CROSSING THE BORDER novel Chapter 109

Chapter 109

“Why did you poison yourself?” Maximus asked the same question when Rania didn’t answer him. “Why did you do that? If you want to kill me, you can use different method to make me consume the poison.”

He knew.

Rania was not sure how he knew the way she registered poison on him, but then it didn’t matter anymore. She swatted his hand away. She sat down and glared at him.

“Don’t… touch… me.” Rania gritted her words, because it was not easy for her to speak. Her throat was closing in again on her. The same reaction that she always had whenever her emotions overwhelmed her.

Rania was hyperventilating. She hated this feeling, and even more because Maximus was so close with her. He was angry, and frustrated, Rania could tell that.

“Tell me why did you poison yourself?” Maximus grabbed her shoulders, he tried to be gentle with him, but at this point, he had to admit that gentleness was not in his bone. “Did you… really want to be with me?”

That was why Rania told him when she said she stopped giving him poison. She wanted to be with him. Was that the truth?

The fact that she consciously harmed herself when she harmed him changed the whole thing in Maximus’s

eyes.

Did she… really want him?

“Tell me, Rania. Do you really want me?” Maximus stared into her eyes, but she shook her head. She pressed her lips tightly, as her hatred was palpable. “Please… tell me that you want me…”

Rania opened her mouth, she tried to force her voice out, even though it was so hard for her, but finally she managed.

“I… want you…” Maximus’s gaze softened, but then Rania continued. “…Dead.”

She wanted him dead. That was how much she hated him.

“Go…. die…” Rania enunciate every word with difficulty, but her gaze relayed her emotions better. The pain and the suffering that she had to endure would be forever etched in her soul.

She had been abandoned before, but she thought she could get something different from her mate. She thought, Maximus would be different.

But once again, the universe proved her wrong. Maximus was only one of those people, who didn’t believe her. He was part of those people, who abandoned her. That was him…

“No, you don’t want me to die…” Maximus cupped her face. “You will not hurt yourself if you really want me to die.”

Rania grabbed his hands and then scratched him. Her nails embedded so deeply inside his skin, but the king didn’t even flinch.

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Chapter 109

He accepted it. He would take all the pain that she wanted to inflict on him, because he deserved it.

“Hurt me, ruin me, but I will never let you go again, Rania.”

Maximus kissed her forehead gently, despite Rania’s attempt to hurt him.

“Let me go… I want to leave…”

This place was suffocating. She didn’t want to be here… this was the same feeling that Rania felt when she was under Caden’s thumb.

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