Kai pushed himself off the wall against which he had been leaning when he noticed the hooligan finally leaving the men she had defeated.
A lingering smile graced his face as he silently moved in the opposite direction. However, his steps were halted when he suddenly heard a faint yelp.
Kai's head snapped back towards where she had been just a moment ago, and to his surprise, the girl was no longer there. He glanced at the men on the floor; they were all still sprawled there, indicating they couldn't have done anything to her.
Where on earth did she disappear to?
Hastily, Kai sprinted towards the spot where he had last spotted her. He scanned the area, but she was nowhere to be found. "Hooligan... where did you go?" he muttered under his breath.
"Ugh!! Damn it!! Damn it!!" a voice echoed.
His attention snapped toward the direction of the voice. What he saw left his jaw hanging open.
The hooligan had actually fallen into a hole?! This was unbelievable. She had been so cool and badass just a moment ago – she might even be the coolest girl he had ever seen – yet she had fallen into a hole! Way to go, Hooligan! I'm at a loss for words to describe you… Kai shook his head in disbelief.
Kai squatted down and peered into the open hole in the alley. It seemed that some troublemaker had removed the manhole cover, setting a trap for an unsuspecting individual, perhaps an idiot or a drunkard, to fall victim to it.
"Stupid hole!!!" Her voice echoed once more. Kai could tell that she was trying to climb out. He anticipated her to cry out for help, but she didn't, which further intrigued him.
Shaking his head with a smile on his face, Kai switched on his phone's flashlight and extended his hand.
"Come, take my hand and let me help you," he said. The girl hesitated for a moment but eventually took his hand.
After effortlessly pulling her up from the hole, she immediately said, "Thank you,".
When she tried to stand and walk, she winced in pain. It appeared she may have sprained, and possibly broken, her left ankle when she fell.
"Your ankle…" Kai reached out and touch her shoes and the moment she looked at his face closely, her eyes almost bulged out.
"P-p-prince Kai? What are you doing here?" she stammered in surprise.
"Don't call me that. I'm not a prince." Kai replied after a pause.
"Don't lie. I know who you are," she insisted. "I saw you in Vis –"
"I think you should go to the hospital or you might never be able to wear heels again." He cut through her words and when she looked down at her feet, she bit her lip.
"Wait here," he said and then left.
When he returned, riding his big black bike, the girl was already on her feet, pushing herself to walk despite the pain evident on her face.
He pulled up beside her and handed her a helmet.
As she stood there, looking somewhat dazed at the sight of him, Kai opened her helmet and smiled reassuringly. "It's me. I'll take you to the hospital."
She snapped out of her daze when he placed the helmet over her head.
"Wait... I can't go to the hospital. I need to go back and get Abi out of the bar first!" she exclaimed, attempting to remove the helmet. However, Kai gently pressed his hand against her head, securing the helmet in place.
"Don't worry. Alex is with her."
"Huh? Alex… Alexander Qinn is with her?!"
Kai nodded. "He will take care of her so worry about yourself for now, Miss Hooligan."
"Who the hell did you just call a hooligan?! Ouch!!" she winced in pain once more.
Kai got off his bike and draped her arm over his shoulders, simultaneously slipping his arm around her waist, assisting her onto the bike.
"Wait… can I borrow your phone? I want to call her first." Kelly insisted and thankfully, the prince gave in.
She called Abi's phone multiple times but no one answered. She started to worry that something bad might have happened to her friend as she frantically dialed her number once again.
Gladly, the call was finally received after another three rings.
"Hello? Abi? Are you alright? Where are you right now? Are you by yourself? Why didn't you answer your phone for ages?" Kelly immediately rattled her questions like a mother hen, when to her surprise, it wasn't Abi who responded. Her first thought was that something bad did happen to Abi, otherwise why would a random guy answer her phone?! Her brain stopped working and just jumped to the worst possible conclusions because it was flooded with thoughts of guilt and worry and panic!
