The Demon King.

Chapter 43

She looked up at him with so much emotion and hugged him.

"I wanted to see her so much... I just didn't know how to say it." She said into his chest and he chuckled.

"I figured. You didn't have to tell me." He brushed her hair with his fingers and no iota of existience in the universe would know how he felt with her in his arms. Not cloud nine, cloud nine gazillion. He felt sickly drunk in a good way.

"Thank you." She stood on her toes and kissed his cheek. He widened his eyes and froze with a heavy blush. Nel did not know what the fuck got into her. But Xavier was in the multiverse.

"I'm really sorry. I dunno what came over me. It was probably the feel of the moment." She stood away from him, keeping her distance.

Xavier got a little sting knowing that it was just in the moment but she had the courage to do it and that was progress to him.

He chuckled softly and gave a small smile. She smiled as he ruffled her hair, leaving her to arrange it.

They went to M.K's floor with the elevator and she stopped, looking at the door somehow.

"Kane." She breathed and looked back at Xavier with a look.

"What if Kane's here and he talks about..." She trailed off and Xavi pursed his lips. He looked at that face for a long time.
It was the same feeling he had when he didn't want Gerald knowing about his new form.

He took out his phone and dialed M.K's number.

"Roy? It's been so long though it's been barely a week but hey. Gerald's worried sick about you. How are you?" Martha asked at the other end.

"Worried sick? I'll buy it." He snickered and rolled his eyes. "I'm perfectly fine Martha. Don't stress." He smiled at the wall with his other hand in his pocket.

"Yeah. I wanted to ask if Kane... I think his name was Kane... If he's still in your house." He said and looked at Nel who was biting her lip, looking all ravishingly innocent.

"Kane? Nel's boyfriend." Xavier's heart instantly sank as he held his chest and spun to lean on the wall. He looked at Nel who was paying more attention to the door with fingers crossed.

"Ya." He simply answered as cool and collected as he was.

"Oh. No, he's with his sister, Elena." She answered.

"Great. I'm at your door. Mind if I come in?" He said cheerily and Martha creased her brows.

"At my door..." She trailed off. They heard footsteps approaching the door and they readied themselves with their best smiles. Then the door slowly opened.

"Roy... N.K?" She smiled widely at Xavier but when she saw Nel next to him a head lower, she started having second thoughts.

"Surprise." Their almost perfect smiles became lopsided as they waved weirdly.
Martha stared at them, and then shook her head. Were they fucking with her?

She hugged Nel warmly and then knocked her head.

"Ow. What was that for?" Nel pulled away first whining and rubbed her head.

"That's for running away with a pretty face and getting your boyfriend worried." She turned and gave them way to come in.

"So Kane's not a pretty face?" Nel cocked a brow with a smirk.

"Maybe. It was obvious you were dating him to clear your conscience." Xavier closed the door after Nel as he spoke. She glanced between him and Martha and they just shrugged.

"I feel like it was more of his conscience. Only dating me cuz he thought Xavier had a thing for me. How ridiculous. He's always so fucking jealous and it's very annoying." She ranted as she walked to the couch and ended with a sigh. She was so pissed she felt shit for that freak.

"Nel." Martha blinked at her then quickly shifted her eyes one direction and back. Nel lookes there and saw Xavier standing awkwardly at the door.

He was hurt. Really hurt. All this time she still sees him as a friend. Nothing in her sentence showed she felt more drawn to him than before.

But do I give up?
Never 

Nel never saw it as him being hurt. She saw it as she was saying too much and should just shut the fuck up.

"Xavier..." She called. He snapped out of his trance and smiled at her.

"Do I really have a pretty face, Nel?" He asked with a smirk. Nel just rolled her eyes.

"Give up Xavier." She laughed and rolled her eyes.

Martha looked between them in horrifying astonishment. What the fuck have they been up to for the past few days?

"What is the meaning of this? You show up at my door with cringe faces and then you come into my apartment to play?" She scrunched her face and pulled Nel off the couch. "We need to talk." She gave her a scary smile before dragging her into the kitchen.

"Make yourself comfy, Roy. Don't break anything." She shouted again and finally disappeared.

He looked at the opening and pursed his lips. Then he sighed. What was Martha up to?

He plopped into the couch and looked around.

"Nice." His eyes caught a shiny blue item on her bookshelf and went to it. The item was a glass panda with glittery liquid in it. It was one almost extravagant looking thing he saw in that apartment. And it seemed to have a hypnotic effect on him.

"Xavier Royale. You are so persistent and I'll give you what you want." Martha shouted and startled him causing the glass to almost fall from his hands.
He gulped and hastily put it back in it's previous position.

"And what might that be?" He turned to her with a scared smile. Had she seen what he's been doing? Was she going to kill him for almost dropping her antique.

She stood at akimbo and lifted her chin.
"I have feelings for Gerald Gold." She gave a tight lipped smile, firm on her statement.

Xavi and Nel looked at her very worried. What the fuck is wrong with Martha?

"Martha I get the fact that he's been ravishingly sexy for a glow up but this... this is not what I expect from you." Nel said aloud with a weird look. Not that she didn't like the way Martha glowed at the name. She just didn't like Gerald.

"We shouldn't butt our heads in their matter, Nellyda. We would never understand." Xavi let out a nervous laugh before leaving the shelf and going to Nel.

"And I think we're done here." Xavier smiled and dragged Nel to leave.

"So soon. Have popcorn first." Martha raised a bowl in their faces and Nel creased her brows.

"Do you meant to say that all the food stuffs you came back with last week are finished even though you eat out and are hardly home." Nel slowly lowered the bowl to look at her sister and berate her.

"I'm just a heavy eater." Martha shrugged. "If you don't want some, yo can go y'know. Jade is coming over." She went back to her couch and plopped down with her popcorn bowl spilling a little.

"Yeah we don't want any. Bye." Xavier beat Nel to saying something else and pulled her out the door.

So much tension over food.

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Going down the elevator,
Nel looked up at him, thanking him in her mind. He was the most thoughtful person anyone would want as a friend. He was more and more out of character and he likes how he was different only around her.
A small ding and the doors moved aside. They left the building silently walking next to each other before a car roughly pulled up in front of them. The windows rolled down and Nel grimaced at the sight of the person in the driver's seat.
Dominique.