Chapter 63 If I have to do this a thousand times, I would
Esperanza was done with her bath and tied herself with a white robe that allowed extra water to soak from her skin.
"So you are done," Tara let out while seeing her coming.
" Yes fortunately, I felt really light now," Esperanza explained.
"Cleaning your body is just like cleaning your soul, if you make it cleansed, your soul gets immaculate on its own," Tara elaborates.
"I am so glad you helped me with this," Esperanza thanked her with a nod.
"That's my pleasure, now come, let me dress you," she said and she took her steps behind her.
She made her wear the same clothes she was wearing.
A saffron inner robe that was light and intricately covering her body. And the other one was a marron outer garment, those clothes were loose but neatly wrapped around everything in her body and folds.
"You look beautiful," she said and combed Esperanza's hair softly.
"I have never seen someone so captivating and endearing," Tara said.
" I feel the same about you," Esperanza answered and they were so happy to get to know each other.
"What are these clothes?" Esperanza asks.
"These are the main signs of our region; this indicates that a person is pristine and spiritually connected," Tara said, and Esperanza nodded.
"I really appreciate all the efforts you put in," Esperanza said and gave her a nice little hug.
On the other side, Orion and Felix took a bath too, and covered themselves with the white robe.
" Your faces are not that bad," Yuki said, taking a glimpse of their faces, and they both started to cover themselves.
"Are you both dazed, I am not interested in you both," Yuki said furiously, and they stood straight and stared at each other's faces
"Wear these," Yuki bestowed the clothes on them, and they were confused about how they were going to get into this.
"This is so strange," Felix said, and Orion was just clueless about what was going on.
On the first attempt, Felix wore the bottom part over his head, and that looked good on him, but his arms were just hanging down.
On the second attempt, Orion wore the arm space on his head, and the whole cloth was hanging down, and that looked good for them.
"Let me make you wear this," Orion said and clutched Felix's arms.
"Hey, do not touch me......," Felix let out, and they both started to fight over this.
" I will rip off your hands, I am telling you." Orion and Felix were fighting, and that was the moment when Yuki walked in.
"You people are dazed, now I know that," he was shocked to see how their traditional clothes were getting destroyed.
He showed them the right way to do that, and they followed him, and then they wrapped themselves in those clothes.
"How does that feel?" Felix asked Orion.
"It's like you have been wearing nothing," Orion replied, and Felix nodded.
" Can..... Can we get our clothes cleaned?" Felix demanded.
"Where do you think you are standing?" Yuki asked, and Felix got humbled.
"I will let them clean, Here we do all our work on our own, but as you belong to us، I will do it for you," Yuki pointed his eyes at Felix.
"Now you can come out," Yuki said, and they moved out of the place. On the male's dress, there was just a cloth hanging on one side of their shoulder, but with the female's clothing, there was a cloth that covered all her arms and upper part.
They were walking out and there they met Esperanza, chuckling with other females, looking divine and completely enchanting.
All the girls stopped and started admiring Orion, who was seemingly charming after taking a bath and cleaning himself.
He smiled at Esperanza, and she was shocked to see his smile let out after all this.
" He is so muscular and elegant," one of the girls said and Esperanza closely observed him.
"If he is your spouse?" the other woman asks.
"No, he..... He is not my spouse," suddenly her mind stopped working.
"Then you both should get promised, you both are perfect for each other," That gentle woman said and Esperanza smiled.
He walked towards her, and she started feeling shy in his gaze.
" You look so beautiful," he said in his hefty and dominating voice, and her cheeks flushed; she felt that those words were his pure intentions.
"You look promising as well," she said, and he glanced at his shoulders.
She said, and these girls were staring at Orion.
"Can we walk alone?" Orion asked, and she looked to the side, and the girls stopped there.
"Yes, we can," She said, and they started walking and came out of the temple walking on the grass with bare feet.
" What are you doing?" She asked directly and made him flustered for an instant.
" What did I do?" He asked.
