MY KILLER

CHAPTER 36

"Sahiba. Walk with me." Ameena said as soon as the heavy dust cleared. I watched as she took a step and two and continued down the slightly sloppy dusty field. I followed suit and taking my eyes off her, watched as the guards began to clear the field.

Suddenly, I remembered the kiss and I flushed in embarrassment.
I kissed him.
I kissed the bastard.
I kissed the man who killed my family and I had no regrets. If anything, I actually quite liked it. It was different from the one I had gotten from Asad. It wasn't as gentle as Asad's. The kiss was very different from the character he had displayed publicly, it wasn't calm and collected. It wasn't rough either.

When I closed my eyes at that time, I felt this electricity, this weird feeling in the pit of my stomach. I wanted the kiss to stop and at the same, I didn't want it to. I even forgot about all the people around, I forgot my friends and the other servants that were standing around. I forgot who it was that I kissed, I forgot who I was, where I was. I forgot everything including my desire to revenge.
I forgot I was kissing the one person I hated more than the devil himself.
And I cursed myself for everything.

How could I?
As if my diminishing desire to revenge wasn't bad enough. Now—now I just wanted to forget everything and run. I wanted to run as far I could from the bastard. I couldn't understand myself anymore; I couldn't understand him either.
First of all, he was so mean, acting like he'd kill me the very next second and now, he was acting all nice and tried to get back at Asad for me.
The worse was, I was slowly responding to his kindness. A man I ought to kill with my bare hands if possible.

What was wrong with me?
What exactly had been going wrong.

"You don't have to put up such a serious face." I heard Ameena say. I stopped in my tracks and looked at her. The field was empty.
"I know you're still thinking of the kiss."

"The what? Ki-ki what. Please." I said scoffing and looking away.

"You're blushing Sahiba. That wasn't even your first kiss."
And I remembered Asad and his kiss.
The bastard.

"Can we stop talking about that. What's done is done."

"That's not right Sahiba. You're not suppose to be ok with Sahib kissing you. He's your enemy."

"He had a reason to."

"Wait, what? You're actually reasoning with Sahib?"

"Why are we taking this walk Ameena. It's surely not because of some stupid thing that happened some moments ago."
She smiled, faced forward and kept walking as I hastened my steps till I was walking beside her.

"I'm so happy. Thrilled at the fact that I finally get to hear your voice again. It's been so long."
I was quiet.
"And it's amazing how your voice came just in time to welcome Lady Aliyyah."

I knitted my brows.
"Lady Aliyyah? Sounds weird coming from you."

She snickered.
"Every traitor has someone or something they're loyal to."

"And Aliyyah's yours?"
She stopped in her tracks.

"I won't have you calling her by her name. She's not someone you should do that to."
She sounded so serious, too serious.

"Wow Ameena. So, she really is your lord."

"Yes. She's more than just my Lord. She's someone I can give up my life for." With that, she started walking again.