Your words mean something,
While eyes convey something else.

What made you so messed up,
Is making me question myself.

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"Why your majesty! Why did you ruin me! What is your damn problem!!"

Were the first words that left her mouth when she came back to consciousness.
Tears of frustration were leaking without permission and hands closed in fists.

In contrast to her chaotic self, he sat next to her bed in complete calmness.
His elbows resting on his thighs and hands interlocked in front.

His eyes staring back at her helpless ones, refusing to show any emotion.
She shouted at him, cursed at him but nothing was able to get out a reaction from him.

Only when he spoke next did her angry self lost her control.

"The police is waiting outside to get your statement. Refrain from lying"

She just couldn't hold it.
Crossing over her bed she roughly grabbed his collars and nearly shouted at him.

"You played with me!! You Bas****!! This was all a game for you, right? Tell me are you satisfied now!! Is your big ego finally satisfied after seeing me like this? Huh? Tell me!!"

She was harshly pushing him, hitting him. Not caring about his power nor position.

"Just get out!! I don't want to see you!!"
"I hate you!! I hate you so damn much!!"

His perfectly crisp shirt now had creases as her hands have turned into fists and crushed his shirt along.

But he didn't care.

Allowing her to vent out her anger.
She started hitting and punching, trying to harm him in all ways possible.
Trying to hurt him as much as he hurt her.
But all in vain.

Standing in front of her, he was accepting the hatred she says she had for him.

Few minutes passed and her already tired body has had enough.
Her punches lost their force and her breathing became heavy.

"You ruined my career.. You..ruined everything....what did I ever do to you, your majesty?"

She lowly whispered this time, voice sounding hoarse and crooked.
Her deep brown eyes pleading him to answer.
Sadness and disappointment were evident.

They looked into each other's eyes, his blue ones deeply staring at her.
No words were exchanged.

He saw her eyelids dropping, to be only followed by her grip loosening on his collar.

Before her hands could drop down he firmly held her wrists in both his arms.
Her body crashing into him as he did so.

Her heavy breathing hit his neck as he inhaled her heavenly fragrance.

"Are you done, Stalker?"

Her lips again moving to only accuse him

"You ruined me...just leave..just go"

This time he replied.
Knowing her anger has finally calmed down.

"If I had to ruin you, miss Evalinge Williams. You wouldn't be here screaming at me to get out of my room.
You would have been dumped in some cell with some Shi*** chains tied to your hands "

Her eyes widened as she stared into those blue orbs.
Gulping the saliva in her throat she looked down at his hands holding onto her wrists.

As she was staring at them, he followed her stare and left her wrists immediately.

Without his support, she fell on the mattress behind and a small shriek left her lips.

Looking back at him she tried to get up when he blocked her with his body.
His frame moving closer and trapping her on the mattress.

" Running away from problems is only what cowards do and I never thought of you to be one.
If you have the guts to stand for what is right, learn to face it's consequences as well."

She rolled her eyes at him, making him clench his fists at her side.

"Did you just rolled your eyes at me? "

This time she stared back at him.
Her anger returning.

"Yes, I did.
What now? You will hand me over to the police? Go ahead...do it. I am not scared of you"

He sighed moving back from her.
Running his hands through his hair

"Such a classic piece, naive topped with stupidity"

"What? What did you say? Stupid? I ain't stupid mister you are! Do you consider to be a joke? Calling the police, getting me arrested then bringing me here.
See listen my...your or whosoever's majesty you are. I accept it okay...I accept that I have a crush on you...I mean who doesn't...but after seeing this personality of yours...I am telling you that I truly ha-"

She couldn't continue.
He placed his hand on her mouth and her eyes widened.
His cold eyes stared at her as he spoke his next words.

"You are really starting to get on my nerves, Stalker. One shut this useless trap of yours and second tell the police everything you did.
Now if you accept we can proceed"

After a long pause, she finally nodded and he lifted his hand.

The police entered and she told them everything, her eyes landing on his blue ones every few minutes.

Once done they left after bidding your majesty their goodbyes.
While she stared at them in surprise.

"I...I am not getting arrested?"

