36. The Devil

AUTHOR POV

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to ruin your mission. It just happened like that" Felix, who was standing there like a statue the whole time spoke finally. He was so hesitant in talking because he wouldn't be able to answer her questions. But he proceeded anyways.

Lyra glared at him with her eyes burning with rage. She controlled herself more than she did with Adam. Balling her hands into tight fists, she started to talk.

"Why are you here in first place?" Trying to stay calm, her nerves fighting with her instincts to beat him up into a pulp, Lyra closed her eyes while asking him.

His face started to soften while answering her diligently, fully aware she is going to shoot questions he could not dodge from the next second.

"I felt something wrong will happen"

"Does that make sense to you? Speak up!!! DOES THAT MAKE ANY FUCKING SENSE TO YOU??! You felt something wrong will happen? Ofcourse something is going to happen. You know that I am an agent. But you just decided to show up at the wrong timing and helped the psychopath of a bastard escape with your stupid rage" The empty streets echoed her words with a slight addition of howling wind. Rain drops getting smaller and smlwr until the rain stopped after a while.

Having no other option, Felix just tried to brainwash her with the realisation of her life.

" Just because you don't feel danger, doesn't mean there is no danger in what you do!!" He stood before her like a suspect while she is erupting on him like hot lava from a volcano.

" Oh!...now you're going to lecture me for living my life?" She pointed to herself, scoffing sarcastically.

Felix's mind is in complete chaos now. He could not think of what to say. His love towards her is paralysing his tongue, preventing from talking anything. But his mind playing tricks on him as it influenced him to show his concern. " I'm not stopping you from living your life. All I'm saying is to live in peace"

But that came out like an advice which increased Lyra's anger more.

" I have been living in peace until you showed up in my life. Now you have the nerve to advise me to live in peace when you're the one breaking the balance in it!!!" At this point, she is almost yelling at him. The fact that she missed the target not once but twice, crumbled her sanity and slowly turning her into a furious monster.

" Did you know that he would have killed you in a second?" Everytime Felix says something, Lyra's anger is blocking out the concern and letting her heart only the words which seem a little edgy.

" His head would be smashed before he even thinks of killing me"

She said confidently to push him away and depict that no one would harm her, the love buried deep inside his heart conveyed it like a assurance. The assurance that she would be fine even if the death itself came to escort her. 

The assurance that he don't want to accept. The scenes from three hundred years ago played in his mind like a movie he is trying so hard to forget. But it was engraved on his mind as it was the most hurting incident of his life. All the times when she used to sneak into the dark realm just to see him risking her whole existence are so vivid in his heart.

" Why are you running towards death all the time?" His green eyes turned into a deeper shade of emarald just thinking about the unimaginable. Face filled with concern and his body longing for her embrace, he stepped forward closer to her.

Lyra had suffered from assualt in her past. She could not tolerate any man coming too close to her. Her first instinct is to kick the man on sensitive areas or worse. She could even kill him out of instinct. She gradually steps away from them at first to avoid any unwanted problems. She imagines a small circle around her. Anybody that stays out of that line is safe. But the moment they try to squeeze inside, she walks away or stepped back maintaining a safe distance between them. But few animals who try to touch her or get too close, have no other option but to face the wrath of a killer.

As Felix stepped forward, she instantly took a few steps back casually, frowning a little bit. Just a tiny bit. Her head is filled with the rage and she just normally paced back and forth holding her hair.

" Oh my god this is making me go mad!! Why the fuck are you so concerned about me!!!? Just stop this bullshit and leave me for God's sake!!! God!!! "

" Do you know..that he is the most wanted criminal of this entire country?? He is a human traffickler, drug dealer, he has mafia connections, a criminal, a psychopath and what not???!!! He is literally a living shit! Thousands of children were abducted by him last month and they are all sold to the Underworld. And the girls? Hundreds of minor girls are being forced to prostitution as we speak!!! We lost the only chance to catch him. And you!!!!...you just helped him escape!!! How are you going to correct that mistake???!!!!"

Lyra ranted about the situation while piling up her anger.

Meanwhile, Felix is not able to hear what she is telling him because his mind occupied with his own thoughts. Lyra's reaction earlier didn't go unnoticed by him. Felix experienced this kind of trauma when he was a young boy who knew nothing of this world. His uncle used to beat him daily like it's a hobby for him. But he was forced to keep his mouth shut before his father. He was just a kid then so he had to do everything his uncle told him to do just to keep his father alive.

He saw his younger self in her earlier. When she stepped back in instinct. Not like a basic human thing. She warned him to be away before in the library too. Only people with childhood traumatic experiences will be able to understand this gesture. A small action is enough to guess what hurdles she went under when her brain is processing the surroundings for the first time.

