Chapter 463: Hardest Thing (Ch.464)
It did not take too long for Neveah to arrive at the open cell from which the scream sounded and sure enough, narx stood there, his emotionless gaze fixed on the battered man who was hung up on so contraption, dangling so inches off the ground.
Neveah squinted and it took a mont before she could identify the face behind all the blood. As she had guessed, it was indeed the Fae noble who had presented the Ixora flower to her at the ceremony.
The fairy was already unrecognizable, battered and broken in different places, blood pooled on the ground beneath where he was hung and still dripped at a rapid rate.
It was a mystery to Neveah how the fairy had not already died from blood loss.
The state the fairy was in was barely hanging onto his life by a thread, and clearly the fairy himself would be grateful for death but he was not allowed the privilege.
It took an incomparable level of expertise in the art of torture to leave soone in such a state yet be able to preserve their life at the sa ti.
"To have held out this long, you are a strong one...but there have been many of your kind and greater to have shared this dance with , and you know how it ends...they all break..." narx whispered to the fairy in a low tone barely above a whisper.
"Shall we take a bet as to how long you can hold on? I would say...a day at best..." narx guessed, tilting his head to the side in amusent when the fairy lifted a fierce glare to him.
"I will never tell you anything!..." The fairy forced out with difficulty.
"That is what you think." narx replied, his lips stretching to a sinister grin.
"Narx..." Neveah called out, finally making her presence known.
Neveah watched narx freeze up at the sound of her voice, and then slowly, he turned around to face Neveah, his eyes wide with surprise and horror at the sa ti.
Neveah’s gaze moved over narx, his eyes still glowed dimly and his blood trickled down his hands, dripping to the ground, none of which were his.
He was the farthest thing from okay, but her heart still skipped a bit at the sight of him, that hollow feeling returning to her...a reminder of the severed bond.
"Veah... you... " narx began to say, his hands clenching up into fists by his sides as he noticed Neveah’s gaze on them.
"You... how long have you been here..." narx asked in a low tone.
"A while..." Neveah replied honestly.
narx winced visibly, he took a step forward but stopped, a complicated look in his eyes.
"You shouldn’t be here..." narx asserted.
"The person I wish to see is here, if I do not co... what else can I do...?" Neveah replied with a question, though she did not truly expect a response to it.
"I had thought... you never wanted to see
again." narx admitted in a pained tone.
Neveah could see in narx’s eyes, that he still could not understand her choice.
"That is what you think." Neveah said, using the exact words narx had used just a mont ago.
narx winced again, Neveah understood this was a side of him narx had never wanted Neveah to see.
"You shouldn’t have seen this... I..." narx began to say but trailed off, having no words to complete his statent.
Neveah stared quietly at narx for a mont before she sighed, walking over to the wash basin.
"Co here." Neveah called as she picked up a dry towel and soaked it up in water before she wringed out the excess water.
Neveah turned around and narx still stood right where he had been, as if frozen in place.
Neveah said nothing more, walking over to narx herself but narx was quick to stop her.
"Don’t... don’t co in here." narx said quickly, stepping out of the cell and shutting the door so Neveah did not have to go in herself.
narx now stood before Neveah and for a mont, they both just stared, so many words and emotions weighed down on them, in desperate need of expression but neither of them knew where to start.
And so Neveah just went ahead with her intent, lifting up the towel, she gently wiped off the blood stains from narx’s face, putting all her concentration into cleaning him up.
Neveah reached for narx’s hand after she was done with his face, but he hid it away from her.
Neveah glanced up at him expectantly and narx gave in in just a mont.
Neveah took his hand and slowly but thoroughly wiped off the blood from finger to finger, before moving on to the next hand till there was not a single stain of blood on his person.
This process had taken a while and through it all, narx just quietly stared at Neveah, his eyes reflecting his pain.
"Do you not want
anymore?" narx finally broke the silence.
"Narx... you know that is not true." Neveah said in a heavy tone.
"Then why? Why did you let go of my hand?" narx asked, making no attempt to hide the depth of his hurt.
"I..." Neveah began to say but cut herself off.
The surge of emotions, rage, pain and a host of others were too overwhelming for Neveah and she just did not wish to face them yet.
"I can’t do this right now... I shouldn’t have co..." Neveah realized as she turned to leave but narx held onto her wrist.
"Veah..." narx began to say but Neveah cut him off.
"Because I want you so much!...Too much, and I know I cannot have as much of you as I desire to have...not anymore... I saw you by the cliff, what part of your promise can I still believe?! I’m not blind and deaf!" Neveah hissed,
"I let you in Narx! I do not let people in but you... I let you in, I gave you my trust, my heart... and...Narx... you hurt
and you know what is worse?...I cannot even bla you for it..." Neveah chuckled derisively.
"We’re all just being played by fate. I only ca here to make sure you were fine... I have seen you, there is nothing more I wish for." Neveah murmured.
Neveah’s words shocked narx to silence as it dawned on him that he was in no position to cast blas, he had been the first one to break their promise.
Now, he had let things co to this and there was no way to restore everything to how it had been.
"I... I am sorry, Veah. I never wanted to hurt you like this... I have failed you..." narx admitted, letting go of his hold on Neveah’s hand.
"Eventually... everyone fails..." Neveah murmured as she turned to leave but paused in her steps at narx’s next words.
"I love you, Neveah..." narx whispered, his tone hoarse.
"And I love you, narx..." Neveah admitted.
narx sucked in a sharp breath at Neveah’s words and the irony of when they had co.
It was the first ti she was saying the words out loud, she had never expected the first ti she would say them would be her last.
"Scales! What have I done...?" narx hissed, his tone thick with frustration and self loathing.
"Will you ever forgive ?" narx asked quietly.
"I already did." Neveah replied without hesitation.
"I do not know how... how to let go." narx confessed.
"All it takes is one person ... walking away and never looking back, even if it rips your heart apart... even if it is the hardest thing you’ll ever have to do." Neveah murmured.
Neveah took a few steps forward, but then she stopped, turned around and walked back over to narx, her arms went up around his neck, pulling him down as she claid his lips in a passionate kiss.
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