Chapter 78 - Reflection

"Have you been stalking me?" He asked. His brows knitted upon the realization that she may be one of his die-hard stalkers.

"I have not. If I did stalk you that's because I am your future wife." She explained looking proud of her answer at the same time.

Luca was speechless before her. What kind of explanation is this? Is that even a good answer?

She could never give him a satisfactory answer. All of her answers up till now was just for her own fun.

"Just answer my question seriously. I have no time to play around with your twisted game. Please just answer me with a serious explanation." He said, half shouting at her.

The woman looked at him, staring into his eyes. She leaned her big melons on top of his chest, playfully kneading them over him.

"You want a serious answer, hmm?" She whispered.

Her fingers caressed his face for the hundred times. At the same time, she kept kneading her melons over his chest making the man's face even redder.

Luca could feel her warm, full and squishy melons on the surface of his chest. Even worst, he could feel his already erected manhood gotten even erected. He helplessly felt so frustrated with himself.

He closed his eyes tightly, unwilling to surrender to the seduction that is pulling on his heartstring. It's no use to nag at her in this condition because he couldn't even fight her. He could only turn his face away from facing her.

"Honey, open your eyes." She said softly in his ear. "I'll give you a serious answer because I just remember my name." She added.

Seeing that Luca refused to open his eyes, she leaned and licked on his earlobe playfully.

"My name is Hecara. Remember it well because it's just impossible for you to remember my name afterwards." She breathes in his ear and a sinister smile appeared on her beautiful face.

***

Jennet opened her eyes widely. Her chest tightened and she found herself panting so hard. Her entire body felt so hot and she also felt the skin on her back was burning as if she had burned herself.

She sat on the bed and glanced towards Marvina who was fast asleep on the other bed next to her. Her friend is sleeping soundly and she did seem to be disturbed by her hard breathing from the next bed.

Jennet flipped the blanket and stepped out of the bed. She entered the bathroom and let the water running in the bathtub.

She wanted to dip herself in the water because the burning feeling she felt is so uncomfortable. The feeling was excruciating.

She took her shirt off her body and looked at her back in the mirror, checking if there's something on her back. Indeed, she saw a few long lines on her skin as if she had been clawed.

How did she get the marks she couldn't possibly figure it out. She was just sleeping on her bed and was awoken from her dream when she felt started to breathe heavily in her sleep.

She turned around and washed her face at the sink. As soon as she raised her head, there was a single raindrop mark at the centre of her forehead, between her brows.

The colour of the mark is of the colour of gold, resembling Hue's hair colour.

Frowning in confusion, she reached out and touched her own forehead. But, she immediately pulled her fingers away. The mark felt so cold, as cold as the iceberg.

A strange feeling engulfed her heart. She had an alienation feeling as if she didn't truly know what is happening around her. She felt so lost. She felt she had forgotten something important but couldn't pinpoint the source of the feeling that kept engulfing her heart.

She washed her face again by rubbing hard on the mark, ignoring the piercing cold. She, by all means, wanted to wash it away but, her effort was effortless. She couldn't wash it. The mark only getting even clearer.

She gave up at last and started to put on her shirt. She turned off the water that she kept running into the tub earlier.

She sat on the floor, leaning her back at the tub. The coldness on the surface of the cold tub seeped through the burning feeling that she had on her back, easing her mind a bit.

Staring at the ceiling, she thought all about her husband. "Hue, is this the same feeling you had when I found you in the bathroom before?"

Truthfully speaking, she still couldn't understand the reality that she faced. She had been with him for nearly two weeks and recently had just married him out of her whim to find her own happiness.

But, she felt something is off about her own feeling. She had vowed to love him with all her heart however, deep down in her heart, she felt she still couldn't understand him.

His identity that she knew is still something that she finds hard to believe. But, she had to believe him because she had seen and felt all of the strangeness surrounding him.

Living in the world dominated by the knowledge of science made her feel so out of place when she realized there is indeed another world far beyond the expectations of man, that actually exist, blending in perfectly with what she knew.

Fantasy and reality sound so much different from each other but they are actually quite fitting for each other when someone really realizes it. One exists to support the other one thus creating a knowledge that no human had ever able to interpret. The relationship between the two was so well maintained.

Jennet sighed alone and hugged her knees. "No one will believe me if I say I married the God of Comfort. I will be called a crazy woman sooner or later."

To humans who knew reality is cruel will always think fantasy will always be fantasy, a world that is impossible to exist, a cruel realization made by reality.

For the entire night, Jennet spent her time in the bathroom, reflecting on herself and on her life. For the first time, she seemed to have regretted her choice of marrying him without consulting her family's consent.

"Why am I having a regretful feeling at this moment?" She mumbled alone. She raised her head and shook them over and over again.

Every weird thing that she experienced, even if she finds it hard to believe, she had to brace the truth.

"We are legally married. I just need to make sure he didn't spill the truth about his identity to anyone out here, otherwise, both of us will be called crazy by the entire world." She said, comforting her own unsteady heart.

She sighed hard not long after that. "Aah, I have another problem to solve. Luca Tybelg... I need to find a perfect time to reject him."

She realized within the period of two weeks, she still failed to properly reject him. Her mind had always been occupied by Hue's unstoppable jealousy and all of the weirdness around her that she had to stomach in silent.

***

Jennet awoke in the morning with panda eyes because she couldn't sleep a wink. She couldn't sleep because of the excruciating pain on her back.

