Filed to story: Loving You In My Final Days
“I’m sorry, Kelly. I didn’t mean it that way. It’s just that I am also confused because Alex told me that he wasn’t royalty,” Abi confessed and Kelly pressed her temples. Now that was a shock. Kelly had been thinking that he was the mysterious crown prince but if he was not… then who the hell was he to mobilize this country’s force just to look for his woman?! Even the pretty prince was being ordered around by him like he was his personal knight!
Kelly was getting a headache.
“Kelly… I’m sorry for the trouble. Alex said that the one who kidnapped me was one of the princesses. I still don’t know the reason why she would do that to me. Alex said that I was down there because of him so I can only think that maybe she wanted to be Alex’s lover so she needed to get rid of me first. Alex told me that it was better if I didn’t know, that it was better for me not to know anything about him.” Abi looked down. “But… I will try to ask him again in the future.”
Kelly was in disbelief but Abi smiled, looking willful so Kelly could only sigh. She couldn’t get anything out from that damned prince so she already predicted that Abi wouldn’t know anything either. That night proved that Alexander Qin might be someone even greater than she could imagine. She saw how the soldiers and even the royal guards obeyed his every word even though he was clearly not the king. Could it be that he was actually the real king of that country and that the Reign family were just his stand ins?
She had thought hard about this possibility but Abi just mentioned that he said he wasn’t royalty at all. However, she couldn’t logically think of any other reason why he seemed to have more power than the royal family. There were too many questions and they had none of the answers. The only thing she was sure of was that Alexander Qin might be a shady creature; the shadiest man she had ever known.
“Okay, I understand but… Abi… are you sure about this? I mean, I just can’t stop worrying about you. You know that you might not be safe if you stay, right? Just because you have the title of being his girlfriend… people have started trying to hurt you. What if that car that nearly got you last week also had something to do with your boyfriend?”
Abi’s eyes slightly widened before she shook her head.
“That… that was just an accident,” she said but then she also remembered the stalker that Alex had beaten the other day. However, she just couldn’t believe it. Why would they come after her? What would they get from her? The cliché plot she always read in novels was that the enemy was supposed to kidnap her and use that against Alex. But they didn’t do that. Why did it feel like they wanted her dead instead without Alex knowing? She asked herself as she shuddered when she remembered the murderous intent of that stalker.
However, Abi was not going to crumble in fear.
“Don’t worry, Kelly. Alex will protect me,” she said firmly. Even if her life was in danger, she knew that Alex would protect her, no matter what.
“Sigh… okay, fine, but please be careful, okay? You can’t afford to get hurt again. You’re lucky that Alex didn’t bring you to the hospital and just called a doctor to see you since you only passed out due to exhaustion.”
“Mm. I will be very careful.”
It was almost sunset when Abi sent Kelly off because Kelly’s parents called her to come over to their house.
Once Abi returned inside the house, she walked towards Alex, who was sitting by the fireplace.
She sat right next to him and leaned her head on his shoulder.
“Alex, you ended up not fulfilling any wishes of mine for eleven days,” she told him when suddenly, he gently pulled her head down and made her lie down on him, using his lap as her pillow. Abi smiled and she gladly positioned herself as she looked up at him.
The man stared down into her eyes.
“Eleven requests aren’t that hard to fulfill. What are your requests? Tell me and we can start but I will be choosing which request I will fulfill first because you are still injured. Who knows, you might ask me to help you fish for tuna in the Pacific Ocean,” he sternly told her with a straight face and Abi’s mouth parted before she burst out and chuckled.
“Fishing for tuna? That sounds fun.” She grinned and it was Alex’s turn to be speechless. At that moment, Abi immediately took advantage of his silence and she cupped her hands and blinked cutely at him, wanting to tease him again. “Alex, will you marry me?” she suddenly added and the already speechless man seemed to have completely lost his tongue.
He simply stared at her in disbelief before he bit his lips and pinch the skin between his brows.
Abi felt like smiling at seeing his reaction. She really found this cold glacier a little cute when he was like this.
However, the feast didn’t last for more than a few seconds because the man suddenly pinched her cheeks. “Little fruit, stop messing around or I will not fulfill any of your wishes today,” he threatened and Abi could only purse her lips and obey.
“Okay, okay… I’ll tell you now.”
Abigail was silent for a while. She hadn’t scanned her wishlist for days now but they were still clear in her memory. She saw her list as if it was right in front of her with only three ticks next to the three items that had been fulfilled. So now that Alex was going to fulfill eleven of those as he promised, she was very excited.
The excitement in her heart was overflowing that she totally forgot about the fact that she was injured.
“Okay, number 1,” she said as she gestured number 1 with her pinky finger. “I want to play laser tag with you.”
Alex’s lips parted again in disbelief. Laser tag? What the hell! That was something that had never, ever, crossed his mind!
“Rejected… next,” he replied and Abi pursed her lips. But then, the girl immediately switched gears.
“Ride a tandem bicycle with me.” She said and Alex closed his eyes.
“Abigail… why are these things even on your list?”
“What’s wrong with them? They look quite fun and romantic and something that couples do.”
“Rejected. Next.”
Abi was about to complain but she stopped herself. After all, she couldn’t afford to make him grumpy because then he might renege on his offer.
“Let’s watch the sunset and sunrise in one day.”
“Approved. Next.”
Finally, one had been approved. Abi’s face immediately brightened as soon as he agreed.
“Let’s visit a haunted house,” was the next request and Alex felt his mouth open and shut as he stared down at her. However, no words came out of it. It was obvious he was utterly speechless again by her requests.
