CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
THIRD PERSON'S POV
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Xander came to Maya's wedding to see Scarlett.
They didn't meet after Sunday till now.
For some reason, he wanted to see her, he wanted to hear her sweet voice, admire her mesmerising eyes.
He came straight from his work, wearing a black suit as always but upon reaching he realised that he was supposed to wear something traditional. He had one sherwani at home but he wouldn't go back without seeing Scarlett first so he stayed for a few minutes before going back to the mansion to change his clothes.
He was excited on his way to the hotel where the wedding took place. He wanted to see Scarlett's expression on seeing him in this attire.
But he didn't know, he himself would get a surprise on reaching the venue.
His didn't like it a bit on seeing Scarlett and some boy together.
It was the same boy he remembered he saw before when he reached first, Scar was coming downstairs with this boy.
His jaw clenched. He took long strides towards them with every intention of pulling that boy away from his Triantáfyllo.
But he controlled himself. It doesn't mean he didn't assert his dominance.
The power, the authority was clear in his dark eyes.
"You won't mind if I cut in, right?" He asked Sean looking down on him. And without even waiting for his reply, he grabbed Scarlett by her waist and took her with him in the middle of the dance floor.
"What the...." Scar didn't know what to say. One minute she was there with Sean and now she's with this Mr. Silencer.
And she still didn't understand him.
He put her hands on his shoulder and he settled his hands on her waist. A shiver me went up her spine on feeling his warm touch on her bare skin.
She immediately looked down at the floor.
Xander was relieved. He liked this moment, him and her together, no one else.
"Tu mere paas" by Ankit Tiwari was being played. It's a Hindi song.
Main hu adha mujh mein
Baaki adha h Tu
(I am half in me
Other half is you)
Scarlett looked up on the starting of this song. She really liked the lyrics of this song. She just stumbled upon this one time on Spotify and since then it's one of her favourites.
They both were looking at each other now.
Tu mere, Mere paas to hai na
Tu mere, Mere pass to hai na
(With me, you are here with me
With me, you are here with me)
Pulling her more close to his chest, he bent down towards her ear.
She stiffened up on feeling him close but in a good way.
Pyaar hai aesa khel yara
Tanha koi bhi jeeta nhi
( Love is such a game
No one won alone)
"Who is he?" He whispered in her ear.
"Who?"
Scarlett knew who he was talking about but still she decided to play dumb.
Bin sune sun lunga Mai
Bin kahe Tu kehna
( I will listen without you saying anything
You say without saying)
He looked at her with raised eyebrows. Oh, this time he raised both of his eyebrows. Wow! He must be really pissed right now.
"Who was the boy you were with?" He asked again clenching his jaw. He sneered while saying "boy".
But Scarlett was busy in admiring him. Till now, she didn't realize he was wearing traditional attire. His black sherwani was looking so good on him. It was like it was made for him only. He looked so amazing in it. His body physique looked so delicious in it. And she could see how all the eyes, especially of the female specimen were on him. They all admired him and many made googly eyes at him which Scar didn't like a bit. Her mood changed from happy to annoyance.
Tu agar pal bhar dur Jaye
Baadalon sa main ro du abhi
( If you go away from me even for a moment
I'll cry like clouds)
"I'm asking who was he?" He said in a low voice, it was so cold. It warned not to play with him but still she did the opposite. Her mood changed from annoyance to nice so fast on getting attention from him but she didn't understand why was he so interested in Sean. Was he really gay? Was she right about him? Oh god! Then she would definitely have to cancel her marriage.
She wanted to feel relief in this thought but for some reason, she didn't like that he way gay , and more upset on having to not marry him.
Her feelings confused her so much.
He again repeated her question, this time in a hard voice grabbing her attention.
"Oh, he? He is a person." She casually answered, shrugging a little.
He tilted his head a bit, pulling her more close to him by grabbing her waist a bit tightly.
She gasped a little.
"He....he is my friend."
"Is there any name of this friend of yours?"
"Sean." She answered.
He nodded in acknowledgement.
"Why did you ask?" She finally asked him after thinking so much about it unnecessarily.
He shrugged in reply. Scar got more curious about it now.
"Are you....you know..." She tried to wiggle her eyebrows in a suggestive way but wasn't much successful.
"Am I ...what?" He asked.
"You know, I mean, you....you asking about Sean, are you , I mean, what I want to say, I mean what I want to ask is that...are .."
He kept looking at her.
"I meant, fine." She sighed.
"Are you interested in Sean?" She finally asked.
Xander's eyes widened on her question. She was the only one who always managed to put him in such situations.
She amused him.
He just shook his head at her.
She furrowed her eyebrows.
"Don't just shrug, Mr. Silencer. I need you to speak, answer me. Listen, you should answer me, I don't understand this silent language that you seem to know, okay?"
He still didn't answer, just kept looking at her amused.
"Aaahhh! Stop this, speak something. You know what, you work opposite."
