Chapter 68

In the face of Challenges.

Be the face of strength and grace.

"Marquis?" With wide eyes that she witnessed him right there while being surrounded by several policemen already and he turned being surprised, when his ears rung from her blessed voice as he flashed an amusing smile right after seeing her standing afar at some distance. He was surely doubting Seth that he will definitely be coming without her but he was wrong.

"Yenail." The words left his mouth as if they were tied up in there and were willing to come out soon, when his legs moved on their own and he ran towards her immediately whereas on the either side, she does the same thing when she dashed towards her only affection. They hugged each other tight in front of them all, not even caring about anything else when Marquis dug his face in her neck while inhaling her scent along with tears threatening to come out soon. He tightened the embrace after feeling her warmth as if he'll lose her again, as if the world will end right here, right now, as if there will be no tomorrow, when heir scents were already mingled with each other, just like their hearts were still attached. He missed her so much. Her warmth, her smell, her everything and she also wanted the fate to be at her side when she diligently stroked his hair whereas he snuggled in her neck even more, not even caring about the surrounding for a single moment. He loved her. He loved her hard and wanted to show the world that he was still breathing just because of this only girl or else there wasn't any possible reason remained in his life now. "I missed you, Yenail. I missed you so fucking much. I missed your scent. I missed your everything." Marquis whispered when he dug his head deeper in his comfort zone which was being nothing else but her neck as he could not even think of loosening the grip of his arms around her while thinking about the thing that she'll go away again. "I was dying every moment thinking about you. Thinking about how would you be." He lifted his head as they now rested upon each other's foreheads when he breathed fast and cupped her delicate tear-stained face when he worriedly asked further ahead. "Are you okay?"

"I missed you too." While nodding her head that she sobbed between his palms when her hands held his wrists as he chuckled shyly while admiring her presence and she joined him afterwards also, along with a giggle as they both were somehow living their moment while ignoring the world around them.

Seth saw both of them from a distance when he stood at his spot while being silent. He saw how protectively that Marquis was holding her right there, not even caring about all those police men aiming the guns only at him. True, it was a believable fact for him to know that Marquis was fearless from the start, when unfortunately to Seth? She seemed safer in the hands of the bad guy as he felt pity for his own self when he wasn't that much strong enough to face such situations if any happened with him by any chance, which resembles to the current one. He'd simply lose himself and surrender by now but he saw how Marquis was holding her, not even caring about his own self, not even caring if any of the policeman will shoot him and take his life by now, when the way Marquis was holding her? He saw how he was ready to protect her till his last breath.

"He deserves you, Yenail. Not me. I'll never be able to protect you like that." Seth's dull voice held his words while watching them both holding each other's hands and smiling together, when there was a bit of essence of regret towards his own self that he felt.

"There he is!" A deep manly voice took the attention of every person present over there when all of the heads later turned towards the source of the voice and Marquis also surprisingly twirled to see the owner of the voice but he still held her hand tight in his own. He saw the man who said those words when the man was already aiming a gun towards Marquis as that man was ready to pull the trigger.

"NO!" Seth screamed from a distance when later that he immediately dashed towards the couple whereas Marquis stood there still being fearless, along with a serious look when just after moments that the man pulled the trigger.

*GUNSHOT*

When instead of the criminal? The bullet went through the chest of another man who came right in front of them while protecting the two.

The angel who gave his life while saving the Satan.

"SETH!!" Yenail screeched with wide eyes.

"SETH! NO!" Marquis shouted when he held Seth's tumbling figure from behind along with the blood now starting to drain his chest, when the next moment he glared the man from a distance who still had the gun aimed towards the criminal, whereas Louis also dashed towards Seth and held his fragile falling body into his own arms as the injured man later begun to face difficulty in breathing when the fresh scarlet blood already had Seth's shirt drained so early. Louis rested his body on the ground and saw Marquis pacing fast towards the man who shot.

"Marquis! Be careful!" Yenail worriedly screamed behind his back.

Marquis held out his own ballers when he was fiercely reaching the man who pretended to be like a hero in front of all the police station along with the other highly ranked officers as he thought of killing the most wanted criminal in the whole world currently, for the sake of his promotion and reputation but suddenly that man was terrified after seeing the rage that Marquis's eyes were holding when he was about to reach that man but was stopped by many other men holding him already, preventing him to make any move further onwards.

