Chapter 59

On the other side of the city, Josephine was sitting on the seaside, staring at a couple and feeling the cold wind getting through her hollowed heart.

"You will catch a cold this way", a familiar voice said, putting a jacket on her shoulders gently.

Josephine turned around fast to see who was there, yet when she saw him, with his white hair that was shining, she couldn't breath and she fainted.

Kai was expecting a completely different reaction, yet he called the ambulance and sat beside the unconscious Josephine, laying her head on his lap, and staring at her face that hadn't changed at all.

When Josephine opened her eyes again, she was laying on a hospital bed. She got out of that bed, and walked towards the door with a blank mind, however, before she could open the door, it got opened

"You got up fast. As expected from the poisonous butterfly of the Leo family", Kai said calmly

She was still unable to believe her eyes, yet her heart believed. The heart that refused to beat for anyone other than that man, the heart that kept doing its job as a pump all these years finally beat faster, just like a toy that turned into a human suddenly.

Her tears started falling down like raindrops, but instead of wiping them away, she walked toward him and hugged him tightly

"YOU ARE ALIVE. you are. alive. Where have you been all these years?", Josephine said, surrounding his neck with her arms as if she would fall if she let go.

"Mm, I.. I was", Kai was saying, yet a kiss blocked his mouth and stopped him from saying another word.

Both of them weren't able to breathe. Their lips were softly moving against each other, and they felt like they don't need oxygen any more, they only needed that warm feeling that was spreading in their bodies starting from their lips, a feeling that was better than flying freely in a blue sky.

"I missed you a lot. Everyday and every night", Josephine said with a low voice as he was so close to her

"I.. missed you too, my Phine", Kai said calmly, hiding all the pain he felt and all his exploding feeling behind a calm voice

After the doctor checked on Josephine one more time, Kai held her hand, and walked her all the way to his car that was in the parking lot.

"Where are we going?" Josephine asked, yet he smiled warmly without saying a word

After hours of driving, Kai and Josephine reached his house. It was a huge villa overlooking the sea, with large doors and windows, and fancy roads. Filled with white flowers around water canals.

Josephine looked around her, fascinated by the luxurious villa as it was her first time seeing it, yet Kai stayed at the pool side, waiting for her to look back at him.

When she turned around, she saw him standing calmly, holding a ring in his hand, and wearing a smile she missed a lot.

"I spent years far from you, and I will not lose any other moment. Josephine Leo, will you marry me?" he said, and his words were more than enough to make every part of her body shiver. She felt like she was dreaming, with her one and only lover standing in front of her after seven years, holding a ring with his hand, and smiling warmly as if her sun rose in the night. Her body moved alone, and she hugged him again, making them both fall into the pool.

"Yes, yes I will marry you, idiot", Josephine said, yet she felt heavy as Kai was laying his head on her shoulder, saying nothing and doing nothing at all. However, a red color spreading on the water around them made her chest tighten.

"Kai.. Kai are you ok?" Josephine shouted once she realized that the red color was coming out of Kai's body, yet she couldn't see his face as he was still burying it in her shoulder

"I.. ugh. need to get out", Kai said, with a muffled voice, then he used all the energy he had left to get out of the swimming pool, leaving him to lay on the ground unable to move a finger

"What happened? what is going on?" Josephine said while her tears started falling again

"Shhh, don't cry. I will be fine", Kai said, yet she knew he wouldn't be fine by looking at his blood that made a pond.

She wiped her tears, then she stood up saying "I will call the ambulance", but he stopped her saying "go into the house, the second floor. You will find a phone on the right corner after you go up the stairs. Pick it up, and say (Kai again)", Kai said with a shaky voice, and so she did.

After Josephine did exactly what Kai told her, she went to his side again, yet she found him unconscious. She started shaking and her vision got blurry, yet she got a hold on herself fast, and checked if he was still breathing.

"You will be fine, Kai, sniff, you will be fine", she said, then she sat beside him calmly, with tears gathering in her eyes.