The impact our surroundings have on the children will be backlashing at them during their entire lives. Flinching when someone is raising their hands before you will explain about the physical assaults, staying away from people could be a result of constant nudging about one's life or personality, losing a few emotions like crying and smiling might be a result of repeated actions related to those emotions and this list goes on for eternity.

Felix saw a glint of alertness when he got closer to her. And when she stepped away from him, he confirmed that might be a resulting instinct of assault in the past. His breath coming out like that of a dragon which breathed fire, hands balled into fists and the dark green eyes became even bore darker that his eyes looking like the evil lurking in the pits of hell.

'I will find whoever dared to break you to this extent' he is brought back to the reality by her sharp voice ringing in his ear.

"You are daydreaming after all this?? Why did you even came here you fucking idiot!!?" Lyra screamed when she noticed he was drowned in his own world. She immediately felt the urge to slap the shit out of him. She looked at him in disapproval. Scoffing a tiny pint of anger out of her body, she scorched down onto the ground controlling her adrenaline rush.

"This is nuts!! This is totally nuts!! What an I gonna do now!!! GOOOOD!!!!! Why is my life so messed up!? Why did you send this shithead to me!!!"

She yelled at nobody while turning away from him. Afraid that she might lose her patience and sanity, she placed back and forth in the wide area with her hand placed on her hips. Felix watched her go all insane. He made a promise mentally to himself and stayed there watching her. Only her.

He knows this is not the right time to do it but he couldn't help but smile at her. The devil who's anger is almost overflowing the red line, saw him smiling. And...that's it. The chain of sanity broke turning her into a ruthless dangerous monster who knows no limits in her killing spree.

She looked at him in denial. She instantly looked down her body to check if something happened to her dress that he is smiling like a fool. Blood rushed to her brain resulting in taking the quirkiest decision in the situation. Rising her hand and placing it on the elevated pocket of her leather jacket, she slid the hand inside and took out a gun.

Holding it firmly in her hands, she made her way to him in a blink. He was smiling like a fool, her eyes filled with enormous love for her that he didn't see a furious devil pointing her gun to his head. His smile faded the moment he realised what he had done. She extended her hand with the gun as she stood before him with only one expression on her face. Deadly anger. The atmosphere is chilly because of the rain effect and the clouds above started thundering again.

The cool metal of the gun grazed his forehead sending chills down his spine because of the ice cold sensation. They locked their eyes on each other while the whether is turning abit creepy in the sky. Forming the dark clouds that covered the moon, and the surroundings started to get dark.

In some distance from this area, a grey Lamborghini is parked with a man inside. The soft interior light shows how scared the man is while watching two killers arguing. Infact, one is arguing and yelling while the other just admiring shamelessly. Mark's heart almost stopped beating when he saw Lyra pointing her gun to Felix's head. The situation is getting our of hand and the whether is playing absolutely dramatic background.

"The devil is arguing with the real demon. Ha! Heavens couldn't be more crazy than this" he muttered to himself trying to stay cool about the fact that his boss is seconds away from being killed. "Like whom are you kidding? He is a demon afterall. Nothing can kill him. Infact, he was cursed to see his bloodline end. But he never proceeded to extend his blood, so...I guess he stays for another two hundred years. Because at this point, there is no way she is going to accept him. You made this to yourself sir!! May the hell helps you!"

On the other hand, Lyra started dead into his eyes and asked him " what's so funny?" The thunder rumbling mirrored her inner storm.

" I dare you to give me the dumb answer....your head would be blown away in a blink before you even realise I shot you" her beautifully long lashes swayed with the wind making him go wild.

The sky started drizzling like it is sad the greatest lovers of time is fighting their own battles. The merciless demon who killed thousand of people and enjoy torturing them stood speechless before his little devil. Unable to move captivated by her beauty. Her wet hair falling on her face and the dew drops on her face increased the desire inside his chest. Fighting with his brain not to lose his self-control, he tried to keep in mind that she is about to kill him.

When Lyra didn't get any answer from him, she pulled the safety pin and slid her index finger onto the trigger.

"Am I saying a story to you?....answer me you motherfucker!!!! I should have killed you back when I found you were stalking me. I did this to myself. The reason that shithead escaped is you. If you show up before me again, I will definitely kill you. I won't hesitate the next time. Stay away from me. I will let you go now. But I won't do it again. Stop stalking me" she lowered her hand down and shoved the gun into her pocket.

" I can't " Felix stated pushing her off the limits. Unaware of the catastrophe that have the capacity to break his heart again.