Chapter 4

"What have you done? What have you done?" He stared at me and repeated.

"I'm sorry. I didn't know someone was here. I just came here to take a bath." I defended. I was scared he would launch at me and hit me or do something crazy as usual, but he did not.

He held the other person by the collar and started dishing out punches in his face. His face became bloody, and Xavier's knuckles were stained with blood.

I held his hand, but he pushed me away.

"It's enough. Leave him, Xavier. You are going to kill him if you continue hitting him this way." I begged, but my words fell on his deaf ears.

"Stop, Xavier! Please stop!" The other begged, but he didn't stop the torture. He continued hitting him in the face.

I rushed out and screamed, "Help!"

Somebodyguards in uniform rushed in,, and I was embarrassed. I was still in my white towel.

They pulled Xavier away from him

"How dare you? How dare you touch my Lilith?" Xavier yelled as he was taken upstairs. I was scared and tears dropped from my eyes. I followed suit, and my mother-in-law eyed me.

"I'm sorry, ma. I couldn't handle him." I bowed.

"Keep your sorry to yourself. Look what that crazy man has done to my son?" She yelled, and I was taken aback.

"Why would she call her son a crazy man? Even if he is, she shouldn't have put it this way." I said to myself.

"Tame your husband. Keep that crazy man away from me and my son." She yelled, and my father-in-law came. She kept quiet. He was in his pyjamas.

"What happened? What's the noise for?" He queried.

"Xavier hit Marco. I'm going to follow him to the hospital." She yelled and left the scene.

"What? How did that happen?" He asked.

I didn't know how I'd explain to my father-in-law that the so-called Marco saw me naked on my wedding night.

"I don't know, sir. I should go check on Xavier." I said and rushed upstairs. I got into his room and I heaved a sigh.

He was sitting on the bed, soliloquizing.

I squatted in front of him, and he took his eyes away from me.

I touched his face and he faced me. Those blue eyes were drawing me in again like oceans. My heart was thumping in my chest.

"I'm sorry, Xavier." I apologized. At least to cool him down.

"Why? Why did Marco look at you that way? I'm the only one who's permitted to touch you. I'm the only one who can look at you that way." He said slowly.

I rubbed his well-chiseled chin.

"I know only you can look at me that way. Who dares to touch your Avery?" I said, and he glared at me.

"I mean, Lilith. Who dares to touch your Lilith?" I yelled.

"Nobody!" He yelled back.

It seems to work like a charm. He wasn't angry anymore.

"Are you hurt anywhere?" I asked as I scanned his blood-stained hands.

"I don't know." He shrugged.

I took him to the bathroom and washed his hands clean. I dried his hands with a white towel.

"Thanks, love." He kissed my cheeks, which surprised me. I could have avoided it if I had known he would.

"You've hurt Marco already. If you see him tomorrow, apologize, okay?" I scolded him.

"No, I won't." He went to the room and bounced on the bed.

"I'm serious. You need to apologize to him." I glared.

"You were not like this, Lilith. I used to get away with whatever I did." He folded his arms.

"Well, guess I've spoiled you too much." I shrugged.

"If I apologize to him tomorrow, I will get a kiss. Deal or no deal?" He smirked.

"Why do you have to bring that up?" I asked.

"Deal or no deal?" He glared, and I was a bit scared. "What if he comes up to me and hits me the same way he did to Roy?" My subconscious asked.

"Fine. Deal." I said and rushed into the bathroom.

"What was I thinking? Kiss that crazy guy?" I tugged at my hair. I was standing in front of a mirror and I realized I hadn't changed into my pyjamas. Going downstairs would be more embarrassing because most of the maids and bodyguards have seen me naked. "I  should just go to the wardrobe and pick another cloth," I concluded.

I came out, and his mood had changed. He was resting his head against the headboard and his hands folded behind his head. He saw me and gave me a sexy smirk.

"You're looking sexy, honey." He complimented and I gave him a nervous smile in return.

"How can he change moods every time?" I asked.

I opened the wardrobe and took a pink shimmy. It was above the knee. It was what I could find, I was in a hurry to get out of the towel before something crazy happened. It was my wedding night after all.

I rushed back to the bathroom and changed into it. It was a little bit uncomfortable,, but it was better than the towel. I came in, and he patted the side beside him on the bed.

"Come here, baby." He smiled, and that was the most beautiful smile I've ever seen.

"I'll sleep on the couch or the floor." I grabbed the pillow on the couch.

His smile toned down. "What do you mean you'll sleep on the floor?" He stood up from the bed and walked towards me.

"Oh no! Trouble." My subconscious added.

"It's fine. I've gone to several camps and I've slept on the floor several times." I clenched my fist, ready to attack if he tried anything funny as he approached me further.

"It's not fine. My Lilith cannot sleep on the floor." He said, and before I could think, he had carried me bridal style. I was struck by his beauty and amazing features again. His hair, his nose, his eyes. "Fuck! He's handsome." I commented in my mind.

If not for his 'crazy behaviour',, he would pass off as a good husband.

He placed me on the bed gently like an egg.

"You sleep here and I'll sleep beside you, on the floor." He grabbed the pillow and placed it on the floor.

I've turned the owner of the house into a slave.

"You can't sleep on the floor. I'll sleep on the floor. It's fine." I argued.

"Stop arguing, Lilith. You know how mad I can get if you argue further." He said, and I lay on my bed.

"At least sleep on the chair or the other rooms." I suggested.

"Stop arguing Lilith." He said and I stopped talking.

"Good girl." He commented and slept on the floor.

I covered my body with a duvet and tried to sleep, but I felt empty.

This is the kind of life I'll continue to live forever. It would be hard being a wife and working, and trying to get a master's.

"What if my in-laws don't allow me to work? What if I turn into a full housewife?" I asked myself.

So many questions flooded my mind, but I had no answer for them. It made my heart heavy, and tears fell down my face unconsciously.

I looked down at Xavier, and he was fast asleep already. I pitied him. The poor guy thinks I'm his Lilith. I never knew guys fell in love this hard. I thought all guys are scumbags but here is Xavier who is crazy about his Lilith and his Lilith is nowhere to be found.

If this were how my first love treated me, I would have been the happiest woman on Earth. I would have gotten married to him and thrown my dreams away in a blink, but I was used and dumped in six months.

After so many thoughts of the past and my future, I was slowly drifting away till I fell asleep.