~Xander~Heartbreak is a funny thing. It happened to a person you would never expect. I never thought I would become a villain to Aoife, not when I was the one who saved her life. I became the last person she wanted to see in this world, and unfortunately, she was the only girl who drove me crazy.For the entire night, I fought with my feelings, hiding them underneath. I thought it was just a stint of unsettled emotion that would pass with time. It became worse when the time came to see her again. Her angered eyes toward me thrashed in my spirit. She hated me for a crime I didn’t commit. She didn’t believe I was innocent.My desperate eyes waited for a single glance of understanding, but she ignored me as if I had never existed to her. Above all, I became possessive of her when I saw her hugging Matt. No girl rejected me like that and never dared to make me feel vulnerable.I questioned myself about why I was craving for the warmth she gifted to Matt while I was the one who found her u

~Matt~It had been two days with no news of Xander. Aoife reached out to me almost as if on routine, while Xander was nowhere to be found.Finally, I called Raphael, Xander’s elder brother, in hopes he’d seen him.“I was waiting for your call,” Raph answered.“Hello, big brother. How are you?”“I’m good. Tell me what happened this time in between you two?”“Nothing with me this time. Where is he? I haven’t seen him for two days. Is he with you?”I sighed, not going into any more details. How could he tell Raph about Xander’s weird actions regarding Aoife?Raph didn’t bother to know about it either when he answered, “He is in his relaxation zone. You can find him at the club. I got the call from the manager; he was there all day.” “Thanks, I’ll check. Bye.”Just great! Xander has different phases he goes through.His relaxation zone phase means sex and lots of it, combined with booze all day, and nobody dares to stop him. I rolled my eyes, remembering Aoife asked a few times about Xan

~Xander~The next evening, I was in my room with that booming of Dolby sounds of my favorite songs when the least expected thing happened. Suddenly, I got an intercom call from the front desk, informing me a girl wanted to meet with me. If it were Zareena, I would kill her for disturbing me, but an unknown figure was standing in the middle of the room, not long after I got the call. Her back was turned, but I knew I knew her.I scanned her body in the dim light. Her short, white floral dress caught my focus, and her flawless skin tried to grab my sight. I walked toward her, and I got hit by her lavender scent.This can’t be her. And then she turned and hit my chest. A current flowed through my body when I saw her face. Her sapphire eyes captured mine before I said something, but she was not ready to answer.Slowly, my eyes trailed toward her cleavage that she tried to hide with her hand. I think she was testing me. She wanted to tease me without spilling a single word from her juicy l

~Xander~I wanted to kill the bastard who slapped her. I didn’t know why she protected him, even after he hit her. Don’t tell me he’s her eternal love. I rolled my eyes at the thought. My anger burst inside me like a volcano when I saw her hugging his unconscious body in the car. If I would have acted like him, beaten and unconscious, maybe she would have shown concern for me, too.How could she love a junkie? Can’t she see he is not good enough for her? My blood was boiling, and I totally forgot about my hand, which was hurting like hell. That idiot hit me with a knuckle duster. Didn’t she see her lover hit me?I slammed the door as Matt tried to help him get into the car. Give me another chance, and I will break him in two.We reached the hospital, and the staff took Caleb on the stretcher. No doubt she would follow him to the emergency room, so I sat on his car hood just watching her gush over him.Matt came out as I was nursing my hand. “Come, let’s go,” he said, waving me toward

~Xander~There was peace in my heart after going through an emotional upheaval between Aoife and me. Her words echoed in my ears again and again. And there was nothing I could think of to fix the situation. Why did I behave like a selfish brat?What was happening to me? I didn’t have a clue.It could be the first time I was getting constant rejection from a single girl who kept me around her finger, and I was not too fond of the thought of her arrogance affecting me so intensely. Maybe I was not ready to accept the change her presence made in me.I didn’t want to accept that I was falling for her, either. Is this even real because I am not a man that falls in love?A bully who never falls in love. Love binds freedom, and I am a free spirit.Shut it down... I screamed at myself in the hospital and punched the picture on the wall. After the influence of sedatives came down, I woke up.Raph was sitting next to my bed, working on his laptop.“Hey,” I said in a raspy voice.“This time you b