She managed to ask Daniel, who was busy completing some work on his laptop.

"Lawson pulled back his case"

"What!!"

"How is that possible!! He-"

"Stalker...."
He spoke making her widened eyes to land on him

"Let me do my work, I am busy"

"Are you kidding me!! Busy? Why are you here in the first place! Hell, why am I here in the first place! This was all your doing.
You planned this"

"Yes, I did."

Her eyes widened at his audacity.
But this also means he saved her.
He stopped her from going because he knew Lawson would take back his case.
He definitely did something.

This human was beyond reason, very difficult to understand.

Her eyes conveyed what she wanted to ask, her continuous stare not letting him concentrate on his work anyways.

Closing his laptop and giving her his full attention, he met her stare.

"Why I did all this you want to ask this, right?"

She nodded very eager to listen to his reply.
Her widened eyes looking at his lips like he was going to declare the result of a competition she was a participant in.

To her dismay, he again didn't answer.
Instead, he started moving towards her.

She moved back, afraid of his touch and the power it has on her.
Her back hitting the wall as he just smirked.

Caging her between his arms his cologne hit her and she closed her eyes in anticipation.
Her heart again defying its speed and instead of going for a cross-country.

"You can speak...you don't need to come closer to tell me...my hearing ability is fine your majesty"

She cursed herself for talking like this, especially when he already has a hint of what his closeness does to her.

She peeked through one eye to see him deeply staring at her.
Okay, this is getting weird.

Her cheeks were heating up and his silence was not helping it.
Clearing her throat she tried getting his attention but he kept staring at her like a weirdo.

"Are..you fine your majesty?"

She finally asked staring back but no answer.

Okay next question

"I am sorry about your shirt...it must be expensive"

Before she could stop her hands, they have already moved forward to soothe the creases on his shirt.

Regretting her decision to scream at him and assault him without asking for reasons before.
He did save her from ruining her career.
Had she ran away like a coward, she would have lost this degree she spent 2 years working hard for.

Her hand stilled when she saw his hand grabbing her wrist.

How stupid of me!
How could I touch him without his permission?
He didn't like being touched, he made this clear to the other girls he dated.

While she was cursing herself in her mind, he enjoyed how her facial expressions changed every second.
He could see her scolding herself in her mind.

"I can't tell you why I did it.
I can only show you, Stalker"

Confused she looked up at him, her hands surrendered in his control.

Moving her right wrist he placed her palm on his chest and pressed her back with his body.
The distance between them vanishing as she got cornered with his breath on her lips and heart near her palm.

Her eyes widened but he continued to stare at her with a serenity that addicted her like a drug.

"Feel it, right under your palm"

His heavy voice did something to her, his words not helping much.
Closing her eyes she tried understanding what he meant to say.

Her hearts thumping was audible to her in her ears, the silence of the room acting as a catalyst.
But then she heard another beat matching to hers.

Gulping down the saliva in her mouth, her breathing stopped for a second and that was when she knew to whom this new beat belonged.

Eyes wide as saucers stared into his deep blues.
Her mouth slightly open, unable to digest this new information.

"This is your doing"

He simply said like it was the easiest thing to say.
But to her, it was like an avalanche coming her way.
The weight of his words and the confession of his feelings felt too good to be true.

His eyes said it all.
He lay his heart open to her, right under her palm.
He knew what he wanted and he preferred saying it directly.

Puzzles and mazes don't excite him.
He knows how he feels towards this girl and is not a bit afraid to tell her this.

Straightforward yes, a lover of false pretence, never.

He can see how she is feeling.
Her orbs a window to her soul.
But there is denial, something is there in her mind which is stopping her.

"You don't...you don't know..this is just infatuation"

Her words making his grip tighten on her wrist.

"I know how I feel stalker, I know what I want "

His face moved closer to her, making their fragrance to intermingle into a sweet misty aura.

"And what I want is you"

That was it.
He confessed finally.
She could feel how his heart changed pace when he said those words.
It was ready to come out of his chest and get surrendered in her palms.

She sucked in a deep breath, unaware that she was holding her breath to listen closer to his beating chest.

