Falling For My Mysterious Saviour

THE SUDDEN REALIZATION

Demitry’s P.O.V.

I couldn’t tell what was going on inside my heart and my mind right now. I felt that there was a storm inside my mind. The sketch was so similar to my face. I could see the proud look on her face while showing me the sketch. I couldn’t believe that she had almost an exact image of mine in her mind when she was blind. I was sure that she had never seen my photo before the accident. We had already removed all the photographs after the accident as they brought only pain to me. “Now… I want you to erase all the scars that I had drawn one by one and tell me how close I am to your exact face”, she asked me while looking at me with a wide smile. I felt a pang of pain in my chest. I gulped down the invisible lump that had formed in my throat. I felt my heart beating furiously inside my chest.

“Hey… what’s wrong?” I came out of my stance when I heard her voice laced with worry. I looked at her blankly and saw her eyes full of worries. She raised her hand and wiped the sweat from my face. “Why are you sweating so much?” she asked me in a panic tone this time and that was when I came out of my trance. I immediately touched my face and realized that I was sweating hard. My whole face was covered with sweat now. “Uhhhh…. It's nothing”, I immediately wiped my face with the back of my hand. I immediately stood up from the bed and almost ran towards the washroom. I heard her calling me in a panic tone but I didn’t look at her. I splashed the cold water on my face immediately and took a deep breath. I couldn’t believe that her imagination was so accurate. She was so close to my real face without any scars. She once told me that she didn’t need a face to recognize me. She told me that she already had a picture of mine in her mind and she was eager to know how much she was right. I remembered the moment when she saw me. She said that she imagined right about my face. At that time, I didn’t mind her words and now…….

I cursed internally when I realized that I had left her alone in a panic condition. I immediately took a face towel and ran outside the washroom. My eyes widened in horror when I saw her trying to sit on her own. “What are you doing?” I yelled and ran towards her. She lifted her head up and I saw her tear-stained face. I immediately held her in my embrace and lay her down gently. She yelped in pain but I held her firmly. “Yo…. You… what happened to you?” she asked me in a choked, painful voice and I mentally slapped myself for acting so recklessly. The tears were still flowing out of her eyes. She was again in pain and it was me again who made her bear so much pain. “Do I call Dr Reynolds?” I asked her in worry without answering her. “No…. I… I am fine”, she said and closed her eyes. I could see that she was still in pain.

“Mariam”, I said and wrapped my hand around her neck while hiding my face in the crook of her neck. I was now lying beside her and my half body was over her body. “You scared me to death, Dem”, she complained after a while but her voice was still cracked. “I know… I am really sorry… please forgive me”, I said in a low tone without lifting my head. She wrapped her hand around my neck and took a deep breath. None of us say anything for a good few minutes. I needed this piece of silence and I was glad that she understood my needs better than me. I lifted my head up and kissed her forehead. She had stopped crying and her breathing was also even now. I wondered how she was able to bear so much pain and stayed calm.

I looked at her calm face now. I sighed and then spoke to her, “I am going to fetch a wet towel so that I can wipe your face. I was still guilty for making her so much worried that she tried to sit up when she knew that she couldn’t. She nodded but didn’t open her eyes. She always did this whenever she was angry but didn’t want to show her anger. I smiled sadly this time and then stood up from the bed again. I went to the washroom and immediately wet a face towel. I took a dry towel also and then came back to the room. She opened her eyes this time and I could see that she has calmed down. I gently wiped her face and then dried it. She didn’t protest and let me do whatever I was doing now. After throwing both the towels in the laundry bucket, I lay down near her and wrapped my hand around her waist. I buried my head in her neck again and took a deep breath.

“I am really sorry…. You took me off guard”, I said in a low tone again full of remorse. “I…. didn’t want to scare you. I”, she paused and my grip on her waist tightened. “You did nothing wrong, princess. It’s me who reacted badly. I couldn’t believe that you drew me so well and”, I paused and took a deep breath. “No need to say a word more. I only want you to erase those scars and looked at the face that I drew first. That was the face in my mind before I touched your face. I only wanted to know how accurate I was”, she said in a low and sad voice that made me feel a pang of pain in my chest again.

