CHAPTER 8

　　Alexa could feel something cold on her forehead. A soft sob left her lips as her fingers reached the wet cloth on her forehead. She fluttered her eyes open and was astonished to see the most unexpected person in front of her. "Aztec?" she asked surprised.

　　Aztec did not acknowledge Alexa. To say he was angry was an understatement. His temper was like an unbreakable malediction. He wanted to break Alexa to pieces. But could he? No, because he loves Alexa more than his life. Even with just a couple of months that she stayed with him Alexa became like his breath. She had so much power upon him that she could twist him like a band in the way she wants.

　　Till date no woman rejected Aztec and on the contrary they willingly offered themselves to him in happiness. Alexa was the only girl in the complete universe who wasn't affected by his touch, charm and contradictorily to his utter irony Aztec was trying to enrapture her. Was it his defeat in winning her or it was his ego for getting rejected by her time and over again that was pinching him, Aztec did not know.?

　　He simply kept exchanging the wet cloth on her forehead to reduce her temperature. Walking outside the room he reached the corridor connecting the stairs and called the cook. "Gloria, let the dinner be brought up and served within ten minutes." He notifies and comes back replacing the old cloth with fresh wet cloth on Alexa's forehead.

　　"Aztec that power in the sky, the witch and the wolf....." Alexa pointed outside through the window looking at him in a trance. "That wolf....that wolf carried the scent of yours." She declared in a funk and gulped heavy. Aztec went stationed in his actions but did not meet the eyes of Alexa. He did not reply to anything Alexa asked. He simply kept exchanging the cloth pieces because he knew if he spoke he was going to hurt her not only verbally but also physically too and he did not want to do that because his conscience will take over on him later and keep cussing for hurting her.

　　Aztec wasn't astonished, appalled or horrified about Alexa's questions.? Basing on Aztec's reaction Alexa could assimilate he knew about the mystic power and also about the evil witch. He knew about the wolf too. Alexa knew Aztec was very angry to give her a reply. She made a very big mistake by planning to run away from him. She underestimated his power. He was like the king of forest and Alexa should have known better but to elope from his house. Alas her foolishness took over and now she is in shackles invoking the demon in the man who was nursing her with utmost care.

　　Aztec's emotions were impassive while attending to Alexa's sickness. It meant he was holding hard in controlling his temper. She understood Aztec didn't want to speak to her. Leave about an escape, Alexa knew her security would be increased because she had ruffled the feathers of the beast.?Argh!

　　The food arrives to her bedroom on time bringing her mind to rest for sometime. As soon as Gloria leaves placing the trolley beside her bed Aztec asks. "Are you capable of eating or should I help in spooning you with the food?" Alexa noted his voice was strained trying his maximum to control his anger. She shook her head and tried to serve a few spoons of rice into the plate but her fingers trembled and the contents spilled on the carpeted floor and the trolley.

　　Aztec muttered a cuss in his breath and started to feed Alexa. "You do not have strength to hold the spoon properly to your lips and you wanted to run away from me?" He ridiculed her but with sadness displayed in his eyes. "Thanks to your Angel of a mother she left you like nothing but a skeleton. What fell short in my hospitality? I looked after you here like a Princess when you are treated in your parent’s home like a twenty four hours free servant. I shell out money on you like water to buy you stuff. For three months I looked after you like a baby to get you hale and healthy and what do I get in return?" His breath felt heavy occupied with indignation staring at her in grief. "Betrayal and disloyalty."?

　　"I did not ask you to bring me back to your house and look after my illness." Alexa was firm in her words though she did not have enough strength to speak. "Is it? Full of air though vanquished." Aztec grunted low in a haunting susurrus and ground on his teeth. He held Alexa's face between his fingers in a death grip. His minty breathe was fanning on her face.

　　"I looked after you because you are my Lun..." He let out a heavy breathe looking in her eyes and then his vision slowly crawls down to her lips. "You looked after me because I'm what?" Alexa shouts in agitation. "You dare not speak to me in a high voice." He snarled, his head shaking in intense ire just inches above her face. Alexa gulped inaudible. She knew the moment.... that he had already transformed to a monstrous mode.

