208 Kissing Death Away 1 (1/2)
Present time. A year and a half from when Gio tried to go back to Alina City.
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Alessa always wanted to see Chris. But this time, her desire to lay her eyes upon his figure was very intense, it felt like death would come to take her heart if she didn't see him as soon as possible.
She knew it was not an after effect of the fever. Her body and mind were now perfectly fine. Her brain was working perfectly again and so everything she witnessed and experienced that time returned to her, vivid, as clear as day, like the moving pictures of a slideshow or movie.
What did he feel when he saw her fainting at the sight of what he most probably braved just to show her?
She was a full-fledged actress so the hobby of putting herself in somebody else's shoes had long become inscribed into every inch of her skin and bones.
If it was her doing that, and she witnessed what he did, what emotions would have consumed her?
Her heart ached so much. She was nearly going insane from anger. At herself.
Her memories were no longer hazy hence she could vividly see in her mind how at lost he looked before she fainted.
When did he ever show that face? The man was the only person she knew who could be said to be a living embodiment of the word indifference. He should be staying as such. What had gotten wrong?
'...I don't know.' she told herself.
At the same time though, she didn't know why she said that.
When in fact she had some clues.
Alessa was not stupid. Or even if she was, how could she be so amateurish in her own craft to not even recognize the kind of face he made and what emotions flickered across those beautiful hazelnut brown eyes that she loved?
Expectations. Or maybe hope. For acceptance.
She then realized.
'... We're both desperate fools.'
If so...
She must then show him that her love for him was pure and unadulterated. That no amount of mysteries and supernatural would waver her heart away. After all, her feelings for him did not bud merely due to superficial reasons like him being one of the few people she could depend on.
The woman went out of the unit escorted by Aura, yet when she tried to look for him, she didn't find the man.
And this continued for more than a week. A week-long span of time that greatly tested her sanity.
She didn't know what tricks Chris played in order to hide from everyone else for more or less 7 days that he would be at C Empire, attending a three-day-long fan meeting there.
But when she got wind of the news, at the very next minute, an emergency flight had been booked, regardless of whether she had an interview, photoshoot, and filming to supposedly worry about for the next day. In fact, she even had Diaz hacked into the airport's records to put their names on the earliest flight to C Empire.
That was how badly she wanted to see him, that man who she one hundred percent loved as dearly as her life.
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Chris was currently in a dire strait.
The fan meeting in this empire was naturally his guise to check on the government's intel regarding their country's immoral hosts. He made the trip personally since he planned to also do an infiltration once he gets hold of the real location.
The first goal was never a challenge for him.
So where was the dire strait part?
It was when he found out that the hideout in the desert was merely one of the locations and that all over the capital city of the empire, there were other underground hideouts used purely for torture and all sorts of inhumane practices.
He tried to infiltrate the one nearest to the police and army headquarters, yet putting aside the stomach-churning sight his eyes laid upon there, a level 4 host was actually in the premises. Were it not for the man busy doing bedroom exercises with one of those supposed female captives there, and Chris managing to catch him off guard in the midst of that, he would probably have already died.