Chapter 110 Unspoken Fury
\[Lilia\]
Sabina continued to sneer at me like some cat hissing at a dog. I wanted to cross the space between us and finish what she had started, but Val was holding my shoulders firmly to keep me on the ground as though he knew exactly what I was thinking. Good thing he kept his silence, or else he would be the one meeting my wrath.
“See?” She cried in exasperation, turning her attention to her so-called fiancé. “You pamper her too much, and look how unbridled she has become, out of control. Your pet needed to be tamed Kael, not giving her weapons,” she raged on, frantically waving her hands pointing at me. “Maybe we should cut her tongue out so she wouldn’t talk too much.”
“I dare you to try,” I spat back, challenging her as I jutted myself in the middle of her fraudulent sentiments.
“Oh, you think you have claws?” she contemptuously sniggered.
“I SAID THAT’S ENOUGH!”
Kael bellowed deafeningly before I could open my mouth for a retort, making us all quiet. Even Sabina flinched on her feet while I quickly stepped closer to Val for protection in case the beast would lash out.
Kael was breathing heavily. His gaze pinned on me, fuming as his face turned red with anger. Sabina’s face twisted into a wince as he gripped her tightly while controlling his temper.
“Your training for today is done, Lilia. You can go,” he coldly dismissed me with his jaw clenching. All the endearment in his voice he had for me was gone, and it’s as if the Kael I once hoped he was had gone in a blink.
This isn’t the first time he calls me by name, but every time he does, it isn’t like this. It makes my heart sink to the bottom of my feet, crushing underneath the soles. I know that he’s mood was out of the loop and that I should not be messing with him, but how he looks at me now tells me something different.
He's furious. Not because of what happened between Sabina and me, but for something else I could not point my fingers on.
There was so much anger flowing in his gaze as he stared at me.
So many words were left unsaid, trapped on the edge of his tongue.
My vision blurred as my eyes welled up with tears, yet I blinked them away, not wanting to show him any weakness that his mere utterance of my name so detached affected me so much.
Val leaned in close to me and muttered in a low voice, “Come on, sweet cake.” As he moved his hands from my shoulders to my arms and gently pulled me away from them, I just followed him without putting up any resistance until we reached the mini-golf car that he had driven earlier.
Val helped me up, but my mind was elsewhere, trapped in those hateful mossy eyes.
“I’m going to the stables. I needed some space before I went back in there and shot someone in the face,” I said soon as I noticed that we’d arrived at the mansion. I hopped out of the vehicle and started walking without waiting for a response from Val.
I need to clear my head, or at least divert my mind from this mayhem.
So much had happened after Kael’s return from Italy, and I don’t even know where I would put myself in this place. I thought that thing we had back there, all those things he said to me, promises I hold on to, I believed it all was true. But he made me look like a fool. So naïve for deluding me into such fantasies that will never come true.
He broke his promises. He said he would never hurt me again, that he had changed, but those were just clownery, not a drop of sincerity.
“Lilia.”
I was too consumed with my own thoughts that I have not noticed Val following next to me. His hand suddenly wrapped around my arm, immediately halting me from my tracks.
“I’m coming with you,” he said, sympathetically looking at me.
“You don’t need to, Val. I’m sure Kael would be requesting your presence after what happened,” I replied, gently removing my arms from him and continuing walking towards the stables.
I don’t know what they talked about earlier, but I am sure, anytime soon, Kael’s anger will subside, and he will be summoning Val and discussing whatever they left off with their conversation. I just hoped that it wasn’t because of my scheme.
“Don’t worry about him. He can go fuck himself for being an asshole again,” Val muttered, falling next to me as he walked right along with my pacing.
Somehow, what he said made me laugh a bit. I’m sure he doesn’t mean that, but that was unexpected for him to do such things. He’s one of the most loyal men I know to Kael. Val is basically like a brother to him. Surely, he was jesting.
“He’ll have your tongue if he hears you speaking to him that way.”
“Yeah, he can do that, but he won’t,” he shrugs, shoving his hands into his pockets as he goes on. “Besides, I could not let you wander around on your own. Knowing you, I’m sure you’ll be tempted to go near the fences or try an adventure again out in the woods. The least I want is to find you fried along the barbed wire or end up under the large tree with a snake bite.”
My face immediately turned into a frown upon hearing the last thing he said. That happened long ago, and I thought he had already forgotten that.
“You still haven’t let that one slide off, have you?” I snide a remark as I turn my attention to him.
“No,” Val shook his head, responding to what I said. His eyes grew distant, reminiscing the incident. “It was a horrible sight to see. I swear my heart stopped beating, thought that you were dead.”
That immediately halted me in my tracks, turning to him, caught off guard. “Really?” I quizzed out, my brows furrowed deeply, somewhat deeply touched with such revelation. “You cared that much for me?”
Val came to a halt soon after noticing that I had stopped walking. He turned to face me and answered my inquiry. “I couldn’t help it. You fancy my mind.”
“And what does that mean?”
“You are an interesting woman, Lilia. I see that the first time we met. Boss Kael too,” he said and started walking. I quickly get on with my feet and cope with his long stride, huffing as I clearly remember what Kael did the very first time he laid his eyes on me.
It is abundantly clear that he has absolutely no interest in me, which I am certain of.
“He pointed a gun on my head, as I recall,” I grunted, stomping my feet with contempt.
“Ah, yes. That was because you were wounded when I presented you after the purchase,” Val quickly responded, laughing as though he remembered it all too well.
“I was considered as a damaged package.”
Even just thinking about it makes my anger towards Kael grows with each minute. That’s how I know what kind of a monster that man is despite him having a handsome face.
“But still, he didn’t shoot you,” Val pointed out, taking his boss’s side even though he was on the wrong, and I admit if it wasn't because of him, Kael would’ve blown my head into pieces, sending each part of my brain scattered all over his extravagant office.
“You stopped him just in time. He was going to pull the trigger,” I insisted, still not going to be swayed by what he was saying.
“Oh, I barely did that. The decision was all his.”