The Secret door (Ziam Royal AU)

CHAPTER 13

I should have given violence warning for last chapter or the one before that, but I didn't and I'm extremely sorry about that.

I'll try to give warnings for upcoming chapters

And nope, you are not seeing things. This chap is indeed written in Liam's POV👇
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Liam's POV:

Staring into the water, I feel nothing but numb to my fingertips. I have been sitting in this same place for past few hours, staring at the ripples in water and wishing it'd calm me down.

I want to go back to my house and sleep away everything. But one look at my face, my mum would know something is wrong. And I really can't have that.

How am I supposed to tell her that the newly coroneted King was once my boyfriend and he got married to his betrothed today and I'm not really okay about it?

I couldn't bring myself to go into the town and see them all rejoice the coronation of the King. I'm still not over it, over the pain, over the betrayal. And I don't know if I would ever be over it. It's too much to absorb.

I know, deep down that it wasn't all an act. Because I saw it in his eyes, saw the way the flames sparkled with love whenever he even looked at me.

But when someone breaks your trust, it makes you question everything they have ever told you and wonder if that was a lie too. Yeah, he might have felt something towards me. Maybe.

But what good did it do? He didn't trust me enough to tell me a lot sooner. He could have, but he didn't.

I wipe away the tear that rolls down my cheek. Even the woods, the river, the bridge, literally everything around me reminds me of him. But he is gone. He left when I told him to, and never came back again. Maybe he'd realized that there's no chance for both of us.

But why does it hurt so badly?

I want to hate him, but I can't do anything but miss him more than anything. I'm supposed to despise him, but I can't. I just want to fall into his arms and never leave that place. But I don't want to get my trust broken again either.

I always saw it. Saw the way he moved, with power and authority. Every one of his gazes were sharp and observant, and it turned soft only when his gaze met mine.

I used to wonder, why a small town guy would possess so much power. It was something that drew me in to him, the power and dominance he exerted without realizing it himself. He'd turn into a sappy idiot when he is with me, but there's always something magnetic about him ever since start.

And now I realize the power has always been there. He was a King in disguise of a commoner.

I gulp down the lump in my throat, and feel the waves wash over my calves softly.

"You represent water" He had said with a soft, thoughtful smile that made him insanely handsome. "Calm and soft like river Khalhi. But hard like a storm when you want to be."

Water and fire.

I loved the concept. Nature was a big part of me. The place I grew up in, and my daily work, all of it involved nature. Finding love connecting to nature made me so happy, and I often found myself staring into the flames when I missed Bruce.

Zayn, I correct myself bitterly.

Zayn Malik. The King of Anahi now.

I should have seen it, should have known he was hiding something from me. I thought it was something like he had trouble coming out to his family. But he had trouble coming out to a whole kingdom, and Devine to add on the list.