Mine: His Caged Princess
Chapter 27

“Never. Even when you do wrong, I won’t, Ara. I will be there to scold you and make you realize that you did wrong instead of leaving you.” Wylder said, shutting her mouth. He put her down near the chair. “Come on, now!! EAT.” He said, pulling a chair for her. But Tiara started running again to leave. She grabbed the handle of the door right before his arms wrapped around her waist. All of a sudden, Tiara started laughing loudly, and Wylder joined her. He loved Tiara laughing like this. She looked so beautiful.

Soon, he smelt her tears. He felt that she started crying, but it was because of laughter. She was laughing so hard as if this was the best game they had ever played.

After a while, she stopped laughing and turned around while his arms were still around her waist.

“I’m lucky to have a friend like you, Wild. Thank you.” She said with a smile and kissed his cheeks. “Come on, let’s have dinner.”

Wylder wanted to hold her in that way all his life, but when she shook his arms, he had to let her go.

“What happened? What are you thinking?” Tiara asked when she felt that something was going on in his mind.

“Nothing. Just wondering that if I will try to leave, then you will ever stop me like this?” Wylder asked, lying to her again.

“You won’t leave me. I know. You will come around every time.” Tiara winked and started leaving when he grabbed her wrist and pulled her toward him, making her head collide with his chest.

“That’s not the answer to my question, Ara.” He said in a serious tone. Even though he had asked that question to escape her question, he wanted to know the answer to the question.

Tiara looked into his eyes and kept looking into them until he called her name again.

“Ara…”

“You will replace out on your own when you will leave me.” Tiara teased him. She was about to say that, of course, but then decided to tease him instead. Wylder shook his head because he realized that he would never replace the answer to this question because he would never leave her. NEVER.

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They had their dinner talking about random things, like how Tiara never replied back to Wylder after reading his message when she realized that he had her number all the time and reached his place even though she wasn’t sure whether he would be free or not.

But a part of her knew that he would always have time for her while Wylder shared how he waited for her message for her, but it never came. In the end, she told him that she had gotten his new number from Colton.

Wylder, too said the same.

Little did Tiara know, Wylder always remembered her number, but he silently wondered how Colton had his new number. That man was too good at replaceing someone’s detail.

After dinner, Tiara told him the truth, the truth that she had hidden from everyone. She felt like she would explode if she would share everything with someone. She never had a habit of keeping secrets like Colton or Liara. So, keeping everything inside her was killing her. She wanted someone with whom she could share everything. It wasn’t that she could tell about it to her mother. Sophia Haysbert was the sweetest lady in her world, but then, she didn’t want her to get worried about her all the time. She didn’t want her mother to know that she was going through all this pain. She was a heart patient and had already suffered from a heart attack once.

Tiara was glad that Wylder heard her without interrupting her in the between. He kept wiping her tears from time to time. After telling him everything, she cried her heart out, but unlike other nights, she wasn’t alone. Wylder held her in his arms and let her cry, caressing her back, not caring the fact that her torn, her light makeup, her lipstick, her kajal, everything that she had applied on her face had ruined his sky blue shirt.

Tiara screamed, sobbed, cried, and wailed while he held her in his arm and cried with her.

They both cried for each other’s love. Tiara was crying for Theodore while Wylder was crying, watching her in this broken state.

“I’m so sorry for whatever happened with you, Ara. I’m sorry that he broke you. But I’m sure when this pain will ease, when talking about your past won’t hurt you anymore, when you don’t need to cry every night to sleep and waking up will be easier, at that moment, the woman you become will be worth that every second of the heartbeat that you went through.” Wylder spoke when Tiara finally stopped crying but had still hidden her face in his chest.

“I will… I will.. Ne..never let … my..myself love anyone again, b…but me, Wild. EVER.” Hearing this, a lone tear escaped his eyes. He couldn’t help but get mad at that man who broke his Ara to the extent that she didn’t want to feel love at all.

“He might be a hybrid, a stronger one, physically, but in my eyes, he was weak to walk away from you and not love you the way you deserve.”

“Don’t call him weak, he….”

“Only the weak can’t forgive, Ara. He was just replaceing a reason to kick you out of his life, and after hearing all the things, it’s clear that he just wanted Lee, not you, and that’s why the moment you made a mistake, he rejected you.” Wylder said, on which Tiara stayed silent.

“Ara, if we start kicking people out of our life because of their mistakes, then one day we will be alone in the world because no one is perfect.” He spoke, analyzing the whole situation. It wasn’t that he was favoring Tiara just because he loved her, but at the same time, he couldn’t agree that everything that happened was just her fault.

“Everyone makes mistakes in life, but that doesn’t mean they are bad. Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn’t mean they are bad. It means they are not god.” Wylder cooed her. “Sooner or later, he will realize his mistake for sure,” he added.

‘If he will realize his mistake, then that also means that he will come back to me? Will we ever be together?’ Tiara thought.

‘He has broken her in the worst way possible. Will she ever be able to love again? Will she ever love me?’ He wondered and left this answer at the time. After all, neither of them knew what the future held for them.