"You motherfucking imbecile!!" He angrily growled.

"Marquis!" His ears got distracted by her voice when he turned and saw how lifelessly that Seth was lying on the ground and was breathing hard with his own hand being placed over his blooded shirt as later after leaving the men around him, he instantly rushed towards Seth when he knelt down right after reaching him and worriedly ran his eyes over his dull, weak yet fragile figure.

"Se-Seth! No, Seth! No!" While panicking to hell that Marquis hurriedly held his hand when his vocals almost cracked while rubbing his palm. "Stay with us. Please!"

Yenail had Seth's head rested over her lap when tears already had her face drained very heavily.

"Arrest that man! Immediately!" Louis ordered in a loud pitch when he pointed towards the man who shot while being knelt down in front of Marquis, as the men around them rushed and gathered the man who shot, whereas the man glared Louis from a distance and yelled betraying trash about him right in front of the other officers.

"I sa-saved y-you, Ye-Yenail." Seth smiled while he was facing difficulty in breathing when he later gasped for air while shifting his sight over to Marquis. "You will b-be ha-happy wi-with him."

She couldn't say any word but to cry even harder when she squinted her eyes tightly and whimpered while caressing his sweet baby face.

"Those are my lines, you freaking angel." Marquis's lips broke into a weak yet forceful chuckle when he tightly held Seth's hand near his own painful chest as he felt terrible for him when without any particular reason that Seth sacrificed himself just for him.

"Really? I di-didn't kn-know that cri-criminals can say any-anything like that." Seth's cute weak giggle rung his ears with his chest rising when he breathed in.

"Seth...." Louis's low voice now made his head turn towards his direction.

"Louis. I want yo-you to for-forgive Marquis. He's cha-changed. He's not pretending any-anything. Please. I want you t-to fi-fight his case and allow him go." Seth suddenly started breathing faster after saying those words when he felt his breaths getting stuck between his dry throat.

"Don't go, Seth. You were supposed to take care of her." Marquis literally cried with his eyes tightly closed when he held his hand whereas, while being completely silent that Louis's sight darted towards another man in front of him when he saw how Marquis was holding Seth's hand near his heart along with his head low, also with his face drained in heavy yet bold hot tears, when Louis suddenly felt so broken for both of the men in front of him right now. "I'm really sorry, Seth. For every harsh word that I said to you. For every harsh thing that I did to you." Marquis stroked back those locks from Seth's forehead when he cried some more after lowering his head and sniffled. "Please forgive me."

Currently, at this moment, Seth felt bad for the words that he himself said for Marquis when he was lying beside Yenail in bed. He was wrong. He forgets and forgave everything as anyone would be reacting like Seth being in love and he does that.

"I already forgave you. Yo-You're such a nice man. Eve--Everyone wants to protect their favourite thing and you were just doing your job." Seth talked furiously now, as if he was afraid of the thing that he won't be able to conceive his last words to him. "I really want to talk to you, Marq-" He didn't get a chance to complete his sentence when with his eyes squinted that he arched his back while feeling the pain in his heart and breathed, but still that he tried to confess his last words, solemnly. "May God bless you both with uncontrolled happiness."

Seth's sweet angelic voice rung their ears for the last time while shattering Marquis's heart into many pieces when Seth's trembling hands held the hands of Yenail and Marquis as he put them together while placing his own hands above theirs and with that, he closed his eyes when his soul was taken. Whereas Marquis and Yenail looked towards each other, shockingly as they understood Seth's last wish.

The destiny took them together once again by the angel's wish. The angel who put them together again. Though they wished to be apart while leaving each other behind, but they had to come along once again, when their sights moved towards the only dead person.

"No. No! Seth, talk!" With tears continuously running down his eyes that Marquis shouted when he cried while shaking his head. "Talk. Please talk. I'm not done hearing you." Marquis than embraced his dead body afterwards and cried hard while feeling so terrible at losing this angel who sacrificed for the demon like him, when on the other side, Louis was remained surprisingly shocked. Seth was right. Marquis was truly changed with his own whole skin as he wasn't really faking anything when the affection of hugging the dead body ruptured Louis's heart. Marquis suddenly felt so small. So tiny. In front of the act that Seth did for him when he sobbed while still holding him tight near his to heart and felt his heartbeat already faded away. "Seth."

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