　　"That witch....you know what is the power of her?" He pushes away the hairs on Alexa's face gently fondling her cheeks with the pad of his thumbs. His face inches away from hers that she could smell his scent. "She has the power to suck away a human's strength." Shaking her face resting in his hands he shouted. "She could have shown you hell on earth by making you disabled if the moon hasn't approached on time." Alexa's mind stops working and words go paralyzed to fall out of her lips at Aztec's fearful declaration.?Black magic and mystical power....

　　"I told you not to move to the west side. Didn't I?" He asked in a menacing whisper. His lips moving just an inch above hers while holding her face. Her heart was thudding fast engulfed in his appeal, a novel unfathomable feeling she hasn't ever explored was embracing her. Wetness pooled between Alexa's legs by the proximity of Aztec. She never had any male so close to her...touching her like he was doing ever in her life.

　　"That colourful rock....Was a part of her sickening magic. The moment your fingers lay on it, she sucked away all your strength." He ran his hands on her soft flowing hair and pushed it back from falling on her face. His breathe was rugged as though he ran a marathon and came back. "Do you know how frightened I was when I did not see you in your bed?" He whispered to her and kissed her forehead. "Do you have any idea how much worried I was when I found you missing from the home?" His eyes ran all over her face in a desire and kissed her cheek. "And finally when I receive you, you are back to the stage one - battered, weak and sick." He kisses her at the corner of her lips. "This is the compensation I get for caring about you....for lov...."

　　"Fuck damn it!" He muttered, ran his hands on his neatly gelled hair and stood abrupt from his chair making it fall behind him and lighted a cigarette facing the window. Alexa stared at Aztec's whisking form speechless. Her throat felt dry. She wasn't able to comprehend anything about Aztec. At times he was full of care, jovial and light. But sometimes he was like a dangerous anthropoid that she feared even to walk beside him. Sometimes he felt very familiar....like a true friend ready to help her during any kind of difficulty. But at times like this he was like no one but an alien who she did not know at all.

　　Puffing out the last smoke out of the white stick through the window, Aztec turns back and nips the cigarette in the ashtray. He starts silently feeding her the food in small morsels. "Your security is doubled now. Roxy is removed from the job because he did not do his duty properly. Now you have no chance to escape. Instil this truth in your brain."?He spoke nonchalantly not even meeting the eyes of Alexa.

　　"I need to see my father. You did not allow me. So I planned my escape." Alexa told collected meeting the eyes of Aztec. "No need. He doesn't deserve your attention." Aztec spoke powerful, like a ruler but in the same tone Alexa spoke seconds ago. "Who are you in commanding me to not meet my dad?" Alexa yelled in displeasure on Aztec's face. Dropping the feeding plate abruptly on the side table Aztec's countenance turns to fire but he spoke low yet dangerous, pointing to her with his reddened eyes. "I told you not to dare question me."?

　　"And what can you do if I question you? Alexa had the audacity to challenge Aztec crossing her arms across her chest. She was the only woman on earth who could bring him to an edge and at the same time invoke attraction in him. Aztec's eyes crawled from her eyes to her bulging chest and protruding buds from underneath the thin fabric of a top. "Well, I can do so many things to you little innocent Alexa that you couldn't even think off.? Leave about capability in handling the situation." Aztec spoke?running his eyes like a hawk on her swelling bosom and exposed part of her cleavage.??

　　Alexa looked at where Aztec's eyes were stationed. She suddenly goes conscious of herself. "I need to pee." She declares like a child between the feed. Aztec turned his face sideways, his lips going slightly extended accompanied with a light shake in his body. But within a couple of seconds he recollects and gets back to a stoical countenance facing Alexa. "I will walk you to the bathroom. I doubt you may fall down if I do not hold you."

　　Will Alexa ever understand the feelings of Aztec and give him what he truly deserves after really long years of?wait?