Embrace

After finishing their dinner, they dropped Stella in her apartment. She even kissed Dario's cheek that surprised the both of them. Luna almost wanted to vomit when her best friend winked at Dario before going inside the gate like she was inviting Dario and can come anytime.

"That was a nice move." Dario commented along the way with a grin on his lips like he was already imagining what would happen if he crossed paths with her best friend.

She sighed. She is not even sure if Dario won't really touch her best friend. Now, she was imagining how she could go on living between Stella and Dario? Trouble.

She let out another sigh making Dario speak.

"What's wrong, mi reina?"

She looked up to see the falling snow on the transparent roof of the car. Now she was thinking about the Pyrenees.

"What could he be doing now, Dario?" She asked not wanting an answer. She just wants someone to listen to her.

"Would you believe me if I say I am sad that I left the castle? Women who go there would do anything to escape but I don't feel like escaping there. I am full of questions, Dario, and I can't stop thinking."

Dario didn't speak because she didn't need it. He can't comprehend what she is pertaining to but he is certain that it is because of his King.

"Wouldn't he be lonely in his room?" She mumbled looking outside the window.

"Would he have someone to talk with? Will he be all alone again?

Does he eat frequently?"

Dario wanted to speak but he couldn't. He wanted to tell her that his King wouldn't send him if he didn't want to protect her. His King wouldn't let her go if there is nothing behind it.

It is actually absurd about hearing his King saying that his milady is leaving the castle. The King has finally grasped the peak of breaking the curse! He is almost there and all demons can be free.

The King will be free but he let go of that freedom which is... his milady. He let go of someone he had been waiting for since the day he was born. He let go of the dream he had been chasing which is his milady.

His milady is the woman who will free all the demons in the human world.

JAW dropped, Luna's eyes were wide as she searched her eyes all over her room. It is not a wide room but it has become elegant and luxurious. All the materials... were all like her room in the castle.

The Givenchy Royal Hanover German Silver Eight-Light Chandelier matched with 4 crystal bulbs in her ceiling.

The LED strip lights surrounding her whole room. The Biel Molten Lava Light hanged above her bed with vividus mattress and thick white manta. The parinian desk with GE Align AM LED Bulb, beside the bed. A meter away from her window, there is the plume blanche diamond encrusted sofa paired with a glass table. The curtains were tailored and champagne. The painting above her bed ....

She stopped breathing for a moment.

It was a painting of her... smelling flowers in the castle's garden from the view of the King's window.

She dropped on her knees with all the memories flashing back in her mind. Her room was designed just like the combination of her room and his room. She missed the castle. She wanted to be there!

Tears dropped on the floor as she silently sobbed while hugging her knees.

Why? Why does she have to feel sad about leaving him?

Why does she have to miss the place where she once lived?

But she cannot deny it. The castle...

The castle is the only place that made her feel at home. It is the only place where she can do what she wants without being forced. It is the place where she felt responsible to someone... It is the place where... she dreamt of being there forever.

After a moment of crying, she found herself laying into the bed hugging a pillow and silently wished that she was in her dream and upon waking up, she was in the castle. The silence of thinking about him, she stayed in her room with only the biel molten lava lights were on.

It is midnight. She was supposed to sneak out from her room to go to his room. She will read him a tragic story and she will laugh at him because he is annoyed. She would tease her and ask him anything on her mind until he is pissed and he will give a précised cold answer. They would converse and exchange ideas with the book she reads. Their minds would unite until she fell asleep in his malleable bed with his scent she could smell all night. She wants him... She wants to stay with him.

But as she grieved upon her dismissal in the castle, she felt a hand traveling into her abdomen as it wrapped into her waist and felt the warmth into the embrace. She stiffened as she felt his breath into her nape. Heart is shaking. She clearly knows whose smell is this. There is no way... There's no way he is here... she cupped his hand that was on her abdomen, it's hairy making her more nervous.

She wasn't dreaming. It's him. It's him who's embracing her from the back!

"m-marido..."

She felt the tightening of his embrace as he felt his tongue licking her nape making her shiver all over her spine. He bit her earlobe, making her whimper and hum. He then devoured her neck making her moan as his lips touched her skin.

"Let me embrace you for a while, querida."

She felt the rocking of her chest and the overflowing grace she felt as she heard his voice, sonorous. She gasped for air.

He kissed her nape and he stopped moving, still embracing her, tight. Silence engulfs the room with her, taking advantage of his smell that she had been craving for.

This time, she felt... safe and sound. With him beside her, she won't be worried. With him beside her, she can be at peace.

But there is always an end to everything. She woke up with the ray of sunlight in her room. Shocked and panicking, she got up to look for him all around the room but there was no sign of anyone. She was alone. No one is hugging her as she sleeps, nothing more.

She touched the bed feeling all the uneasiness in her heart because she couldn't believe that was a dream. And she doesn't want to believe that it really is a dream! So she sniffed the manta making her face burn, her stomach twirling, and then she giggled as she rolled over the bed stopping to scream aloud because they might hear it outside.

It was real! It is not a dream. He was in her room last night! And he embraced her and locked her in his arms!

Did he miss her?

She rolled over again. Heart was racing as she looked at the biel molten lava lights. She touched her nape when he kissed her last night. Cheeks flushing, she hugged the pillow beside her.

I'm so happy, marido. Even if we are divorced, you will always be my marido.