"She's with me." The voice was deep and pleasant, definitely masculine. But all he said was that Abi was with him! Who the hell was this guy? He better not have hurt her Abi!
"Hey, bastard, where's Abi? Why are you answering her phone? Let me talk to her, right now! You have better not have hurt her or I swear I will rip your arms right out of their sockets and feed them to the wolves!" Kelly ranted, worried to death.
"This is Alexander Qinn…" the man on the phone replied calmly, "and you can try but I think you will be quite unsuccessful," he rebutted against her comment about tearing his arms apart. "I'll bring her over to you. Where are you right now?" he continued.
Before Kelly could answer, Kai snatched the phone from her.
"Alex, I'm going to take Miss Hooligan to the hospital… Nope. She hurt herself… It's pretty bad, I think she broke her ankle… She said she's happy to leave her friend with you –"
"What are you… OUCH!!"
"She's nearly dying from the pain now, Alex. We're leaving now. Bye."
Kai then slipped his cellphone back into his pocket and without another word, he lifted Kelly up effortlessly and put her cute little bottom back on the bike. He then hopped on the bike, grabbed Kelly's arms and wrapped them around his waist before he finally accelerated away.
The man rode the bike so damn fast that even Kelly, the fierce hooligan, was scared to her bones. She just barely managed to hang on to his waist and she shuddered to think what other injuries she might have gotten had she not been able to hold on!
"Hey! What are you doing… Are you really going to bring me to the hospital?! You might as well bring me to a funeral home if you're going to keep this speed up, you damned prince!!" Kelly started yelling and thankfully, it seemed like her words somehow worked.
The damned prince slowed down, but this time his speed was so damned slow that she could almost see a bloody turtle overtaking them!
Oh god! This man is definitely not a prince charming!! Argh! Is he trying to annoy me?!
Time ticked by but he kept the same slow pace until Kelly was inwardly fuming.
"Hey, what do you think you're doing? A damned turtle is overtaking you, look!" She complained and then she pointed a finger towards an imaginary turtle that was overtaking them on the lane beside them. "I can probably hobble my way to the hospital faster that this!"
Shaking his head, the man finally spoke. "Miss Hooligan, if that is your wish, I can let you off here and you can 'hobble' your way to the hospital from here," his elegant voice taunted her. Kelly looked around and she realized they were on the highway and it was dark and there was nobody else around because it was already late at night.
"No." She was quick to take back her words. She tried to suppress her annoyance because well, she was in pain and she knew she needed this man's help right now. So she restrained herself, with a lot of effort. Who knew how this prince's brain worked? "How about you let me drive?" She tried a different tactic instead.
"With your injury? Oh sure, go right ahead," his voice was full of sarcasm.
"I can handle it," she insisted and the man just chuckled.
Sighing, he finally accelerated. And this time, his speed wasn't as fast as a damned rocket ship. Thank goodness!
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Abigail finally woke up and realized she was lying inside a car. Her head throbbed with pain, her mouth felt dry, and her vision was slightly blurry. She blinked a few more times to bring her situation into clearer focus, and memories of what had happened before she blacked out began to flood back to her.
She sensed her hands tremble slightly as memories flooded back, but upon seeing the silhouette of that familiar figure seated in the driver's seat, her mounting panic and racing heartbeat inexplicably eased.
He sat there, his head resting against the headrest, eyes closed. She could never grow accustomed to the sheer flawlessness of his face. He resembled a jellyfish, gracefully radiating its own breathtaking luminance within the depths of an ocean. But should you dare to touch it... you'd be poisoned. Abigail found herself possessed by an inexplicable urge to reach out to this beautiful, enigmatic jellyfish, despite knowing that such an action might ultimately lead to her own demise.
As Abigail stared at him, she slowly recovered from her lightheadedness. It was outrageous but she momentarily forgot that horrific experience just by staring at him.
