Safe haven

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Bai Xi's Pov:

I pulled back from him and gazed at him, his eyes reassuring me, bewitching me as I fall a little more, just because I saw a sense of security which I have never in my whole life ever felt coming from any one. Not my parents and never from anybody else.

He pecked my forehead as he wound his arms around me again, pulling me against his chest while reclining back on the couch. This moment feels like a safe haven and this feeling is what I wish to feel forever more.

I bid him night as he had an early morning tomorrow because of being away from the office for a week, so I let him off and prepared for bed myself.

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I wore the pastel peach dress that Lu Xiaoqi my roommate chose for me. I don't stay at the flat all the time, I stay at the dormitory alloted by the college and go home on weekends or whenever I have work to do.

I didn't had time to go for dress shopping so I asked Lu Xiaoqi, one of my four roommates to collect it for me. She is sweet and helpful and has always supported me against everyone in the college as they all have something against me since the start of term, when I started University and on the first day punched the heartthrob of college. I offended almost everyone that day and since then have almost been boycotted at all events and almost bullied if not for my firm and vigilant stance on no bullshit.

So I have almost the entire population of girls offended on behalf of Kin Yian as I punched him. And the male population thinks I am too dominating for a girl. They all feel I am too macho and not a damsel who needs saving, so they avoid me most of the time.

And this leaves me with only half the student population, whose another half of which I avoid and the rest which is barely five people, among which three are my roommates, that I talk to and two others, the only tolerable people in the college. So yeah that sums up my college inferno where I get more thrown off guard than I deserve and if not for me being ruthless to whosoever trying to mess with me than I would have long ago cartered out of the campus.

And so here I am standing back stage waiting for my act, which is actually not that big, but I am still excited for it as I prepared hard for it. I love acting as this is something of my own choice and the thing which I neither inherited not dumped on me by anyone. I hold no obligation of any kind to anyone and that's why it gives me the liberty which no painting or racing or even those missions give me.

I tried to look at the audience and at a particular face that I hoped to find among it as I am all giddy up with excitement as this is the first time, there would be someone from my side who actually came to see me perform. And I would do my best to perform as best I can, but couldn't see clearly due to panels in front of me.

My act was announced and the opening characters went onto the stage with a prospective stance and begin the act of julio d'mariana. It's a play which recently got popular and is performed in various theatres across the globe. I was acting as the lead wife, leading the other wives to save her husband.

I got onto the stage facing julio and then faced the audience to deliver my part where I actually felt surprised at seeing Si Yihan in the very middle of the front row and smiling broadly as I made an eye contact with him. He nodded at me and I felt pleased and relieved at seeing him because I really didn't think he would come, considering him being the CEO of a magnificent conglomerate.

Feeling happy I snapped back into the play as I made quite a bowed spectacle as julio's wife before I progress into a behemoth of crisis where my life and person is questioned as a human being.

I delivered my dialogues well without forgetting any as I have already became accustomed to the story long before I was offered to play the role of Mariana, Julio's wife. I have read and studied the scripts and Mariana's character deeply before performing it, so I already was confident with lines.

The play ended on a pretty scale and everyone applauded us as we bowed at the end. The curtains closed and we went back stage as everyone congratulated each other on the success of the play.

I entered the changing room after accepting all the congratulations and removed my makeup with the cotton buds before I pulled out my dress to shift back.

I was only done with removing my make up when a knock sounded at the door, so I opened it to find, a big bouquet of Amaryllis with a few lilies, greeted me.

I touched them, they still are damp and light moisture coated the petals with few drops still sticking to it, showing that they are freshly brought.

I turned to the owner of the hands holding the bouquet to see the chocolate brown eyes staring back at me, with desire furling in them. I gulped and took a long inhale of the flowers as the man thrusted them to me, saying, "You were mesmerizing out there, Love", and took a step inside.

I took a hold of them and told him, "They smell lovely",after inhaling one more time as I turn to put them on the side table when a pair of hands, big and firm circled me from behind, his nose on my neck, inhaling deeply, before exclaiming, "Not as lovely as you", his words flattering and his voice husky, tinged with surety.

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