Chapter 432 - Web Of Lies Part 5 (2/2)

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When he next woke up, the room was pitch black.

Waking up in the middle of the night usually means you can't get up and look around. This is supposed to be a modern western inn and yet its style is more like a eastern one. Huh, well he supposed it can't be helped. Despite the fact that his wounds were healing, he was anything but fully recovered yet.

His thoughts broke off when he hears the door open, ”Is he asleep?” a sweet feminine sounding voice inquired.

”He is asleep. After all he jus woke up all of this morning,” Beth explained.

Hearing the door open quickly and footsteps going inside the room. Rhys did not understand why, but he quickly closed his eyes and pretend to sleep.

”He won't recover so quickly, he's not a like me.”

As a sudden warmth filled his head, and his face. As he feels a pair of tender hands pat him, his eyes widened. So this is the woman who patted his hair. Is it just him? 'She sounds like Lyn.' Maybe because he isn't feeling well, but for some reason he couldn't hear very well.

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A few days later -

The past creates the present, and it is because of our past - that such a present has been created..

Rhys was no fool.

Indeed that was one word you would not use to describe the sinister witch doctor. Ah, even now she is still trying to trick him. But he already saw through her trick.

Though at the start Rhys believed in Beth's words when she said it's their manager named Yukina who took care of him. He didn't believe that for long, especially after he was kissed. When Beth left the room that day, that woman kissed him. Those lips, he knew them all too well.

After the medicine inside his body sank in, he managed to fully regain his senses. He placed his hand on the cushion beside his futon, this warmth and that light can only belong to one person. Lyn has done something foolish again. What is she doing taking care of him? Rather, the fact that she only comes in at night must mean she's taking action for his sake. What is

that fool doing now?

He didn't get himself injured and hurt so she could go ahead and do something like this. 'Duty, memories. Fate. Screw all that. I'm just a man who wants to protect you.' He touched the material of cloth across his forehead and sat up. 'This has her scent..'

She should have just trusted those words he said then. After all, it's all changed now. The intentions he had from the beginning, it's all different. After they confronted each other that day, Rhys felt much lighter. She lifted the heavy cloud which darkened his heart this entire time. Rhys felt that he could do anything, even the things he couldn't do before.

' That's not...ah geez right now I really can't respond to that. But I don't hate you and I don't mind you being near me. So quit thinking stupid things already...'.

She can't respond to it huh? Yet she went ahead and did something like that. Even now Rhys couldn't forget it, the warmth of the girls lips when she willingly kissed him. That was the first time Lyn did something like that. Despite the fact that the two of them have been more than intimate already…

Lyn has never once taken the lead. He knew that was a conformation from her that despite engaging in such one sided acts with him, that she's still being loyal to Kazuya. Perhaps a part of him was being considerate too.

Since when they first engaged in such actions, he would make sure to erase the girls memory in order to prevent her from suffering. However a long the way even that minor consideration of his vanished. Was it because he was becoming too selfish?