"Why are you letting out this way? I do not understand what is going on in your mind. Are you planning to hurt Ezra or me?" She asked and suddenly his smile faded.
" Why are you testing my demeanor? I am doing all this to make myself preferable to you,"
" I cannot ever hurt you, but I would hurt him, because that's the purpose of my life, to get the end of those who end my people," Orion clenched his fist and looked away to hide his intense bearing.
"Why is your purpose so important that you are persuaded to take innocent lives," She asked after getting frustrated.
"First things first, they are not innocent, and the second thing is that my people died while saving me, and all those prestigious Gods were closing their eyes," Orion's eyes turned ferocious, and his body was trembling.
"Whom are you beckoning at?" She asked.
"The golden dragon, who showed his back towards us, every time we needed fulfillment of our needs he never turned his ears towards us,"
"They killed our people, each one was dying with pain and misery, women, children, men, everybody, but he had a deaf ear to us." There were ungracious tears inside his eyes.
" I know that the golden dragon is hiding in this world somewhere, and I will find it and will kill it as he lets us be killed," he said, and the ground under her feet is missing.
"What..... What are you saying?" She was stunned to hear all this.
"I will drain every aspect of its being, they hid that golden dragon for years, for more than a hundred years, but I never stopped finding it,"
"But that was my insufficiency that I did not get through the path, the Arctic flaming descend," his eyes were burning as he let out that name and suddenly her heart jumped in her chest.
" You know that place?" She asked and he nodded.
"I have lived my life in pain and suffering, found you and thought it would be eliminated soon, but failed," he said, and her eyes were filled with tears.
"Maybe our fate does not want us together because we are precarious to each other," she let out while the tears started to drop from her eyes.
" What are you saying? That's not our destiny. I want you to be the queen of this world. You deserve your real place، and I am going to get it for you, by hook or crook." He smiled and cleaned her eyes.
"What if I never wanted that?" She asked and he frowned.
" Why are you saying all this?" He asked.
"Did you ever imagine if something happened to you while fighting all this then?" She asked.
"What would your queen do?" Her words were harsh till real.
" Then the queen needs to survive and produce all the goodness that the king has sown in his reign," he said, and she was not satisfied with that let out.
"And if there will be a time when you need to kill your queen for the sake of your revenge, then?" She asked with a grimacing painful voice.
"You are safe, you are safe until you are in my territory, and I promise no matter what happened, I would never hurt you, I would never let an inch of you be hurt, no matter how crucial it would be to hurt you," he said, and the tears went uncontrollable.
"Maybe that will be your finest need to get your purpose done?" She asked and was making him flustered.
"I do not understand what you are saying." She looked away and the anticipation that she planted in his heart was cautious.
He abruptly turned and clenched her hands in his.
"Stop assuming this, I am a monster, I am ruthless, the filthiest being in this world, but harming you would cost me my life," He said while gazing profoundly into her eyes.
"I promise you, I would never harm you, no matter what it takes," he said and caressed her hand with his fingers.
" You said so, but now I know what I have to do," she said, and made him frown.
" What do you have to do?" He asked and she smiled.
"That old man we met in the morning, who was he?" She asked.
"His name is Yuki, he is Felix's friend, and he saved him when the royal dragons burned his family alive." He said, and her heart felt pity for him.
" He took us here, cause he knows the people here will revive you," Orion let out with a smile, and is compelled to clean her tears.
"I wanted to ask him something," she said and he was confused.
"And what is it about? Maybe I have the answer," He asked, and she smiled subtly.
"Maybe you have, but I think he knows me," she said, and he was astonished to hear this.
"Are you sure?" He asked.
" Yes, sure, and I think he knows something about my real family, " she said, and he nodded.
"As you say, my queen," he said and bowed to her.
" Have you forgiven me?" She asked, and he took a pause with a soft smile.
If I have to do this a thousand times, I would, he said, and every word of his conquering her heart," even though she knows he is going to kill her very soon