'Now, I wish not to go anywhere but sleep in my bed.' She grumbled alone. She felt so lazy to even washed-up but Marvina forced her to get ready.

After a shower and getting dressed, Jennet received a text message from Luca. He was informing her that he couldn't take her to the promised place because he had a last-minute meeting.

Jennet secretly rejoiced for the news. This also means she can enjoy her trip without having to stomach all of the sour faces from his fans within the group.

Jennet sent her fist into the air. Yes, she can enjoy her trip without having to keep watch for her surrounding!

"Jennet?" Marvina frowned at her. "What are you doing punching the air?" She asked. She found her giggling alone and rejoicing alone.

Jennet turned around and smiled widely at her. "Marvina, I am just too happy because I will not see Luca's face until the trip ends. He cancelled the trip!" Her eyes sparkled and she jumped around happily like a three years old kid.

Marvina stuck out her lower lip, "Ohh, no wonder you're super happy."

"Yes, you said to enjoy the trip to the fullest and the obstacle is now gone, we better rejoice," Jennet said and hooked her arms around Marvina's arms.

She dragged her out of the room to rejoin with the rest of the team who had no idea that Luca won't be joining their tour.

Since they will fly back home the next day, everyone went on a drinking party at one of the bars including Jennet that night.

The reason she went along to the drinking party was that she wanted to enjoy her time with the rest of her colleague. She wanted to have the feeling of enjoying her time with her colleagues without having to talk with them. She wanted to feel the vibe of being together with them although they shunned her away.

It was already midnight and everyone were dead drunk. Marvina who was already red in the face tugged on Jennet's sleeve and said, "We better get back to the hotel." She was slurping in her words. Her soberness comes and go.

Jennet nodded her head and stood up but then she fell on her bums on the floor, unable to balance her body.

"I had so much fun..." She said and smiled. She tried so hard to get up but failed. "Am I drunk?" She asked Marvina who was also trying her best to stand up.

Marvina nodded her head, "Yea, we're both drunk. We better go back. Sleep..."

She helped Jennet to stand up but both of them staggered on their feet when they supported each other.

The two friends just walked around aimlessly, laughing in their drunken state. Jennet was really talkative and maybe because she was never drunk in her life, she said so many things.

"Marvina, I don't want to leave my husband... My husband is too good for me." She whined and clung to Marvina making her friend's body slanted to the side because of her weight.

"Don't leave him. Stay..." Marvina tried to talk despite her slurry sound. She leans one hand against the lamp post, supporting both of them from falling on the floor.

Jennet let her go and squatted beside her. She had her face buried in her palm before she broke into a cry.

"I hate my life... I hate them all..."

She hated her life as a noble who never had her own freedom. She hated her life as a noble because she had been treated as a pawn by her own mother who had her in control. She never really know what she should do with her own life.

Marvina nudged her on the shoulder, "Why?... You're popular..." She squatted beside her friend and cupped her cheeks, staring at her friend.

The two of them didn't even care about the many eyes that stared at them. People just passed by after giving them a glance.

Jennet hiccupped shortly after that. She burst into a hearty cry. "Mother...s-she didn't care if I die...hahaha..." She laughed. "She only cares about the others..."

Marvina blinked her eyes. She was getting sleepy while listening to her friend wailing over her trouble. She patted Jennet's shoulder, "Your...your hu-hubby...h-he l-loves you." She said.

Jennet turned her head towards Marvina. Her face was red as she smiled widely, "Husband..."

She looked back to the floor, "Yes, my husband... He-he is my...one man now..." She stood up, staggering on her knees, "I-I want to see him..."

She walked forwards dragging her feet. Her drunkenness drove her nuts. She clung to somebody and hugged the man while giggling.

Marvina went after her but Jennet had already hugged a man and nuzzled her face against his chest.

"I want to see my husband..." She whispered softly and fell into a sleep that instant.

Marvina approached the man and tried to pull Jennet away from him, "Mister, let my friend go..." She said.

Although she's drunk, she still had a tiny bit of her soberness in herself. The man her friend clung to isn't someone that she knew.

The man smiled at her and said, "Let me help to bring your friend back to the hotel. Then, I'll come to fetch you as well."

Marvina widened her eyes wanting to have a clear vision of the man before her but everything was blurry in her sight.

"No, thank you." She pulled on Jennet's arm but the man immediately pulled Jennet away from her reach.

He smiled at her, "Let me get a taxi for both of you to get to your hotel." He said and hailed for one.

As soon as the taxi stopped in front of them, the taxi driver opened the door for them.

The foreign man looked at Marvina, "Get in now." He said.

But Marvina refused, "Put my friend in first. I don't trust you." She said.

The man chuckled and put Jennet down on the passenger's seat at the back. Then he helped Marvina to get in as well. Since Marvina was already drunk, she didn't realize the man made her inhale the sleeping powder. Marvina fell asleep beside Jennet.

The man turned towards the driver and said, "Send her to this hotel address. I'm going to take her friend away." He handed a piece of paper to him.

"Sure, Mr Stanford." Replied the driver.

Danny carried Jennet out from the taxi and closed the door, leaving Marvina alone inside. The taxi left them alone.

Danny stared at the sleeping woman in his arms. He smiled, "Mira did a good job for planning this drinking party. Looks like I'll have to enjoy myself with this beautiful woman."

He hailed another taxi and got in with her. The taxi drove towards the opposite direction of where her hotel is located.