Chapter 224 - A great liar

Seraphina closed her eyes as her team was discussing their plan on capturing Wesley We. Soon, their conversation turned indistinct as Seraphina delved on the earlier occurrence.

[10 hours ago]

Sensing a familiar touch on her leg, Seraphina's weary eyes crack open. Meekly, glancing down, Seraphina's brows creased seeing Dragon marking her exposed legs. Though she can still feel her heart racing, it was much stable due to the medicines traveling through her veins -- lessening the effect of the unknown drug that invading her system.

"One." Seraphina counted weakly feeling her throat dry as the dessert yet, even with her condition, her tone still had a touch of authority. Alas, Dragon didn't stop his impudence.

"Two." She wasn't surprised at all that Dragon won't stop. That is why Seraphina is slowly garnering her strength to use force instead.

"Thr--" However, just as Seraphina could end her count, Dragon stopped and peered at her with satisfaction. His pair of deep, sharp eyes that seemed to witness despair and blood of hells pierce to her unwavering almond shaped jet black ones.

"This is your punishment." He emotionlessly stated with a complex smirk on his lips.

"Huh," Seraphina scoffs in disdain. Though she must admit that she is currently weak and a little dizzy -- the way Dragon spat his words disgust her. This three words, she loathes them just like how she despises it from her previous life -- treating her as a thing that can be owned.

"Seraphina or Luciano -- who are you now?" Dragon rests his hand on the bed near her feet as a support to his languid stance. Still, staring at her, the once gentle gaze he had earlier was gone and only his dangerous aura was left.

"A liar." He added in a complex tone. Scrutinizing Seraphina's slightly pale complexion with beads of sweats on her forehead despite the chill temperature, Dragon continued.

"Your last words… 'you better kill me tonight because I'll surely come after you if I survive this night,' haha -- wife, what a complex words…" Dragon chuckles in glee as if he found out the answer to the most difficult riddle in his life. Slightly shaking his head, Dragon hangs his head low with his mesmerizing smile still intact.

"Oh, dear… you are, indeed, a great pretender."

Seraphina inexpressively stares at him while he laughs at her whole life. Indeed, she was a liar -- a great pretender. She will not tell the truth even to her confidants and won't disclose personal matters to them. In her perspective, Seraphina tends to hide the truth and her knowledge about certain things to herself. Because, she clearly knew that the more people who can see her insides, the more they will be put in danger.

Whether it was her previous life or now, Seraphina patently understood that she was dragged to the ends of the seemingly bottomless pit of the underworld -- that only death is her escape. However, if she dies now, her grandfather, Liam, and all her confidants -- they will follow her to the grave for sure.

Despite the memories she had in the future events alas, she can't fully rely on them as she still had some doubts about them. Hence, if it means being an inhumane and unremorseful villain is the way to protect them all; so be it. After all, she is always like that -- a selfish hypocrite.

"Wife, you don't know how much you put me through cracking the code you left me… I wonder if you also know our stillborn child." Dragon moves his perilous eyes back at her poker pale face as if his gaze was examining the deepest and darkest secret she was keeping.

"You are full of crap." Seraphina scorn yet, there isn't much change on her expression. For some reason, though he hated Dragon to the core for his past deed in her previous life -- Seraphina was still searching for confirmation about something. Since everything didn't go her ways and all the forthcoming occurrences changed its ball, back in Isla De Paz -- she can't just move forward without a hundred thought.

"I see… you are such a dangerous woman, Sera." With that said note, Dragon slowly crawled to her reposing figure then run his finger on her nape. Slowly drawing closer to her seemingly harmless profile, he grinned viciously. "Don't kill Max, alright? Hope you give him his lesson." Dragon then forcefully pinched a part of her nape which made her completely lose her consciousness before stealing a peck on her soft, pale and dry lips.

"Come at me with all your might, wife-- I'm looking forward to it."