XIV: Reasons

"So what happened?"

"Did you actually kissed?"

"Hey we even left the room for you."

"Nothing happened." he shortly said then his thin legs stride across the office to his table. Seeing her actually gave him motivation to work and fight with his enemies.

Rio left and told them to inform him about the couple's affair, but the two is disappointed in the corner, they have no story to tell to the nosy doctor.

"So it's like this..." Rei muttered. The two who's still lamenting perked up when they heard him. They peered at the guy who is heartlessly flipping up in documents as if his wife never visited him.

"He said that she doesn't care about him right?" Rome whispered to Libean as they sat on the sofa beside each other.

"Ah? I only remember it now... Yeah, he said it. But why did she have to visit him the moment we informed her?"

"Is it that she's actually starting to care?"

"I don't know. Rei even said she hates him. What bullshit... She's really worried I could tell."

The two gossiped in the side while the cellphone on the table rang.

"Hmm."

The two already knew who he's talking with the moment he said that. Of course, when you talk to a lazy person, you also wanted to talk to him that way. The only person who is lazy of talking...

Is the Intimidator.

Nichole Vega...

"Yes. I found out. Have you?"

"Hmm... Good. Then just do that."

'Just hearing the conversation of these two make my nose bleed.' Rome and Libean thought at the same time.

Soon the cellphone being put back to the table gave a faint thud, signaling that they finished talking, Libean awkwardly went back to the room where the corpse is. Rome remained there to talk business.

"You like to work around me but you don't want to inherit your family's business?"

"I'm doing this because I'm your friend... Tss." Rome lied to  the sofa as he lazily rest his feet on the armrest.

"Why don't you want your family's business?"

"It's because I'm a free soul! I've been telling you countless times!" Rome said, then realizing after a while he clamped his mouth shout.

"Have you been forgetting this things lately....?" he slowly said, terror seeping from his veins.

Rei met his gaze but did not say anything.

"It's just a coincidence that you forgot right? Tell me..." he said forcing a smile on his face like usual.

He still didn't speak.  "Today I had the strange dream again." he spoke after a while. He lost the energy to see through the files, as if the reminiscence of the dream suck all his vitality.

"Answer me! Have you began being forgetful of things?" Rome shouted. His chest is heaving and pain is reflecting in his eyes. He clenched his hands in his lap, clenching it so hard that the nails are beginning to pierce into the fragile palm. The pain from his hands is nothing compared to the pain making his chest tight.

Rei is not fazed by his shout. He walked to the chair in front of Rome, while Rome's eyes follow him.

"In my dream, I died for a girl. I don't know why but that dream always hunts me at night. I even started to think it's a nightmare."

"Rei... Why aren't you answering?" he shouted again, this time tears started flowing. For the reason why he's crying is so deep that it could cut through the bones, but the person affected can not even cry. Rome actually shed a tear for him, hoping he could lessen the pain through his useless tears.

"Every night I have that dream. Then when I wake up, my head will hurt as if it will explode. The pain is unbearable that I want to bang my head to the wall. That's why I always stay in my study room. So she won't notice." he slowly spoke every words, showing how careful he is when telling others about himself.

"But she said she want me to open up for her. So I sleep beside her. Every night I will wake up and I have to silently bear the pain."

Rome cried harder. "Stupid... You're such an asshole Rei. You're actually killing yourself!" he angrily shouted. He angrily pounced at him, hastily wiping out his tears. He violently shook him hoping to see some emotions from his blank eyes. He hope he would taunt him or push him away, perhaps scold him or punched back. But he remained frozen beneath him.

"That dream actually made me feel something different. It asked me questions.

Like... If I die...

Will she shed a tear for me?"

His blank eyes looked at Rome curiously. As if his death don't bother him, yet he's bothered if his wife will cry for him and he is not there to stop her tears.

"I'm also glad that you are crying for me... It makes me feel reassured. At least I won't be alone if I die..."

"Dying alone must be painful."

"Shut up fucker... You won't die." Rome ached for him terribly.

This is what he really is.

Besides the cruel and heartless CEO of his empire... Is just a person who is trapped....having no desires to live.

"Let me kill you now please? I can't bear seeing you dying this slow. At least, if I kill you now your miseries will end here." Rome weakly said while tugging his hair.

'Alina... I'm begging you.

Please give him reasons to live.

Don't let him be alone.

Just a little bit more... Perhaps he still wanted to fight.'