A Haunted Past

Axel gulped hard as Anna stared at him shocked.

Shocked was an understatement! She just could not put what she was feeling in words.

Anna stared at his beautifully sculptured face and gulped hard. He was nowhere she imagined him to be. She never thought that he would be this handsome. Yeah, he was. He was beautifully made.

"Your face is... red" She said, her voice coming out as a choke.

Axel stared at her again and was about to stand up when she immediately sat up and grabbed his arms.

"We need to put some ice on it so it won't swell!" She said.

"Do you really think of me as some kind of weak human?" He asked and she sighed.

"I just.."

"Forget what you heard earlier and besides it's not as if I'm confessing something to you, is it?" He said as if asking her a question.

"You!" Anna gritted her teeth and clenched her fists.