Chapter 159 - Heartless Siblings!

Maya sucks in sharp breath at his question and stares at him surprised.

'Did he ..call my name?'

She starts feeling her breaths itching and gulps suppressing this overwhelmingly strange feeling.

She is still young to understand this feeling, after all.

She asks calmly as he felt him tensing "Why would it mean anything to me?".

Xavier asks curiously "Then why are you still here? You said you don't like being a Queen and even this marriage doesn't mean anything to you. What's stopping you from going out of this?".

Maya went speechless at this suddenness and gulps 'How could I tell you? That I have found a purpose here...'.

She clears her throat and speaks "I tried. At first. But I couldn't leave because the consequent situations didn't give any chance. However, this country is already burdened with many issues. I didn't want to reveal this to spoil anything further. H-he asked me to be this way on that day..I didn't talk about this further with him..".

She doesn't know why she said him everything and looks at him frowning. He looked sad, worried and something she couldn't decipher. 

Xavier was astonished at her reasons 'Indeed she tried to leave! Who could know that better than I? Would she have been happy if she left that day? But I couldn't have..'.

Meanwhile Maya fears 'Is he bothered by my presence? Does he think me as an annoying person?! He wanted me to simply leave?'.

She couldn't help get sad and anxious about his previous questions. Instead of comforting her, he is saddening her further.

She asks reluctantly "Do you want me to leave?".

Even though she wouldn't leave this country at this point, she anticipates for his answer. For some strange reasons, she couldn't stomach this unsettling feeling.

'Does he think me as an evil person?!'

Xavier snaps from his thoughts and gasps stunned "What?!".

Seeing her sadness he denies immediately before she misunderstands him "Not at all! Why would I want you to leave?! The truth is I was worried-".

Maya speaks bitterly "No. You are not! Nobody worries about me here! Everything happens here by that single man's wish! He wants to exile me with some false accusations but I will not allow that to happen!".

Xavier asks astonished "Exile you?!".

'What is she talking about?! How did she predict Xander's previous thoughts?!'.

Maya smiles coldly removing her hand from his grasp "I know you don't want to hear anything bad about Royals but every single order is issued against me! Why is that?!".

Xavier tries to explain "My Lady, you are mistak-".

She interrupts "I know, I am not! First trying to kill me, then issuing an edict to seize The Madam title and now conspiring to make everyone here to hate me! So that I would leave myself from here?! Using people's hatred against me?! You Royals are really heartless! I will never let you control me".

Xavier smiles seeing her stubbornness and states "You are not seeing the big reason behind this, My Lady. I won't take the responsibility for the first accusation of yours as we would never want you dead".

Maya tilts her head suspiciously and states sternly "All I see is people trying to humiliate me for my race and look down on me for being a commoner. I didn't let them do those and here they are! Smearing someone's death to chase me! I despise this filthy tricks!".

Xavier flinches at her harshness and speaks "Can you be considerate? By this execution, people are now aware of your kind heart".

Maya was speechless "..." What?! My kindness?!

He continues hesitantly "Only Victor's haste led to a death today".

Maya opens her mouth slightly in astonishment yet fear does creep in her heart 'His single mistake now led to someone's death?! What?! Christopher wasn't supposed to die?! Then everything was just a trap like I suspected in the start?!'.

Seeing Maya's panicking face, he adds softly "You don't have to worry, My Lady".

She whispers in disbelief "How couldn't I?! Victor's mistake cost Christopher's life! Tomorrow someone else's will cause mine!-".

Xavier holds her hand and assures "No. There won't be any threat to you anymore".

She frowns "I won't believe your brother".

He chuckles "Trust me, Maya. He will not think about your exile anymore-".

She interrupts still suspiciously "How?".

He states with a faint smile "Because I asked him to".

Maya went speechless again "..." You?! So he won't bother me anymore?!

Xavier notices Maya's torn gloves and declares coldly "She harmed you!".

She gasps trying to retrieve her hand back "It's nothing".

He didn't let her hand and removes the glove while muttering "She must have used a knife!".

She speaks "I will take care of my matters. I appreciate if you don't escalate this further".

He gets relaxed seeing her palm fine and asks "Can you be more careful? You shouldn't have met her alone. I don't want you to get in any trouble while no one is there to help you".

She states arrogantly "I honestly don't want to. But certain someone is hell bent to trouble me. Can you do something about that person?!".

HA HA!

Xavier laughs at her words and couldn't help burst in laughter seeing her serious face. She even pouts irritated looking at his delightful laughs.

She sulks 'Is he laughing at my misery?! Heartless siblings!'

Recalling his previous words she could only gulp 'I should be very careful in future! What if he planned many traps for me in future?!'.

Xavier speaks suppressing his laughs "All I can do is steal him away from country for few weeks. You can be in peace for this short span of time".

She asks raising her eyebrows "How did I get that luxury?! I don't think his mere absence will put me in peace".

He smiles "True. He can do anything he wants irrespective of the distance but we have something else to concentrate now and won't be in country for quite some time. So, you may rest assured, My Lady ".

She creases her eyebrows suspiciously yet turns away thinking something deeply 'Something else to concentrate? I should use this opportunity and ask him. What if he takes months to return?!'.