Undefiled Queen

Merlyn’s POV

I heard the knock at the door and came to look at who it was.  And it was him. I was just in the house after paying a visit to my uncle.  I would visit him every Saturday as it is an off for me at the office and college.  I reached the hospital and the doctor told me that a surgery is immediately required for my uncle as a tissue adjacent to the wounded area is getting infected. It needs to be urgently removed with the surgery to save the leg. Else the infection can spread from the leg to other parts of the body sending him to coma or death. The cost of the surgery earlier was one million but now with a greater level of treatment required by the patient, it would cost me two millions.

My heart wouldn’t stop but beat rapidly at what the doctor said an hour ago.  How would I be able to arrange so much money in just a few days?

I am shattered.  Nothing seems to go right in my life.  Unknowingly I started to cry and tears dropped ceaselessly.  He came and cupped my face comforting me.  He assured me everything about my life and soon we were into a kiss.  The kiss was full of adoration, my first kiss after we officially confessed our attachment for each other. We were on the verge of going to the next level when the milk man pressed the bell to deliver milk.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

People fall in love, kiss and have sex but for us everything started from last. I succumbed to him forgetting about the reality.  I was slowly welcoming the man of my dreams into my life – My prince Charming.  Stephen Collomen.

Stephen’s POV

“I am the boss of Merlyn, Stephen Collomen. Glad to meet you ma’am.” I offered a hand to her, sending a silent prayer to God for the gray haired woman not to recognize me. The amount of consternation I underwent at the moment was unmatched. It was greater than the anxiety I had before cracking the biggest deals for my company.

Hana’s features became relaxed. “I’m sorry, age is playing with me in the worst way these days. I am sorry. I mistook you for someone else.” She waved off her seemingly almost relevant thoughts with her hand and I did not know my heart stopped beating till then. It just felt like I faced death in an arm’s distance and came back.

I have to do something very quickly before this deathly situation consumes me. Earlier I thought staying away from Merlyn was the solution to my problem but as days pass by, I find it not a solution but out of option. I have gone addicted to her and I should make her mine by any means even if it means turning the world upside down.

Going back to the office, I couldn’t concentrate on my work. I headed straight to the bar and drowned two pegs continuously. Still the deathly crucifixion wouldn’t end. I know I was going over possessive upon her but I cannot stop myself from the thought.

She is my childhood love. After she left me when she was hardly eight, I learnt to live like a rock trying to think she never existed. I slept with every female species on earth. My life was weird but was calm in some twisted way and then she entered my life again making my life Topsy turvy in just a matter of a few months. Now I cannot get over her. She is my addiction I cannot stop having.

“Merlyn be mine…” I pulled my hair and began to chant the same sentence while drowning in more drinks until alcohol consumed me.

Minutes later, I raised my head which shook buried till then into the table and gave out a devilish smirk. The idea struck me like lightning.

“Merlyn, you are going to be mine even after knowing the truth. Wait for my challenge.”

I drowned another peg and fell unconscious on the table.

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It has been almost a week since I received the news of her uncle’s surgery.  She is completely out of her mind now-a-days. But I have to make up for her and give her some happy times. I took care of everything including her uncle’s surgery and she visibly relaxed after she heard the assurance from me.   After all, she has every right to live and enjoy her life.

It is Merlyn’s birthday today.  I wanted to make her feel like heaven with a blast but I do not know how she would react to it.

I wanted to surprise her and after planning everything I am walking to her cabin to ask her for a date with me. But the scene playing in front of me made me lose my mind. My face becomes furious.  How can she do this to me?

I expressed my feelings to her and she is using me…. for my money?  I ran to the man holding his collar who was hugging Merlyn, a few steps ahead of me.

‘What are you doing? ” Merlyn stuttered.  ‘I want to ask you the same thing.”  I spat boiling with anger.  The man whose collar I was holding was trying to move away from my hold, mumbling something.   Anger was evident in   his eyes.  But I care a shit.   I was feeling hopeless within a matter of a few seconds.

