CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

I really didn't want him to leave, I had created quite a scene where I just got to with all the maids and workers staring at me, but I wasn't concerned about them. I was only concerned about someone, just one person and all I wanted was for him to forgive me. I couldn't stop crying. He was leaving already but I had to do something. I ran and went in front of him. "Tell me what the consequence is, I am ready to face anything as long as I stay by you. Your love is all I want if you leave now it'll really end and I don't want that please give me one more chance to prove my loyalty to you. Please I beg of you, don't withdraw every hope I have left to love a normal life and you're the ticket to that please, it was a fleeting moment I really…. I really didn't mean to do anything I did back there." I pleaded crying while he stood there looking at me.

"Let's go inside the room to discuss this, the guards and the maid are all watching, let's go to the room." He said as he convinced me to come with him and before he left he told everyone of them to go back to their respective assigned duties.

I took one last glance at Alexander and stirred really deep in his eyes. It was devoid of pity, compassion and pity. Everything felt crazy. Did he really hypnotise me into tripping for him and took that advantage to kiss me? And why would he do this? It was really disgusting and I could see Sebastian staring at him with anger as we moved towards the room.

As we entered the room Sebastian left me there and went to the bathroom. He was really really angry. I've never seen him this angry. He was angrier than when he forcefully brought me here without a reason.

As he came out of the bathroom his face was wet so I ran towards him and gave him a hug, tightly holding him in. Place. "I'm really sorry Sebastian, I really didn't know what was happening to me. I didn't know it would happen. I don't even know if it was hypnosis or I was willing but to be honest I really didn't want to." I pleaded.

"You're right it's hypnosis."he said with a straight face and unhooked himself from my grip, was he joking? I didn't think so, he looked damn serious. "Alexander has the seal and has been doing things at will since I'm the only one he can't use the seal on, he uses it to torment me whenever he gets the chance. He doesn't hold full possession of the seal but he has a fragment of it and if a fragment can work in this manner, imagine what the whole seal can do." He said.

I was really under a spell, I thought so too, I couldn't take my eyes off him and I really didn't understand why I was tripping for him but this explains it all. But if he knew all this, why did he get so angry at me? Or was there anything else behind this?

"I really shouldn't have been so angry, but my jealousy got the best of me. I really didn't want to but, once he started he would never stop. Alexander has been a hick to my reign. I've been putting up with him for a reason." He said his voice now calm and his gaze not widened like it was earlier. I really wish this hadn't happened. I really regretted talking to him but what could I do, I was under hypnosis. But the thoughts of having kissed someone else apart from Sebastian made my heart race and I couldn't decipher why I felt more guilty than I should be after I found out I was under hypnosis.

I looked at Sebastian who was getting out of his pyjamas and was getting into bed although his gaze was softer than earlier. He maintained a friend's face and wasn't really smiling at me. I wanted to ask him how his trip went and why he was back so early but I was scared of what I asked and it pissed him off or what if he was pissed off that I didn't ask. I was confused and all I wanted was to get him back smiling.

He was lying on the bed and I went to sit next to him, he stared at me but this said anything, his eyes locked into mine. I kissed him, suddenly I hoped in my heart he would kiss me back and he did and after breaking the kiss I hugged him, and kept my head on his chest. "Why are you back so early?" I asked in muffled words. I could hear his heartbeat, it was steady.

"Ayesha was never held captive." He said, I jumped up surprised, "what do you mean? We both saw her chained and the video where she was held captive. Why would you say she was never held captive? I saw it with my own eyes. Was it staged?" I asked, pouring out every ounce of my emotions into my words. I was really surprised but I wanted to hear the full story from him.

"Why do you look so surprised?" he asked, and for the first time in what felt like ages to me he smiled brightly.

"I should be surprised, shouldn't I? It's surprising to have seen someone in chains then to say she was never chained in the first place." Tell me what really happened.

"If you really knew who Ayesha was you should know it's possible for it to be true. And right now things are getting more complicated so it'll take time for you to understand." He said with a smile.

"Wh…" I wanted to say something when I heard someone call his name so loudly. "Sebastian! Sebastian!!" As we both jumped out of bed. Who was calling him and why was the person so loud. The voice sounded familiar but I couldn't get a hold of who it was exactly.