A CRAZY LOVE - Episode 128
“I want to tell you something.” Markus said gently, once he had broken the kiss.
But before Markus could say anything, Kizy cut him off.
“Are you… alright? Weren’t you stabbed and poisoned? Show me your… injuries.” Kizy said with a little difficulty.
“You should talk less little lamb. And I am completely fine. Yes I was stabbed but my wounds have been treated. And the daggers were just mildly poisoned.” Markus said.
“H.. how?” Kizy asked, before pausing, remembering all the things, before her eyes widened.
“Aaron.” Markus said while nodding his head, knowing Kizy had guessed the same.
“Where? Where is Aaron?” Kizy asked, her voice sounding weird and a little shaky.
“You’ll know that later on. For now let’s not discuss him.” Markus said, his tone grave.
“Is he… he alive?” Kizy asked, tears forming in her eyes, remembering that unfortunate day.
She could still remember vividly about how Aaron had saved her life in his wretched state, when he was bleeding profusely, but still kept her safe while taking all the hits from those men.
If he was to die such a cruel death, then Kizy would never forgive herself for her entire life.
Because if not for her, the professor would have never saved Aaron, nor had he used him for such a plan.
And she felt as if she was nothing less than a cunning and manipulative girl, who had taken advantage of the feelings Aaron had for her.
But Markus had been warned by the doctors that Kizy was not to be triggered. Thus he took a deep breath before saying.
“I will tell you everything sometime later. For that, you will have to recover early.” Markus said before tucking her inside the blanket.
“You.. you were about to tell me something?” Kizy asked, feeling a little low.
“First get well soon. Then I’ll tell you about it.” Markus said in a careful tone.
Kizy just looked at him before slowly closing her eyes, easily drifting off to sleep because of her weak state.
Markus looked at her before going back to the window, making a call which was interrupted by Kizy.
“Hello.” A male voice was heard from the other side.
“How is she? Is she adapting well?” Markus asked.
“Kind of.” The man on the other side replied.
“What about you?” Markus questioned again.
“Better than her.” The man replied.
“Kizy has woken up.” Markus said after a short pause.
“I was already informed. You are late.” The man said, though he wasn’t complaining.
“Fine. Then stay safe and take good care of her. Bye.” Markus said.
“Goodbye.” The man on the other side said before hanging up the call.
Markus just stood near the window, looking towards the lonely city.
Kizy slept peacefully till afternoon before she woke up. Kate and grandma had bought lunch for her and Markus.
Kizy was only allowed to have light food and a semisolid diet, thus Markus had the same without any complaints.
Kate and grandma stayed for two more hours before Markus shooed them away.
“How long have I been sleeping?” Kizy asked after she felt a little better than before. She had also taken a walk in the corridor after doctor’s advice.
“Precisely thirteen days, seventeen hours, thirty four minutes. I forgot to count the seconds.” Markus said, making Kizy laugh a little.
“Did you start a stopwatch or something? I just wanted to know the days.” Kizy said, genuinely smiling for the first time after getting up.
“The time wasn’t passing at all. No matter whether I felt that I had spent hours looking at your pale face, originally it would be barely a few minutes. These thirteen days were the longest and worst days of my life.” Markus said, remembering how difficult it was getting to keep holding on each day.
Kizy became quiet once again, not knowing what to say.
Finally she took a deep breath.
“Sorry.” Was the only thing she managed to speak.
“I don’t want your apology, little lamb. Just promise me that you are never appearing in that state again.” Markus said, remembering how weak, fragile, defenceless Kizy looked before they brought her back to A city.
Kizy once again paused, not sure if she should promise this.
“I don’t want to see you like that again Kizy. I want you to always come cursing at me, or maybe occasionally give me a tender smile. Maybe sometimes get angry at me or scold me. But don’t ever get into that state again.” Markus said, his voice cracking.
Only he himself knew the kind of pain he had felt when he had found her unconscious, when the doctor had announced her comatose state, when Rose had narrated her last moments before getting unconscious. Every single scene out of it was enough to break his heart a thousand times.
“I promise.” Kizy said after a while.
Though she hadn’t seen anything in the past thirteen days, she could only imagine the kind of pain her family was suffering because of her.
She didn’t want them to go through all that once again.
Thus this wasn’t a promise to Markus but for herself, that no matter what situation would arise, she will keep herself safe for the sake of her family and friends.
“What about Jason?” Kizy asked.
Kizy remembered that it was Jason who had carried her till Aaron before she was unconscious.
“He came to visit you thrice.” Markus said.
“I made them suffer again. Not just them, but all of you.” Kizy said.
“But we never felt that way.” Markus said.
“Sorry.” Kizy said with a heavy heart, guilty for being the root cause of this problem.
“I love you.” Suddenly Markus said, out of the blue.
“Huhh?” Kizy said, looking straight at Markus, contemplating whether she heard it wrong.
