Harvey Cunningham opens his mouth wide while blinking his eyes slowly. His face turns pale as he turns his head to his left, avoiding my gaze. He lets out an awkward cough.
Why the heck is he reacting like this?
"It's late." Harvey glances at his silver pocket watch. "Let's continue the story tomorrow."I am relieved. My back hurts a little from sitting for hours. Honestly, the effect of coma isn't gone yet. I should probably visit my physician tomorrow. "See you tomorrow then."
I can see that the light in his eyes is fading. That's what happens when extroverts are stuck indoors."The same as usual." I take a seat on the chair. "Is there anything new?"The TV screen turns black. Kyle grumbles to me, "My girlfriend broke up with me.""Your girlfriend broke up around eight months ago." I frown at him. "She broke up with you before I woke up.""It feels like yesterday." Kyle rests his head on the couch arm. His jade green eyes well up.Unlike me, he has jade green eyes. The colours of my eyes depend upon the light. They are either green or blue, according to the light. I also have golden freckles in my eyes. My father, who is a biology professor, told me that it's a beautiful union of central and sectoral heterochromia."You are admiring yourself in your brain again," Kyle states in an accusatory tone. "What a narcissistic person! You w
Damn! He could have told me earlier. I go to my room. Feeling lethargic, I put the phone on the table. Talking to my ex who gave me syphilis is not something I wanted to do. I open the window. The sky is bleeding red. There is a thick layer of snow covering the road.Why do I have this familiar ominous feeling that something bad is about to happen?My phone starts ringing.After a moment of contemplation, I pick it up. The person remains quiet for a moment. Sound of breathing is clear. I tilt my head and whisper, "Raymond?""Vina, you are awake.""Why the fuck are you calling me?" And it has been six months since I woke up."I don't know," He answers my unasked question. "I am waiting outside your home. Come to the window."What? I dash to the window. On the other side of the road, I see a tall man with honey blonde hair, blue eyes, and c
I grab my damn phone and look at the time. I still have ten minutes left before the alarm."Ugh!" I hate waking up to the sound of the alarm, but I hate waking up before the alarm rings more. I won't be able to sleep now. I stretch my body for ten minutes. All the gyms are closed. "What did I dream today?"I can't recall. I always feel like I have dreamt of something important since I woke up. I dislike the feeling that I am forgetting something important.The doctor told me that it wouldn't be strange if I had holes in my memories since I had been in a vegetative state for two years. I had tried various therapy, but it was useless. I couldn't recall it at all. The feeling of not remembering something is pricking my heart. But what can I do?It's best to not try too hard. Since I can't recall it anymore, maybe it's not that important.There's a high chance that I will remember at some random m
Somehow, I managed to survive the journey back to the Sephyr Empire. The damned emperor kept his mouth shut during the journey. If he had said a single word, I might have lost it.Honestly, I couldn't come back to a better response to his earlier remark about my boobs.After two days, we reached the capital. The roads were smooth and grey. I wondered what kind of technology they used. There was a huge difference between the Sephyr Empire and the North Kingdom. Despite being smaller in size, North Kingdom had a high number of mana stones and mages. That's one of the reasons why Kaige Jin couldn't be easily defeated.As we moved closer to the palace, people gathered on the sides of the road. They kept peeking at the carriage while fidgeting their fingers, both curious and afraid."Don't look out of the window." The emperor finally opened his eyes and looked at me quietly. He added with a soft voice, "I
Dante stared at me. "You are thinking that I love you.""Erm…" I blinked at him. How did he guess? Were my thoughts showing on my face? I wiped my sweat with my arm. "I am not thinking anything like that.""You are raping me with your eyes," He spoke as if he was telling me a fact. "You have done enough. Go back to your room.""My room?" I had a room? I looked at him with expectation. I also wanted to take a bath. My clothes were dirty too."The other door in the sitting room," He exhaled. "Take a rest. I will see you later."Though I was highly reluctant, I went to that room. It was smaller than his bedroom, but there was no layer of dust anywhere. The wooden bed was small and unstylish; however, the bedsheet was clean. His servants must have maintained the place after he was gone. I opened a small wardrobe. To my surprise, there were female clothes.