Is this possible? Can I be in a relationship with a person of his standing?
What will everyone say?
I am no one here while he is everything for this kingdom.

No
I can't give in.
I have a future to build.

She tried pulling her hand away from his grip.
Her eyes refusing to melt seeing his stare.

But he had no such intention

"Eva"

He said her name for the first time and the zoo his words released in her stomach made her knees go weak all of a sudden.
Her hands stilled as he made her lookup.

"Don't lie Eva, the pulse in your wrists right under my fingers is not lying.
It is telling me how much you want this.
How much you want me"

She stilled
He knew all along.
He could feel her heartbeat through her wrists, just like she felt his under her palm.

"Be with me stalker, just give me a chance. I promise you will never regret"

A person of his standards proposing someone as simple as her was difficult to believe.
But those eyes, they were not just his eyes but pools of honesty.
He meant each and every word he was saying.
But the bigger question was that could she trust him.

She knows her heart is already a captive of him, but was she ready to surrender her mind as well.

"But everyone...what will they say?"

"No one would know if you don't want to. It will be entirely your call"

"I... don't know..I have never"

"You don't need to know anything. The only thing you should know is that I want to spend every second of this year with you. I want to share every moment with you."

He was very serious, each word was meant to be said.
He was not joking around this time.
He may have dated many, but never someone like her.
He doesn't doubt his feelings, he was ready it give this relationship a try.
He could see it's potential and it even managed to scare him.

"I am a commoner your majesty.."

"I don't care"

"I..I don't have a family"

"I want only you"

"I don't know how to love"

"I will teach you"

He was determined, nothing she said could change his mind.
He knows this journey will be difficult considering his family name but for once he wanted to be selfish.

For once he wanted her for him and not for his Kingdom.
For once he wanted to be just Daniel.

She had nothing more to say.
Her insides were screaming at her to just say yes and engulf him in her arms.
But still, she hesitated.

No matter how brave she is for the outside world, but him, she was a shy teenager.
A girl with a crush.

He placed her fringe behind her ear, his thumb caressing her cheek like she was a delicate piece of glass.

"Tell me, Stalker, can you give your crush a chance to love you?"

The word love froze her insides.
The word itself was foreign no wonder the feelings.

"Love?"

She barely managed to whisper and he smiled in return.

"I am as new to this as you are, blame it on my honesty but I can't call it friendship when I can see it is much more than that"

She nodded.
Knowing this was again true.
Love veiled by the name of friendship is just an illusion.

Her cheeks were now red and she felt like her body was placed in a furnace.
The sweat on her forehead was only a sign to the fire starting to burn inside.

"Are you sure your majesty?"

Her shy self again asked, afraid to know later that this was just a short term infatuation.

"I have never been so sure Stalker."

She finally nodded giving him his answer.
But he wanted something else.

"Say it, Stalker"

She looked up now, unsure of what he wanted to hear.

"Say what your majesty"

The way she called him your majesty was no doubt very cute, but he wanted her to say his real name.

Moving his head closer to her, he inhaled her heavenly fragrance and closed his eyes.
Her brown locks held between his fingers, as he enjoyed twirling them.

"Say my real name Stalker. Tell me your answer"

She hesitated a bit but still complied. Her earlier fierceness getting melted under his touch.

"I agree to give this a chance."
She rephrased looking up at his closed eyes.

"I agree to give 'us' a chance, Daniel"

The second she spoke his name, a smile came on his lips.

Placing a lingering kiss on her forehead he layed the foundation of the story on which they were going to build an empire.

Daring to engulf him in her arms, she caught him by surprise and he smiled at this.
A simple act as a hug never meant so much more before and her warmth gave him a feeling of home.

Inhaling the fragrance of her shampoo, he placed his one hand on her head and another on her waist.
While she crossed her hands behind his neck and laid her cheek on his chest.

His heartbeat finally crystal clear, and she couldn't help thinking of her hidden fears.

"You are untouchable your majesty but I can't help getting addicted to you"

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I don't know where this will take me,
The only thing I know is that I want you to be with me.

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