Meridian's Devil

"I told you that you weren't entirely healed yet. Learn to obey a little." His tone was still arrogant despite his obliging actions but she had no say in the situation. She was touched by his solicitude and He wasn't wrong.

He wasn't wrong at any point to begin with.

Yue agreed internally that she was troublesome for him, but it's awfully pitiful to concede to something like that and it does feel awful to have someone tell you that and that too not on your face but behind your back.

"Now kindly remain silent all the way." she struggled to form a sentence to respond back and so she simply nodded her head to his demeaning commands, without looking his way in the process. Her vision had begun to regain its prior unclouded sight, and her breath had to some extent regained it's composure as well. Not wanting to delay him in his tracks, she sucks in a long bubble of air as she then tries to stand up again, but to her surprise a pair of strong arms coil around her resisting her from standing up at all.

He once again finds a cumbersome opportunity to display his muscularity. Yet again he picks her the way he did back at his place as he carried her to the bed. The only difference this time being, is that he is shirtless, and Yue is the one wearing it.

He picks her up bridal style at first, however on positioning himself in a standing posture he throws her over his broad brawn shoulder and her eyes widen almost akin to a reflex action like the retrieval of hand at the touch of something exceedingly hot.

"W-what are you-"

Her heart ceases in it's sane functioning as suddenly the sound of a sharp slap echoes in the cavernous woods and a pricking ache spreads over her skin as a consequence of being struck. Her lips part in response to the stinging pain, a short yelp escapes her mouth as his sizeable hand smacks her bottom.

"I won't hesitate to do that again, so keep your mouth shut if you don't want me to reiterate my actions." He gives out an ultimatum but Yue was far away from listening to his words. She was too embarrassed and flustered by his demeaning acts. How could he do that?

'I can undoubtedly guarantee this, that my face is in a blend of shades of red. He just smacked my butt? He actually had the audacity to do it?' She was insanely agitated by his immoral behavior but the ignominy stifles and tussles to overpower her fury. She brings her hands to bury her face in the veils of it.

He takes the cue of her silence as a response and almost sprints in his tracks. She squints her eyes behind her palms as she indulges on the overly uncomfortable and mortifying journey. Fortunately, she hadn't walked away from his place as far as she thought she had. Since, her pace and her taken steps were small and slow comparatively, she hadn't covered much of a distance.

She creates space in her barrier like palms and peeks slightly through her fingers to witness the wooden stairs outside the door panel that she had escaped through. He right away entrances his own house and the way he hurriedly enters makes it evident that he was in some sort of hurry. Probably to get some time alone, to get his thoughts in line, to untangle his ensnared pieces of abstractions in his mind.

With a sudden jerk he pulls her off his shoulder right into his arms, holding her like a new born in the arms of a doctor and in the process she catches his gaze but immediately looks away. He doesn't react back and gently lays her down on the soft mattress right after.

Yue knits her brows as she realizes that the mattress isn't in the corner of the room as it was earlier, and it isn't at the normal height of bed as well. It's instead on the floor, the mattress lies upon the carpeted floor and she laid upon it. She turned her head sideways to the left, to be precise, as an unforeseen heat begins to warm up her frozen arm.

And that's when she realizes that he took off the cushioned mattress from the wooden structure of the bed and placed it instead, right beside the fireplace. His discreetly compassionate actions were heartfelt. Her eyes witness the fire lashing behind the metal fence in front of it. She, involuntarily due to her bodily requirements, place her hands nearer towards the fire to warm them up. A soothing relief tingles all across her skin as it sets about to warm up, regaining her normal bodily temperature.

"Here's the blanket, if you need it." Yue catches the velvety cloth that he throws in her direction. She promptly on receiving the thermal material, flies it open and spreads it across her naked legs. A contented smile forms on her lips on being entirely covered. A fluttering feeling transmitted throughout her body, every single cell of her body felt loved and content. He was kind despite not explicitly broadcasting it, he cared and his actions proved such.

Before she could utter the grateful words of thanking him his lips parted unprecedented words igniting a spark of worry and sorrow in Yue's heart.