
Both of Elie's eyes blinked repeatedly, barely able to believe what she was hearing. It turns out his guess is right if Mikel is Mike, a childhood friend and first love who he realized late. Losing Mike for years makes him realize the meaning of the man in his life. The blank he felt, because Mike always colored his days with sweet words. In the past he has always made mistakes to the man, driving away even hating Mike's possessive attitude who claims he belongs to the man.
"You're really Mike?" Elie had difficulty speaking, what she heard made her unable to decipher what she wanted to convey at this time.
Mikel nodded in response with a warm smile. It turned out to be a relief, the stone that seemed to hit his chest suddenly eroded.
"Dear, it's me. Are you happy right now, hm?"
Elie nodded her head full of tears that kept flooding her face nonstop. Before then hugging tightly the body of the man who had been so long as he missed. For a long time he had not heard the call of affection from Mikel's lips which had been pinned by the man to him.
Mikel certainly returned the embrace of the woman, her lips repeatedly sprinkled on the top of Elie's head. Mikel smiled accompanied by the wet corner of her eyes, but hurriedly she wiped it when she realized Elie was letting go of her embrace.
Both of Elie's hands swung in the air, about to cupper Mikel's face, but had not had the palm of his hand landed on Mikel's face, the woman hissed as she felt intense pain in both palms.
Seeing her woman in such pain, Mikel immediately grabbed both of Elie's hands. "Look, you hurt yourself, Sweetheart." Putting on an anxious face, Mikel blew the burns on Elie's right and left palms in turn. "It must have hurt a lot" he said later, blowing the wound again and again.
"It hurts." There was the sound of Elie's voice holding back the pain. "But seeing you here can ease the pain." Elie lowered her head, with a shy blush she said so.
Mikel who heard him smile knots, he stopped his activities blowing the palm of Elie's hand and examined the two female hazel eye beads. Her fingers were busy tucking the hairpin behind Elie's ears. Before then Mikel kissed the woman's lips briefly.
"I'll treat your wound. Where's the medicine box?" said it.
The treatment of Mikel caused a reddish tinge on Elie's face, thus making Mikel chuckle with anxiety.
"In the closet there." Elie showed me the location of the medicine box. Although Villa Magnolia is rarely visited, but the layout of the goods is always in place and never moved.
Mikel leads Elie to sit on the edge of the bed, while she picks up a medicine box in the closet. Once he had found the medicine box, Mikel swung his way back to the bed, the man then buried his body on the edge of the bed. Mikel painstakingly treated Elie's wounds, occasionally the woman grimaced as the soft cassa hit her skin with alcohol.
"Hold Sweetheart, the pain won't last long." And Mikel helped to reduce the pain in her palm by blowing it. Then start rubbing again with a burn ointment. After almost dry, Mikel bandaged the bandage starting from the left palm, until then the right palm of Elie.
"Don't get water." Mikel placed both of Elie's palms over the woman's thighs.
Elie did not say, he just traced Mikel's face from the eyes to the man's lips. Indeed his face looked different from eleven years ago, except for those eyes. Green hazel-colored eye beads that have always looked warm and even full of love in it.
"Why did you change your face?" Elie's question certainly made Mikel flinch. But a second later he was able to set his chest that re-rumbled if reminded of the dark events eleven years ago.
Now both of them sit on the bed, leaning back on the headboard. Elie's head is seen leaning against Mikel's right shoulder, listening to stories about Mikel's past. Sometimes Elie wiped her tears, so painful and painful that Mikel and her family felt.
"Why didn't you ever come to see us? You know, Daddy and Brother Ar won't stay silent to see you suffer like that." Elie regulated her breathing which turned into tightness. He could not imagine the life of Mikel at that time who had to lose both parents, to have to change his face to hide and avenge.
"No Elie, I don't want to involve anyone. It's enough for me to see the people I love get hurt and die." I don't know, seeing the people he loved have to die and leave him for good, made him feel a deep trauma. And he did not want it to happen again if it involved the Romanovs. Moreover, Arthur had been in a coma, making him increasingly not want to involve them.
"But you don't know if Daddy and Sis Ar aren't ordinary men. They-"
"I know who Ar and Uncle Vier are. Because I already knew who they were, it made me even less willing to involve them. I will avenge my parents' deaths in my own way." Mikel interrupted Elie's words, knowing what the woman was trying to say. Although his abilities cannot be compared to Uncle Vier and Arthur, Mikel is confident in his abilities. Proven all this time he was able to survive, armed with brain and physical abilities to get rid of the enemies. It's just that he hasn't been able to defeat the uncle and his group.
Elie justifies his sitting position to be upright in order to freely look fixed on Mikel's face. "I understand, but please share your burden with me in the future. Although there's not much I can help you with, but at least I can be around you all day and encourage you."
A look at Mikel's smile, looking closely at Elie's face. Then tuck her fingers in between her hair. "thank you. I'm so happy to be around you like this and from the time I've always loved you, I can't"
Her sentence was interrupted when Elie suddenly buried her body in Mikel's arms. Until making Mikel gasp but returned his female embrace.
"I love you so much too, Mike."
Mikel's lips formed a wide arch when he heard the expression of the woman's feelings. Simple but so meaningful to her, Elie never said long ago that she loved herself. He thought that Elie would never welcome his love and just consider herself no different from Arthur. But this time blatantly, the woman expressed her feelings without hesitation.
Mikel closed his eyes and drowned his face in the recesses of Elie's neck. Inhaling the scent of her female body that was so soothing. He leaned closer, clenched even tighter, not wanting the hug to come off. Mikel was terrified that today was just a dream.
To be continue
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