The Commoner Consort: The Country’s Respected Empress - Chapter 243
Maya realizes she didn’t even ask Bhommi about Xavier in her mind and nods “Prince Xavier is with Bhommi. She is protecting him. Let me help you-“.
Maya approaches Kalki to hold his hands but Kalki pushes her gently “Don’t!”
Maya sees him hissing in agony and gasps worried seeing small burn wounds on his fingers “Why? Let me help-”
He hisses impatiently and doesn’t allow her to even hold his hand “Just….don’t. You can’t”.
She is taken aback and stutters blankly “I c-can hurt myself. ..if you are worried. .that I couldn’t bear your weight”.
“…”
Kalki’s groan showed he was getting annoyed by her.
Maya senses his deliberate efforts to push her away and holds his hand.
But she only gasps falling next to him as soon as she held him. She winces biting her lips.
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Kalki mutters bitterly as he closed his eyes “Told you”.
Maya looks at the wounds again on his fingers and assures struggling to speak as she couldn’t take this agony “I-I will make that heal faster”.
He mocks through his closed eyes as he could feel his agony lessened now “Oh! You will? How?”
She blinks dumbly “I-I will”.
‘Wouldn’t you ..have any ways ..anyway?’
He leans back exhausted “Right. Do whatever after I die”.
Maya snaps at him harshly “Shut up! You won’t die on me!”
Kalki sighs as he grunts “Just leave. You are just annoying”.
Maya accuses him in between her heavy breaths and she too finds it hard to keep her eyes open with the pain “You! You are the one annoying me! Why did you do this? Why didn’t you stop this war when you knew about this earlier? Can’t you protect yourself first?”.
He sighs opening his eyes and thinks sighing ‘How could I? When-‘
He stops thinking as he sees Maya looking at him with her horror-filled eyes.
Kalki blinks dumbly as it was sudden “What?”
She points at his face “Your nose… blood..”
Kalki frowns and wipes the blood before saying “It’s nothing-“.
Maya gasps and whimpers guiltily ‘What in the heavens?! What should I do? Are you dying?’
Kalki now is astonished to hear her and looks back at her equally shocked. He never predicted her reaction as he never expected her to reach here.
He finds this strange and embarrassing.
Both look at their linked hands and she releases the hold awkwardly.
She only now realized how close they are to each other.
Maya crawls away from him and asks trying to ignore her embarrassment “You! Tell me what should I do!”
Kalki flinches as soon as the pain hit him hard and growls “Are you trying to kill me, woman?!”
Maya realizes that she left his hand and whispers sheepishly “I… apologize..” and thinks for a moment before holding his hand back.
But he swats her hand this time “I am fine”.
Maya asks looking at him keenly “How should I help you?”
He flinches and speaks dryly “I will answer if I make this day alive”.
‘This man!’
She helplessly looks around before deciding something. From the memory, she recalled she knows a way.
She kneels forward and speaks before holding his hand firmly “Save yourself. I can’t do more than this now”.
She recalls holding his hands before fainting in that burning chamber last time.
Kalki “…”
‘Can you even bear for a-‘
Maya wines closing her eyes tight “Just do something fast! I will leave you here to die if you waste any more time…”
Seeing him still looking at her with a frown, she punches his shoulder “Do something!”
“…” Did she just…
Kalki is left speechless in front of this clingy woman and he knows she won’t let her grip go this time. Her arms around him told him that he has to hurt her to let her go off him and he is not going to hurt her physically.
And definitely not when she is trying to save his life.
The Empress who arrived magically inside the cave stumbles seeing them in each other’s embrace at first.
“…” Since when?!-
But as soon as she heard them, she realized she misunderstood them.
The Empress looks at the two persons in front of her and chuckles when her eyes landed on Kalki “Childish”.
But she hides behind the rock as soon as she realizes that she spoke out her mind.
As expected Kalki’s head snapped in her direction and frowns finding no one. He could only doubt his hearing skill as it doesn’t make sense to him.
‘How could I here her there when she is in front of me?’
He stands immediately lifting her.
Kalki mutters looking at her face rested on his chest “Just hold on”.
Maya squeaks out her voice “You better hurry”.
Kalki starts walking with her in his arms.
Maya clenched her first hard to bear the agony and wonders ‘A mere scratch of fire can do this to him…How did he make the snow guard him? I wanted to ask him…’
Kalki looks at her face for a moment and finds her grip loosening.
‘She is loosing conscious’.
He increases his pace.
He is still clueless thinking about how to get the Cross Pendant from Xavier without explaining him. More than that how to cure his injury is the important question itching his mind. He doesn’t know the answer exactly as he never got injured by fire.
He has to check once he gets the Pendent.
For now, his preference is to take them to their camp. It was not safe in the Southern Realm’s camps even though he destroyed them.
The Empress watches Kalki who is leaving in a hurry with Maya. The cold facade of her face melts for a moment and a small smile is formed at the corner of her lips. The more she looked at them the more she smiles.
Her smiles soon turn into a cold smile while thinking of something and she snaps her fingers before disappearing.
(Author: Wait. Are they aware of this? He just heard her mind and both didn’t realize. *Huffs in frustration* You know what? You both can never workout!)
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