Under the Oak Tree - Riftan's POV - Multiverse

Chapter 34 - The talk Part 2

Riftan stop breathing the moment he felt the tiny pull on his shirt and after he heard her words, his hearth was ready to explode. He has not plan to have this conversation. He sure wanted to talk to her, but his confession was as far as he though about this conversation. Suddenly he realized that he has display each one of his cards in from of Maximillian and he has already lost this battle without even started it. Everything now was in her favor. Riftan's breath was caught in his throat, and a very slow motion he turned around to find Maximillia looking at the floor.

"Lady Croix, I am not really good with words, and I can assure you that my intentions are not ill. Can you just please look at me?" Riftan voice was almost pleading and Maximillian was almost shaking while he was talking

"I j-just can't u-understand.... W-why someone l-like you, can l-like someone like me?"

Riftan hearth just stop beating and his face turn in a contour painful expression and with broken voice started talking... "I know a lowly knight like me..."

Maximillian eyes widening understanding Riftan interpretation of her words and with thinking raise her "No, n-no!.... I d-don't understand h-how someone so perfect l-like you Sr. C-Calipse can l-like someone as i-imperfect like m-me" Maximillian couldn't hide her breaking voice and her eye filled with tears. Riftan couldn't hold himself anymore and before even thinking pull her into a soft and lenient embrace. And Riftan body tensed when he heard her start trembling.

"How can you talk so ill of the most perfect women that I have ever laid my eyes. It is me the one that has not right to even look at her."

Maxi stood back a little from Riftan and look at him in disbelief of the words he just said. Her eyes were still teary, but her confused face was the one that capture Riftan.

"Y-you don't know me..."

"I can assure you that I don't need to know more about you to confess that you have been living in mind every second since the first time I saw you. That I can't explain with words how important you are in my life. Even when I am just a stranger for you... If you give the opportunity to know you better... It will mean the world for me"

Maximillian face went from confuse to blush when she heard Riftan love confession. This exciting feeling of acceptance was unfamiliar for Maximillian, but she realized that it was not the first time that someone else was talking about her like she didn't know herself. Suddenly she realized that she was not sure what to answer to this.

"I a-am not sure to h-how to respond..."

"Do you may dislike me? Or do you not like my company?"

"I f-find your c-company very pleasant"

"I am not asking you to reciprocate my feeling. That will be preposterous of me to ask, but I am asking you to let me know you. Just to spend time with me, and you will make me the happiest man than have ever live. Would you be fine with it?"

"Y-yes...."

"If you feel uneasy about this request, we can always have one of your maid with us or even talk to your father..."

"N-no!! ... That w-won be necessary... I feel comfortable with you, Sr. Calipse"

"Call me Riftan"

"I can't c-call you for your first n-name"

"You said yesterday that you will own me two favors... Let me use one of them and ask you to call me Riftan. If you don't feel comfortable calling me by my name in front of other people I will understand, but at least when it is just us. Would you agree?"