Chapter 107

They were four and all were bigger and stronger than me. I had to stall until my bodyguards got there. My parents never let me leave the house without them at that time. Though they remained in the shadows, they were always there. Just that that time, I didn't know why their response was late.

Aera was shaking in fear. She held onto the back of my jacket and kept whispering, "Felix, let's run. Let's get out of here. You can't fight them and win"

"I won't let them take you" I said to her. "Trust me"

She didn't but I earned that trust myself because I didn't budge an inch even when they hit me. Aera clung to me the whole time, whispering my name on and on. Begging them to stop hitting me.

I felt like a super hero but then I got beaten to an inch of my life. I remember Aera crying above me. Her warm tears falling on my blood stained face. Even then she looked very pretty. Her blue eyes really looked like the ocean when she cried. I was in pain but it felt like my heart was dipped in ho