Kapitel 31: I Choose You

"Even though they were arguing about divorce none of them wanted to take me. My father got angry and beat my mother to death, i-i tried to stop him but I c-couldn't, my grandfather then killed my father in front of me and then ordered his men to either kill me or sell me somewhere far away, they couldn't kill a small boy like me so they took me somewhere far and left me there, I starved for three days with no food or water, I was scared and traumatized but then luckily my godfather found me and adopted me and that is how I became who I am today."

"I never knew what love was, I believed that my heart was dead and my soul was lifeless, I never had any feelings or emotions, I didn't feel pain even if I got stabbed, I was living my life like a lifeless cold beast until I met you Katherine, you brought me back to life, you stirred feelings and emotions in me that I never thought I could have, you stole my heart that I didn't even know I had, I have never felt this way before and when you disappeared I lost my mind and at one point I decided to take my life if I ever discovered that you were dead, I didn't want to live without you in my life and the hope of finding you is the only thing that kept me sane and kept me going"

"Please Katherine have mercy on me and marry me, I promise you that I will never force you to do anything that you don't want to do, I will work extra hard to earn your love and trust and I we will continue to be friends until you finally accept me. I promise you that I will not touch you until you give me your consent and I will do anything and everything in my power to destroy BEPBU and anyone that would cause you harm, please Katherine I am begging you."

Xander knelt down on one knee and held Katherine's hand which she didn't reject now while looking at her intently. He was hoping that his honesty would convince her to give him a chance. Xander never thought that he was capable of love let alone accept any woman to be his wife but here was, kneeling on his knees and begging a woman who stole his heart to marry him.

Katherine was speechless and flabbergasted, she couldn't believe that a formidable man like Xander had such nasty experience in his life, she felt her heart breaking hearing what he went through as a helpless child.

She lowered her gaze and stared at the man that was kneeling in front of her holding her hand and Katherine could see the sincerity and love in his eyes. She never thought that she would one day find true love, after what Tom and BEPBU did to her she had long given up on the idea of love or marriage, but yet again fate had brought this stubborn man to her.

"If you ever betray me Xander I will make sure to kill you in a brutal and torturous way, remember that" said Katherine to Xander while looking directly into his brown eyes

"I would rather die than ever betray you Katherine, I have already chosen you over my life, I choose you over everything Katherine and I will continue to choose you forever. So please Katherine choose me, choose me like I choose you for eternity" Xander said to Katherine with hopeful and sincere expression on his gorgeous face.

"I will marry you Xander Ling" Katherine softly answered the kneeling man and he immediately stood up and gave her a bone crushing hug, he hugged her tightly and nuzzled his face in the crook of her neck whispering thank yous.

Katherine stood frozen when Xander hugged her, she was still no used to his touch but she didn't push away because she liked it. She wrapped her long slender arms around his waist and Xander couldn't be happier.

Katherine left Xander's room a few minutes later after agreeing to marry him, she made her way to her bedroom and as soon as she got inside she slumped on the bed and sigh, "What have I gotten myself into? What if he is just another Tom? What if he betrays me? *sigh I just hope he doesn't even attempt to hurt me because I will kill him myself before he does" Katherine said to herself and without even changing her clothes she drifted to sleep but unfortunately she was woken up four hours later by a nightmare again.

She was drenched in sweat, after composing herself she took off her clothes and went to the bathroom to take a shower, she stood there under the warm shower thinking about the nightmare she just had, these aren't just nightmares but memories of the past, these are memories of what happened to her in BEPBU.

Katherine remembered the first time the scientist had cut her flesh, the memory was still very vivid in her mind.

*FLASHBACK

"AHHHHHHH Please stop please i beg you, please AHHH NOOOOO" Katherine continued to scream at the top of her lungs while the scientists continued to cut the flesh on her thigh.

The pain was too unbearable for her, this is worse than any pain she had ever experienced in her entire life, she just wanted to die right now or at least faint but unfortunately her senses and her body were wide awake, she saw the scientists put the flesh in a silver plate before going back to examine her now open flesh through which her thigh bone could be seen.

She was writhing in unbearable pain when she felt her thighs started twitching and then slowly the pain was slowly becoming bearable, she looked down at her thighs and was beyond shocked, the flesh that was cut off from her body had started to regrow on its on, and as it was regrowing the pain was slowly fading away, after one hour and some minutes Katherine's thighs had returned to normal as if her flesh was never cut off in the first place. The scientists cheered and celebrated at their success.

*PRESENT

Katherine clenched her fists as she shivered at the memory and tears of pain rolled down her beautiful cheeks. She closed her eyes and calmed herself down. After a few more minutes in the shower she got out, changed her clothes and then went to her study to work as usual.

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Xander woke up early that morning and got ready, even day the doctors had advised him to avoid moving too much as it might open his injury, he ignored their advice and even took a shower while being careful not to put water on his injury, he shaved and put on a casual clothes, when he was satisfied with his look he sat down on the bed and patiently waited for Katherine to join him for breakfast

Katherine came in Xander's room and noticed that the man seemed to be in a very good mood, she sat down and they began to eat their breakfast without talking much.

As soon as Xander noticed that she was done eating he said "The lawyer is outside waiting for us, shall we?" He stretched out his hand for her and waited for her to take it.

Katherine and Xander came downstairs and met the lawyer that was sitting on the sofa in the living room, the lawyer immediately stood up and greeted them, after that he gestured them to start filling out the marriage documents and sign them.

After the documentation and everything was completed the lawyer took the documents and went to the civil registry office to complete and register their marriage

"uhm.. I will go back to the study and complete my work, in the mean time please go back to bed and rest, the doctors said that you shouldn't be moving too much, I will join you for lunch." Katherine said hoping that he wouldn't ask her to stay with him.

Xander was in a very good mood so he went and stood close to her, he held her waist and then leaned in and kissed her forehead his lips lingering there for a couple of seconds before he pulled away, he looked at the frozen Katherine and said "Thank you for choosing me sweet, I will love and cherish you forever" having said that he turned around and head to his room leaving the dumbstruck Katherine there standing there like a statue while her eyes followed him.

After a few minutes, Katherine composed herself and then literally ran into her study and locked herself in, her heart was beating faster and she felt butterflies in her stomach, she raised her hand and her fingers touched her forehead where he had kissed her and she blushed. She couldn't believe this was happening, Xander was doing things that were making her heart beat fast like crazy, if this continues she was afraid that her heart would explode one day.

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