Falling For My Mysterious Saviour

I STILL HAVE A CHANCE

Unknown’s P.O.V.

“How long will you keep me in this darkness?” I stiffened at her question. I was sitting near her on the bed while feeding her. It had been three months since I brought her here. Her wounds were almost healed but she was still weak and she didn’t get back her eyesight. I had no heart to tell her this bitter truth that she had lost her eye-sight temporarily and her nerves were healing at a very slow rate.

“This is because I am too ugly and didn’t want you to see my face. You will scare of me and then you will not talk to me”, I made a lame excuse and I really didn’t understand why I was so protective towards her now. In the beginning, when she started speaking well, I was really pissed with her non-stop talking. I always liked the silence and the peaceful environment around me. With every passing day, I felt that the noise made by her was growing in me. I wanted her to talk to me. I wanted her to speak with me every time when I came to feed her, change her bandages or give her a bath.

Yeah… that was weird for me. I never took care of anybody let alone a woman. In the beginning, I only gave her a sponge bath at that time. I didn’t like any of my men to see her naked. Her body was now gaining her natural colour back. She was beautiful, not like gorgeous or so beautiful that could make a man hold his breath for her, but she was beautiful. The only thing that was worrying me about her was her eyesight. “I don’t think that you are ugly”, she said after gulping down the soup. I smiled and then fed her the next spoon. She was now on an inclined bed covered by a sheet till her shoulder. I made her wear a very thin shirt today so that I could access how much pain that she could bear. She was okay and it was a relief for me.

“Really? How can you say?” I asked her in a soft voice. “Ha… it’s easy”, she said and I jerked my head a little back. For a moment, I thought that she had gained her eyesight. I narrowed my eyes on her eyes. To my dismay, she showed nothing. Her eyes were still blank. The doctor had removed the bandage from her eyes by now. “Come near to me and let me touch your face”, she demanded and I raised my brows.

“I have seen in the movies that all the blind persons memorized their loved ones by the touch of their faces”, she said and I shook my head. “So… you want to memorize my features, huh?” I teased her and she opened her mouth again to say something but closed. This time, she blushed and the hint of red on her cheeks enhanced her beauty. “Please let me touch you”, she requested to me while raising her hands. I stiffened in my place. I didn’t like anyone touching me. I never let anyone touch me before.

I reluctantly leaned forward towards her. I took her hand in the air. Her hands were so soft. She smiled and moved her other hand with my hand’s movement. I put her hand on my face. She closed her eyes while I looked at her face without blinking. “Wow… you have quite a long face”, she remarked while running her finger at the border of my jawline. “It really seemed real, you know”, she beamed this time and I wondered what was going inside her mind right now.

My heartbeat increased with every movement of her fingers on my face. Suddenly her finger trailed the scar on the side of my face. I flinched and was about to remove her hand from my face when she pleaded, “Don’t…. don’t go away”. I stopped and looked at her. She opened her eyes. Her eyes met mine and I felt myself drowned in her eyes but they were still blank with a hint of curiosity. She trailed the scar from the beginning to the end. “Did that man get the punishment for stabbing you?” suddenly she asked a very surprising question in a soft tone.

“What?” I whispered. “He cut your face by knife… did he get the punishment?” she asked me again. I couldn’t believe that she asked me this question. “I went to sss last year for shooting a short documentary on the wildlife there. My team was attacked by jaguars when we tried to get a closer shot on a leap of jaguars. One of us made a mistake and then”, she trailed with a chuckled laughed. I was startled by her sudden revelation. “I am sure that you would have seen that scars on my back if there is light in this room”, she added and I took a deep breath.

To be honest, I had cleaned her body so many times but never paid attention to her body. I was always careful around her wounds and I guess that was why I missed those scars. She was still caressing that scar lightly and for the first time in these years, I felt nothing like disgust. I leaned in her touch and she cupped my cheek. “You have very sharp features and I can say that I would have proposed you if we have met in any other circumstances”, she teased me and I smiled this time. Her thumb brushed the corner of my lips along with my smile. “You have a very beautiful smile”, she whispered again.

“Enough adventure for today”, I took her hands in mine and pulled them away from my face. Her touch was so soothing that I got scared. I didn’t want myself attach to her because in the end, she had to leave me and that could leave me with heartbreak and I was not ready for anything like this. She would be out from here soon. My grip on her hands tightened with the mere thought of her leaving me.

“Hey…. When will you light this place? It’s too scary, you know”, I was about to go out of the room when I heard her words laced with fear. I knew that she was scared of the dark and for the last few months, she never stayed awake for long. But now there was no need to give her sedatives as she was healing better. “If you want to…. I… I can stay with you”, I cursed myself the second the words came out of my mouth. Her face lit up. “Really… will you really stay with me?” she chirped while raising her hands in the air. I sighed and went near her. I took her hand and she immediately held my hand in between her hands.

“Sometimes, I felt that I have lost my vision. It’s too dark and the way you work on me…. I felt that it’s only me who can’t see here”, she whispered in a sad but scared tone. I closed my eyes and then decided to tell her the truth. She must know what happened to her. She must have avenged them. “Mariam”, I called her softly and stroked her face with another hand while looking at her face. She was beautiful. Beautiful in every way. “Yeah”, she smiled and closed her eyes this time. “You are partially right about …. A…. about your eyesight”, I said while gulping hard. I might be ruthless and merciless for the world but for this fragile girl… I didn’t know what I was.

“You have lost your eyes sight partially”, I said and saw the smile from her face faded. I saw the tears in her eyes and I immediately pulled her in my embrace. “I am sorry… the doctor tried hard to save your eyesight but”, I paused and that was when she clutched me hard and started crying bitterly. "I... I... cannot see now, huh?" she asked while crying. I was stroking her hair while embracing her tightly. I didn't want to give her any false hope still I wanted to give her something to grab. "The doctors said that your eyes will take time to gain their strength but they are not sure how long you have to stay blind", I said in a sad tone. "It means that I still have a chance, right?" she looked up at me this time and I saw hope in her eyes. "Yeah... you do", I said and kissed her eyes.