KSG4ever FF: Asya - Written in the Skies#04 (Part 41 /Page 115)(26/4) - Page 79

Asad's knees felt like water as he walked into the kitchen, poured some vodka into a glass, and returned to the living room. She took the glass he thrust at her and glanced around at the room. "It"it seems odd to see you here again after all these years"" she began haltingly.

"Why? This is where I come from"and where you think I still belong. I'm nothing but a dirty steelworker, remember?"

To Asad's dumbfounded disbelief, her color heightened with embarrassment and she started apologizing. "I'm very sorry I said that. I wanted to hurt you and I said that because I knew it would. I didn't mean it, and there's nothing wrong with being a steelworker"they're hardworking, decent men who""

"What the hell are you trying to pull?" Asad exploded, then almost keeled over from the stabbing pain in his head. The room reeled, and he put his hand against the wall, trying to steady himself.

"What's wrong?" Zoya cried. "Are you ill?"

Asad had a sudden premonition that he was either going to collapse like a damned baby or throw up in front of her. "Get out of here, Zoya." His head swam and his stomach churned as he turned on his heel and started toward the stairs. "I'm going to bed."

"You are ill," she burst out, running toward him when he grabbed the banister and swayed on the second step. She reached for his arm to help him, and he jerked it away, but not before she felt the fiery heat of his skin. "My God, you're burning up!"

"Go away!"

"Shut up, and let me help," she commanded, and he didn't have the strength to stop her from picking up his arm and draping it over her shoulders.

When Zoya got him up to his bedroom, he staggered forward and collapsed on the bed, his eyes closed. Still as ... death. Terrified, she picked up his limp arm, felt for a pulse, and in her panic she couldn't find any. "Asad!" she cried, grabbing his shoulders and shaking him. "Asad, don't you dare die!" she warned hysterically. "I've come all this way to tell you things you have to know, to ask for your forgiveness and..."

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