Lily in a baffled state followed him to the area, still with her right hand covering her right cheek. Without her knowledge tears were streaming down from her eyes.
After reaching there he removed his hands from her, and she looked down of not knowing why he removed and what is happening around. She looked at him in the eyes with a wounded look and a trembling voice she asked him.
“Wh.. Who.. Who is she? Why were you kissing her? That didn’t happen right. I.. I.. mean It was my hallucination right.” Saying she started to hold his hands. But he shook his head and avoided her hand contact. After a heavy sigh he started talking.
“Umm.. Lily, She is Rency, my Fiancée. In a month we are getting married” he dropped a bomb and she gasped in shock.
“Wh.. What are you saying? Ha ha stop it Rob, it’s not funny” she said trying to act cool that it must be a joke but her expressions turned into a sorrow when she noticed that his face looked stern.
“No Lily. I’m serious and we are getting married” He said seriously.
“Rob.. If you already had Fiancée, then what am I to you. What was the relationship we shared?” she asked holding his collar and shaking it ferociously. He removed her hands from the collar effortlessly and smirked at her.
“Well.. to start with we didn’t have any relationship and you.. you are my employee, just an employee. Umm yea, with your beauty I was able to attract all the men to visit the museum. I thought of having a taste of you but I should say today’s event has ruined it.” Frowning he said which earned a slap from Lily.
Her eyes were filled with hurt, hatred and anger. Soon as she slapped him, he grabbed her neck and started squeezing it. Her hands started to slap his hands and tried to remove the hold of his hands after a minute of struggle he released, she fell to the floor and started coughing vehemently.
He kneeled down, lifted her head with his finger and spoke,
“You... Stop acting like an innocent girl. You owe me a huge debt, if you try to sabotage my name or try something funny, your brother will die and you.. you will be sold to underworld people as a sex slave” he warned her sending chills down her spine and left the place. The usual caring, loving Robert she met was long gone and it was all just a lie which made her to shudder in fear and heartbreak.
Squatting down holding her knees and burying her head between the knees she cried for a long time. She recalled how Shane her brother and Steve warned her about Robert and how she shrugged it off, believing the fake love he showered on her.
It was soon darkened outside, crying for long hours she lost track of time and fell asleep or to be exact passed out that even her phone ringing for hours couldn’t wake her up. Unknown to her, there were a pair of eyes watched her with full of concern.
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Screechhhh…. Early in the morning, the door to the Statue region was opened by a worried Steve and some fellow staff members.
Steve hurried inside to see Lily passed out in the ground, he tried waking her up and found she was passed out. He lifted her in his arms and ran out of the museum towards his jeep.
He started the engine and drove fast, still trying to wake her up by shaking her shoulders. The constant shaking made her to blabber something inaudibly. Soon, he reached the hospital and the doctor’s checked her and gave her saline drops for her fatigue. After some time, he drove her back to her house.
Shane who was anxiously waiting for her sister was found near the gate of their house when Steve reached with Lily. Seeing Steve’s jeep, he ran towards it and opened the door to find his sister unconscious.
Steve lifted her in his arms and Shane helped him to his sister’s room to place Lily on the bed. After that, Steve informed Shane how he found Lily on the ground unconscious in the hall.
Soon a groaning of sound heard from Lily’s room and both of them hurried inside to find Lily sitting with a perplexed look. She looked around the room and tried to absorb the situation happening around her and the previous day scenario played on her mind.
Suddenly she started crying, Steve and Shane ran towards her, both sitting either side of her and tried to comfort her. They both exchanged a confused look, after a few minutes she stopped crying in tired.
“Sister, what happened? Why did you cry? Why were you lying unconscious?” Shane started throwing her questions. She sniffed for some time and with a choking voice she told both of them of what happened and how Robert threatened her.
“I’m Sorry, I didn’t listen to both of you. Blindly, I believed he loved me, I am really sorry” saying she started crying again. They both patted her back, she rested her head on Shane shoulder and holding Steve hand sniffed for some time.
“Sister, please don’t cry. He can’t do anything to us, if needed I will kill him for sure. Believe me, i will do anything for you and you have to quit that job immediately. From now on I will take care of everything. I will go for part time jobs and will take care of you” he said patting his chest.
