The Prisoner of the Devils'

Apologise

"Thank you for the ride, sir." After saying the words of her thanks Starla moved down from the car, but her movements stopped as Xander held onto her arm.

Xander cleared his throat and then opened his voice. "Are you all right, Star?"

Starla turned her head and furrowed her brows a sign of not understanding. Then she smiled a little. "I'm fine, sir. Do I look okay?"

Xander simply fell silent and stared fixedly at Starla, then shook his head after a few seconds had passed. "No .. It's okay, Star. I have a lot of questions, but I don't think it's polite to ask."

"All right, I'm in first, sir. And thanks for the ride, tomorrow I'll bring you this suit after I wash." Without waiting for a response, Starla got out of the car and stepped into her small apartment building without turning her head.

Xander is used to events like this, Starla has never shown the slightest interest even though Xander has shown a lot of attention that leads to wanting to have. But, yes, that was Starla with all her mysteries.

Xander had a lot of questions about the woman. The dominating question is why he could be on the side of the road near a big club with such makeup and clothes. Not to judge, but seeing the woman's clothes was clear that she worked in the night world. Xander will not interfere in the affairs of his employees, he does not limit his employees if he has a side job, in addition he still works well with his company and does not bother him at all with the side job.

It was just that Starla had been so attentive since the first time she had seen him. The beautiful woman who was so gentle bewitched her the first time she saw the woman was running into the elevator and almost hit her, later she found out that she was in a hurry for fear of being late. Starla then accidentally bumped into him and made him fall, but even so he showed no pain and instead stood up and even kept on making his apology.

The woman did not stop apologizing, until Xander caught his guard and accepted the apology. After hearing Xander's voice, the woman passed before him. And he remembered very well, at that time Starla did not intend to look into his eyes at all and just looked down continuously.

From then on, Starla completely took over his attention. Secretly watching him from a distance, he was nothing more than a stalker. But all that was done for no reason, he was curious about the woman. And until then some events after events brought them closer, Xander of course was so happy to finally get to know the woman.

Although not yet to a further stage, but Xander already knows the ins and outs of his family. Starla turns out to be a kara and only lives together with her brother. But, even so he looks happy living mediocre. Starla is indeed an introverted woman, should she only be friends with one division named Ariana. Only that, maybe because of his closed personality.

And, now the woman is getting closed since the incident one month ago—the death of Arlan, her brother. The loss turned out to have a big impact on Starla, the woman increasingly seemed to lose the spirit of life. The woman always looked sad and seemed to have a heavy burden of life.

Xander stared at the departure of Starla who was getting away, and did not turn at all towards her.

Starla, can I be the protector who loves you and the nurse of your solace?

****

Skylar regretted letting go of the woman so easily. Now the woman is still wandering freely and even in a relationship with a man. What he saw earlier showed that they had a special relationship. Although he could not clearly see the man's appearance, because he could only see his back, but Skylar was sure that the one who became Starla's lover was the one who had the same power as him.

"Prepare everything, tomorrow the woman must be right-in my grip. Tonight let him rest and enjoy his quiet life."

Without further ado, Skylar contacted his right hand, Andreas.

"Okay, sir," replied Andreas across the street.

Without waiting for a response, Skylar immediately disconnected the phone. After that his gaze returned to the place where the small building was located, precisely the location of the apartment unit that Starla had occupied all this time. Skylar parked his car and monitored the small apartment building.

Without doing anything, Skylar simply observed from a distance the place. For a long time he monitored the movements of the woman, even planning something of destruction for the woman. Tonight he still let the woman sleep quietly and enjoy her life. But after this, Skylar vows to create a painful hell for the woman. Starla deserves it, as a shield for what Arlan did to her, her sister and her life. That woman deserves the pain Skylar has been feeling.

After Starla's unit is dark, it indicates that the master has enjoyed his sleep. Then Skylar passed from that place, leaving many promises that the next day he would come and pick her up to go to the hell that had been created for her.

Ah, Skylar was already impatient about it.

****

Starla felt so tired today, her encounter with Skylar and the whole barrage of events was bothering her so much. She was terrified, terrified to see the man appear before her. But among all the fear, anger prevailed when Skylar abused him in front of many people. Truly, no one had ever harassed in such a manner as that man had done. That made him even more angry.

After cleansing herself and removing traces of the man's touch on her body, Starla prepared to go to sleep. But his phone lying on the nightstand took over his attention.

Ariana is calling.

At first glance he did not want to raise the call, he was still a little annoyed at her more precisely. If he did not follow Ariana's request, he would not have been able to meet the jerk and get harassment that damaged his self-esteem. But another thought bothered him again, will you ever see that your friend's mother suffers from her illness?

Amidst her inner upheaval, Starla receives a call from Ariana.

"Oh, thank goodness! You finally picked it up. Are you okay, Star?"

Starla sighed softly. "It's a lie that I say I'm okay, because I'm not okay at all."

Ariana's voice came back across there. "Sorry .. I'm sorry, Star. I had no idea the big boss was going to visit his nightclub. Sorry for—"

"I'm the one who should be apologizing, Ariana," Starla cut. "I'm sorry for messing things up, I'm sorry that I don't have so much patience that when someone abuses me I retaliate harshly."

"No, Star. What you're doing is right, you have to fight anyone who's gonna hurt you or be rude. And once again sorry for bringing you into such a complicated situation when I knew you already had a huge burden on your life."

"I'm fine. It's a long time ago yeah, I'm so tired tonight."

"Rest, Star. And good night!"

"Good night."

And the phone line just disconnected. Starla lay low and stared at the ceiling. Sometimes he wants to give up everything that happens and sometimes he also wants to catch up with Arlan.

Life is too hard to go through on its own.