it was too soon to feel these things but I don’t know it felt like it was been there all along. Did he felt the same way for me?He's an assassin. Or I thought he is. I've lived with assassins my whole life the way they move or think isn't new to me.And I'm a runaway princess.He was stuck in the past while I am running from it.I know it was bad to assume that he was still stuck in his past but that’s wha
I remembered falling asleep on Alaric’s chest after fixing me, his arms around my petite body. The lingering feeling of warmth and protection stayed even after he got up, making me giddy. His side of the bed was still warm, it means he just got up and do some errands.Last night I saw another side of Alaric. The way he held me on our date and the way he comforts me, lulling me to sleep.He had said that he found Lena and in the hospital nursing a mild concussion. I felt guilty. I should have been the one in her place, not the other way around. Why can’t they just leave me alone? Why hunt me to the end of the world? Roman doesn’t even love me to begin with.I tentatively touch the wound in my head. It still hurts but it's no longer bleeding. A furrow formed on my brow and slowly peel the band-aid on my finger that I had accidentally cut.It was already healed. It was not supposed to close that fast. Mother had been adamant t