Chapter 315: Professed her love

Cassius pov

"They are friends, somewhere they would have their family soon and these days would never return. But Killian and…. You.. You are my family with whom I will grow old and live forever. So there is no place for comparison at all.'' she said with so much sincerity that there was no place of doubt in it.

But before I could say anything, she closed her eyes and slept.

But before I could say anything, she closed her eyes and slept. She did not even wait for my response! Did she know how much i wanted to ask her then why was she hugging him, why is he the first person she remembered all the time.

I was feeling torn about the emotions i was feeling, till now i wanted to give her a good life because i have accepted her as my wife, but in this moment there was more than that. 

But then I remembered what I did to her a few hours ago and I gritted my teeth. I didn't want to hurt her but I felt so much anger and hurt back then that I couldn't seem to stop myself.

She was sleeping so peacefully and here I lost all my sleep. I didn't even know how much time had passed, I kept tossing and turning in the bed, when my eyes fell on her again.

I looked at the tendril that was falling on her face, making her frown. I smiled at how innocent she was looking. I held it in my hand and moved it away from her face.

I should have moved my hands but I did not. I gently ran my hands in her soft and fragrant hair, it made me feel calm. Then my hands moved to her face, it was looking so peaceful, so serene, that it was breathtaking. Marianne was looking so picturesque that I could not move my eyes away, I just wanted to keep looking at her.

Her hands gently moved and held my waist. She clutched my shirt and I smiled. She was behaving just like Killian used to do whenever I caress his cheek in sleep.

Her steady breathing finally affected me and my eyes turned heavy. I moved closer to her and hugged her. Taking a sniff  of her lavender smell, I closed my eyes ready to sleep in her arms, but as if she had decided to make havoc in my life.

She moved closer to my body and hugged me tightly as she spoke, 

"You will be the one most important to me, all my life. No matter how much i hate you, i still love you Cassius" i continued to look at her as I could not believe that..

"Did she.. .Did she just profess her love for me? Did she still love me..?" I continued mumbling like a madman. I was even ready to talk about all the inanimate objects of the world, if they could help me in knowing the truth.

"Marianne.. Marianne" i called but the girl did not move at all as if she was lost in deep sleep. And here I was anxious like a man finally know his destination but did not know the way to reach there.

The sun had already risen and was peeking through the window when she finally opened her eyes. She blinked a few times, then yawned and then thinking that the one in her embrace was her pillow, she moved to bury her face on my chest. It reminded me of the time when she had pinched my nipples to know that it was a dream or reality.. She really was one hell of a queer lady.

However, her face furrowed as she did not encounter the softness of a pillow as she had expected, it was met with my hard muscle instead.

She lifted her head and saw that the pillow she was trying to find was actually me. I was wide awake and looking at her, she was looking so beautiful even when her hair were scattered all over her face.

"Good morning, Cassius," she greeted as she let go of me and sat up.

I tilted my head and looked intently into her eyes. Whole night I waited for her to wake up so that I could ask her question but now that she was awake, I was hesitating.. What if she denied, or told me that it was a joke!?

"Did you… have a dream last night? I mean, a good dream, not a nightmare,`` I asked and she blinked, trying to remember. She was looking a bit curious about why I was suddenly asking that.

"I don't remember seeing a dream, I think I slept pretty deeply after our conversation and having food." she answered but I did not know how much truth was in it. Then she looked at me in curiosity. "Why?"

"Nothing. You were just… snoring last night so I thought you were dreaming" I said before I cleared my throat and stood up.

"I was snoring?" her eyes were wide. "I never snore," she added with conviction.

"How do you know, you snore many times" I said as she was looking too cute to tease.

I cleared my throat again and glanced at her before I headed towards the door. but then i turned and added, "and you drool too, just look at my shirt"

I made my way to the room quickly and got ready in the bathroom before I went downstairs.

In the dining room, the others were already seated as I walked and soon Marianne joined. But we were the only ones eating. Everyone else was looking at us as if we were some rare species of animals they have seen or heard for the first time.

She was also talking to everyone like usual, cheerful and bright, despite what happened last night. It almost seemed as if nothing had happened, like a ball of fire that kept on burning me all night, had died in her in the first ray of the sunlight.