His Gift

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Narration

"That can't be." Ella was pacing around in her cabin while Sebastian and Jayden were standing in a corner of the room.

Sebastian had informed Ella about Kenziah's intention as soon as he left the cafe. Jayden was already with Ella.

She called Sebastian to her cabin and now he briefly told her that Kenziah wanted to make good use of the time she was bonded with Arif.

"How can someone hack your laptop?" She asked curiously.

"I have no idea about this friend of hers. Who can do that? But whoever it is, he or she is intelligent. It is very difficult to hack something like my laptop." he said, "Though I regret not deleting her file the day you told me about that girl's true colours."

He remembered the day when Ella told him about Snow Waters, the real Snow Waters.

Flashback

"Aunt Ella, why don't you understand?. He loves her. I know she's a bit annoying and all, but you know he loves her. She makes him happy, that's the only thing that matters here." A disappointed Sebastian told his best friend's mother.

Ella just sat on the couch staring at him, with cold and boring eyes.

"You came here to pester me Seb?" she asked after a long minute.

"Yes, he asked me to tell you that he loves her and that you should allow him to marry her." she confessed.

"Tell him that I refuse."

"Please Aunt. What's the problem? I know she is from a middle class family, but that doesn't matter, right? We don't judge people by their financial status, right?" he asked, reminding her that when he first met Arif and her, he too was from a middle class family.

She never judged him. Then why was she refusing this relationship?

"I don't like her." She said casually.

"He loves her." She said almost shouting.

"Does she love him?" Ella pounced on Sebastian, "You are here saying so confidently that Arif loves her, but does she love him?"

And he fell silent. He didn't know about that.

Ella sighed at him and stood up, facing the window.

"Arif is also only attracted to her," she said. "she just convinced him that he loves her."

"How can you say that?" she asked.

"Have you ever seen him? When he talks about her, all he says is that he loves her but there is no affection for her in his eyes. He never smiles, saying he loves her." She turned to him.

And he tries to remember Arif talking about Snow. And yes Ella was right, he just says he loves her as if it was nothing more than a statement, no emotion shown on his face.

"Snow Waters is a Fraud." Ella said and Sebastian stopped in his place as shocked as Jayden standing in the doorway. "His brother is absolutely fine." She told him, "His legs are not paralyzed, he doesn't need a wheelchair to get around."

"Aunt are you sure?" She asked and he took his phone and showed her pictures of Snow's brother.

As far as everyone knew his brother had been paralyzed since the age of 12. And in the picture Ella was showing him, he looked like an adult.

He had a glass in one hand and was standing next to a bartender.

"Why don't we show this to Arif?" Sebastian suggested and Ella got angry.