I could tell that he would rather co along with and the rest of the n but I felt like he would have a much more important role to play here.
“Watch over her and make sure that she stays out of trouble. Make sure she doesn’t do anything reckless,” I instructed sternly.
“Will this help make you focus on your work?” Zain asked as he stared directly at .
“Of course. I’ll feel much better knowing that I can trust you to handle things here,” I replied honestly.
“What should I tell her?” Zain asked for further instructions.
“Tell her that I have so things to deal with and that she shouldn’t wait up for ,” I instructed.
I didn’t think that Dahlia would wait up for and it would co as no surprise if she preferred to have gone. Zain nodded his head once to show that he understood.
...
**Dahlia’s point of view**
What ti is it now?
Is it possible to tell how much ti has passed from the movent of the stars in the sky?
I must have heard that from sowhere but I could no longer rember. Even if you could tell the passage of ti from the stars’ movents, I couldn’t do it. The stars twinkled and shone so brightly in the dark night sky and I had already lost track of how long I had been staring up at them from the balcony. I heaved another long sigh and realized that I had already lost count of the number of tis that I’ve sighed that night.
Where is the Great Bear and the Little Bear again?
All the stars just look the sa to and how they were arranged in the sky just looked random without any clear patterns that caught my attention at all. I let out another sigh when I realized that I should have paid closer attention to what Bradon was saying when he showed the constellations. Although I told myself that it was better that he had left alone, I couldn’t stop wondering where he had gone. Zain said he had matters to attend to but what were those matters and how could they be more important than our honeymoon?
After Zain left, I spent a few hours just tossing and turning in bed as sleep swiftly evaded . I sat up in bed when I decided to give up entirely on the idea of going to sleep because it just seed impossible. The two chairs placed on the balcony ca in handy as I flopped down onto one of them. My legs had gotten tired and I felt so bored. It crossed my mind that instead of counting sheeps in my head, I could count the stars in the sky until I felt sleepy.
Where is Bradon? When is he going to co back?
The questions that repeated themselves inside my head distracted from counting and made have to start all over again after losing count. After this happened a couple of tis, I decided to give up completely.
“Why am I waiting up for him?” I muttered to myself.
The soft sound of the howling night wind was the only response that I ever got.
...
When I woke up the next morning to the sound of soone banging on my door and yelling out my na. I felt so disoriented and my back ached quite badly. When I opened my eyes, I imdiately found the reason why my body was in the state that it was in. After crawling back into bed, I must have slept in an awkward position which resulted in my aching joints and back.
“Lady Diana!” Zain’s voice called out to again.
After looking around, a sinking feeling crept into my chest when I discovered that I was alone in the room. Morning had already arrived but Bradon had not returned. The bitter disappointnt that I felt told that I must have expected to see him when I woke up. He did tell not to wait up for him but he didn’t say that he wouldn’t be back by morning.
“I’m going out,” I declared the mont that I opened the door.
As expected, Zain was standing right in front of my door. His face took on a look of unpleasant surprise at my sudden announcent.
“Where do you plan to go, My Lady?” He asked with a concerned look on his face.
“Wherever I want to. Bradon isn’t back so that ans that we’re not going to be able to do anything as planned today, right? That ans that I’m free to do as I please, right?” I demanded to know as I glowered at him.
For a mont, Zain didn’t seem to know how to react. I knew that it wasn’t his fault and that I was taking my anger out on him. There was so much injustice in my actions but the mont that I realized that I was angry with the fact that Bradon wasn’t back, I got even angrier. If he didn’t care about our honeymoon or the shared responsibilities that we had to fulfill together, then I couldn’t see why I had to care either.
“There’s got to be a bunch of fun activities to do on an island like this...” I said as I stared up into Zain’s face.
I wondered when he would move out of the way so that I could get out of the room. Zain had a conflicted look on his face but after a mont of struggling with his own thoughts, he stepped to the side to let through.
“Do you want to co along?” I asked sarcastically.
“I will accompany you, My Lady,” he replied dutifully.
It was obvious enough since last night that Bradon had left Zain here to keep an eye on . I was sure that everything that I did would be reported to Bradon. My mood only darkened when I thought of how he was openly keeping tabs on .
–To be continued...
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