“You are not alone Lily, I’m here for you. You are my friend and I will definitely take care of you. We will deal with him, Shane is right you leave that job and try for another one.” Steve said lovingly at her, squeezing the hand of hers comfortingly. Seeing both of them, she again burst into tears and hugged them both tightly.
After some hours,
Vessels rolling sound was heard from the kitchen, she couldn’t sit still on her bed and she rushed inside the kitchen to see, Steve and Shane cooking side by side.
Shane tried copying whatever Steve was doing. They both cleaned the chicken, chopped onions. Left the Water to boil on the stove, with egg peels and vegetables scrapes all over the floor she felt like fainting again.
Shane hearing the sound at the door, he looked back to see his sister in a shock look. He followed her eyesight and found the kitchen clumsiness and embarrassedly, he dragged her out of the kitchen, made her sit on the couch played TV for her and left the place hurriedly.
Soon the food was dished out on the dining table. Steve, Shane and Lily ate the food in silence and Steve left their house after having food. She collected all the dishes and went inside the kitchen to see the place was all cleaned. She smiled looking at it.
Shane stood behind her and rested his chin on Lily’s shoulder, she patted his cheeks lovingly,
“Sister, can I tell you something” he asked in a soft voice to which she nodded without words.
“Why don’t you date Steve, he is really caring and affectionate towards you, no one can take care of you better than him” he said and she froze on the spot hearing that but she just chuckled lightly and started cleaning the dishes saying nothing. He sighed and left the place.
2 days after… Lily woke up before the alarm clock could make a buzz. Taking a bath and putting on a light-coloured dress, she walked inside the kitchen prepared some Pancakes and scrambled egg, a platter of fruits and with apple juice and orange juice for breakfast.She went to her brother’s room and knocked it, when it was opened, she saw him all dressed up to go school. He was shocked to see her awake earlier, he smiled at her.“Good morning, Sister, did you sleep well? I was about to make breakfast for us and wake you up” he said and she smiled at him pinching his cheek.“I made breakfast for us already, and I can see you are ready to go already” she said and he nodded happily. They both walked to their dining hall and sat down to eat.“Mmmmmm yum yum yummy. It’s been long I had your yummy pancakes sister” he said engrossed in eating the breakfast.“I’m sorry, I couldn’t prepare for you for a long time” she said with a sad face recalling how her relationship with Robert ruined her
“Hey, are you ok? don’t be sad” she said concerning.‘hmm.’ The voice hummed and she turned towards the statue with a wide eye filled with curiousness.“Is there something to break your curse.” She asked expectantly.‘I don’t know'“Huh? How could you not know. Hmm… Well, most of the fairy tales got a kiss as the spell breaker. AHH, don’t tell me you should also be kissed to break your curse” she exclaimed in shock and the voice chuckled.“Wow your laugh is attractive “ she smiled thinking how attractive he must be in person.‘Ahem, lady I don’t think kiss will break my curse. But we can try, do you want to help me?’ the voice asked playfully and she blushed.“Ahh.. Hello Mr. Sculpture, are you kidding me. I don’t kiss anyone and certainly not a sculpture” she said trying to cover her blush. The voice laughed again and her lips smiled unknowingly.‘Oh.. What about that jerk, have you not kissed him?’ the voice said with some jealousy surging even it wondered why and she looked at the
‘Why would Robert wants to destroy it? what to do now? How to save Mr. Sculpture’ She thought for some time and rose from the sofa and walked inside her room. Steve looked at her, frowned not knowing what is going on in her mind.After 15mins she came out and found Steve slept soundly on the sofa. She walked near him without making noise, she slowly put her hands inside his pant pocket and found the keys. Without alerting him, she ran out of her house with the keys, took his jeep and drove towards the museum.She drove faster and throughout the ride she was worried about the statue, when she reached the museum, it was almost 11.30 in the night. The security, who has to guard the place was in deep sleep in his security room.She slowly got out opened the gate, and drove inside towards the museum’s store room. She wondered whether the security took any pills for not waking up to the engine’s sound but thanked the God’s help in not waking him up.The store room was at the back of museum,
