Filed to story: Loving You In My Final Days
“Abigail… if you knew who I really am, you would run away from me, screaming in fear,” he told her, his voice now serious, as if he was sure of it.
“No, you’re wrong, Alex! I wouldn’t!” Abi didn’t even hesitate to tell him that. She didn’t know anything about him. She didn’t know what he did or what he was capable of doing. She believed him when he told her that he was dangerous but she didn’t feel that she was in danger when she was with him. Sure, she felt scared sometimes, but that was only because his aura was very overpowering and something that she was not used to. She knew deep in her heart that he would never hurt her so knowing that, whatever happened and no matter who he was, she would never run away from him, screaming in fear. In fact, she was certain that she would be screaming in pain instead when it’s finally time for her to walk away from him.
“Please, don’t go. I just don’t want you to leave me again. I am finally with you again after one long week, so please, don’t leave me alone here.” Abi’s grip on him tightened. She didn’t even notice that her forehead was pressing against his belt. “Can’t you just stay with me? I can help you calm down.”
“And how would you do that? Huh? Abigail?”
Abi actually had no idea at all. She really didn’t know how to coax an angry Alex to calm down. This was the first time she had witnessed him being this angry.
She heard him take a deep breath and when he touched her hand, Abi began to panic, thinking that the man was going to pull her hand away and leave.
Without thinking about it, she wrapped her arms suddenly around his neck and pulled his face down closer to hers and smacked her lips onto his. She kissed him with everything she had, putting in the new lessons she had learnt into effect as she poured all her emotion into it. ‘I missed you. I need you. Stay. Don’t go. Please,’ were the words she wanted to convey to him through her kiss so she kissed him passionately.
Alex froze. He was caught completely off guard, never expecting his little lamb to do something like this. His lips didn’t move because he was in a daze but after a second, he felt her breath enter his body and he felt its warmth run through his body, as if it was expelling all the cold, dark anger from his bones. He felt as if her kiss brought the sun back into his dark universe and all thoughts of revenge and torture slowly dispersed like dark clouds evaporating into nothingness.
After a few more moments, his lips finally moved and he kissed her back with more force than he had done before, reveling in the taste of her lips. He kissed her like a dying man drinking from the fountain of life. He was so lost in their kiss that he didn’t notice the tears rolling down Abi’s cheeks until they landed on his face. What? Why was she crying?
Abi also didn’t realise that tears had started falling down her face. She didn’t know why she was crying either. Maybe the traumatic experience she just recently escaped from had finally caught up to her. Maybe she just suddenly realised that she was lucky to have gotten out of that place alive and that she was very lucky to be there, at that moment, kissing this man who she thought she would never see again. Her tears kept flowing, non stop, like a never ending river and she couldn’t stop it.
When she couldn’t breathe from crying and kissing him at the same time, Abi pulled away from Alex and looked up at him with her tearstained face. Her face was just so expressive that he could read all the different emotions that ran through them. Alex cupped her cheeks with both hands and he wiped away all her tears.
“Shhh, don’t cry, Abigail,” he said softly and before she knew it, he had bent down and placed his lips on her closed eyes, kissing away her tears.
When he moved away, Abi looked up at him with all the seriousness she could muster and she said, “I didn’t know if I would ever see you again and I… Can I ask you to stay here with me, please? I just want you to hold me so that I know this isn’t a dream. Please, Alex?”
Before Alex knew it, he was already on the bed, lying next to her. Her arm was wrapped around his waist as she lay on her side, with her injured leg on top of him, pinning him down well and truly.
Alex stared up the ceiling as he thought about what just happened. This little lamb actually tamed him just like that. She even made him lie next to her like this, almost as if she had turned him into her obedient pillow! What was going on? When did he become this considerate towards this little fruit? When did a kiss start to affect him like this?
Alex thought hard about this. He looked back on his reactions since the moment he found out that she was missing and he surprised himself. For the first time, he experienced how it felt to become desperate, to not be in control, almost going insane from his rage. He experienced the kind of emotions he thought he never possessed. All of these feelings were completely new to him.
A quiet sigh left Alex’s lips as he lifted his arm and placed it on his forehead. He didn’t think that these emotions were awakened by his little lamb but that she had somehow placed them inside him without him knowing it. The worst thing was that these new emotions were dangerous to have, at least for someone like him.
“Alex…” Abi’s voice pulled him back from his thoughts and the man immediately turned to look at her.
His brows abruptly knotted in displeasure. “You’re still awake? I told you to -“
“But I just woke up not long ago!” she cut through his words, pursing her lips. “I will sleep once my body needs it. Besides… I’m afraid you’ll ditch me once I close my eyes.”
“I won’t leave you, Abigail.” He enunciated every word. His mood shifted again. His gentle voice and expressions disappeared and the usual moody Alex returned.
“Were you the one playing that flute?” she asked when he looked away from her and stared up at the ceiling again.
“No, it wasn’t me,” he answered. For some reason, there was an undercurrent in his voice that she couldn’t comprehend.
“I see… If not for that person, I think I never would have found my way out -“
“How did you manage to evade those traps?” he cut her off this time. He sounded like he didn’t like what she just said.
“I used stones. I threw them in the dark and listened to the sound they made to avoid the traps. And then… I heard that melodic sound. I followed it and that’s how I accidentally found the secret passage.”
“You heard the sound while you were still inside the dungeon?” Alex was surprised. The part of the dungeon where the traps were laid down was far away from that exit where Zeke played the flute. How could she hear it?
“Mm. My hearing is my superpower. I can hear things that most people can’t.” She smiled at him, like she was boasting about her gifted talent. “Hmm… if it wasn’t you, then who was it? Ah, could that person be my guardian angel?!”
Alexander suddenly emitted an ice cold aura before he glared at her.
He cupped her face and moved his face close to hers. “He’s not your guardian angel, little fruit,” he said, sternly and unhappily. “Instead of just playing that damned flute, he should’ve just entered from that exit and opened that damn secret door to save you! That punk, I really want to skin him alive.”
Alex gritted his teeth. He couldn’t understand why Zeke didn’t just go in to get her instead of just playing the flute but then again, Alex couldn’t deny the fact that Zeke still saved Abigail, not him, so he really couldn’t complain when he himself could do nothing.
But what he did confused Alex. Alex knew what Zeke wanted but he contradicted everything with his actions and did the complete opposite of what Alex expected him to do.
“Now sleep, little fruit.” Alex put his palm over her eyes to force her to close them. However, once again, he didn’t expect what the little lamb did next.
She stretched out her hand and touched his face. “Alex, thank you for being there when I came out.”
She smiled sincerely at him and Alex slowly removed his hand from her eyes.
“You knew I was there?” he asked, surprised.
“Mm. I heard you call out my name. I knew you were looking for me. I thought that you were waiting for me outside the entire time so I didn’t give up until the end.” Her face beamed even brighter but Alex’s face seemed to have stiffened.