Guest of honour…I felt my soul trying to escape my body. Why was death waiting for me at every step in this novel? I had a stupid cheat. If I was the author, I would have given myself an awesome cheat like hypnotizing people.I would have hypnotized Aloisia to not seek revenge and find her happiness on her own. I would have hypnotized this emperor to fall in love with some woman and rule peacefully. Then, I would have looked for the deity.But the damn author or that deity had to make my life difficult."Why am I the guest of honour?" I choked the words out. There was no way that I would go to the North Kingdom. Kaige Jin would recognize me. What would be my fate? This emperor would kill me if he found out the truth. If I died for the third time, it's permanent death."I don't know." He studied me with a measuring gaze. I couldn't tell what was going inside his head. It w
[Flashback]"I am dying." The woman with yellow hair inserted her hand between the gaps of buttons on his shirt and touched his skin. "Let me see your abs once.""..." Dante Scheledrus Wyrm, who was more than two thousand years old, had never met a woman with such last wish. There was no way to save her. But she was the first woman who was able to break the first part of the curse."Please." Blood trailed from the corner of her lips while her eyes shone with perverse desire. "This is my last death. After this, I am gone forever. The least that you can do is let me touch your eight packs.""Behave." An odd woman and her odd wish. Dante Scheledrus Wyrm didn't know what to do. He wasn't supposed to feel anything. But the first feeling that he felt because of this woman was sheer anger. The second feeling was certainly frustration when she kept using her intense vocabulary on him. The third was… H
[Interlude]I stop and glance at Harvey. Sitting in his office again, I have a tornado going inside my heart. Sensing that I have paused my narration, he raises his head and meets my eyes. I look away, recalling the moment when Dante had left the room that day.Why do I still feel bad?I am not Dante’s wife. I am not his lover. I am not his woman. I belong to myself. I am self sufficient. I do not deserve men like Dante, Alphonse, or Kaige.But there is still an ache in my chest that won’t go away.So I don’t understand why I still want to cling on to Dante. Is it similar to the time I had clung on Raymond?
[Dante]However, the tumultuous ache didn’t leave him.Noises seemed to have blurred in the background like a lost ray of light that was trailing down from the sky. Kaige was furiously yelling at Alphonse who was looking at his feet and sighing. Savina shrugged, avoiding his eyes.Dante saw guilt in her eyes. Although she had owed him nothing, she was still feeling guilty. He could read human’s emotions easily, especially when he wanted to focus. Right then, she was in his focus. The ache was annoying in his chest, an evidence that he was indeed in love with the crazy woman.It was better if he said nothing. Dante left the room. He didn’t want Savina to see any strange emotions in his eyes. A
[Dante]“I didn’t expect this from you, Alphonse,” Kaige spoked before Dante could say a word.Dante rolled his eyes, but he remained quiet. Something was stirring in his heart. Something that felt better after Savina got off Alphonse’s lap. That ‘something’ was both familiar and unfamiliar. He had experienced it once, but it had never stayed with him for long. Was it love? He didn’t bother to cling to the feeling, and he hoped that the strange feeling would leave him. But it was impossible.His curse was slowly lifting. His heart was thawing, and he was feeling. When did he start feeling for this strange woman? To be honest, he could still pretend until the end that he didn’t feel anything for Savina. At the same time, the for
[Savina]When Dante came into the room, I had an urge to push Alphonse away and beg for mercy.The position was bad.I was sitting on Alphonse’s lap with my arms coiled around his neck. My skirt was lifted, thighs showing, and Alphonse’s one hand was right on it.His lips were close to mine, almost touching. Actually, he was quite stubborn, and it took me a while to seduce him. He was just about to kiss me when Kaige and Dante entered the room.They didn’t even knock. There was no gentlemanly bone inside them. And just why Kaige was looking at me as if he wanted to kill me? I could understand if Dante was offended since I was still his ‘wife’. Kaige
[DANTE]She was there. Alive. Too alive to his liking.Dante wished that he would have preferred it if she was dead or sitting in the same room with the undeads in the next room. If it was possible, he would love to gouge his eyes out by himself. Maybe the book should reset itself, or maybe he should forget everything.But he knew that forgetting was impossible unless Savina could fail again. Since it wasn’t possible, he let out a heavy sigh.Savina didn’t move. She looked at him with annoyance. Her sharp brows shoot up as if she was challenging him while sitting on Alphonse’s lap. Oh, only if she knew who Alphonse was or what kind of crimes he had committed.Nevertheless, he hated remembering how she had loved him while she couldn’t remember
[Dante]Dante rushed into the mansion, trying his best to steel his heart. He couldn’t smell blood except for the dead rotten blood of the undeads. Savina’s blood was too familiar to him. She had died three times
[Dante]As he had expected, Aloisia’s lair was right where it was previously. He knew that she would move to the lands of undeads soon. If his guess was right, there were undeads in the co
[Savina]Alphonse pushed me down on the bed. His body pressed against mine. His hands were on my waist, squeezing them hard as he delved his tongue into my mouth and sucked on my tongue. From a hesitating adult, he had turned
[Savina]I leaned closer and cupped his face, pressing my lips against his. Before I could continue, Alphonse broke away the kiss as he laid his hands on my waist and held me still. I couldn't move. He stared into my eyes and