The Commoner Consort: The Country’s Respected Empress - Chapter 196
Xavier wakes up from him sleep. His eyes searches for Maya beside and his yawn instantly disappeared seeing Maya missing beside him. He looks around him only to find a servant waiting near the rock beside the bridge.
He knows that is Maya’s personal servant. He doesn’t need to see her face to find that.
He notices he was covered by a thick blanket and sits taking the blanket off. He notices the servant trembling in cold and asks “What are you doing here when it’s really cold?”.
Celina gets startled by his sudden question and bows turning towards him immediately “Answering His Highness. Madam Maya ordered this servant to take care of you-“.
“Where is she now?”
She couldn’t help melt inside noticing his kindness before yet she didn’t express her thoughts as always.
Celina speaks hurriedly noticing his impatience “Her Highness has returned to the Pavilion before a while”.
Xavier stands from the ground and walks towards the Countryside Pavilion with many questions in his mind.
In midst of his thoughts, he didn’t know how fast he reached the Pavilion. As he is already entering the Entrance.
Xavier stops suddenly noticing someone half running and walking in the distance. He tilts his head in suspicion “Is that man sick? He looks-“.
He blinks his eyes finding something very strange and squints his eyes to find one only Kalki darting hurriedly towards the Entrance.
Still Xavier smiles and he is about to call him but frowns feeling something off with Kalki’s walking pace.
Kalki was obviously in a hurry but Xavier couldn’t understand why Kalki looked bothered.
“Xander-”
Kalki just passes by Xavier ignoring him completely. Xavier turns to look him already started walking faster and follows him.
He forgets about everything and runs towards Kalki worriedly. It’s been years since he saw Kalki losing his temper.
He slows down his speed while nearing him and asks “What’s wrong, Xander?”
He was welcomed by Kalki’s complete silence and even Kalki walks faster than before as if he didn’t even see Xavier. It was like he purposely refuses to talk to anyone.
Xavier grabs Kalki’s shoulder. Seeing him struggling to free himself too weakly, Xavier grunts still feeling difficult to hold him as he just got healed from poison “Get yourself together, Xander!”.
It took most of his energy to even hold Kalki from walking away. Not to mention he had to turn Kalki now to talk facing him. Something has happened and that’s not at all good.
Seeing Kalki looking so pale than his normal complexion, he growls shaking Kalki by his shoulder “For God’s sake, Xander! You can’t be like this again!”.
Kalki still remains silent while Xavier struggles to look at Kalki’s face and speak to him.
Xavier is really anxious now as this state of Kalki reminds him of a worst past “Xander! Talk to me!”
As if woken up from his daze, Kalki looks at Xavier blankly and takes his time to realize the situation. His darting eyes were evident that he wasn’t even aware of his surroundings yet.
It was as if he is completely unaware of anything around him now. Or as if they didn’t matter to him anymore.
He asks in a daze still lost in his thoughts “Who do you think matters to me? The most…”.
He simply looks at Xavier expecting his answer. As if hearing the answer would make him confirm that he didn’t do anything wrong. And he just acted according to his heart.
Xavier frowns and watches him carefully before asking “What?”
Kalki now regains his composure gradually and asks steadying himself now not meeting Xavier’s eyes as if he unsure of himself “You heard me. There was only one person mattered to me more than my life. Who do you think was it?”
Xavier gets nervous at this point as he knows that this will not end well and things are really going towards that worst past excatly how he guessed. He asks carefully “What- Why are you asking this, Xander? What’s the matter?”
Kalki sighs noticing developing panic in Xavier’s eyes “I think.. I am losing my mind… I can’t believe anything now..”
‘It was Mother, wasn’t it?! How…and why did she ask for my blood before?’
He takes a look at his wrist where the shadow cut him before with his own sword. He was flabbergasted at first and overwhelmed by seeing his mother again so he didn’t mind doing whatever she asked for him to do!
Suddenly Kalki collapses on the floor startling Xavier and gasps hard for breaths.
“Xander! What’s happening?! Tell me where you are hurt!”
Kalki clutches Xavier’s palm as tenderly as he could even while collapsing, as he can’t hurt his brother with his power now. He can’t even when he is not in his right mind. He decides to not hurt him more and rubs his chest feeling constricted “I…can’t ….breath..Xav-”
“Xander!”
Xavier shouts seeing Kalki fainting while his mouth starts bleeding. The soldiers comes running to help and takes Kalki immediately to the sickroom.
Xavier runs closely with them worriedly as he never saw Kalki collapsing like this! Not even when Empress Claudia died. His bleeding mouth only increased panic in everyone’s heart.
He orders the soldiers “Take him to the Infirmary! Make every single Royal doctors to be here! And no words would go out about this!”
The soldiers left with Kalki after bowing at Xavier as if they promise to do as he said.
Xavier could only pray in his heart ‘He better not be…poisoned too. He won’t be..Because.. He is strangely capable of finding poison.. He always finds the poison and he can’t be poisoned… Then what happened to him?!’
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Maya asks sternly “Your Father won’t help us?”
Bhommi nods earnestly “He said that we shouldn’t be calling him unless there is some very very dire problems”.
Maya declares almost in dead tone “This situation is not at all serious! He thinks My life on the line is not at all a problem?! Did you really tell that Crown Prince stabbed me?!”.