Shen Qui frowned. This ti, Lyca's voice didn't have a hint of ridicule in it. Was she serious? Just the thought of it made his heart skip. "You Are you angry?"
She fought the urge to laugh. No, she wasn't. This was not anger. This is confusion. "No." She answered, still smiling.
That fake smile again, he thought and turned his head away. Then he just followed Lyca out of the building. Shen Qui felt frustration bubbled inside him. He was not f*cking naive.
He knew he liked her. His attraction had been growing every day and yet, she doesn't even take him seriously.
He hated it.
But is he really going to act like a f*cking coward and hide his emotions around her? Clenching his teeth, Shen Qui rembered how Lyca told him not to act like a boy if he didn't want her to treat him like one.
Shen Qui had been so engrossed in his own thoughts that he didn't notice them arrived in the mansion.
"Hey," He walked towards her then pulled her to her room.
"Is there a problem?" This ti, she didn't ask him to let her wrist go. This ti she didn't have the urge to fight him.
"We need to talk." He closed the door behind him, locking Lyca's room.
"About?"
"I like you."
Lyca's eyebrow lifted. The confession wasn't a surprise.
She knew. She could feel it. She wasn't soone with a teenager hormone who couldn't even tell that a man likes her. "And?" However, she also knew she couldn't give him sothing more than this sothing more than what they currently have. She lifted her gaze to his.
"You're not gonna push away, are you?"
Surprised at his question, Lyca imdiately noticed that he took a step towards her. She took a step back, it was instinct kicking in. "Why the hell would I push you away?" To be honest, she was too lazy to deal with relationships. She had trust issues and a crazy mind. Her heart had been ripped out of her chest and sewed back in. She was soone compromised. And he deserved soone better than that. He deserved better than her.
He narrowed the small distance between them, his hands were still on her wrist. He stood in front of Lyca, his presence towering over her.
"You told not to act like a boy."
"And?" she asked, curious.
"I am not planning to keep my emotions bottled up."
"So?" She raised her chin as if challenging him to tell her more.
"I know you don't like ."
That was wrong. Lyca fought the urge to argue. She doesn't necessarily hate him. And yes, maybe she liked him and his presence. "I can't give you the thing that you want." She decided to be honest. She was not planning to prolong this matter.
Her heart had been sealed away. Broken, betrayed, and battered, she wasn't planning to give it to soone else again.
"I know."
"Then? Why tell you like ?" She knew he was smart and perceptive. A little innocent but definitely not dumb.
"Because " he swallowed as he stared at her eyes, his Adam's apple bobbed. "Because I am willing to take what you can give."
She froze at his words. Take whatever it is that she could give? The word sound sweet she felt her gut hurt.
He moved closer and she took another step back until her back hit the wall. She felt the hair on the back of her neck lifted. She could sense danger from a mile away and right now, she knew that the man in front of her was the danger... to her heart. She gulped.
"It's not in my nature to trust people." She managed to say. At least not anymore. She couldn't even trust herself. How could she give sothing that she doesn't have?
"You don't have to trust ." He answered almost imdiately. "It is enough that I trust you."
Her lips pressed tightly together but she didn't argue. Shen Qui blindly took the pills that she gave, not even asking what it was. As if realizing her thoughts, Shen Qui's lips lifted into a smirk.
"I am not dumb Lyca." He uttered, his voice a little dark, humorless as he pressed his body against hers."I know one of the two pills that you gave on that day was poison. I know that one of the pills that you give after that was the cure. To avoid the symptoms, you have to give the pills every day. Betraying you would an... I would die too."
For a few seconds, she felt her throat turned dry, unable to refute his words.
"I know that you asked to live with because you sense the internal energy around , you thought I was planning to do sothing bad to your family. So you decided to always keep close."
He knew. Lyca never thought that he would know. Her gaze turned complicated. Seeing this, Shen Qui added. "I also knew that you can use both your right and left hands while everyone knows that you are right-handed. You don't like yellow but your mother likes it so you wear it in front of her. Sotis you are too lazy to comb your hair so you tie it in a bun instead. You hate your long hair but your mother loves it so you chose to keep it." He was trained to observe. He was trained to rember every little detail. And Shen Qui rembered every little detail about her.
"You are dangerous. More dangerous than everyone that I have t before. But that won't stop from trusting you."
"You know too much." She hissed. Logic dictates that this Shen Qui needed to die for knowing a lot of things about her. But Lyca was never the type to follow normal logic. She watched as he tilted his head, amusent flashed in his eyes.
"You're not planning to kill are you?"
"And if I do?" She countered, waiting for the fear to flashed in his eyes. She was waiting for him to realize that this confrontation was wrong. That he made a mistake.
"It's your choice." He shrugged. "I would have died if you didn't save back then. You already own my life, Lyca Huang." He took a step back. "You can do whatever you want."
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