"You need to stop worrying about me so much and rest properly you stupid vamp," Aselia knocked on his forehead making him half smile.

"I will try," he added before letting go of Aselia he pulled off the blanket and climbed out of bed. Aselia quickly covered herself with the blanket while Xiran looked for the robe he had flung over last night.

She watched him as his back muscles rippled while he picked up the white robe and slipped inside it.

"Leia, get fresh. I will order breakfast," he strode over and sat down on the chair, and picked up his phone. Aselia sat up in bed, covering herself with the blanket, but her nightie was on the floor. This was a predicament.

"Xiran, can you hand me over my night dress?" She asked with an innocent face.

He threw her a knowing look and picked up her nightie from its straps, but instead of giving it to her he held it in his fingers and let it dangle, tilting his naughty face at her, Xiran challenged her:

"Why don’t you come and get it?" Her ears turned crimson at his actions, no way was Aselia ready to walk like that in front of him.

"Xiran, please!" She requested feeling the heat radiate from her face but he didn’t budge and continued to watch her with a satisfied look.

This angered Aselia: "Fine," she huffed and puffed and carefully wrapped the blanket around her before getting up from the bed. She wobbled towards him, trying not to trip and fall over due to the long blanket. While he watched her with pursed lips so as not to laugh at her actions.

Nearing him, she extended her hand to catch her nightie but before she could do that, Xiran flicked his hands and tossed it toward the bed and laughed.

"Ugggh, I am going to kill you Xiran," she veered around to head back to the bed but he snatched the blanket from her and threw it on the bed too, leaving her bare for his eyes to thirst over her flesh.

"No," Aselia squealed and quickly covered her breasts but he reached out and yanked her wrist, she fell and he collected her in his arms.

"Ahhh," she squealed as she landed in his arms. His movements were so quick that it was difficult to predict them.

"Why do you want to hide from me?" He asked with a chuckle and she hid her face in embarrassment.

"Stop! doing that, you are such a pervert," she squeaked trying to hide from his gaze and squirming uncontrollably in his lap. "Stop staring at me."

"Whom should I stare at then? Hmmm," Xiran gently removed her hands from her face so she would look at him and he could see how shy she was under all that tough pretense.

"Please! Let me go now, I want to get dressed, I am hungry," she knew this excuse will work and he smiled at her clever ploy.

He leaned in and kissed her forehead before saying: "Alright, I am letting you go but next time, I won’t. Go get changed and I will order breakfast."

Aselia scrambled out of his lap like a scared bunny and grabbing her nightie from the bed, rushed to the bathroom and cupboard area. Xiran lowered his head and laughed hard. He wasn’t sure how long it will take her to come out of this shyness.

Deep down he loved this and wanted to prolong it as much as possible, another reason he didn’t want to go all the way with her. He wanted to enjoy her innocence as much as he could.

He called Frila to bring breakfast for them. Needing to make a few urgent calls, some matters required his attention so he got up and knocked on Aselia’s bathroom door and said: "Aselia I have a few business calls to make and then have to get ready. It will take me an hour or two to return from my room, Frila will bring you breakfast, so eat it."

"Ok," Aselia replied from inside, Xiran then left for his room.

Aselia had chosen a lilac-coloured loose t-shirt and black jeans, after taking a hot bath she got dressed and stepped outside the bathroom with a towel drying her hair. A few minutes before she put away the towel and began to make her bed and rearrange the room. She noticed that Xiran had taken the box of chocolates with him, and this made her smile.

Frila arrived with their breakfast and greeted Aselia: "Good morning, how are you doing?"

"Considering everything, really good. How are you Frila?" Aselia inquired.

"Oh! you know, same old routine. But I have some good news. Carios proposed to me and we are getting married soon," she beamed and her eyes sparkled as she showed Aselia the ring she was wearing on her finger.

"Wow, that’s fantastic news, congratulations Frila. I wish you a happy life, you are such an amazing person, you deserve all the happiness," Aselia couldn’t contain her happiness and hugged Frila, who hugged her back and thanked her, they both inspected the ring with a red gemstone embedded into it.

They continued to talk for a while since Xiran wasn’t here yet. Aselia then asked Frila: "Can I ask you something? Be truthful."

"Of course."

"Do you guys hate me? I will understand whatever answer you will give me. Considering what I did," Aselia awkwardly asked, her eyes searching Frila’s for the truth.

Frila’s mouth slightly opened in surprise before she spoke: "We were pretty devastated to learn the truth Aselia, and Carios said you hurt Señor, Carios was very pissed at you. I knew you must have your reasons to do what you did, no one does something like that without a reason. But Señor called us and told us that you will be returning here occasionally and our behaviour should be the same with you as it always had been. I don’t hate you Aselia, but it hurts me to think you did something to Señor, keeping in mind he practically worships you. So I am just disappointed. Señor means a lot to Carios as he was raised by him so he regards him very highly, we all do."