Chapter 34 - In Silence

David walked down the hospital corridors, still dressed in the style of a hospitalized patient.

"Mr. David? Where are you going?" asked a nurse who happened to see David walking hastily.

David nearly ignored the nurse if he didn't say the thing that made David's heart stop beating for a split second.

"Mrs. Angel told me to take her place with you while she was away to take care of things."

The nurse stopped behind David too. David, who stopped suddenly, almost made the nurse hit him in the back.

David turned around.

"So you are aware, sir? Where do you want to g ... go--"

The nurse fell silent when she saw David's teary eyes. His tears dripped from his eyelids. The made David's eyes turned red. David grasped the nurse's upper arm very hard, making her groan in pain.

"Ouch ... S-sir, please let go--"

"Where's Angel?" asked David, interrupting the nurse's unfinished words.

"P-please let go--"

"Where's Angel ?!"

The people in the corridor stared in horror at David. When a hospital security guard wants to arrest David for making a scene, someone's voice makes David turn his head.

"David?"

Without the slightest warning David lunged at the source of the sound. Everyone fell silent as David hugged the body of the person who was calling his name, as if he would never let go of that hug forever.

Angeline, the girl he thought was dead, was now in his arms. David did not think that the fate giver could be this nice to him.

In David's heart, there was nothing better in his life than this girl he was holding so tightly to.

"Da-david? What's wrong with you?" asked Angeline, holding a bag filled with fresh fruit that she had just bought at the convenience store closest to the hospital where David was being treated.

David did not answer her, his burly hands continued to hold Angeline's body in silence. Angeline could feel the top of her head getting wet with something.

Wait, is David crying right now?

Angeline could not understand David's sudden behavior

David opened his eyes, let go of his arms and looked into Angeline's face. The girl could see David's rosy eyes glistening. David was really crying.

"Angel, I can explain. I was sedated and couldn't move, and that woman ... she ... I--"

David opened his eyes perfectly in shock as Angeline landed her lips on David's, trying to silence the mouth of the man she loved when David couldn't even speak properly.

Angeline knew that David was being framed at the time. Previously, Angeline had spoken privately with a police inspector who had long been pursuing Catherine's trail. The reasons why David was admitted to the hospital, and also about the bombing that took place right where she was supposed to be sitting on the seat in the sports arena.

At that time, Angeline spent her time crying in the bathroom, while the bag that was under the chair Angeline was supposed to sit on exploded when Angeline wasn't there.

Thanks to the misunderstanding situation that occurred because Angeline saw Daniel as if he was making out with another woman she did not know at all in the athlete's bathroom, making Angeline luckily not at the scene of the bombing, which was actually targeting her.

From David's out-of-control behavior, the police inspector who had known David for a long time could conclude that maybe David thought that Angel had died from the bomb explosion.

People in the hospital corridor also looked away from David and Angeline who dared to kiss in the corridor of the hospital which was supposed to be a place of passing patients, victim's families and even the hospital staff who were working like that. Some of these people hold their chests, it feels like they are like they are seeing a kiss scene in a movie, thanks to the two people's faces that look so charming.

Maybe too charming for some reasons.

Angeline turned her face back and smiled at David. Seeing David's tears that had not stopped flowing, made Angeline also feel like crying.

And a single tear escaped from Angeline's eyes, who was still smiling sweetly at David. Angeline stroked David's cheek gently, "No need to be afraid anymore, I'm here, like you see, I'm okay. Nothing's bad happened to me. I'm really okay."

At this moment, both David and Angeline were shedding tears and continued to stare at each other while continuing to smile full of happiness.

Angeline drew closer to David and wrapped her arms around David's waist up to the back of the man's body, resting her head on David's chest which immediately received a return hug from David. David kissed the top of Angeline's head, stroking her beautiful hair as soft as possible over and over.

Just a moment ago, David thought he would throw his human side away and let the devil in his heart who had accompanied him on the battlefield, take over his body and soul. David really thinks he will return to being a cold-blooded killer who does not discriminate whether it is friend or foe like when he lost Hendrick Brasco, his adoptive father in the past.

