I expected anger or sarcasm from Ash after my repeated rejections.
He is a person of true temperament who often couldn't hide his true feelin.
However,There is neither anger nor sarcasm.
He just looked at me quietly, tears forming in his eyes.
"I'll keep you safe," He managed to utter a sentence before leaving.
After Ash left,I turned around and I looked at Darius in silence.
"You're close with him," he noted. His face remained cold but a storm was brewing in his eyes. "Yes. It is me that raised him when he was missing,"
This was the first time I revealed my relationship with Ash publicly.
His troubled time in the slums was a top secret well hidden by the Phoenix. Nobody knows how he was survived and whom he was with.
Suddenly, The world is spinning.
Unlike earlier, when he seemed intent on choking me forcefully, he didn't squeeze my neck hard this time. Even the posture seemed somewhat ambiguous.
I looked at him and didn't say a word. After a moment, he sighed as if he compromised and let my neck go.
His thumb slowly rubbed over the bruise on my neck that he had previously caused. He spoke to me with a slightly indulgent tone, "Let's not fight anymore."
"Can you tell me where Serena is now?" He asked.
At that moment, I caught a glimpse of affection in his eyes.
Not long ago, when he propose to me with an engagement ring, I saw the same affection in his eyes.
He had said, "No matter what is happened in the past. As long as you are well and make no mistakes, we will be happy for the rest of our life."
By then, I already understood that he pursued me just to make Serena happy, not because he liked me.
That was when I was almost giving up on him.Despite feeling humiliated, I accepted the ring to accomplish the mission.
When I put on the ring that he had originally prepared for someone else, he smiled with a sense of relief. Amidst the cheers of the crowd, he kissed me passionately.
Although, in the next moment, he left, citing a car accident involving Serena as the reason.
Now, I looked at his face again and slowly let a smile appear on my face
His eyes lit up for a moment.He spoke to me with a tone full of hope. "Luna, be behave. I can overlook this. Don't hurt Serena and we can live a happy together."
"Never!" I interrupted him.
"I will never tell you where Serena was or live with you" I said. "If you dare, kill me."
"Don't think I won't," he replied coldly.
"Go ahead. If you can't, you're nothing," I challenged him. Everything went dark not long after I said this...
