บท 25: YOU LOVE ME, RIGHT?

If something goes wrong, we often turn inward and blame ourselves. But, is it really our fault?

-The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down (Haemin Sunim)-

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"I think they already know about this, since the children and she-wolves in the pack survived. They moved to the other pack now," Sol replied. "Or if they still don't know about it, I think they will find out soon, since it will take a while for them to mobilize such a great number of people."

They were walking in the garden, a beautiful garden with purple flowers flanking on their left and right sides. These were not any ordinary flowers that you could find anywhere. These flowers were developed by the organization.

It took them a while to bring it to perfection, but when the time came, all the effort would be worth it.

"So, why don't you kill them all?" Archie turned around and faced his son, he looked at him with an accusing look in his eyes. "If Chaos had already killed the men of the pack, you could have gone after their women and children."

Sol didn't look startled with the question, as if he had expected this. "They are only children and women. We don't fight them."

However, his father didn't seem to agree with that, he sighed deeply, not even bothering to hide the disappointment in his voice.

"You still don't get it, do you?" he asked in a low voice. "Those shifters are like pests, if we don't get rid of them starting from their little ones, they will keep breeding and there will be no end to this."

Sol shook his head, the problem always lay in their different perceptions, how they saw this matter and how they deemed it fit to approach it.

"We, The Resistance, don't kill them. The objective of our organization is to maintain balance between the human world and the shifter's. We deliver punishment for them if they dare enough to attack humans. As long as they do nothing, then we don't have any right to hurt them." Sol added quickly when he saw his father was about to say something. "Let alone wipe out an entire race. I think we have strayed too far from our objective now, father."

Archie spoke nothing once Sol was finished with his words. He stared at his son dismissively. They stayed like that for a moment before he finally broke the silence between them. "You can go. Call your sister."

Sol knew that his father would turn to his sister every time they had some disagreement, as if he was not worth his time.

And because there was nothing he could do with the way his father thought about him, he said nothing and just walked away from him.

After all, he had another urgent business to attend to. He needed to find out where Lise was…

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"You know I love you, right?" Gael spoke to her tenderly when he just ruined and broke her heart again. He kissed her forehead gently and caressed her bare back, holding her in his arms, as he whispered sweet nothings into her ears.

Lise was trembling in his arms, yet he didn't care much about it, he found it comforting in contrast. She feared him, thus she wouldn't do anything reckless and did exactly what she was told.

Sometimes, fear held more power than love did. Hell. Gael didn't need that kind of sweet word. He just needed this girl to be his forever, whether it was out of fear or love, either way it was fine with him.

"I need to go to college…" Lise swallowed hard and when she spoke, her voice was trembling. Even her whole body was shivering. She felt disgusted with herself for letting Gael touch her the way he did.

Lise didn't want to go to college, the only thing that she wanted was; to stay away from Gael. She didn't want to meet anyone. She didn't want to be touched by anyone.

"College?" Gael repeated her word, he didn't sound interested to let Lise away from him. "You don't like to be with me?"

Lise shook her head fervently, he would do something to her if he figured out what was inside her mind.

"No… I like to be with you, but…" She bit her lips to stop her shaking voice, she wanted to sound convincing, though it was hard to do when every cell of your body was telling you otherwise. "I want to graduate this year… therefore, I can't be absent for too long…"

"You can graduate without going," Gael replied, it sounded absurd, but he definitely could make shit done for her if that was what she wanted.

"No… I don't want to do it that way…" Lise risked exposing her lie by lifting her head and meeting him in the eyes. "Please… I want to go like any other student out there…"

Gael didn't give any response to that plea for about two full minutes, leaving Lise with jumbled thoughts.

She knew that despite Gael's improper way of treating her, he would love to assent to her wishes, as long as it was not something that would threaten his claim upon her.

However, Lise could be wrong. She had been wrong about him in many things, so she simply stopped assuming things about him.

Lise still couldn't figure out what Gael was, but it was enough for her to assume the worst. He was not a human. He was a monster, in the literal sense.

"Okay, if that's what you want." Gael smiled broodingly and leaned over to kiss her lips. "You can go."

Lise needed to trick herself that she wasn't there, that she wasn't kissed by the man she despised the most. She thought about the lake that she often went to with Sol when they were little, when life was not as complicated as now.

She let Gael do whatever he wanted, while she visited her memories of her childhood.

"You love me, right?"

"Yes."

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