"If you liked me ,why did you not come to me in college? Why did you wove this web of lies with your brother?"

And just like that the smile that had decorated her face for so long disappeared and her lips curled into a sneer making Nixon wonder if all those precious smiles were only for a fleeting moment.

"listen Karma I was too embarrassed, I thought you would refuse-" the man started explaining nervously, he had originally thought that the woman would melt with his heartfelt confession, maybe not completely accept him but atleast she would give him a chance.

Karma swirled her coffee looking calm and graceful but the room seemed to get frostier with each passing second.

"Say Nixon, do you and your brother believe that the world revolves around you? Alistair told me that I was meant to be yours in the first place." She looked up from the cup staring right into Nixon's soul.

"Who the fuck are you both to decide that for me?"

Nixon was startled but he understood the root cause of her anger, if he was to be honest neither him nor Alistair had the right to deceive her as such.

"Karma I like you so much, whatever I did was out of it, I really feel for you."

"Looks like its your problem isn't it, you like me but let me slip right through your fingers, you liked me but you never bothered to be my friend or even talk to me because you were afraid, what makes you think you should stop being afraid of me now? You may feel for me Nixon but you don't respect me."

Those words were soft yet so chilling that the man could not help but feel absolutely no attachment from her side, it was beyond cold.

So this was the real her, someone whom he could never cross.

"I will always keep you happy Karma, I know I did a mistake but I promise that I am ready to own up to it."

Nixon poured his dedication and could only hope that he could touch the heart of the woman he had desired for so long.

"I am no fairy who would want the world to stay happy and sacrifice my happiness for it Nixon, I do not need a man to make me happy, what could you possibly give me? I do not yearn for love, I yearn for revenge and power......will you give me that, give me the head of person I hate?"

Nixon shuddered......how could he kill someone..... cruel she was too vicious.

"Yes, this is who I am, this is what I desire.

You brothers played a game, a gamble and its not upon me now, I hated Alistair at first but he saw me for who I am, accepted me even though he knew I was build from chaos and darkness.

He saved my soul from completely being consumed by vengeance and I.....I started liking him but now I don't even know anymore. I feel betrayed and thus I came to you to tell you something very clearly, even though I am not someone your warm heart should associate with, I will not lead you on.

There could not be anything between us other than friendship, I will not crush your heart after binding hopes in it....I will be honest to you."
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It was going fine until the dawn of the third day, things were as mundane and routes were as simplistic as ever. Karma followed the daily routine keeping her tabs on Alaric and maintaining her distance from Alistair.

She wasn't even angry, just plain hurt that how even for a second he could think of her and Nixon when her heart only belonged to him, after the revelation that day Alistair respected her boundaries and gave her space and time to think.

But who knew that a storm was approaching and Karma will laugh devilishly till it hails.

It was before the first sun rays striked the earth, Karma was awoken by her dreamless sleep by a phone call. The girl groaned thinking who the hell in the world was so shameless to not let her even have her sleep.

At first the woman almost smashed the phone to the wall but then thought against it.

"Who the hell is it?" she growled in phone only to be asked a question which made the sleepy mist evaporate from her eyes and made mind clear.

"That day you told me you like Alistair....what about him? Has he ever told you, confessed his feelings too?" Nixon was eerily calm, kind of in peace even. He felt it was the time that Alistair took a taste of his own medicine.

"He did" Karma sighed.

"Then it makes the two of us that are deceived.

I want to initiate a deal and before you say no I would like to clarify certain things, I mean no harm to Alistair, he is my brother and the fact that he got behind my back to see someone I liked....it boils my blood and the fact that he hid things from me, lets say I am not the happiest person right now.

What I want from him is neither an apology nor a explanation, I want him to feel as angry on me as I am on him, to have so much rage but being completely incapable to stop what is happening because I am his brother that he cannot kill.

I want you to be my fake girlfriend infront of him for a week and no more, I don't ask from you to give me a chance anymore because it completely futile, I believe you and Alistair perfectly fit and even if I try to be with you.....we are too different to happen ever but yes I will not deny that I liked you...."

Karma contemplated for awhile weighing all pros and cons before answering.

"You are Alistair's brother, not mine...if you played it smart with me I will bury you six feet under the earth where not even your bones cant be found."

Nixon smiled bitterly at the other end feeling the woman was never to be his in the first place, she was yin to the yan of his brother, how could he not see it then, nevertheless what happened, happened. Now that he knew she cannot be his, he would not hurt his heart anymore.

"But if you became my friend in the series of all this, I promise to protect you and even if the nation falls, not a single scratch would come to the people I care about."

This time the surprise and smile at the other end was genuine, like a bandaid applied on his bleeding wound.

"You asked me once if I would kill for you? then I would have never but if there a time comes when you and my brother need me to do it....yes I will kill for both of you."