Chapter 84 Banshee Screams
\[Lilia\]
The next morning, I found that I was all by myself in Kael's bed. I ran my palm over the edge of the sheet where he was sleeping and saw that it was already quite chilly. He had been gone for a while now. That is for sure. The bright sunlight beaming through the curtain gaps blinded me for a second before I pushed myself up, keeping the blankets to cover up my nakedness.
Just at the same time, the door swings open, and Aya comes in, pushing a table cart containing my breakfast. My stomach started growling soon as I sniffed in the smell of freshly cooked pancake wafting through Kael’s room.
“Good morning,” Aya greeted, transferring my breakfast to the rounded table adjacent to the bed.
I only smiled at her in return, giving another look to the side of the bed before I swung my feet on the edge and tied the blanket into a knot around my chest. I slowly and carefully make my way out of the bed, testing my weight on the balls of my swollen foot. It doesn’t hurt that much, and I think I can walk without limping as long as I keep the pressure on my toes and not on the heels.
“How are you feeling?” Aya queried, pulling out a chair for me to sit on, staring at me from head to toe, but made no comment about the fact that I just wrapped myself with a blanket. My hair was tousled all over my head, and I am sure that I still have dried drool on my face.
Aya had already seen me at my worst, and she knew that Kael and I had been sleeping together. I already told her that. So, there’s no need to pretend as though I am all innocent cause clearly I am not—well, the subtle sore down there in between my legs tells me that.
I looked at her and smiled widely, clearing out my head from the passionate night, slipping into the chair and perching myself. “I’m fine, pretty exhausted from all that happened last night, but I’m okay now. How about you?”
Aya quirks both her brows, throwing me a long sideways glance with a coy grin playing on her lips. She then helps herself with the chair and sits right beside me, propping her elbows on top of the table and resting her cheek on her palm.
“Well, I'm not the one who fell from the rooftop and survived, so I guess you could say that I'm more than okay, Lilia.”
I turn my gaze on her, my eyes squinting slightly with skepticism, imitating her expression like an idiot. “Why are you looking at me like that? Stop it, Aya.”
“What?” Aya displayed such sweet and naive behavior, chirping in the most peculiar tone. She was gazing at me as if she knew something that I did not know, but she did not tell me anything and continued to act as if she wasn't giving me that look.
“A look that creeps the crap out of me,” I groaned, rolling my eyes at her and looking down at the delectable pancake she served me, inhaling its scent deeply, and my stomach immediately grumbled loudly.
I let out a sigh of contentment and reach for the fork that she had placed to the side of the dish. I was about to stab the pancake with it but halted in mid-air when Aya opened her mouth, commenting about my stomach and on something that made me gasp, with my face burning as though they were on fire.
“That was loud, but not as loud last night. You were screaming like a banshee.”
“Shut up! That is not true!” I exclaimed in mortification. My eyes were wide as the saucers, my face had gone into a deep shade of red, and my ears felt like fumes were venting out of them with embarrassment. I did remember screaming last night when Kael was down there, burying his face in between my legs. He even laughed at my concern about getting heard, but I never thought that the walls were that thin.
Where they? Or am I just too loud?
Oh, gosh! This is so embarrassing.
Aya still has her grin plastered on her face like some Cheshire cat, tilting her head to tease me even further. My face felt numb, and I just wished whoever was listening to crack the ground open and swallow me whole.
“Hey, I’m not the only one who heard it. Ask Val, but who cares, right?” She said, removing her elbows from the table, but what instantly caught my attention was when she mentioned Val.
Does he hear it too? I hadn’t recovered yet from utter humiliation when Aya went on blabbering too fast that it made me dizzy. “What does it feel like, though? To be on that level? Was master Kael really that good to make you scream like that? Oh, come on, tell me. It’s not like you haven’t shared it with me before—”
“Oh my god! Aya, stop!” I shouted, dropping the fork and covering my ears with my two hands, cutting Aya on her mid-sentence and threw her a sharp glare that I could muster.
What the fuck?
Now, I don’t think I still have a face to show everyone around here. This is just beyond embarrassing. Yes, she was right about me sharing everything that happened between Kael and me in detail. But having other people hear me screaming while I’m on my ecstasy was utterly different. How could Kael ever deal with it?
Oh, right, that man doesn’t care. I bet he was even proud about it. Gloating it to everyone he came across, though that seems more unlikely to happen. Everyone except Val was too scared to even say a word to him. He will just threaten anyone that will look at him in the wrong way.
Aya chortled and burst out laughing upon seeing my reaction. She was clutching her belly with one hand while the other banging the table as though an invisible entity was tickling her to death. Her head was thrown backward and howled in a very unladylike manner. My face distorted into bafflement.
I could not believe she was laughing out my misery.
This bitch! If only she weren’t my friend, I would have strangled her to death. How can she laugh like that when I am dying right here in embarrassment?
“Alright, alright. I was just teasing you.” Aya's laughter subsided finally, after what seemed like an eternity had passed, and she raised both of her hands in a sign of submission. I was just giving her a death stare, but she just brushed it off with a chuckle and went rambling on.
“Our room was just across the hall. Pretty sure anyone in that vicinity heard it, but to ease your mind, not everyone heard it, okay? And oh, before I forgot. I have already packed your things. Master Kael called for me this morning to tell you that we are leaving Italy this day and will be going back to Russia right after your breakfast.” She said, wiping the remnants of her laughter away from her eyes.
Though I was somewhat relieved about what she said, what caught most of my attention was when she mentioned Kael’s name. He wasn’t there when I woke up, and I am sure he’s gone pretty early. I don’t know, but I feel slightly disappointed after everything he had told me last night and the lovemaking. I was expecting to see him right at my side the moment I opened my eyes.
I also remember him calming me down from the nightmare I had just had. Now that I have come to think of it, what was that dream all about? I know they were just a product of the post-traumatic incidents that I have been shoved into, especially the fall, but it was weird to see that strange man at the hospital. It doesn’t make sense when I almost forget all about him, except for his voice.
Who was that man exactly?
One thing, we’re going back in Russia. Guess, that we could leave every memories behind and carry on with the happy ones.
That could make do. It has to.
“Do you know where he is?” I asked, bending down to get the fork I dropped and shifting my attention to the pancake. My hunger gnawing back in the right after the embarrassing diversion, but now, I could definitely inhale these five layers of perfectly golden brown cooked goodies. Although, as much as I want to dig in, I still keep my ears up to what Aya was saying.
“Lilia, I am your personal maid. His whereabouts do not concern me unless it involves you,” she sighs, reaching for the box of fresh milk and pouring it into the glass, then putting it right beside my plate.
“That is not true, Aya. You’re not my personal maid. You’re my friend. Remember that,” I frowned at her, contrasting her statement about being just my servant.
“I know,” she smiles genuinely and nods in response. “Now, finish your breakfast.”