After forcing himself to not lose control he decided to take Katherine back to the living room. Since it was a Sunday morning he wasn't planning on going to work that day. He stepped out from between her thighs and then carried her down, but to his surprise Katherine wobbled and would have fallen down if not for his strong arms that held her firmly.
Katherine was so embarrassed that she could not look at Xander in the eyes. After she stabilized herself, Xander let her go and then they walked to the living room and sat on the big and comfortable sofa.
"There's something I want to talk to you about." Xander had been thinking about it for quite some time now but he didn't want to invade on her privacy but seeing how their relationship has progressed he thought it would be the best timing to talk about it.
Seeing the serious expression on his face Katherine straightened up and focused her attention on him, she was curious to what he wanted to talk about. "What is it?"
"About your family... And about that bastard." Xander clenched his fists when he noticed how Katherine's face hardened at the mention of her family and Tom. He didn't want to upset her but at the same time he wanted to come clean with her.
"What about them?" came the flat voice of Katherine. She couldn't help but think back to the time when her family used to abuse her and when that bastard casually told her that he sold her as if he was talking about the weather.
"Your family are alive and well, however I have created some problems in their life. I had you investigated and when I saw the information I was furious to know that your family were abusive towards you and you were not happy when you lived with them so I decided to make them live an uncomfortable life because of that. I made them lose almost all their source of income and now they can hardly make ends meet." Xander wanted to do so much more, he wanted to make their lives much more miserable but he didn't want Katherine to hate him because of that when he found her that is why he gave them a mild punishment.
"So you were the one who made them like that?" She probed while looking at him intently. She could see how nervous he was when telling her that, as if he was afraid she would hate him for making her family suffer.
"Yes.." Xander answered her honestly, he was praying in his heart that this wouldn't caused any problems to their relationship.
"I know the condition that they have been living in ever since I was kidnapped. When I escaped from the BEPBU I did some research on my family and friends, I wanted to know if they were alive and well. Seeing that they were alive and healthy I decided that was enough for me. I didn't help them in any way because I was afraid that they might arouse suspicions from BEPBU and that might lead them to harming my family or use them to lure me out or worse, killing them. And I know they are still watching them very closely in case I return to them or contact them that is why I have decided to cut off all contracts with them for the meantime." Katherine explained to Xander
She let out a tired sigh and took Xander's hand but he surprised her when he immediately clasped their hands together, she lifted her gaze to meet his intense eyes. "I know you did that for my sake Xander and I appreciate it but I would like you to lift your punishment from them. My family are ignorant, they are narcissistic and toxic but that doesn't mean that I have to become like them. I might hate the fact that we are bound by blood but I don't hate them because no matter what they are still my family. "
Xander's hardened face immediately softened for her, after all what they did to her and all that she had been through she still chose to be kind to them? He wanted to just whisk her away from the world and hide her somewhere far away, somewhere that will be safe for her because in his eyes she's just too pure for this cruel and dirty world. "I understand, I will lift some of the punishment from them but not all of it, you must realize that I am not as merciful as you are and since they dared to hurt my woman I will not let them go scot free."
"Thank you" came the soft angelic voice of Katherine that melted the demon's heart instantly.
Xander cleared his throat and his gaze hardened again when he remembered they were yet to talk about that bastard. "About that Tom scumbag, I killed him." came the cold and heartless voice of Xander.
And Katherine saw red. She abruptly stood up and yelled "You what?! Why did you kill him? How could you hide this from me?!" Katherine was enraged hearing that Xander had killed Tom.
Xander's eyes darkened and suddenly the temperature dropped below freezing point, his aura turned dark and murderous, his hands were itching to snap someone's neck. He looked nothing less than a blood thirsty demon.
He stood up and walked towards her until he was just an inch away from her. "Are you sad that I killed that worthless bastard? Do you still care about him?" said Xander in a low, dark and dangerous voice.
Katherine shivered when she felt as if the wind from Antarctica has blown on her body but she held her ground well. "Yes I'm sad that you killed him because I wanted to be the one to kill him myself after torturing him to the brink of insanity. You took the pleasure of revenge away from me!" She yelled at him again, her face red with anger. She had been looking for Tom ever since she escaped but he was nowhere to be found as if he never existed in the first place, now she knows why she couldn't find him. The fact that Xander had killed him before she could get her hands on him pissed her off.
At first Xander was shocked hearing what she said, but when it registered in his head a small smile graced his lips and just like that his anger dissipated into thin air as if it was never there in the first place. Without any warning he lifted Katherine up and then sat back down on the sofa making her sit on his lap while straddling him.
"I'm sorry my love, I thought you were mad at me because you cared for that asshole. Had it been the case I was ready to slaughter his entire family because of how angry I was. But hearing your reason I must apologize for taking away your right to revenge from you, after hearing that he sold you I couldn't stop myself from cutting his head off."
Katherine was still angry at him so she stubbornly crossed her arms in front of her chest and turned her head away from him with a loud hmmp!
"I'm sorry my lovely wife, please forgive your dear husband" Xander's heart melted at the sight of his stubborn wife. She was evoking so many feelings in him that he had never experienced before.
When she still refused to look at him and continued to stare at his large shoulder as if it was the most interesting thing in the universe he gently grabbed her chin and made her look in to his eyes, but she only glared at him and averted her gaze again.
"You are so adorable and cute." He murmured as he cupped her soft cheeks and gently caressed them."
"N-no I'm not a-anything like that." She said with a small pout on her lips as she put her hands on his to remove them from her cheeks but he seized the opportunity to grab her hand and pressed small kisses on each of her fingers while looking straight into her eyes.
"You know my love, no one dares to scream and yell at me, no one dares to turn away from me or refuse to talk to me especially when I'm speaking to them or asking questions to them, no one dares to reject me or get mad at me and show it to my face but you. You are allowed to do all this, you are allowed to even hit me, you are allowed to push me away when you are angry but still I would hold onto you. You can show me your worst and I would still love you just the same Katherine. I could never hurt you because to me you are more precious than all the treasures that this world has to offer." Xander expressed to her with a loving and gentle gaze on his face.
She blinked at his words, no one has ever looked at her with so much tenderness, love, and adoration. She had never imagined that one day she would end up sitting on Xander's lap as he lovingly caressed her cheeks and say kind and heartwarming things to her. She could feel her heartbeat accelerate beyond control as if wanting to jump out of her chest, and before she knew it she had thrown her arms around him and hugged him tightly and nuzzled her head in the crook of his neck.
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