Chapter 87

after that, they never went out together again, and they even canceled their vacation, yet they had to meet each other a lot at the center

Putting all her confused thoughts aside, Nai was able to slowly bump the center with thousands of tiny bumps, taking Ice's absence as an opportunity. After many days, the snake asked all the four leaders to come to the center, and they all knew that it would be about the Leo family that suddenly rose to a high position with Ray being the prime minister, yet once they all arrived, the snake opened a completely unexpected topic

"Nai and L, I want you to make up fast", he said, crossing his arms like a child trying to force his parents to buy him a toy

"Ha?!" they both said

"Seriously, you are the two highest leaders after me here, yet you are acting like children which was evident in your achievement. If you don't make up soon, I would have to use other methods that you wouldn't like", he said, yet his words weren't as surprising as the serious look in his eyes while saying them.

At that moment, Nai smiled unconsciously as the atmosphere felt just like her home, however, once she realized that she actually smiled, she felt heavy in her chest. Putting aside that he is a killer, she had been feeling warm around the snake as if he was her real grandfather. That man is clever and wise, yet he acts like a child all the time. Furthermore, he always treated her differently than everyone and showed her love and affection. She looked at Levi who was still avoiding her eyes, and the feeling in her chest grew greater "Must they die for this to end?" she thought, yet the last breath of her uncle snapped in her mind and crashed that thought

"Excuse me, I need to get some fresh air", she said, then she left the room pressing on her chest as if she was trying to push that feeling down

When she was finally out of the building, she took out a lighter, and she kept staring at it with her eyes losing their light

"Sorry..", she whispered, holding her tears inside, yet before she could press on it, a voice from behind her forced her to stop

"You are going to kill every single person in this country if you pressed on that lighter", the northern mafia leader said

"Excuse me?!" she said

"There are huge bumps under every street, bridge and path in this country, bumps implanted by the mafia since the start, if the snake didn't press on a stop button that only he could activate, the bumps will explode as well as everything else", he said, taking out a lighter and a cigarette

"And why would I believe that? I can easily kill you and put an end to all this shit", she said, with a smirk filled with sadness and emptiness

"... How is your mother, kid?" he asked, yet once he finished speaking she was already flipping him to the ground and pressing on his chest with her foot

"If you dare touch my mother…" she said, pointing her pistol towards his head

"Relax kid, it's rude pressing on your uncle's chest with your foot. That girl really didn't know how to teach you manners, did she?" he said, grabbing her leg and trying to get it off his chest, yet she started pressing harder

"I had one uncle only, and you took him away from me", she said

"What are you talking about?'' he asked

"Sigh.. forget it, it will all be over once I kill you all", she said, pulling the rouge and ready to shoot

"I wasn't kidding, kid. If the snake died without a heir it will really be over", he said angrily

"And how do you know that is the first place?" she asked

"I am your uncle, my father was once the snake. Ask your brother about his ever first kill and you will know everything", he said

"No, you will tell me everything, here and now", she said, and he did. He told her about her mother's secrets that she never heard about. After that, she ran away, not knowing what to believe or what to do. Her plan failed with the fact that killing the snake would explode the whole country, the only one she trusted turned out to be the one she must kill to avenge her uncle, and she was already stuck at the mafia nest as the black lady and the eastern mafia leader, with hundreds of enemies and ghosts hunting her. Nai was at a position where staying still, turning back, and moving forward will all lead to her death. She buried her face in her hands, filled with imprisoned cries and shackled tears, and not paying attention to her surroundings at all.

"You will catch a cold at this rate", a calm voice said, then she felt a jacket being layed on her shoulders before she decided to look up to finally see his eyes again. He sat beside her calmly as he always was, staring at the moon and the sparkling city

"How did you know I would be here?" she asked with a muffled voice

"I didn't know, I was here from the start. I heard it all, and I followed you all the way here. They don't call me the dusk for nothing", he said, yet her eyes only got more broken and sad with every word he said

"Azora, I'm here for you", he said with a shaky voice as he wanted to say more than this but words failed him, yet thankfully, she was raised up surrounded by a brother, and uncle, and a father that are exactly as bad as using words as him, so she actually felt it all. She felt what he wanted to say without him having to say it, however, she started trembling

"I don't deserve it, I don't deserve to be loved or being worried about. I shouldn't have been born. I'm weak and useless", she said, pressing on her arms to the point her nails wounded them badly, yet he held her hand calmly, forcing her to look at his eyes once again

"You were never weak, and you will never be. Azora… you were only hard on yourself, you forced yourself to be strong for a long time, but that doesn't mean you are weak at all", he said, yet she pulled her hand away and said "How do you know that? you don't know me, you don't know anything at all"

"I don't have to know your past in order to know you, we don't live in the past. One mission with you was able to turn me upside down. I could easily feel your strength and confidence just by looking into those brown eyes, and even when you were drunk, even when you were out of your mind, your eyes were still the same", he said, yet she forced him to stop talking as she shouted "STOP"

"No, Azora, I won't stop until you share your pain with me", he said, grabbing her wrist again

"You know nothing. you know nothing, idiot. I was going to kill you", she said with her tears finally getting out of her eyes, yet before she could keep talking, he pulled her closer to him, forcing her hand to lay on his chest and feel his heart again, yet this time, she wasn't able to run away as one kiss was able to shut her brain down. Nai's eyes got wide open and filled with tears, she could feel nothing but his heart and his lips, and she could see nothing other than his closed eyes and long eyelashes. She wanted to resist, but her body wasn't obaying her, it was totally under his control, so she closed her eyes and surrounded his neck with her arm, letting him take over her without any resistance

"You may be right, but I'm certain of one thing, Ora. I… can't lose you", he said, with his face blushing and his heart still racing

"It's not like that. You can lose me, but you just don't want to", she said

"... yeah, I think I really love you", he said, looking at the moon as his heart wasn't able to look at her eyes anymore, yet once he turned his head to look at her, she was already gone