"What?" This time he spoke but not for answering her.
" Yes, you work opposite. When I want you to stay silent, you speak and when I want you to say something, you go back to being silent. Like before, with my parents, I thought you won't say anything, I wanted you to not say anything but naah, you went up and said everything I didn't want you to but now you are not speaking a single thing when I want you to speak. Listen, this is a serious matter, you should......." Her rambling stopped by Xander shushing her , putting his finger on her soft lips.
She immediately shushed. Her eyes widened a little.
Shaking his head in amusement, he answered her, " No, I'm not interested in him. I'm only interested in one person."
This made Scar ask her next question, "who? You can tell me you know. Who's that person? Do you love her, wait tell me is "it" her or him? Tell me who's the person you are interested in."
"I am interested in...." Looking into her eyes, he said ," My wife to be who wasn't even talking to me properly before but surely asks a lot of questions."
Scar blushed a little at this.
Tu mere, Mere paas to hai na
Tu mere, Mere paas to hai na
(With me, you are here with me
With me, you are here with me)
The song came to an end. But both still didn't move. He was still holding her.
But she heard her friend calling her name, so she immediately went away getting out of his hold.
Xander kept looking at her. He didn't hear a young girl , maybe in her early 20s approaching him.
She had a sultry smile on her face, batting her eyes lashes in a failed attempt to look seductive.
"Hey, Handsome." She said flirtily touching his arm. He immediately shrugged her hand off his arm.
His face held a stoic and cold expression. His eyes conveying the same. But maybe she still didn't get the hint.
"What are you doing here alone? Want me to accompany you?" She again asked puffing her chest towards him which disgusted him.
In a hard voice, he said, "No, I don't want you to."
Scarlett was watching all this from a bit distance. Her focus wasn't on what her friend was talking about, it was all on Xander and that girl which Scarlett knew was Skyla, she jumps from one boy to other , like one changes clothes. And I'm talking about the persons who change clothes two to three times a day. Hahaha!
But on a serious note, her reputation isn't very good. She is known for being manipulative and a gold digger. Scarlett didn't believe in the rumours first but a first hand experience made her believe them.
And she didn't like it when Skyla approached Xander. But was relieved seeing Xander wasn't interested at all.
This made her smile.
But her smile vanished when she saw her trying to again touch him.
Seeing the smile fell off the face of Skyla on hearing whatever Xander must have answered her, Scarlett was amused.
She know Xander must have said something failing Skyla's attempt at flirting with him.
Her heart warmed on seeing he didn't give into Skyla's charms.
But what's this? One more girl came towards him. She didn't know who she was. It was first time of Scarlett seeing her.
She clenched her teeth on seeing that Xander didn't shoo that girl away. Infact, he was talking so nicely and even responding to her.
After Skyla weny away, Xander turned around to see Scarlett and got to realise she was looking at him all this time. His heart felt good on this realization. He felt warm knowing he somewhat captured her attention. The attention of the most beautiful woman in this hall.
He remembers how he wanted to puch every male in this room for looking at his Triantáfyllo with lust, he wanted to beat the shit out of them.
His thoughts were interrupted on hearing a high pitch voice.
"Hello, you look like a model. Are you one?"
Xander didn't even spare her a glance but looking at Scarlett, he thought to tease her a bit. So he turned to the lady beside him and pretended as if he was really interested in what she was saying.
"What did you say?" Though he said it a bit rudely, but it's okay, he doesn't care.
That lady lit up on hearing him speak to her, "I was saying are you a model? Because you surely look like one."
She licked her lips trying to look seductive but badly failed at it.
Xander knew Scarlett was watching him so he tried to act more involved in the conversation he had no interest in.
He crossed his arms across his chest.
"I might be one." He vaguely answered.
Scarlett didn't like how much attention he was giving to that lady. She huffed and thought of going to him.
But why are you getting upset? It's his choice, he can talk to anyone he wants. You have no interest in him, remember?
Her inner voice asked. She stopped in her tracks. It was right. She has no reason whatsoever to be this upset over Xander. It doesn't matter to her who he talks to or who he doesn't. She tried to convince herself and to distract her thoughts, she went to find her friends Kat and Mia. Yes,they were here too along with Talia. They all wanted to go with her and celebrate as Maya was their friend too.
Xander on seeing her walking away, tried to follow her but the woman beside him stopped him by grabbing his arm.
His jaw clenched at this. He turned and gave a death glare to her.
She immediately dropped his hand and scurried away.
He was going in the direction when he heard someone calling him.
Ughhhh, why do everyone keep coming to him. He never liked attending social gatherings but this time he came because of Scarlett. Why can't these people leave him alone.
On turning around, he saw it was the same boy he saw before with Scarlett.
What was his name again? Some John maybe.
Sean approached him. He didn't like seeing Xander and Scarlett together.
"Who are you ?" Sean asked Xander.