"Miss Lee…" he spoke without opening his eyes. "I hope you finally learned your lesson. I'm telling you one more time; someone like you doesn't belong in my world. You belong in your own peaceful paradise."
An unsettling sensation seemed to lodge in her throat as the words he had spoken before she lost consciousness echoed within her mind: 'I told you... you can't handle it...'
Abi's chin quivered subtly.
Her deepest yearning was simple: to fall in love. She wanted to experience uttering those three words – 'I love you' – to the man she loves. She yearned to understand the emotions those words would evoke before she dies. Was that really too much to ask?
Should she really give up now? Should she really just burrow herself back into her rabbit hole like a scared little bunny and return to living that safe, quiet little life she had been accustomed to? Should she simply sit still and wait for the day she ultimately departs from this world?
Just the thought of it made Abi's heart break. She had been a good girl. She had never asked for anything else. She never cursed any gods, got angry, nor did she ask why, of all people in the world, she had to be the one who got sick. She accepted everything and only wished for one thing…
Deep within her heart, an unyielding determination to not give up on him persistently burned. As if something in her was urging her to hold on. It was almost unbelievable but she thought that perhaps, this was fueled by the fear of living the remaining days of her life filled with regrets. Maybe she couldn't simply accept an ending overshadowed by unfulfilled wishes.
"Go home and stay there, Abigail. You've seen the outside world and there is nothing good out there," he continued.
"You're right. The world is not always a nice place… it can be scary…" she trailed off. Her voice weak, almost a whisper. "But I don't agree with you that there's nothing good out there."
Alexander finally looked at her, opened his mouth to speak, only to hold back when he saw the look in her eyes.
"Alexander…" she uttered his name. "Why did you come and save me?"
What followed Abi's question was a deafening silence.
What happened tonight rocked her world. It was terrifying. She never wanted to experience anything like that ever again. She finally understood why this man believed since the beginning that she couldn't handle it. Her actions and reactions tonight proved it even if she started to deny it now.
However, this man came and saved her. No matter what she said, no matter what she thought and no matter what she saw, this man came and saved her. This single act from him was enough for her to persevere and try to catch the balloon again. She decided to try again, one last time. If she couldn't get him to agree tonight, then she would stop, once and for all. She would accept that this was probably her fate.
"I think that there is something good out there…" she lifted her hand and gently poked the man's cheek. "You."
Alexander's lips parted in disbelief. He caught her wrist and held it as he closed his eyes and breathed deeply.
"Abigail, you don't know what you're saying," he said and then he moved closer to her. His eyes blazed again with ice cold fire as his fingers traced her jaw. "Didn't you see how much more dangerous I am than that man? I have and can still do far, far worse things than that. I have done things you can't even imagine, Abigail… Believe that."
"But you saved me."
"I did that out of impulse."
She ignored his words. Even if he was just being impulsive, he still saved her. And really? Out of impulse? Didn't he just acknowledge the fact that he had some good in him?
"I believe that I'll be fine out there, as long as I'm with you."
Alexander leaned back, now pinching the skin between his brows.
"You don't get it! I'm the one who's much more dangerous for you, Abigail." He gazed at her again. His eyes were still cold and filled with urgent, dangerous, warnings. "If you become my girlfriend… I might ruin you… In fact, I know I would. You don't know what I am capable of doing to you."
She swallowed.
"Why don't we try it then? How about you give me a month? If I really can't handle it, I will run away from you on my own."
Alexander let out an enchanting but chilling laugh before he shook his head in disbelief.
"Tell me, why me?"
"Because you're the most handsome man I have ever seen?"
He smirked. "There are tons of fish in the sea, Abigail. You're only saying that because you've never jumped into the ocean! I just happened to unknowingly jump out of the water right in front of you."
"I have seen my share of fish but you're right, you were the first one to jump out of the water and the first one I truly noticed. You're also the only one that has ever sparked something in me. I-I… can't explain it. I just have this feeling that we… that I…"
… will never find another man like you again for the rest of my life.
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