After assuring checking Robert, Max walked towards carriage where Merry was sleeping.
Getting up from campfire,Calvin walked towards Max.
"I thought we're gonna have a wonderful talk today...but guess our man is tired."Calvin said while keeping his pace with Max.
"....." Maximilian wasn't minding his presence,kept walking.
Calvin smirked and glanced towards the carriage and added,"Better put your guards up or someone like me will willingly start making efforts to make her min-"
Before ending his last words,Max grabbed Calvin's jaw.
"SPEAK ONE MORE WORD." Max derangedly roared. Frowned his brows ,a glint formed in his eyes.His gloomy spectator's structure levitated over Calvin.
"Just think of trying and I'll make sure to put a garland of bones on your grave"Max warned. They looked at each other like there was no tomorrow.
Max grip loosened up the moment Calvin said,
"Is it not common for you to get abandoned? Even your parents abandoned you! They also didn't want a child like you. Beast? Yeah! That suits you so well.."
Clenching his jaw, gulping back his anger,Max said inanimatedly," Don't think of continuing the journey with us..It would be best for you to leave as soon as possible..this beast will go mad if his eyes see you again."
"Denying the truth, will change nothing.." Calvin spoke deliberately as he saw Max walking away.With a halt, Max turned and glanced him.
"...." Knowing that if he went any further,he will lose his tongue,Calvin stood still and didn't continue.With heavy stomps, Max left the place.
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With a long exhale,
Knock! Knock!
"Merry."
"It's me, Max." Max knocked on the carriage's door.
Getting up quickly.
"Max!"
With no delay, Merry opened the door.Founding a partially visible figure of Max under the dark night light.
Looking at her like a spiritless man.He regarded her.
'is it not common for you to get abandoned?'
Calvin's words struck Max head unpleasingly.
Looking at him contemplatively,"Max? A-Are you okay?" she asked.
"May I come inside?" With a soft polite voice, Max asked for permission.
"Please ,g-get inside." Merry stepped back to give him a way.
Just as Max stepped inside,he bumped his head at casing of the door.
"Oh dear!"
"A-Are you okay Max?" She asked worriedly.
Holding his head, Max thought , ' I was looking into her eyes so intently that I forgot to look around.God damnit!..'
"I'm... okay Merry." He slowly came inside the carriage while keeping his hand over his hurting forehead.Merry suddenly got startled when he hovered over her like a giant.
He occupied the whole carriage space.A humongous man indeed.
"P-Please settle down..you must be in pain.." She requested him to sit. Max ,just like an obedient boy, sat on the seat.After a few moments later,he felt a warm mellow touch, removing his hand,he looked up, meeting her eyes.Merry spanned her small hand over his forehead.
"Does it hurt a lot?" She asked .Gently brushing her thumb over.
After a pause,he replied,
"Yes, a lot..." He knew this much was nothing for him, but he was looking forward to get some attention from his wife.
"Sh-Should I bring s-some warm water to-!!" Before she could complete her words, his large hand held her wrist a little less firmly.
"It would become better if you...." ,before finishing, he gently guided her hand to his head, ".. pet me like this with your lovely gentleness."
Feeling her breaths heavy,she got her answer about how he made her heart unknowingly pounder everytime.With these sincere words ,that solitary darkness in his charming aura, those incomprehensive strong pupils of his eyes, he was taking her every single reason to not notice what was her feelings.
With no detain,
"..." Merry settled next to him.
She turned towards him and unfurled her arms .With a sweet pleasant smile, she nodded to cue him for an embrace. Max held his eyes fixed at her, discovering how lovingly she was allowing him to get affection.His heart twitched, wrinkling his forehead.
Maybe that man ended up making him remember his dark past that he wanted to forget the most.His own mother turned away her eyes from him from the day he was born,when he needed her affection the Leaving a profound impact in his memories.
With a desperate look, Max stumbled into her arms.Feeling an urge to merge into her embrace.His sensitive emotions got triggered somehow.
Merry wrapped her arms tightly around him.He tighten his grip around her abdomen.
She brushed his hair with tenderness .
Feeling every inch of her warmth.Max rested his head where her heart supposed to be. Pressed against her bosom,hearing her heartbeats dancing rhythmically.Fading away with every moment passing by.
Merry felt a shiver through his body.
That moment when she looked at his buried face, she paused, Max was crying.
Her all senses jolted at that very moment.
"M-Max....", she called ,not wanting an answer but a reaction to hint her about his pain.
Max tried his best to hide his tears from her.Not wanting to shed those tears he kept in for so long.But nothing worked.
"Shh...p-please don't hide... it's okay Max...Is s-something the matter?" Merry's voice soothed his ears while her touch paved a path to his soul.
Maybe sometimes all we need's
someone 's presence, that cures most part of our grievances.Maybe not knowing how to tell about his feelings or how to start or where to start with.His emotions were all piled up just like a fragments of glass and got scattered before he could balance them.
"Please..." Max mumbled undertone.
Wanting to ask the reason but
she ended up caressing him affectionately.
"Please...please.." Max continued with his pleading voice.
Merry paused while still holding him tightly.
"Please, I'm begging you.. never leave me Merry...I only have you...I only want you to stay..." Max tried his best to say more going on in his head but his voice broke at the middle refraining to say any furthermore.
She was lost,his words , shivering voice, everything made her feel lifeless.
Merry had never in her life got to hear someone ask her for her presence and to hear it from him, the man who she wanted to request to stay with her, was the one pleading to her instead.Merry's heart felt like someone had put a stone.
Putting herself together,she slowly tried to control her emotions.
Pecking his temple,"I'd die but never leave m-my gentleman..."she said with no sign of taking her words back.On her spoken words,
Max helplessly clenched her dress , he broke down and cried like a child. Not knowing how to console,Merry tighten her grip and rubbed his back .
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After some time,Max tried to wipe his wet eyes on her shoulder's sleeve before lifting his face to look at her.But the red impression of his eyes could not be concealed..
Seeing him like that,she could bearly hold herself back.She grabbed her long skirt end and gently rubbed corner of his eyes.Max closely regarded her.
Delicately, he held her hand while she continued to caress, he said with his hoarse voice," Do you know.. whenever I am with you.. I can't understand but I feel something..... something imparpable..I didn't want to show my weak side Merry..but...".
Hearing him say that,she paused and with all her devotion,she pulled his face closer, holding with both hands,she pecked corner of his lips continuously. Trying her best she could to coax him.
"Don't leave me.." he said.
"I will never" she replied tenderly.
"Don't ....abandoned me..." He resumed with low tone.Making sure he engraved her answer in his head.
"Never..." she answered one more time while kissing palm of his hand lovingly.
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