From the Heart of The Knight

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"Baba, look what I brought" Mira almost runs towards the door with a package in her hand. "Slow down Mira you will fall otherwise. "Baba looks what have I bought for you. Now you can write the crime stories and look for a publisher." She placed the box and opened it. It had a typewriter she had saved from her monthly income.

"Mira, this is..." "It is something you always wanted to have. It is true. And since you have fulfilled my every wish, I thought I would do this little thing for you. Now, will you write me a story?" Mira asked. "Yes, what kind of story do you want?" Her father asked. "Thrilling, exciting which is filled with lots of jumps scares and twists. And an exciting end no one will see coming." Her father started to laugh. "Sure, as you wish your highness, a royal writer just started to bring me my supplies and..." She laughed as well.

"Mira, Mira" She felt his touch on her shoulder. And then she looked up. Adrian saw she was crying. "What happened baby?" He asked in a concerned voice that it even can convince her about his genuine efforts. "Nothing, I am alright" She managed to say in her cracked voice. "Is it because of the fight we had in the morning? Look I am sorry, I was a little stressed. Can you forgive me?" He asked wiping her eyes. "I am alright." She wiped her eyes trying to push him away.

Adrian pulled her in his arms. "Hey, it's ok, it's alright. I am here. I am with you. I will always be with you." Adrian told her. She knew he was lying but for some reason, she held on to him and tears fell from her eyes. He felt his chest constrict and for some reason he can feel her pain. Her tears are affecting him in a bad way. He kissed her forehead. "Hey, it is alright, come on sit here." He led her towards the couch.

"Adrian is she..." "My wife, she is my wife. The fast you accept this the better it will be for you." Adrian told someone. "Do you wish to have a drink it will relax you?" Adrian asked her. "No, I am fine. Who is he?" She asked pointing to the man who was with them. "My brother, father, and my mother are not here at the moment. They will return after some time. Then you can meet them alright?" She nodded. "But when did you marry her? Why didn't you inform us?"

"I married her the next day I met her. I asked her if she would be mine and you know how I get when it comes to the things that I like? I couldn't afford to lose her to someone else or let her walk away. So, I married her in the court of law. She is my wife legally. I wanted to show her the office and she wanted to go to the task force office. So, we fought. I made her cry and I am sorry for that." "I have forgiven you for that already" He pulled her closer and kissed her cheek. "Thank you, sweetheart." He placed his hand on hers.

He drove her towards the task force headquarters. "Thank you for your cooperation." He told Mira. "No need for the thanks I was doing my job." He took the next left on the highway and it confused her. "This is not the way of the task force." "No, we are going grocery shopping. We need to spend as much time with each other as much as we can. That is necessary to present ourselves as a couple." He told her. "I don't think you need to know me or I need to know you. It is for one day as much as I know about it." She told him but as usual, he ignored her. So, she decided to stay put and not say another word until they have reached their destination.

They stopped at the store and he parked the car. As he got out everyone started to stare at him. Mira noticed how people were talking among themselves. Then a girl came towards him just as Mira exited the car. "You are him, right? You are Adrian Alexander Knight, the billionaire?" Mira was amazed of seeing his fan following around that place. "Can I please have an autograph?" He looked at Mira and a smile graced his face. This was the opportunity he was waiting for.

"Who shall I sign it to?" He asked politely smiling which almost gave Mira a heart attack. "He is planning something and that something is not going to end well for me at least." She thought to herself. "Let me introduce you to someone, she is my wife, Mira." The people looked at me with awe. Few looked very disappointed, few surprised and one begin to cry saying it is not fair to her because he was married. That made Mira, roll her eyes.

Adrian navigated through the maze of people surrounding them. She was still very silent not saying anything to Adrian. "Look if you wish to pose as my wife then you need to cooperate with me. That means you do not get to question anything. I don't like anyone who has an annoying habit of questioning me." He told Mira. "I never have said that I wish to become your wife. I don't, I am not a bit interested in being with you even if it all is fake." Those were the first words she had uttered since they had left the office building.

"May I ask why? When everyone wants to be with me, you are telling me you are not a bit interested in that?" He asked almost sounding offended by her words. "Yes, you can say that, I am not interested." She started to look around the grocery shopping thinking of the errand she needed to run. And if Adrian keeps following her this way, she cannot do it. She needs to get out of his point of view.

Adrian, on the other hand, was surprised seeing how calm and relaxed she looked telling on to his face that she doesn't want to be with him. But her answer didn't convince him at all. "Do get some ice cream with that sweetheart for dessert. You know our special dessert." And the thought of it came to her mind as she remembered what he had told her in the morning. She blushed and that confirmed the fact that she wasn't immune to this no matter what she says.

He picked up a few more things when he looked around and saw Mira wasn't around. He looked around franticly. What if there was another attack on her because she was associating with him? This isn't the first time it had happened. And god forbid him if he let it happen again. He started to look throughout the store.

He asked an attendant "Have you seen my wife?" he shook his head. He asked the cashier if she had left. In a turn of which he asked for a photo which he doesn't have of her. Now, to be a fake husband he needs to do one more thing keep a picture of her with him. Then he decided to get the CCTV footage when suddenly his eyes landed on her. She was going through some products. He walked towards her and pulled her arm to make her face him.

She looked into his frantic eyes. His grey eyes scanned her from head to toe and then he pulled her closer. Before she can understand anything, he kissed her. It wasn't gentle either. She pushed him back and he stumbled on his feet. She was breathing hard. And wasn't able to comprehend what just happened. She looked around there wasn't anyone there except for two of them. Then she started to wonder why exactly he had kissed her.

She was still very much disoriented when they finally came to his place. He helped her with the groceries. She placed them on the kitchen counter and begin to store them. He was watching her closely. He panicked once again not seeing her next to him. And he had no idea why. Why he was so afraid of someone he merely knows about a week. He resents her but then when the thought of someone harming her graced his mind, he felt worried and then angry.

"About what happened between us in the store..." She looked up at him. "I do not wish to discuss it. Dinner would be ready in a few hours that is if you can tolerate my cooking and then we shall discuss our story and our plan to infiltrate the gala." She told him. "As you wish Sweetheart." He answered without any humor in his voice. She assumed he left to do whatever a billionaire does in his free time.

Then after a few moments, she was proven wrong when he came close to her and held her waist. She was very surprised by his behavior. "My house is under surveillance. Whoever has organized the party knows I am going to be there and now they know I have a wife" he whispered in her ear. "How do you know?" She asked him. "I know my house well and I know it had been tampered with. So, I don't know where they had tapped the phone or if they had done more than that. Till then we have to show them how much we are in love." "Or maybe show them that we hate each other's guts? Will that work for you?" She tried to push him away. But he pulled her closer.

"We are been watched Mira, and I am going to protect you. I promised chief that I would." He placed his hands over her shoulders. "When I kissed you, they were watching us, and I couldn't find you so I panicked." He told her. "And then when I found you, I was just..." "I am not your wife." She told him. "And according to you, I am not a wife material to you." She started to walk away and he pulled her back. Her back hit his front and he buried his face onto her neck. 

"You are still angry, right? You have a right to be. I have touched you without your permission. But I didn't want to, I have to. You don't know why it is very important to me to be in this task force." She turned around and asked, "try me then." He touched her hair and placed it behind her ear touching it. "Someday I will but for now all you need to experience is my love." And he placed a kiss on her forehead. 

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