ElizabethThe forest looked beautiful because the sun was shining brightly. Leaves were rustling on each other; branches swaying with the morning wind; and the chirping of the birds filled my ears. It was as if no thunderstorm took place yesterday. While I was amazed by how green nature was in my eyes, the memory of me being beaten up made me want to be depressed and cry again. Not to mention that I was also imprisoned for days, starving and no one believing in me. It made my stomach churn and gulp."Be careful."I gasped a little bit when I noticed that I was about to bump into a tree if Diego did not just pull me against his chest. My chin bumped on his body and my eyes got immediately dozed by his red eyes. He was pursing his lips and deadpan looking at me. His hold of me felt so right and made my butterflies scatter inside my stomach. "Are you fine? It looks like you are in a deep introspection that you almost got a wound on your forehead if you had just bumped into that tree," h
Elizabeth I devoured all of the soup with just one sip in front of me. Diego was only watching with amusement in his eyes, but I was too busy for me to look at him back. I finished three vegetable soups in a row with his amused reaction and motionless body. “Do you want some?” I offered him and pointed to my bowl with the wooden spoon.He tilted his head, showing the sharpness of his square jaw. He then shook his head with a frowning expression.“Don’t even exert an effort to offer me with your soup. It even looks like you don’t want to share,” he said with a sarcastic raising of an eyebrow.I snorted and pushed the bowl in front of him. “Please, you have to eat. You need to be full, alright?” I said with a smile on my face.His eyes drifted on my soup then abruptly to me. Without averting his gaze, he slowly accepted my bowl, so I indulged it towards him. I watched him move another wooden spoon that was unused. He raised his eyebrow, scoured a hot liquid from the spoon, and graduall
"Yeah," I said slowly in agreement and lowered my head. “You are right. I have no choice but to come back home when there is no one to believe in me in the first place.”“Right,” he said. “And there is nothing you can do about it.”He put his hand on my knuckles. He caressed my hand carefully, and I watched it discerningly. I am amused by the fact that he did not even try to avoid his gaze. He just kept watching me, and before I was uncomfortable. Now, I am clinging into it because it makes me feel safe.“But I am here, Elizabeth,” he whispered huskily, the reason why I lifted my gaze so I could see the glimmering sparkles of his red eyes that were hit by the sunrays through the window. “I am here beside you, because I believe in you.”My heart constricted because of the ponderous weight of his words. I slowly smiled at him to show that I appreciate what he is doing to me.“Okay,” I said again and nodded. “I don’t know if this is gonna work out, but I’ll try to understand what the futu
“All my life, I have never dreamed of being connected with any kind of royalty, especially in this type of situation where I become your wife!” I said, even if I was being redundant. “I don’t want to die early, Diego!”“I know,” he agreed and nodded.“So how could I take all this?”“Will you take this all if I was just a mere, ordinary werewolf?” he fired back sarcastically, making me be silent. “I thought you said a while ago that you are gonna take a risk with me? What is this reaction of yours as if I am a disgusted husband you will ever have?”“No, that is not what I meant-““So you’re saying that you’d be miserable if you were with me?”I dropped my jaw, but he was deadly serious. It did not make me speak for a while.“Imagine that you still have everything to know about me, and yet, with just the obvious factual information I told you right now, you are rumbling about it now. What about the other things that you still don’t know about?” he suggested."Diego, you are taking the wr
ElizabethDiego was the one who first knocked on the door of the house we encountered in the middle of the forest. I ventured my eyes in the surroundings and there were no pots for plants or even flowers. It is just a house… like it is not an expectant factor that a female being is living here. If I would live in this house, I would emblazon the place with many decorations, a garden in the backyard, and a puppy circling around the corner would make a perfect home.Hmmmm…I smiled at my imagination, visualizing a home that I can decorate with.“What are you thinking?” Diego suddenly asked in the middle of my amusing thoughts. I shook my head while smiling innocently. “Nothing,” I answered briefly.He would have asked another question, but it was too late when the wooden door opened up and showed a beautiful, young lady with a black lipstick. She was thin, but thinner than me. Her dress was black, her shoes were also black, but her skin is white like paper. Her black eyes glimmered with
Elizabeth“So what do I do to express that I am pleased to meet her?” I asked.“Just be nice to her.”“Okay,” I said and nodded, now regarding Aurora who was pretending that she was not listening. “Uhhh, hey, Aurora. I love your black lipstick.”Diego chuckled on the other side as if what I said was ridiculous. Aurora on the other hand chuckled nervously and flew her hand to her lips, as if pretending that she was not offended.“U-Uhhh, my lips are not festooned with lipstick. Black is my natural color,” she said and smiled fakely.Oh, shit! I slapped my forehead and gnashed my teeth as a sign of embarrassment. “Oh, my goodness. I am so sorry for offending you. I didn't mean it,” I said, now panicking out of frustration."“Oh, don’t be. I get that comment all the time, so it’s fine,” she assured me even though I was still sorry.Diego’s laugh was still ongoing so I glared at him. To express that I was annoyed that I am not happy at her ridicule, I moved away his hand with irritation.
Elizabeth I was enthusiastic as I looked at myself in the mirror. My emerald eyes were protruding, but the bruises from my body were still conspicuous. It is easy for them to be healed, of course. I just did not heal them, because maybe I liked the scenario where Diego was taking care of me the whole night.While thinking about how Diego revealed his identity without being angry at me, the touch of his lips against mine, and how he consoled me when I was lonely and cold, it softened my heart easily. Not to mention our heart to heart conversation in the eatery shop.That he would take risks with me as long as I do the same with him. That I should trust in him because my future is included with him.Then does that count in loving him in the future? I mean, I know that the more I would know him, it would not be impossible for me to love him eventually.So maybe... if we try to work it out, right? When I looked at my face in the mirror again, I was surprised by how I was smiling sweetly
Elizabeth“But why? Is there something wrong?” I asked curiously. “Or did I do something wrong? Can you just confront me about it and not try to avoid the topic?"He groaned again as if irritated. “Stop bugging my mind, Elizabeth," he said and his tone was not pleasant even for a little bit. The attitude he was giving me was the same just like what he showed last morning. Ugh! I hate him like this! I think I would be tired of understanding him if he keeps being like this! “You can just tell me that I made mistakes back in Aurora’s house!” I exclaimed, getting irritated like him now. “Diego! Do not act like you are not hearing me, please? Confront me!"He did not answer but his shoulders tensed up. I could not help it anymore but to chase his walk, face him, and confront him face to face. Now I got to see his annoying expression. His jaw was also ticking and his face was trembling because of rage.“I don’t like you giving me an attitude when I don’t even know what I did to make you an