“I said I love you, Kizy!” Markus said, smiling a little from watching her shocked expression.
“This ain’t time for your jokes Markus.” Kizy said, feeling butterflies in her stomach.
“And I am not joking. I don’t want to lose this chance as well as you once again. I had wanted this to be a grand proposal, witnessed by our friends and families while you will be moved to tears by all the acts.
But sorry for making it this simple. I know, this should have been important, but I don’t want to waste my time over those stupid little things.
I just don’t want to wait anymore Kizy. I have already been rejecting my own feelings for a while now. I don’t want to continue running away from them.” Markus said in one single breath, his heart beating erratically.
Kizy just looked at him with a stupefied expression, wanting to believe Markus, but a part of her telling her not to.
“Come on, say something. You are scaring the $h|t out of me!” Markus exclaimed, not being able to remain calm anymore.
Though he had confessed his feelings on a whim, he was tremendously nervous about how Kizy would accept him and his feelings.
“Markus, I am serious right now. So stop kidding. I know you are good with your acts, but now is not the time to pour your acting ski||s.” Kizy said after thinking for a minute.
“How many times should I say this? I love you Kizy!! Oh wait! Do you remember the act planned by me and Nicole?” Markus asked, suddenly remembering his proof.
“Yes.” Kizy said a little confusedly, because this brother sister’s fake acting was completely illogical to her even until now.
“Why do you think we did that?” Markus asked with a smirk.
“I don’t know.” Kizy said honestly.
“Fool!! Nicole did that to make me realise my feelings for you. Till then, I was always thinking that all that I have for you is h@??. But no. I love you Kizy!” Markus said, getting hyper excited.
Thankfully he was good enough to not reveal Kizy’s drunken confession, which would have made her go beet red with embarrassment.
And Kizy was now in a dilemma, not knowing whether she should trust Markus, believe his feelings, or how she should react to this.
“Trust me this once!” Markus exclamined, knowing he had never done anything to make Kizy trust in him.
“I need some time. And maybe I don’t feel the same for you.” Kizy said after thinking for almost two minutes, while Markus felt that these two minutes were enough for him to have a heart attack.
“You don’t have to reciprocate my love and feelings Kizy. Just know that I love you, and will keep loving you!” Markus said excitedly, happy that at least Kizy didn’t reject his feelings or avoided talking anymore.
But what he should have known was that Kizy was never the one who would avoid some topic or run away. No matter whether it was some tricky problem or complicated feelings, she always faced them.
“But why these sudden feelings?” Kizy asked, knowing that even she felt something different for him, just that she didn’t know how to describe her own feelings.
But she wanted to know why these new emotions or feelings were suddenly erupting, even when they have known each other since childhood.
“Maybe this isn’t sudden. Maybe I started liking you after our marriage. After spending all my days and nights with you.
Or maybe even before that. Because I didn’t even know why I asked you to marry me when you asked for my help.
I never had such plans, but that day, when you were ready to do anything for your mom, I just blurted out the deal about our marriage.
So maybe I liked you even before that.
But anyways, that doesn’t matter. What matters is that I know I love you, and I don’t wanna lose you again like this time.” Markus said, his voice serious at the end.
Kizy didn’t know what she should answer him. But one thing she was sure about was, she started having these weird feelings after marrying him.
Before that, wh@??ver she felt for him was pure frustration and h@?? for making her school and college days difficult.
“So get back to your original health soon. There are a lot of things that I have planned for you.” Markus said with a smirk.
Kizy just looked at him, not having a positive feeling about wh@??ver Markus was about to plan for her.
*ONE WEEK LATER, VIP WARD, UNITY HOSPITAL*
“Your company shares are back to normal!” Kizy exclaimed after finally being allowed to use her phone and surf the internet.
“Yeah.” Markus replied.
“How did you solve the problem about that minor girl?” Kizy asked curiously.
“I tried hacking her bank account a lot of times. And I improved my hacking ski||s then. Plus afterwards Harry joined hands with me, and together, we managed to trace the account information and transaction details.
We were able to find the sender account, which turned out to be an international account.” Markus asked, his voice holding a tinge of excitement.
“Woah!! You truly hacked this?” Kizy asked, not being able to believe that Markus and Harry hacked an account which was set by the No. 1 hacker of the world, a person from the Imperial nation.
“Yeah. So I guess the world’s No. 3 would only be me now. My ski||s have improved while yours must have deteriorated over time.” Markus said with a smirk.
“As if I am buying that. Let me recover and then we can have a match together. Let’s see who wins then.” Kizy said, equally confident.
The problems created by the Professor were no more, each of them being solved, but all of them had suffered in some way or the other.
“By the way, where is Joel? Did you give him a leave or something? I heard that only grandpa and Nicole are managing the company.” Kizy asked, suddenly remembering that Joel, who used to follow Markus like a shadow all the time, was rarely seen since she woke up.