At that time, it was the darkest moment that happened in the life of David Stockholm. The moment when David really lost his way. All he did every day was kill, kill, and keep killing. Whether it's a big mafia group that is a threat in society, or just a group of petty criminals who happen to commit crimes right in front of his eyes. David killed them all without the slightest mercy, in the most sadistic way of course.

Even though most of them died in the same condition, it is with bullet holes lodged in their foreheads. Or for more precisely, right between their eyeballs.

Everyone in the Underworld knows that such a method of killing can only be done by one person. Without a doubt, that was the way to kill someone that David Stockholm loved the most, the Prince of Hell, the most feared figure in the Underworld after the Hendrick Brasco mafia syndicate broke up at that time.

In fact, perhaps David would be hundreds of times more violent than before. Maybe he could be called a devil in human form. And all of that can really happen because David thought he had really lost Angeline.

But it was stopped just in the presence of someone. Someone who is the only reason why David hasn't lost his human side.

The only person who can make him feel worthy just by living in this dark, cruel and disgusting world.

The only person who can make him stop blaming himself for whatever happened to him.

The only person who can make him feel welcome, and worthy to feel the love he has been longing for.

Angeline.

The only person David loved.

***

"So, you really think like that?"

David nodded in agreement with Angeline's question, his eyes still sad when he thought about the time when he thought he had lost Angeline for real. Seeing David like that, really made Angeline feel sad.

Angeline looked at David in half disbelief. The mafia who was so feared, respected, and would even make people in the Underworld tremble by just hearing his name, was truly terrified of losing her. David's attitude like that made Angeline feel so special.

She could see the pain David felt in the look in his eyes. Angeline, who was now sitting next to David on the hospital bed, raised her hand, smoothed David's hair, which was very messy with her finger. "I'm here now. You don't have to be afraid anymore."

David only nodded in response to Angeline's words.

And unexpectedly, Angeline did something that made David pause for a moment.

Angeline brought her face closer to David and kissed David on the lips and smiled sweetly. "I'm sorry, for made you worry like this."

"I am the only one who should apologize here. Because of my negligence and stupidity, you have to see things that make you misunderstand like that." David replied while he seeing Angeline trying to calm him down.

Angeline was silent for a moment, she wanted to end this stupid conversation that she knew would never end if both of them continued apologized like that. "Hey, teach me how to fight."

Hearing Angeline's sudden request made David frown, confused. "Why do you suddenly want me to teach you how to fight?"

Angeline gave David a pretty funny smile. "So I can slap the face of the insolent bitch who dared to kiss my husband in front of my eyes."

"Where did you learn to talking shit like that?"

"Of course, from my beloved husband. Where else can I learn to speak harshly like that, if not from you?"

David laughed softly at Angeline's words, causing Angeline to give David a confused look. "Why? Is that funny? After all you are mine, no one can kiss you in the whole universe but me. Please, I've been wanting to learn how to fight for a long time, at least so I can take care of myself when you happen to be not by my side. I don't want to keep making you protect me and get hurt like that. "

David ruffled Angeline's hair lightly, making Angelin purse her lips. "Why? Am I too selfish for asking that?"

David gently stroked Angeline's face and held his palms on the cheeks of the girl he loved. "Nope. Not at all. Actually, I want you to be more selfish to me. As you said before, I am yours."

Angeline smiled after hearing the sweet words from David's mouth. "So, you're going to teach me how to fight?"

Unfortunately, David shook his head in response to Angeline's request. The shaking of David's head confused Angeline. "Why?"

"If you really want to learn how to fight, I'll find you the right teacher."

"Why don't you just teach me yourself?"

David took a breath and smiled. "If your goal is so that you can stand up for yourself, I am the wrong person to teach you. My fighting style is devoted to taking the lives of many people in an instant. I don't want your hands to bear the same sins as mine."

Hearing David's explanation made Angeline pause. The sight of a stranded kitten on the side of the road was enough to make her cry. The thought of losing someone's life one day in the future terrified her completely.

David also stroked Angeline's head gently before pulling Angeline's body and bringing her into his arms. He didn't say anything, just kept holding her while rubbing the back of Angeline's head.

In silence, David was grateful that the people he loved were still not taken from him.