Alive

Reyna’s P.O.V 

Before I could realise what happened, I was out of the water, coughing violently.

"You okay?" I heard a concerned deep voice beside me. When I looked up, it was Mr Wave! All drenched in water. His neatly combed hair was messy and his black shirt was hugging his perfect sculpture, his mask was wet, making him so hot in my eyes.

My obsession broke when the servants came running there, looking for their master. "Young master, are you alright? Oh, God! You are soaked in water!" One middle-aged man in a butler suit hurriedly tried to put a dry towel on him.

He raised his hand and stopped the servant, who obliged him obediently but was concerned as hell. "It's alright, Caleb. I am fine." He took the dry towel from his hand and wrapped it over me, who was still in a daze by the intensity of the situation.

"B...but master..." Caleb tried to argue but stopped once again when Wave signaled him to stop.

"Oh my God, Reyna! What happened to you!?" Hailey quickly came to me, pushing everyone aside. "How did you fall in the water!?" At that moment, anyone seeing her thought of her as such a good friend. When I know how good she is! She rolled my eyes inwardly. 'Yeah, what an amazing sister I have!'

"Miss Reyna, how did you fall in the water by the way?" Caleb asked, getting my attention.

But before I could speak, Bria quickly spoke. "We were just talking and suddenly tripping on her toes, she lost her balance accidentally."

"Yes, yes." Both Britney and Billy nodded their heads with her. They seemed so tense all of a sudden, trying to blame everything on me.

'Did they just do that!? How could people be so selfish and lying so confidently!' Outraged, I tightened my grip on the towel, walking up to them. "How dare you lie like that when you are the one who pushed me in the water!?" I cold bark startled them.

"Wh...what are you talking about? We never pushed you!" Britney argued back, trying to defend themselves.

"Yes, you did. One of you pushed me!" I was in a rage because of their audacity to lie to her face!

"But, why would anyone push you? Maybe, you are in delusion." Hailey stepped in, taking her groupies' side but calmly.

I smiled bitterly. "Oh yes, of course. I will be in a delusion of someone pushing me into the lake when I myself did it on my own without knowing how to swim and now blaming others? I am not that much stupid yet."

I just wanted to rule them up for their extraordinarily pathetic acting!

"Miss Reyna." Just two words and every attention turned to Wave. But, his eyes were only on me as he came forward to me. "Do you know exactly who pushed you?"

I pursed my lips tight, trying to recall the memory. It happened so fast that I couldn't see the face, but... my eyes widened remembering perfume on the person who pushed me! I turned my gaze to those women who seemed to be very confident about winning this debate.

A slight twitch formed on my face when my eyes fixated on Britney. "Though I didn't see the face, it was her." I pointed my index finger at Britney. "She pushed me. I can recognise her perfume.”

"By perfume?" Wave arched his brow, seeming curious at my words.

"Yes, it's her." I was sure.

"Ah! How could you blame me just like that!? We all were here and saw you falling on the lake by mistake! I never pushed you!?" Britney argued back, trying to defend herself desperately.

"I have said I can recognise your scent."

"Who knows what you can do!?" Britney rolled back her eyes, widening them as if I was so uncertain and fed up with those unethical obligations landing on me. "Do you have any proof?"

And that's when it hit me.

Britney was right! I did not have any proof! This would only make me stupid and a liar in front of all these people and this is what those women always wanted! To humiliate her!

"Well, if that's the problem, that could be solved immediately." Butler Caleb spoke and ordered a servant to bring on the surveillance camera.

When it came, he played it in front of everyone, where in between the argument I wanted to leave and Britney pushed me into the water.

I was terrified and flustered after I was caught red-handed.

"Here, Reyna," Wave  said. "Now it's proved that you did not just provoke Reyna to fight but pushed her on the water which could kill her. And in my place, I won't allow such a thing against my guests. Now apologise to her and get lost." His voice was cold and deep. "Also, you have a choice. If you want, you certainly can not apologise, but in that case, I have to call the police and let them proceed from there."

In the pressure of Wave and under every wary gaze Britney did not dare to deny and was forced to apologise to me. "I am sorry." She uttered those words with clenched fists and walked away as quickly as she could from the awkward situation.

I felt a soft warm caress on my deeply wounded soul. 'Maybe, he was not that bad either.'

I wanted to thank him for the help when Hailey stepped beside me, wrapping her arms around me, perplexing me.

"Oh Mr. Wave, thanks a lot for helping my Friend." She said so dramatically, making I cringe at her words.

Wave nodded with the same kind and warm smile he was providing to everyone. "My pleasure. I will not allow such things here."

"And that bitch, how dare she push my bestie off!" Hailey frowned, inspecting me from head to toe, making me confused and cringy with every single word!

'What the hell is she trying to do!?' I thought and the motive was clear to me, when the next second she just said, "Oh! What are these marks on your neck Reyna? They..." She paused for a second as if she was trying to figure it out. "Oh, they look like hickeys! Recent one!” I gasped and looked down at her. 'Shit!' I cursed inaudibly. I just hid those hickeys with makeup but the bloody makeup just decided to betray me the moment I needed them! Now the hickeys were very much visible.

'That bitch!' I glared at Hailey who just flashed an evil smirk at her, pretending to not know anything. She saw Wave's different attraction toward me and I would not let her succeed, not when I also wanted the same man! I can’t forgetting River.  So, she deliberately attracted his attention to those hickeys, feeling God also wanted to help her by revealing those sinful marks.

When I looked up, she found Wave's eyes on my neck too. His expression turned cold as last night. 'Was he...' I lowered my eyes with a strange feeling in my mind. The thought of Wave being the same man from last night just engraved a weird feeling in my mind with a slight blush on my face.

Yet, it was gone when I heard him speaking. "Excuse me, ladies. I need to change." Just saying those words he left, not sparing any second glance at me.

I blinked my eyes. His words and the way he reacted after seeing me and even those hickeys, made me a bit confused.

'Wait... What was with that reaction?! Didn't he recognise me? Or... Or I made a mistake to perceive him!?' Her mind once again turmoil up with bizarre thoughts.