Chapter 9

Gulf wake up feeling light and contented even though his whole body is aching.

He felt Mew's minty breath fanning on his head, he is hugging him tight like someone will snatch him.

Gulf look at the window and it is already sunrise. He reach for his phone and open it to message Turbo. Maybe he's at home now.

He received a message that Turbo was with Kaownah so he sleeps again.

And he woke up for the second time, Mew is not beside him.

He got up an look around then the door of the bathroom opened.

"Morning baby.. Did you sleep well?" Mew sit beside him, rubbong his back.

"Are you in pain? I prepared the bathtub for you... Come on."

"I sleep well, and yeah I am in pain.. Carry me."

Mew indeed carried him and they both sunk in the bathtub.

Mew settled on his back and Gulf gladly laid his back Mew's chest.

"If you don't mind Honey.. No offense meant, you can decline to answer if you dont feel like it, we have sex.. Yes.. And I know that doesn't give me the right on your personal life but—" Gulf was cut off when Mew kisses his nape repeatedly.

"Say it directly to the point Baby. Ask anything.. I'll gladly answer."

Gulf sigh. "How do you get those scars on your face? You can chose to bot answer me if it makes you uncomfortable. I understand Honey.. Really..."

Mew intertwined their hands, their fingers look good together. Like it is meant to fill each spaces in between.

"My Dad, he was beating me every time he was mad, and that night... He slash my face because he said I looked like my cheater mother, He is doubting if I am his son.. Which hurts me so much.. I mean, it's not my fault that my Mother cheated on him, much more not my fault that I look like her."

Gulf's body went cold. "Where's your father? I'll kill him myself. "

"He was dead.. I killed him." Mew said like it was just nothing.

"Huh?" Gylf was stunned, unable to digest it all.

"That night he slashed my face.. I grab the knife and stab him multiple times and it leads to his death, then policemen came, they can't arrest me, I was a minor, 14 most precisely.. Then one of our servant's daughter testified that my father is a bad one... She's just like me. She helped me to not be admitted on the child welfares office, but after that.. She left... I know she got discouraged on how I look now."

Gulf sense bitterness on his voice.

"Is she someone special?" he manage to ask even though he felt empty and jealous.

"I can say yes.. She's special.. Until now, she hold a special spot in my heart.. We grew up together. Played together.. But she left me for better opportunity. And I heard she's very famous now in Korea. And I understood that."

Gulf's heart was filled with jealousy for that woman.

If that woman holds a special place on Mew's heart. Where is he? What is his place on Mew's heart?

He let go of their intertwining hands.

He is not bothered on Mew killing his father. That bastard deserves it, he is not bothered about his scarred face because he likes it.

But what bothered him the most is what if that woman will came back. Where he will be able to endure? He didn't know what is his place on Mew's heart.

What if Mew will realize that he is just a one time thing?

He feelt a pang of pain, slashing his heart.

Gulf blink his tears back so it won't fall. He splash water on his face so Mew wont noticed it.

"Baby.. You're silent. Are you bothered that I am a killer?" Mew rubbed his thigh.

"No, don't say that.. Not at all.. I will probably do the same to him if I were you."

Mew nodded. "Ever since I was born they started fighting... His constant accusations on her is justified when I was 10 years old. My father caught her with her lover, and that day. She runaway from home and decided to be a kept mistress of that guy, until now and then after she left, my father started venting his anger on me by beating me." Mew intertwined their hands again and sunk it in the water then he will lift it up, looking at it intently.

"If you're not the one then why does my hand fits yours." He laugh a little after saying that lyrics.

Gulf smiled. Ignoring what Mew said.

"What is her name?"

"Who?" Mew ask back while still playing with their hands.

"The woman who hold a special place in your heart."

"She's Nathalie.. are you jealous baby?" Mew sniffed his neck.

"Not really.. Triggered and scared yes.."

"Why is that?".

"What if she will come back.."

Gulf look at Mew on his shoulders.

"She don't have the reason to come back."

"What if—"

"Baby, Enough.. We are just starting on what we are.. We don't have a stable foundation on this kind of relationship so don't feed it with jealousy and doubt okay?"

"Okay.. But can you tell me what happened to your Mom?"

Mew stiffen. "I guess she's okay now."

"Can I know her name and who she is?"

"Her name is Shine.. And she's.. She's.." Mew cant find the right words to say.

"She's what?" Gulf shifted his body so he can look at Mew's face.

Mew look at his eyes without blinking then he said, "Your father's MISTRESS."