Clad in a black jeans and a yellow crop top, Zia was combing her hair. Today their college was leaving for the tour, so she was getting ready for it. Everything looked okay except her inner self because with each passing second, her heart was turning numb and empty without him. They both didn't talk after her last encounter with him at the parking lot. Even yesterday in college, they both didn't even look at each other, let alone talking. Things were turning more messy between them, instead of getting resolved. She was in no mood to go on this college tour but she was still going for Riley's sake as Riley told her that she would go only with her, so Zia couldn't deny her. Besides, she needed to know what exactly her dear husband was going to do there."Are you ready?" Zia turned around and saw her mother standing at the door with a smile on her face. Zia beamed back a bit and nodded.Cia entered her room and walked towards her daughter."My child is looking beautiful," Cia caressed h

"Look there….that lake is so beautiful," Riley pointed towards the lake. Zia looked at it and just tried to force a smile. Both the girls were wandering that entire place with other students and teachers. They had come to a mountain area for their tour and it was really very beautiful. The weather was even very comfortable and cosy. They were roaming that place with their tour guide. Everyone seemed to enjoy roaming that place except her because her entire mind was all over that one single person. They were wandering for more than hours now but Zia didn't see him even for once. Where was he? Shouldn't he be with other teachers and professors here? Then why wasn't he here?"Zia, let's take a picture there. Look the view behind is so beautiful," Zia heard telling her who was gazing at an open ground where the sky was looking very ethereal. Zia swallowed and couldn't say no to Riley because she knew she had already ruined Riley's happiness by taking her own messed up problems here with

"Will you stop blushing like a creep and tell me what exactly happened between you both?" Riley asked frowning while watching a flushed Zia. Her cheeks were tinting with a pink hue. She was blushing like a maniac.Riley rolled her eyes and hit her with a pillow. Zia snapped back into reality. They both were sitting on their bed as it was the nighttime and everyone had gone to sleep in their respective rooms.Zia turned her head and saw a smirking Riley."Welcome back, Mrs Karlson," she taunted her, earning a frown from Zia."Would you like to tell me what kind of patch up happened between you and our dear professor in his room, all alone for almost two hours?" Her cheeks again hued, at her words but she shrugged herself and answered."Nothing happened," Zia lied while snatching that pillow from Riley's hold and then hugged it. Riley narrowed her eyes on her."You liar….." she tackled her on the bed and Zia hissed badly, feeling that soreness in between her thighs. Riley smirked again

"Everything has settled there. Nobody is ever going to suspect Zia," Damien informed Zale, earning a nod from him. After whatever happened that night, the campus authority ended the tour and took the students back to their homes. Every single student and teacher was stunned, afraid and even cried when they saw William's lifeless body. That night, when everyone started returning back to their rooms, a student saw William's body and she immediately informed everyone about it. The police came and started their investigation, but they got nothing except that he fell from the rooftop in his completely inebriated state and lost his life. They concluded, he might have slipped on the edge of the rooftop because of his intoxication and lost his balance. After further investigation, they found that William had brought alcohol with him in his backpack secretly on the tour and there he drank it. Nobody even got the slightest evidence against her or anyone else involved in it as Damien made sure

"And I believe I will be the only person to possess your existence, mi vida……"Shock was an understatement, Zia was startled by hearing his answer. It made her feel like she was seeing her obsessor…an obsessor who was madly obsessed with her.She blinked in order to process his words. Zia leaned back and broke their eye contact. She swallowed as she felt like after his confession, her throat turned dry. Damien silently observed her every reaction. He understood that she had gotten a glimpse of his side which he never wanted her to witness."I told you…you're not going to like my answer,"His voice gained her attention back at him. Zia saw him grinning casually which made her sigh. For a hot second, she felt like she was watching a stranger in front of her. That person was nothing like her Damien who always thought about her before himself. That person felt like too selfish and too cruel to be true but she knew her Damien was not selfish and cruel. Her Damien was a warm and gentle hea