After a while, a man with light brown hair came. He walked calmly across the villa, murmuring some words that got Josephine back to real life after she was unheeding to anything other than Kai.

"Ahhhhhh that damn wound again", the man grumbled, then he carried Kai and took him to the room with Josephine help.

"Stay here, you won't like to see what will happen inside that room", the man said with a smile on his face, then he entered the room, holding a huge bag with one hand and cracking his neck with the other.

Josephine sat on the stairs, unable to think properly and unable to stop thinking, and after the longest three hours she lived, the man came out of the room, covered with blood and exhausted.

"Wait wait wait, you can't get inside yet. Stay here until he calls you ok?" the man said, blocking her from getting inside the room

"Will.. will he be ok?" Josephine said

"Don't worr~y. Your boyfriend is so reckless, but he always stay alive", the man said, shaking his hand and smiling

"Who are you?" Josephine said after his silly moves gave her some ease to think better

"Oh. My name is Dazai, and I met your boyfriend since the first day he died", the man said, then the silly smile he was wearing got replaced with a serious look and he said "I told him a lot to take more care of his body, but he never listened to me. Tell him that he is excessively exhausting his body, maybe he will listen to you"

"So you are a doctor", Josephine asked

"Mhum, I need to continue my tour around the city now. Don't forget to call me once he is awake again, and he won't take long to wake up so don't worry", the man said, then he jumped out of the balcony and disappeared.

Josephine wanted to get into the room, however, a voice in her head stopped her just before she entered. She stayed behind the door, sitting on the ground with her legs close to her chest, and blaming herself for making him fall into the pool in the first place

After a while, Josephine woke up to a rustling sound coming from Kai's room. She stood up, struggling as her body was numb, then she walked towards the room and stopped behind the door

"Kai.. may I enter?" She asked with a shaky voice, and his deep voice saying "yes you can" was able to shake her heart.

Josephine opened the door slowly, not knowing what should she say or do, yet when she saw him, sitting on his bed calmly, she couldn't think and she ran towards him

"Why haven't you told me that you were injured?" she said angrily

"Sorry sorry", he said with a smile

"Idiot.. you scared me. I thought.. I thought I might lose you again", she said, pressing on her fist and fighting against her accelerating heart

"Sorry, Josephine. Who knew that we would spend this precious day like that? I think I ruined the moment hahaha", he said, forcing a laugh to calm her down, even though breathing was hurting him a lot

"Silly, who cares about a moment or a day? I want to spend a whole life with you", she said after seeing his smile wiped away her fears and concerns, but suddenly, a sharp look appeared in her eyes

"Take off your shirt", she said

"What are you doing? I'm tired and injured you know, how can you think this way", he said, holding onto the shirt he was wearing

"You know exactly what I meant, Kai. Take it off", Josephine said coldly

"Josephine I.. I..", he was saying, yet she sat on the bed beside him, and started cutting the shirt with a knife that was beside the bed

"What are you doing?" He shouted

"Don't move, you might get hurt", she said, and once she cut half of the shirt, she realized why he didn't let her into the room since the start.

A huge wound was covering his chest, starting from his heart and reaching his navel. A wound that was recently opened many times, a wound that was about to end his life.

"It was a miracle I survived", Kai said, then he looked in her eyes and said "I didn't want you to see this. I don't want you to see me this imperfect"

Josephine knew, as a Leo family member, that his words weren't exaggerating. She felt heavy knowing that she was about to lose him again, so she leaned closer to his wound, and printed a kiss on it softly and slowly

"As long as you come back, I have nothing more to ask for. Wounded or whatever, you are still my one and only king", she said calmly, then the sharp look in her eyes faded and she said "now lay down and sleep, my wounded patient"

"But my doctor, I'm afraid that you would leave if I slept", Kai said jokingly

"You now my mother won't allow me to stay here, I have to go", Josephine said sadly

"Are you going to leave your husband?" Kai said

"Hus.. husband!" Josephine said while her face turned red, yet she couldn't disobey him after the word husband felt like a chain tying her to him, a golden soft chain that they both liked to wear