The Devil's Touch
#10
Xander's birthday goes well, all happy on the night of the Antraxs leader's turn of age, the event is simple, just a dinner in the park that they often do from the past.
They enjoyed the meal after singing the birthday song to Xander. Do not ask how upset Xander heard the birthday song that is usually at the little boy's party is now on his birthday, xander had asked them not to hold a candle-blown event and cut a cake.
But with all his furore, Philip, Keenan and Athes and the gang force everyone to sing a song for Xander.
Xander stared at the pushy birthday cake at the table with the eighty-year-old figure candle on it, he bitterly smiled holding back his cries.
He spoke alone with his voice. Because the others are busy enjoying this dinner.
"Alexa .. eighty years I'm in the world now, I want to die quickly and meet you. You must be as beautiful as ever, right ..."
"Don't worry Alexa .. as I promise, I'm always loyal to you even if you don't love me. Wait a minute baby .. Maybe I'll die soon."
Xander let out a heavy sigh, every turn of the year, every age he grew it was both a painful thing as well as a thing to look forward to for him. He wants to die soon, he does not want to feel lonely anymore without the girl he loved for years.
Although many people who accompany her, but still without Alexa every day is a lonely day for her.
Unknowingly, Maxime watched the Grandfather behind with a glass of wine in his hand, he saw a heavy sigh from Xander, and he looked at Xander, seeing Xander staring at her birthday cake nanar and seeing Xander now who just lowered his head alone without spirit when everyone enjoyed the event happily.
He stepped over to Xander and sat down beside Xander after pulling a chair near his grandfather.
"Grandpa all right?" ask Maxime.
Xander looked up and turned towards Maxime then smiled faintly and nodded.
"Remember the Alexa grandma again?" ask Maxime again.
"Yes, he fills my brain every day. But grandpa likes to remember his face is in the mind of grandpa," said Xander as he chuckled.
Maxime smiled bitterly at that, he felt salute with the greatness of Xander's love for Alexa. How could the old Xander still save his love for Alexa, that's all Maxime had in mind.
"When are you getting married, Max? grandpa is old, get married fast. Grandpa wants to see your granddaughter."
Maxime clucked, the discussion about marriage is the thing that makes his mood worse. Maxime didn't think he was getting married.
"I will live even if I am not married."
The answer from Maxime made Xander unable to hold back his laughter and it made Maxime frown in confusion.
"That sentence was said before meeting the grandma Alexa .. until finally your grandma that makes the grandpa crazy," said Xander.
"Trust me .. You just haven't found a suitable one yet" Xander continued.
*
The show finished at around two in the morning, it was dark now time to rest but Maxime instead said goodbye to go to his petshop.
"Can't you just stay here, you're always not at home with this mansion. What's wrong with you, Max?" sky said with annoyance.
"Yes, this child seems to be avoiding us" Liana continued.
"Arsen also sleeps here" Kara continued.
"My shop's a little troubled, the door's broken. And I have to replace it" said Maxime.
"Can be tomorrow" Javier replied.
"No, Dad. Every morning there's always a buyer coming in and I'm having a hard time serving the buyer and fixing the door."
"Then call the doorkeeper. Why do you always bother yourself, Maxime." Liana shook her head inexhaustibly with this overly independent Maxime. All the men wanted him to do it himself without the help of anyone else.
"That's it," cut Javier. "Pity him, must rest. Let him go home."
"But, By--"
"It's a dear." Javier cuts off his wife's words while stroking Sky's back.
"Max, go. Be careful on the road."
Maxime nodded. "Okay, Dad."
Arriving at the petshop, he saw the petshop lights on when this morning he had turned off all his lights.
And the shards of shard that scattered were clean somewhere, only a hole door remained.
Maxime rushed into the petshop and was surprised to see a girl sleeping at the checkout table with her face down.
And again, the girl was wearing her plain t-shirt. Maxime slowly approached the girl.
"Hey wake up ..."
"Hey ..."
He shook the girl's shoulder but she was still asleep.
BRUISES
Feeling that there was no other way, Maxime pushed the girl down.
"Acwww ..."
"You .." cried Maxime when he saw Milan trying to stand staggering.
"Why are you here? and why are you wearing my clothes?!!"
Milan hissed holding his temple then looked up.
"I don't know where to go, my parents won't take care of me anymore."
"But I don't want to take care of you either" said Maxime.
Milan felt that the hand attached to his temple was wet, at the look of the hand and there was blood there due to the impact on the floor.
Suddenly his head felt dizzy, his vision blurred. Maxime's face became indistinct in his eyes until Milan fell unconscious. Not just a bump, the girl hasn't eaten all day.
Before falling, Maxime first catches the girl's body and brings her to the room in a panic.
Maxime calls Doctor Aliandra, Javier De Willson's family doctor and his mother's foster sister.
"What's wrong?" aliandra asked lazily.
"Come to my petshop now!!"
"It's three and a half, you're crazy!!" sahut Aliandra's.
"Quick uncle, there's a dying girl in my petshop" Maxime said in a frantic tone deliberately to lure Aliandra in.
"Ah, that's right!"
"I'm serious, come quickly. You know my dad protects women a lot, right? if he finds out there's a dead girl here, not only am I to blame, but you are too! because you're the last doctor I called!!"
Aliandra immediately got up from her bed in a hurry she changed her clothes. "Sial*n you, Max!! why petshop, your petshop is so far from my house!!"
Aliandra growls with annoyance when Maxime turns off her call.
Maxime sat by his bed, opened the drawer and took the p3k there, he treated the wound in the temple of the girl slowly while examining Milan's face.
"Milan ..." muttered Maxime quietly. "Your name is Milan ..."
He remembered his parents shouting calling this girl by the name of Milan.
Maxime pulled the corner of his lips smiling with his hands constantly cleaning the blood at the Milan temple.
"You're beautiful too it turns out ..."
Only this time Maxime could observe Milan's face up close.
Seriate