After John confessed been guilt, there was nothing else the police officers want to hear more. He was taken away to the police station.
Maria carefully moved her body. The heat coming from the skin of his arm which was round her waist was now obviously burning her. Before, her attention was all on the police and that John Kent, and she didn't realize how ambiguous her posture with Xavier was.
It wasn't until there was only two of them left in the ward that she start to feel it. The air is ambiguous and the lights are gentle. The distance between them was close enough to feel the rhythm of each other's breathing.
Maria had rarely been so intimate with someone, and she was really uncomfortable. But as soon as she moved, he followed. The thick palm still burned her skin, making her face bright red. She looked out to the window and discovered it was very dark.
She bit her lip. "President Xavier, everyone is already gone. We also need to get going because of the kids".
Just now she called out to his husband so sweetly. In fact, it was made for those people to see. Xavier raised his hand and circled her into his arms, his low voice with deceit.
"What you passionately called me earlier, wasn't president Xavier".
His breath was too close, and Maria's head was blank for a moment. Her eyes went straight to the mouth talking. She swallowed the lump building in her throat. She wouldn't lie that she didn't him more enticing than Chris. This man's charm seems to be drowning her.
She looked back to Xavier's eyes and her heart skipped when she saw his wife eyes looking at her. If Maria's face could become more red that moment, it wil. In fact, it's redness can be compared to a burning coal.
She quickly ripped open his hand, and her body stepped back, her small face burning and not knowing what to say.
"Maria" he called.
He didn't move close to her, but leaned against the window, his hands crossed on his chest and stared at her. The way he was looking at her was making Maria so uncomfortable. She wasn't even able to look at him.
"I don't like women who lie." ”
Maria looked at him, not knowing what he said that?
"Didn't you say the other day that you don't know martial arts? Even if John is an old man, he is a middle-aged man with a huge body".
Maria is such a skinny little woman that if she hadn't practiced martial arts, how could she have beaten a full grown man under the condition of being drugged? Not to mention stabbing him twice.
"I'm not lying" she said in a low voice.
Realizing that he was talking about this problem, the woman flattened her lips weakly.
"In fact, I have only learned a little bit of basics, after all, I have been doing martial arts stand-in for so many years".
Xavier narrowed his eyes, obviously in disbelief.
"Then there is also that, John is too weak" she added.
Maria bowed her head and tried to consider the words. She couldn't even look at him knowing her looks might give her away.
Truely, she did have some foundation of martial arts but then when her father Jonathan saw that she was weak and can be in danger, he taught her some self-defense skills. So she wasn't actually lying.
She would have told Xavier about her little knowledge but Jonathan also told her not to let others know that she knew martial arts at all, just like she couldn't let people know about the birthmark behind her waist. Maria didn't know Jonathan's intentions for saying that, but since she had promised to hide it, she would hide it to the end.
Maria could feel his gaze on her body and no one need to explain to her that he didn't believe her a bit. She then needed to convince the man.
"If I'm strong will my wrist be dislocated?"
She said lifting up her bandaged wrist to show him. Xavier looked at the wrist and said nothing. He's still proving cussed not to believe her.
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"I told you, it's really not that I'm strong, it's that John is too weak and I'm a very desperate woman who wouldn't want another man to sleep with her. I have to try all I could" .
Sitting in the back seat of the car, Maria kept on explaining herself. She just want him to stop giving her the look of doubt.
Xavier was seated beside her with a calm face. Seeing that she wasn't intending to stop talking, he was a little helpless and wouldn't have a choice than to accept her.
"Did I object you?"
Maria pouted and shook her head.
" So shut up and stop talking. You already had a long day" he said in a low calm voice.
She looked at him like a child who was denied candy but didn't want to protest. Xavier pulled her to his chest and made her relax. He was careful about her dislocated wrist.
He really had pity on the tiny woman. She had gone through a lot this days. It seems injuries were so friendly to her this days. Xavier got to know she's been doing martial arts stand-in for years now, so he suddenly begin wondered what she would have been going through with that hell of a job and what she's like when working.
Soon, the car stopped at the door of the McCarthy villa.