The Commoner Consort: The Country’s Respected Empress - Chapter 191
Xavier is in ecstasy seeing her adorable efforts in secretly checking his arm. He clears his throat and asks forwarding his hand in front of her catching her off guard “Why don’t you check yourself?”.
Maya “…” What in the heavens! Did he just let me check his hand?! Why would I check a man’s hand-
But her hands betrayed her sane mind and already started lifting his sleeve up by folding it neatly. She sucks in a short breath seeing his arm and gasps worriedly “It left a scar!”.
Xavier sighs “I am grateful as long as it didn’t kill me”.
Maya is still worried ‘How can it leave a scar?! He is too beautiful to have a scar-‘.
COUGHS LOUDLY
Maya chokes on her own coughs as she suddenly realized what she was thinking.
‘How could I think of him as beautiful?! He is A Prince for heavens sake!’.
Xavier grabs a leather pouch hung on his waist which is filled with water and makes her drink.
After she soothing her throat she decides to stop thinking too much. She needs to divert her mad mind from its insanity. But still her mind interrupts ‘He is still beautiful-‘.
Maya clears her through and asks him “Why are you here?”.
Without even realizing herself, she already started calling him intimately.
Xavier wanted to lie to stop sounding worried for her but couldn’t help say the truth. He says meeting her eyes “I wanted to see you”.
That was enough to cause her heart into a mess at this point.
Even though he said what she wanted to hear, Maya wanted to hear more for some reason. She asks “Why?”.
‘Why did he travel this long for hours to see me? It better be not what I am thinking. …’.
Xavier gulps his restlessness and asks impatiently “Why did you get into that war in the first place?”.
‘Making me worry…I couldn’t stay there even for a moment after hearing the news’
Maya is stick in a difficult place after his question. She wanted to smack her head for stirring trouble for herself again! She is herself enough to cause her trouble then why need of an enemy in vain?!
‘What should I say? I don’t want to lie to him but I have no choice! How could I say that I just dissappeared from Palace and fell right in the battlefield?!’.
Seeing his keen eyes, she speaks averting her eyes to the scenery in front of her “I wanted to test my skills. And I..wanted to help with something for this place..while being here..”.
He raises his eyebrows “And here I thought you don’t like killing people?”.
Maya instantly fends for herself in the fear of him misunderstanding her again “I didn’t! I didn’t kill anyone with my arrows! I just ..made sure… that they don’t use their hands for few months..”.
She mumbled the last part timidly as she is unsure he would still think her as a good person. She doesn’t want him to think her as a bad person for hurting the people.
Xavier chuckles at her desperate efforts to justify her actions. His eyes softens seeing her sad and guilty face. He can say that she is still displeased for hurting others.
‘She still can’t see anyone die’.
Something is weird. She completely forgot that she killed 16 people by her powers! It looked like she was a different person when her power takes the control. But she didn’t lie though..She didn’t kill anyone with her arrows!
Xavier smiles “Lets sit for a while. I am tired”.
He was indeed exhausted. He can see that she too is tired.
Maya nods after a sigh. Both sits supporting their backs on the huge rock behind them. For few moments they sat silent awkwardly as they don’t know what to talk.
Xavier asks with a smirk “Did you think of me?”.
His voice never fails to make her blush. And this question really caught her off guard again.
Maya blinks while processing his question “Huh?”.
For some reason she can’t understand anything he says as his words make her mind go blank. Not to mention this sudden question. Her hands starts to sweat.
His smirk broadens seeing her dumb expression “I thought you would be waiting for me to get cured”.
He pretends to be sad but he really is disappointed that she was not there for him till he got cured. He can understand that she would have been there if not for the war but he wanted to say how he felt.
Maya gets shocked at his accusation and exclaims frantically “I was there! I was the first one to see you waking up! Don’t you remember?! But no one believed me! You opened your eyes and asked me about the poison situation and then you slept suddenly! No one believed me when I said that you talked to me! Now you are accusing me for not being there?!”.
She pouts in anger and turns her face away in frustration ‘How dare he?! I was so worried about him and visited his sick chamber several times in a single day! Here he complains!-‘.
Xavier grins widely and asks controlling his chuckles “Oh! I forgot that..due to my sickness…Should I apologize, My lady?”.
Maya waves her hand still not looking at him “No need..no need.. I am glad you are already healed”.
Xavier asks out of no where “What do you want?”.
Maya looks at him blankly “Huh?”
‘Am I the only one unable to understand his question here? Why can’t I understand what he is asking about?!’
Xavier smiles faintly realizing how naive she is. “The Wish. What did you plan to ask?”.
Maya is stunned “Oh?!..that…I forgot about that completely”.!
He sighs and says meaningfully “Ask wisely”.
His eyes told an entirely different story with buried emotions.
‘You can get free from this marriage. … But I can’t say that to you…What should I do?’.