Her Devilish Alpha - Chapter 175

“I–”

Xavier was rendered speechless. Apologising wouldn’t do anything.

Madeline wanted to run. Not away from him, but towards him.

“She threatened to kill you if I didn’t come. How am I supposed to react to that? I didn’t react there because I didn’t want to make a scene, but how could she possibly do such a thing? Had she explained the situation and told me why she did what she did, then maybe I would be able to come to terms with it… but she didn’t. She didn’t do anything but demonstrate and flaunt her powers. I didn’t know what would happen if I didn’t come, she didn’t tell me who she was, I was left in the dark. I’m not blaming any of that on you, but… you kept that from me too.”

Madeline’s eyes fixed on him, and she couldn’t help but sniffle.

“You could have told me something. Anything. It would have helped if I wasn’t left in the dark… So what happened?” She asked, her voice shaky and her mind spinning as she asked next, “D-did she tell you to keep it from me? Do you not trust me enough to tell me who was actually behind this? Did you think you were doing me a favour by keeping me in the dark?”

“I’m sorry,” Xavier apologised, looking down at the floor. He said to her, “She told me to keep it from you. I never hid it from you because I didn’t trust you or anything, I promise. I was just trying to…”

He hesitated, “I was just trying to…”

What was he supposed to say?

Madeline took a couple steps towards him, wrapping her arms around him which took him by surprise. He wrapped his arms around her, whispering those two words into her hair, “I’m sorry.”

“I didn’t mean to hurt you like this,” he admitted, “I do trust you. I trust you with my life, I thought it’d be better if you didn’t know because it was something for her to tell you, not me,” he explained, feeling like a horrible person.

Why didn’t he tell her? Sure, Cornelia would be quite upset with him, but he could handle that.

What he couldn’t handle was Madeline being mad at him for something he completely screwed up.

This was something Cornelia would do. It was something those around her had gotten used to. But, what Xavier hadn’t taken into consideration was how Madeline felt about it.

Had he been in her position, he’d be distraught if someone had threatened to kill Madeline and would want to rip them into half with his bare hands afterwards. How dare anyone do such a thing?

This time, the roles were switched. Madeline was the one who thought his life was on the line. And to make things worse, when she asked him about it, hoping he’d tell her what was going on, he didn’t. He hid it from her.

No apologies would make what he did okay, that was what he thought at least.

It was horrible, what Cornelia had done, inviting her to dinner under completely false pretences. There was a reason even Emilio refused to come to dinner.

Had Madeline known exactly who had invited her to dinner, she would have chosen to remain at Eudora as well, probably with her father.

“I don’t want to be mad at you,” Madeline admitted, burying her face in his shirt.

She laughed, even when tears were streaming down her cheeks, “I was actually discussing and planning what our second date would be before all this happened.”

Xavier’s heart fluttered.

Madeline inhaled, taking his scent in. He smelt amazing.

“Y-you smell good,” Madeline praised, her legs beginning to sway.

“Madeline?” Xavier asked, when she stopped talking. He could hear her breathing, but…

Next thing he knew, Madeline was falling to the ground.

“Madeline!” He exclaimed, catching her before her head hit the cold, hard ground.

And that was it. The first casualty.

He placed her on her bed, beginning to panic.

“This really is all my fault,” he said to himself. He had to make it up to her some way or another.

Madeline laid in her bed, unconscious. Xavier wondered how long it would take before she awoke, staying right by her side whilst he thought about what to do next.

A tear rolled down his cheek.

“Please be okay,” he mumbled.

He wondered if Emilio had returned from dinner. The man deserved to know what happened to his daughter.

Xavier knocked on Emilio’s door. He called, “Emilio?”

The door opened, and Emilio peered at Xavier, “What is it?”

“Madeline,” Xavier managed to croak out, a guilty expression plastered across his face.

Emilio narrowed his eyes, a concerned and upset look on his face.

“Bring me to her,” he said.

Xavier nodded, telling him, “Follow me.”

The moment before Emilio entered Madeline’s quarters, he had this feeling of dread in him. What happened to the girl? Was she alright? Who’d caused this?

He took a deep breath before he stepped into her quarters, seeing her lying on her bed, eyes closed.

Xavier explained to him what had happened once he was in her quarters. Emilio bit his bottom lip.

“How long has it been?”

“About ten, fifteen minutes,” Xavier answered.

Emilio knew better than to harm Xavier. Madeline wouldn’t want that. Besides, it was mainly Cornelia’s fault. The woman had put Madeline through so much.

If anything, she was the reason Madeline was lying there, unconscious.

Xavier had kept it from her, yes. However, unlike Cornelia, he had apologised. He was sorry for what he did and he proved it to her.

In Emilio’s eyes, it was Cornelia who had done this to their daughter.

It was her who was the reason why she was unconscious.

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Author’s Note: So an update, I took two covid tests. One tested negative, and the second (the more accurate one) tested positive.. However, I’m feeling much better and in the mood to write now that I have more free time because of my current condition.