164 Prison Break (2/2)

She took a deep breath and stood up and ran down the stairs, without a slipper again.

”Li Yuan!” She shouted, stopping him in his track and snap to her.

She stood in front of him, only a step away. She bit her lip and met his charcoal-black eyes. She licked her lip, in hopes, it would break the lump in her throat.

”Sorry... Forgive me. I will not expect you to do this right now but....” Her voice broke with tears that pooled her eyes with the sincerest and most pain-filled smile.

She swallowed the lump that became hard, that it hurt, in her throat, ”...But promise me someday you will.”

The words couldn't convey their messages anymore. No language could decipher the emotions they were feeling so he kissed them away.

He kissed her but he didn't promise...

He pulled her to him, with nothing but their secrets between them. Their lips moved in sync. It wasn't lover-sweet kiss but a consuming toxic-lovers kiss.

She breathed on his lip before he pulled her back. He pulled her close, even when there wasn't air between them, there was the distance between them, miles long distance.

He rested his head on her hers and whispered, ”I missed you.”

She looked in his eyes and replied in nothing but the truth, ”I missed you too.”

She was right in his embrace but he felt like she was slipping like sand from his fisted hands. So he pulled her close.

”Wait for me.”

”I will always wait for you.”

He pecked her lips and reluctantly turned to leave. Lei Xinyi saw till he couldn't be seen. A tear slipped out of her treacherous eyes and slid down her cheek.

”Li Yuan!” Hearing his name he turned around.

Lei Xinyi smiled genuinely and waved her hand that was shivering, ”Goodbye!”

Li Yuan returned the smile and waved back like a young school-bye, ”I will be back before midnight.”

She had done it again but this time she didn't feel like she had accomplished anything. It felt like she had lost everything.

She wiped the stray evidence of her heart being slain.

It will be her last lie, last tear, last betrayal...last agony, that had slain her heart. No matter how she denies it. He stole what was left of her heart.

But little did she know it was always second last if it was intentional.

She stayed there looking at the drive-way he drove away from, for a while longer then she walked and climbed the stairs.

She took out the closed carton and checked it, the Yu's heirloom, The Lei's heirloom, and the... orchid. She closed the carton and went into the bathroom.

She changed in an off-shoulder black dress with a leather belt that had a metallic strap in the centre on her waist, grey stockings and black moto boots. She went to the vanity table and took out the rectangular box Su Qianwei had given her.

She bowed her hair high in a ponytail and dipped all the needles on her waist-belt, wore the Yu's half a million bracelet on her wrist, strapped the dagger on her thigh.

She held the orchid and sighed. She knew she was taking far more from him than an artificial thousand-dollar orchid but she had given something precious to her too...

'CRASH!!'

A loud booming explosion shook the Mansion with screams and things breaking sound and she knew it was her time to leave.

She put the orchid on her hair and turned to the two storey-high windows when she turned to see the room one last time and saw the bugged phone on the bed and an idea struck her.