Chapter 87 - The Apple of Her Eyes
Later that night…
Davi was lying on the bed when Sei walked in. He sat on the edge of the bed for a while before he slowly lay down beside her without removing his mask.
The entire room was silent but it seemed like a strange familiar feeling was brewing inside Davi"s heart as she looked at the man beside her.
Sleeping in this bed for almost a month without him was sad and uncomfortable for her. Now that Sei was right beside her, she just wanted to hug him and squeeze him hard in her arms.
"S-Sei?"
The moment Davi called his name, Sei immediately turned his head towards her. However, he was surprised because the girl was hiding her face behind a small white teddy bear.
"You"re the one who gave me this that night, right?" she asked and Sei"s gaze fell onto the face of the teddy bear. He remembered what happened that night so he knew that the teddy wasn"t techinically from him.
Davi then hugged the bear in her bosom as she continued talking. "This little guy actually became your subst.i.tute since then."
The girl was smiling as she squeezed the bear even tighter.
However, for some reason, Sei wasn"t pleased and even glared at the bear in her arms before he suddenly reached out his hand to her.
"Give it to me."
"Eh?" Davi"s brows knotted curiously, but she still gave the bear to him. Sei then took the bear from her and placed it on the table right away. Davi just blinked and was even more puzzled.
"You don"t need it anymore," he said.
"…" Davi was speechless as question marks began dancing inside her brain.
"Because I"m here now."
As soon as she heard what he just said, she coughed quite a few times and her hand reflexively covered her mouth. She was shocked to the core as she turned bright red. Gos.h.!.+ W-when did this man become this good in spewing cheesy lines? Are you trying to beat me at my own game?
Davi"s heart was fluttering like crazy. But, she knew that he was probably not aware that his words were so dang romantic.
Thinking about it made her felt a bit jealous at how easily he could make her heart flutter. At the same time, she realized that Sei seemed to be changing for good as time went by. As she looked at him, she couldn"t help but feel a warm fuzzy feeling. She couldn"t believe that the terrifying monster she met nearly two months ago was becoming a soft and adorable masked creature that somehow ended up being the apple of her eye.
"Sei. Can I hug you?" she then asked. Sei didn"t get the chance to reply because Davi immediately wrapped her arms around him, hugging him tightly as though she had just found a long lost, lifesized, teddy bear.
At that moment, an inexplicable feeling of comfort and peacefulness enveloped Davi"s entire being that she immediately fell asleep without even saying goodnight.
Sei, on the other hand, who lay frozen the moment she hugged him, remained motionless. He could feel the warmth of her body and hear the soft sound of her breathing. He could feel the beating of her heart.
Her embrace was like a fire enveloping him, wildly burning the wall of ice that he built up around him throughout the years.
Moments pa.s.sed by until Sei finally moved. He reached out and removed his mask with the hand that wasn"t trapped. Then, he stared at the girl in his embrace who was hugging him as if she never wanted to let him go.
He stared at her for quite a while before he slowly turned towards her and finally embraced her back.