Chapter Twenty One: Only mine

"Oh Brian!" gasped Zara as she spotted her brother who immediately ran and hugged her.

"Luna, I will forever be grateful." he said bowing to me.

"Oh cut the crap, don't need to be so formal!" I told him as I put my arm around Zara's shoulder and let her into the helicopter.

Brian started the helicopter and soon we were up in the air. I felt extremely happy, who knew the girl who was always lost in her book could act as a hero?

"So my saviour, can I know the full story now?" Zara interrupted me out of my thoughts.

"Oh yeah sure." I giggled. So I told her all about the threat and my plan and she was amazed.

"Oh Pearl, I will be forever grateful to you!" she exclamaimed as she engulfed me in a hug.

"It was my duty, they took you because they thought it was me and I couldn't let them harm you because of me." I told her.

"Oh they didn't harm me! They put some ropes on me but I broke them, so when nothing worked on me, they locked me in a room which was pretty cool, I felt like Rapunzel!" she exclaimed.

"I'm proud of you." I chuckled.

"But I do have one question.." she said

"Shoot."

"How did Ozymandius and Alexander let you come here all alone?" she asked.

"Actually they didn't, they didn't knew about my plan." I explained and then as I looked at Zara, reality hit me!

"We are dead!" we both said at the same time.

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The helicopter had landed, we were back at the palace. My heart was racing as I held Zara's hand and we both walked into the Palace.

All eyes were at us as we entered, I heard some gasps which meant that the whole palace knew. They knew we were missing.

I couldn't even imagine Ozymandius's reaction.

We kept quite as we moved into the elevator and reached the top floor. The first people we saw were Fiona and Jonah who were sitting in the lounge.

Fiona was crying and Jonah had his arm around her as he muttered condolences. I cleared my throat and both of them immediately turned towards us.

"Oh my god!" gasped Fiona as she engulfed us in a hug.

"Where did you go Pearl?" Jonah asked me.

"I'll explain later, I need to find Alexander first." I told him.

"He is in his room." he told me as he passed me a smile.

Me and Zara walked to his room, slowly. He was there lying on his bed, tears dropping from his eyes, his shirt totally soaked and his hands were tightly closed.

"Alexander." whispered Zara.

He immediately shot up from the bed. He was shocked. His arms around her tightly as he inhaled her scent.

"Is this really you?" he asked her.

"Yes." she whispered as she caressed his face.

"I can't tell you how much I missed you, I can't live without you, I love you Zara." he stated.

"I love you too." she whispered, now tears running down her face.

"When am I hearing the wedding bells then?" I interrupted. I actually felt bad for ruining their moment but that's what friends are for.

"Pearl?" Alexander looked at me.

"She saved me." Zara told him.

"How?" he asked and then she told him the whole story, which sounded pretty unrealistic to me now.

"Oh Pearl, thank you so much. I don't have words to thank you!"Alexander claimed as he hugged him.

" Uh huh, no thank you. You will have to buy me a burger, a pizza, a brownie, a lasagna, a chocolate...
" I started.

" Okey okey!" he chuckled.

" But you should see Ozymandius, he is growing crazy! He has collected an army and is ready to wage a war!" he told me.

" Ozymandius, where is he? " I asked him, my voice barely a whisper.

" In his office, preparing for the war." he told me.

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I opened the door a little and there he was. His hair a mess, his shirt undone, he was sweating and his fists were clenched tightly. All his men stood around him, none of them looking at him because they were too scared.

" I said I need the best of men!" he growled as he slammed his hand so hard on his desk that it broke.

I entered in his office. My body was shaking now.

"Ozymandius." I whispered.

His grey orbs immediately met mine and the world stopped. His eyes had so much to say that words could never explain. They showed anger, dominance and most of all relief.

"Everyone out!" he growled and with in a second everyone scurried away.

And immediately he was infront of me. I didn't dare look at him, it would kill me.

"Where the hell were you?" he growled, but I didn't speak. My body was shaking.

His arms engulfed around me tightly as he pulled me closer to him. My hands now rested on his shirt as I took deep breaths.

It was happening again. His presence was dominating me, making me weak. My body was attracting to him like a magnet by itself.

"I asked you a question!" he growled.

His hand moved up to my chin as he gently pulled it up upwards so my eyes met his.

"I... I was..." I stuttered but before I could say anything he had engulfed me in a hug. His arms were tightly secured around my waist as he took deep breaths.

"I missed you." I heard him whisper. I didn't say anything as he hugged me, I had no words. He was driving me crazy.

"Did he touch you?" he growled as he broke away the hug and his hands  started raking my body.

"Where did he touch you, where did he hurt you?" he growled as he pulled up my shirt a little and his hands moved across my stomach searching for some injuries.

"Tell me Pearl, where did he touch you? I'm gonna kill that bastard!" he growled as he looked at me.

He was shaking in anger and his eyes had turned golden.

"He didn't touch me, I didn't let him." I told him.

His head went into the crook of my neck as he pulled me closer and started kissing his mark.

"You are mine Pearl, only mine, and only I can touch you like this!" he growled as his hands went into my shirt and started tracing circles on my back.