Chapter 124: Progress
The sound of the culinary echoing around the hall, the soft chewing of food, and all William did was watch and bounce his knee beneath the table. His blood riling up every minute and his body goes rigid with every impatience.
’Say something’
’Anything!’
But yet the cat got his tongue... He can’t even find his own words, only stare at her and appreciate every single thing she embodied, and make his torture worse just like the fool he has become he was silent all through, even as she wiped her mouth with the napkin after being done and walking out.
So much of being bold and taking a step, this was just like any other day with no progress. He cannot go on like this, he mentally told himself... but making a move became something entirely impossible because he could still remember the look she gave him, the lifeless dark look as if he had just shattered her heart and her whole world.
His OWN world is shattering, if he doesn’t hear her voice he would be a dead man. So he started another approach again, at her table in the library he would drop a book about the magical world each day, mostly the ones she couldn’t get her hands on and ones that would tell what he was...
The two beasts he embodies, this was a gesture of some sort of submission, to render himself to her in some way, call it foolish but he wanted to lessen her curiosity, Ava was a whole different person when she’s curious and when she quenches it she finds relief and it makes her feel better. So it was a nice approach in his case.
Not until he came back to the desk and the books he left remained untouched, he would know when she had read them, her luxurious scent would linger on them, but they remained blank. William found this heartbreaking but he didn’t give up on his little approach, he kept leaving book after book, placing them in order at the side of her desk and marking out each one and what it contains so that it would gain her interest in some way.
It went on and on until it was a week after his attempt and her table were piled with a number of books, but William didn’t care, he still came with another and much to his surprise that particular day, he noticed some books have been touched, it wasn’t the exact order he has left them and to be more interesting one was on her desk and bookmarked in a way that she would continue the next day.