Merlyn was looking at me puzzled and then slowly a smile began to creep over her face which turned into a huge laughter consecutively.  But by then fumes were coming out of my ears.   I blurted out ‘What the hell do you think you are doing?  Do you think you can play with me?”  She again giggled like she always does and spoke those words which satiated the hundred volts electricity passing through me.  ‘He is my brother, a cousin of mine.  He lives in Delhi and came to pay a visit to my Uncle.” Saying those words she broke into a huge laughter which threatened to come all through our conversation.  I gave her a sly grin – ‘wait till my hands reach you, my Flower.’ I composed myself cursing for my impulsiveness.  She drives me crazy.  I cannot think rationally when it comes to her.

After the overwhelming scene which I faced just now, I declared an off for her and she looked surprised with my sudden gesture.   I excused myself from the man in front of me and pulled her towards the elevator. “Jerk” she murmured under her breath coming along with me to the lift.

“I am called much worse.” I confirmed to her that my ears work and gave her a serious glare, which said don’t you dare and she averted her look from me silently looking down fiddling her fingers, the habit which automatically gets absolved in her when she is tense.  I took her hand in mine to make her relax and she secretly looked at me through the corner of her eye.  I mentally smirked at myself realizing the control I had on her.

I reached for my black Lamborghini along with her and after she was comfortably seated I gestured to my driver to start.  We went to one of the beaches in New York where I own a wooden house.  The driver parked the car beside the beach.  We strolled for some time hand in hand across the small shops lined up and I took her to a hotel nearby which had a beach view.  She ordered her favorite vegetable nuggets and brown rice and I ordered noodles and a bottle of beer.

She looked surprised at me and asked ‘do you drink even during the day time? How can you make it work?” pointing to the bottle of beer.  I just gave her a smile and replied ‘I am not addicted to alcohol but drink quite frequently.”

She looked distraught for a moment but composed herself immediately.  I wanted to find out what it was but reserved that part for a later period of time. Later both of us had a happy time in each other’s presence.  She was putting on a red sundress with a gold color border and matching earrings.   Her long black hair tied in a long plait which sways over her hips.  In short she looks like an angel.  My angel and all MINE.

Both of us chatted for a while and she looked delighted with everything I did for her.  I was in turn bewitched with her presence beside me.  And I decided to take her to my beach house which I bought two years ago with the profits I made in the company.  I set to plan my much awaited move on this day, her birthday.

I planned everything in advance.  I asked Roger, the housekeeper, to keep the house clean by the time we arrived.

She was enchanted by looking around the house.  While she was busy browsing the captivating painting ahead of her, I dragged her through the stairs to the bedroom.  She looked agitated for a second contemplating my next move and as usual started fiddling her fingers. I consoled bringing her to me with a warm hug and whispering in her ears. ‘I will not do anything against your wish, Flower and I know you are not one of those random hook-up girls. I will cherish whatever we had during our long travels all this life because I know you gave me something very precious of yours and you did not share it with any guy in the world.”

And then I wished her, ‘May you acquire everything that you wish for in this world and all your dreams come true, happy birthday my Flower.”  She looked at me wide eyed ‘How do you know that today is my birthday?  I just thought you brought me for an outing.” She spoke with a shy smile.

But my surprises for her were not over yet. Let me see how she reacts to the second. A conceited grin lifted my lips.

“Jesus” I sent a silent prayer to God to protect me in my plan to make her mine forever before she gets to know the truth. Everything is planned in my notebook to cage her with me always and here goes the first step.

I looked at her in awe and dropped on one knee and pulled out a 24 carat diamond ring from my pocket.  Holding the ring in my hand, I looked into her eyes ‘Merlyn, the first time I saw you, you captivated me with your beauty.  You seem different to every woman I have been.  Girls keep dropping their jaws for a look of mine.  But you are different.  I never felt I had any influence on you.  I had been falling for you more and more each passing day. You are beautiful, hardworking and sincere and at the same time traditional.  You are a girl of my dreams – The girl whom I fantasy to be mine.  Will you make my dream come true, my Flower?”