Chapter 444 - SHE'S A VESSEL
Natsu pulled the woman beside him and they sat on the space which was quite far from Cayenne. "You've been working for Stefan for quite so ti, right?" Natsu asked the lady beside him. "Have you ever heard if his wife knew soone from City D?"
"How would I know? I didn't pay any attention to her." The woman replied in disgust. "I hate won like her."
"Oh?"
Natsu smiled and continued to observe. Stefan's ex-employee was also observing Cayenne not far from them. She, too, didn't expect that she'd run into this enemy. She really hated her.
"She's not eting with soone here, right? Going as far as coming in this place, she's really bold. Did she think no one would know as long as she's eting the person far from City A?"
"Who knows?" Natsu didn't agree or disagree with her words but, he continue to feed her with negative emotions. "She might be here just to have a coffee."
"That's impossible."
And as if to prove her theory true, Reuben arrived with a gift bag and gave it to Cayenne but they couldn't hear anything they talked about because they're quite far from them.
"Hi, dad." Cayenne greeted him and received the gift from her father.
Reuben kissed the top of her head and gently pat her back. "I'm so happy you've co to initiate a eting with ."
"I'm sorry you couldn't bring your wife with you."
"It's fine. She understands." Reuben replied with a faint smile. He called the waitress and ordered their drinks before facing his daughter once again. "So, what is it that you want to talk about?"
"It's about mom. Don't you have any idea of her identity at all?" She asked directly, not planning to beat around the bush because she needed to save ti.
Reuben took a deep breath and looked outside the window glass. "I t your mom just like this. I saw her in a café, crying her heart out. She said she was heartbroken but she didn't tell the reason why. I bought her a drink that ti and we chatted just to help her feel at ease. After that eting, I thought I wouldn't see her again. When I passed by the café, I saw her on that sa seat, wearing the sa sad expression. I thought it was all a coincidence and then, the next day it was the sa. Day after day, while I was going to school, I always see her in the sa café. So, I told her to get up and go to the nearest park with . Ever since that day, we got a little bit closer and closer and we fell in love."
Cayenne was listening attentively but his father abruptly stopped and sighed. Their drinks arrived just in ti as well so he took a break while recalling the past.
"Would you like to talk in my car instead? I think it's a little bit private and I don't want anyone to hear about your mom."
"S-sure. I don't mind." Cayenne stood up. picked her bag and the gift before following her father out. Natsu and the woman followed them but not closely, making sure that they won't alert the n that always follows Cayenne.
Reuben opened the door for his daughter like a fine gentleman before getting to his own seat. He also helped her fastened her seatbelt like how he would for his wife. He didn't get to spend so much ti with her so, he would do everything he could even if it's just a small thing.
"To continue," Reuben took a sip of his drink and started to tell Cayenne the rest of the story. Two years, they spent two years together and never once did her mother brought Reuben ho. It wasn't until she got pregnant and carried Cayenne in her tummy for two months. "At that ti, I wanted to et her family to take responsibility for her but she refused. I don't understand why she would refuse and she even told to bring her to a far place. Without really understanding her, I brought her ho. That's when my parents knew about you."
"And they didn't like it." Cayenne stated bluntly. She wasn't hurts by these words anymore. She has already accepted that not everyone can like you or accept your existence in this world. And she didn't care about it. She just wanted to live her life with those people who cares for her and who accepts her past, present and her future.
"I'm sorry, I couldn't protect you and your mom."
"That's fine." Cayenne nonchalantly replied with a faint smile. "So, you never knew that her na was fake?"
"I found out about it after we got separated. I never wanted to marry Ingrid but they threatened with your lives. How could I have the heart to refuse when your mother was tied on a beam on top of an unfinished building? I married Ingrid and your mother broke up with . She left. I tried my best to explain and to get her back but she already closed her heart to ."
"So, you gave up?"
"I didn't want to give up at first but, the news broke out between people of higher social hierarchy that the only daughter of Jean Nikko Rule, the Princess of Dragon Empire as they called her, has run away from ho. Her na was Athyst Nile Rule. When I saw her picture, I felt really cold and deceived. And then, my parents knew about her identity. After separating from her and getting married to soone else, they wanted to get a divorce to get back your mother. I'm not stupid? I know that they only wanted her because she was a better connection to getting more riches."
"And so, you refused this ti." It wasn't a question but a statent coming from his daughter. "You didn't want to get us back because you didn't want us to be used by your family."
"Yes."
"But why didn't you tell her family where she was? You knew that she was all alone now without you but you kept her whereabout a secret?"
"No. I didn't. Well, I didn't intend to but your mother approach once again for this matter. She didn't want to go back ho. She'd rather die in the woods than going back ho. I was perplexed. I didn't know why she'd refused to go ho when she could just live there happily."
"Did she tell you the reason?"
"No." Reuben was shaking his head with a helpless expression. "Up until now, I couldn't understand why she refused to go back. After she begged to never let anyone know of her location, she begged Ingrid as well. In exchange of this secret, she wouldn't bother us anymore."
'So, that is why she didn't want to know anything about my father. She thought that I'd be bothering them which ans she's breaking her promise.' Cayenne never thought of this thing before but now, things were making sense to her.
"Dad, just forget about mom. Start over with Ingrid because she gave you freedom from the impending pain."
"What do you an?"
"Mother didn't just run away from ho without reason. She wanted to live. She wanted to live, have her own family and grow old. Because if she stayed with the Rule family, you wouldn't have t her or she wouldn't have given birth to . If she stayed with them, she will only have a short life because she was ant to die as a vessel to her mother's heart."
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