I lifted my head up and looked at her calm face. She moved her face towards me. She was now calm and there was no trace of anger in her eyes. “Let me clean you first. I don’t want any shock at the moment. I will do what you ask me to do after dinner, okay?” I said in a low tone and she just stared at me. To be honest, I was not prepared for any shock. I had already guessed the face behind those scars in the sketch and that was the thing that took me off guard. That was the face that I didn’t want to see because that was my real face. “I want to see that face after surgery”, she said after a short pause. I gulped again but didn’t answer her.

“I already told you that it doesn’t matter to me how you look. The man whom I knew back then had no face for me. He was only my imagination and I love that man. I wanted to draw this a long time ago but didn’t get the time. So, I drew today. I…. (she took a deep breath)… I am sorry if it has”, I immediately put my finger on her lips making her stop speaking. “You did nothing wrong. I … well… I am really surprised at how close you are to my real face. Now I understood why you were not scared when you looked at me for the first time because you already had this face in your mind”, I said with a small smile on my lips. She only blinked but didn’t show any change in her emotions. I sighed and then stroked her face lightly.

Suddenly we both looked at the door when we heard a knock. I remembered that I had asked someone to bring some snacks for her. I stood up immediately and she pulled up the duvet. I went to the door and opened it. I saw a maid standing outside the door with a food tray. I took the food tray from her and then closed the door again. I smiled when her eyes lit up after seeing the food. I put down the food tray on the bed and carefully took the juice glass and coffee mug. I put them down on the nightstand near me and then looked at Mariam. At the same time, her stomach made a sound. She blushed and lowered her head and I laughed at her reaction. “What could I do? I am hungry”, she pouted while looking at me. The atmosphere around us lightened with the bright smile in her eyes.

“Okay… then let me feed you first”, I said and she immediately shook her head. “Lift me a little up first”, she said and I nodded. I then moved towards her and pulled her a little up gently. I put two more pillows behind her neck and back in a comfortable position. Then I came back to my spot again. “Give me the sketchbook”, I asked her after putting the food tray on her lap. She took a sandwich while raising her brows at me. “Why? Didn’t you say that you will see the sketch after dinner”, she said and took a bite. “I am okay now… and… I think… I can see the sketch”, I said with a smile on my lips. Her eyes immediately lit up. I took the coffee mug from the nightstand and sipped. “Okay”, she said and then lifted the sketchbook that was now on her other side on the bed.

She gave me the sketchbook and I put that on my lap. “Give me the juice”, she asked while chewing the sandwich. I took the glass from the nightstand and gave her. I then opened the sketchbook. I flipped the pages from the beginning. She had drawn four sketches by now. Three of them, in the beginning, were the nature’s sketches and they were also very good. I took a deep breath before flipping to the last page. I smiled when I saw the same face on the sheet. “What?” she asked me in a muffled voice. I looked at her and saw her mouth stuffed with the sandwich. “Eat slowly… you will choke”, I scolded her in a gentle tone and she pouted while chewing her food in her mouth. I shook my head and then looked at the sketch again.

I looked at the nightstand and found an eraser there. It was now time to face the real me. She wanted that face after surgery and I was going to fulfill her wish. Dr Reynolds had already scheduled my surgery in few weeks. It will be a full face surgery and they would perform the surgery here in the mansion. I didn’t want to alert anyone else outside the mansion about the surgery especially Sasha. She was trying hard to contact me in the past few weeks and it was now irritating me the most. She now knew that I was already cured and if she comes to know that I am going to perform the surgery to get my face back, she will definitely do anything to come closer to me. Oliver was now in Dubai secretly and instead of looking for him, she was trying every mean to talk to me.

I took the eraser from the nightstand and slowly and cautiously started erasing the biggest scar first. I glanced at her and found her looking at my hand nervously which made the corner of my lips curled up. “Don’t be so nervous”, I ruffled her hair playfully and she immediately slapped my hand while glaring at me. I laughed at her childish act. “Don’t play with my hairs”, she immediately stroked her hair as if they were really precious. I slowly erased that big scar and took a deep breath. “You are almost correct about my face before the accident”, I said in a low voice while looking at the face that was now in front of me with a few more small scars. I looked at her with all my love for her in my eyes. “Is it really what you imagined?” I asked her in a low but loving tone and she immediately shook her head. I smiled and then leaned toward her. I kissed her forehead and looked into her eyes. “You know how much I love you, right?” I said in a loving tone while looking in her eyes. She blushes while biting her lips and lowered her eyes. I wrapped my hand around her shoulder and put her head on my shoulder. I guess now was the time to change my face for the woman in my embrace.