They both together brought the statue out of the jeep and for each and every movement of theirs, Lily screamed making them to pause on their steps as she is worried of not hurting the statue. They brought it and placed it inside her room.Though she opposed that, they placed it inside for her to get scared in the night as a punishment. Since they both know how much a scaredy cat she is for darkness and a statue in a dark will be more fun to tease her.“Now tell me, why did you go all the way at night to bring this statue” Steve asked curiously. Lily who was checking the statue for any scratches turned at Steve.“Ahh.. I.. I.. I felt if this statue was not destroyed as per Robert’s instruction, you will land in trouble and so I decided to rescue this statue” she said nervously and the voice echoed in her head with a scoff.“So, you went and risked yourself? Seriously? did you think I will buy this?” He asked narrowing his eyes at her with his hands on the pocket. She smiled sheepishly
She looked at him with her eyes wide open and with annoyance she hit his shoulder and groaned in pain,“ouch.. ouch..” she wrung her hands in air to relieve her pain.‘Oh, dear lady, have you gone mad to hit a statue?’ he said in a worried tone, hearing that she looked at him and gave a beautiful smile, His heart melted seeing that.‘Be careful my knight, in shining see-through dress’ he said again playfully and she gasped trying to cover herself. After a few seconds she realised he is just messing with her and she is not wearing any see-through dress, turning to him she glared at him. He just giggled seeing her anger which he felt was cute and wanted to see more.She went to the restroom to finish her morning routine, when she was wiping her face with a towel she stopped on tracks and looked at her birthmark behind her ear.She was surprised to see the birthmark which was usually in black looked different with the shade of red. She was always fascinated by her birthmark which was unu
Chapter 11 Flashback… At the palace, After knocking and waited for several minutes the old lady walked inside the royal bedroom where queen Esther was getting ready for her hunt. “Your majesty, the king ordered me to bring you, your energy drink for your day to start” “Oh, was it already time for my drink?” The queen adjusting her clothes over her hidden armour asked the maid. She gestured for the maid to come near her and the old lady with her trembling foot walked closer to her. The queen saw the juice in the tray and took it from the old maid. She starred at the juice for some time, and looked at the maid whose hand was tightening on the tray. Queen’s mind wavered for a minute but she shrugged it off the feeling that indicated her of something amiss. Taking another glance at the juice, she drank it fully and placed the tray with a frown on her face. “Mira, today’s drink is different from the previous one.” She said and the old lady gave her a confused look. “Never mind, yo
Chapter 12 The head warrior remembered the potion made by the queen and he quickly checked his bag and found it, taking the potion he ran near the door. Closing his eyes and focusing, he recited the spell his queen taught him and he break opened the bottle and poured it in his hands to blew them. The door was opened immediately and all the warriors headed inside to see the prince and the witch were having a serious fight, seeing his warriors enter the place, prince smirked at the evil witch to let her know she is going to be defeated. But suddenly there was a smoke in violet colour surrounded them and everyone started coughing and the evil witch let out her evil laugh and the warriors and the prince’s steps are faltered. The smoke dispersed but the people were frozen on the spot, prince tried to break her spell and almost succeeded. But he felt something hit his head and when he tried to check that, his body starting from his foot felt numb causing him not to move and, in a blink
Chapter 13 The prince knowing what she must be thinking with a heavy heart replied to her, ‘I actually don’t know why.. umm.. I already... *ahem* found my soulmate long back’ he said and her face fell, she quickly gulped down her saliva and released the hug, putting on a fake smile she looked at him. Though he is now a statue and unable to feel the touch, he felt sad that she broke her embrace. He cursed himself for letting her know that he has a soulmate. Somewhere deep inside his heart, he expects her to embrace him despite all the reasons. “Wow, that’s great. She can hear you right, well did she see you in this condition. She must be heartbroken. Umm.. umm.. is she pretty” she said, though she tried to cover up her disappointment, which was clearly seen by him. And even he felt like his heart is torn a little, which he felt odd. ‘Yes, she is pretty, and no she didn’t see me’ he said and thought about that day. Weirdly he felt a negative feeling from that. Though he said that to