A Lionel Si Casanova

Chapters. 11 I want to protect you

They arrived at a cafe.

 

Bellina sighed in her chair. Reddick knows now he's a real bitch. But he should be able to talk to this woman seriously.

 

"Say. I'll listen to you." Bellina surrendered. It seems Reddick's words about his mother's father made Bellina leave the grocery trolley and choose to sit in the cafe in front of the supermarket.

 

Reddick knew Bellina loved her family very much. He wanted to marry her because papa was close to his family.

 

"Agatha will ask you to marry me." This sentence was immediately in response with the burning eyeballs wanting to get angry. "I'm sorry, if this doesn't make sense."

 

"You're apologizing, maybe I won't forgive you, Lion." Bellina's eyes looked angry.

 

"I knew. I'm sorry once again, but you have to listen to what I'm saying Bellina." Reddick humbled himself to gain Bellina's trust.

 

"Mama wouldn't ask me to do that, Lion. Don't make up the impossible. I'm still Reddick's wife. There was no way I could have married another man when he had just died. Anyway ... I don't want to get married." Bellina's eyes look sad.

 

Reddick felt a soft feeling pass through his heart. Bellina still wanted to be his wife, it was a little heartwarming for him.

 

"You are young. Can't still build a household with another man. You have plenty of time for that,” said Reddick trying.

 

"Don't teach me, Lion. You don't know what a home is and are loyal. You are a player. There's no way you understand the sacredness of marriage."

 

Is correct. What Bellina said was true if now she was Lionel. But this body is not the real Lionel. He's Reddick. His heart belongs to Reddick. A man who holds loyalty.

 

"really. I don't know about marriage. So let's just say we're playing. Marry me." Reddick tried again.

 

"What's your reason for telling me this? Aren't you and my in-laws very close?" bellina asked suspiciously.

 

"I just want to protect you. Protect from your late husband's family" Reddick said.

 

"So you think I'm in an unsafe position?" bellina asked dismissively. Of course he would behave like that. Because everything Lionel said made no sense.

 

"Yes. You'll believe me when Agatha talks to you."

 

"I can't believe it,” Bellina insisted.

 

"Please. You can't believe it, but try to follow my advice. Speak out loud to reject Agatha's offer to marry me."

 

"I don't know what you mean. You asked me to marry you to protect me, but now you're asking me to refuse." Bellina's like a toy.

 

"Before Agatha herself speaks to you, I want me to say this first. Then the matter of me asking you to reject my marriage offer when Agatha spoke, it was just to test her. Since Agatha's desire is so strong to marry you to me, I know she'll show her true nature when you argue."

 

"You sure?"

 

"Yes." Yeah."

 

"What makes you want to protect me? You're someone else."

 

Because I love you, Bellina. But that sentence Reddick couldn't say. There was no way this woman could believe the word love came out of the mouth of a playboy like Lionel.

 

"Because Reddick will definitely do that when he finds out you're in a dangerous situation." This guy's trying to take Reddick's point of view. This sentence made Bellina speechless. Maybe she remembered her husband.

 

"I'll try to believe you."

 

Bellina followed the advice of Lionel as her in-laws talked to her in the reading room, and Agatha really showed her true nature. The woman became like everyone else. Bellina realized one thing ... He's not safe.

 

***

 

 

"I'm going to marry her. Protecting her from her husband's stepfamily" said Lionel determined.

 

"Did he agree?"

 

"I haven't got an answer yet. I just talked about my wish without asking him for an answer."

 

"Why?"

 

"He needs time. My story about Agatha who is actually cunning, there is no way that it can directly affect her. Because all this time, she knew Agatha and Amber was a good person. They had never been so bad to Bellina, of course she would not easily believe it. I just wish Agatha really showed her true nature to Bellina. And with that, Bellina believed me." Reddick said that fiery.

 

Delvin was silent not responding immediately.

 

"I'll make you a Cappucino" said Delvin.

 

"No. Americano only," said Reddick. Delvin who was about to brew Cappucino was surprised. Look at his friend in wonder. He sighed.

 

"You seem to have been very sorry for the woman's life. Even about her relationship with her husband's family" said Delvin. Reddick who frowned was thinking while looking down, now looked up. He's surprised. Then it dawned on him that he was in Lionel's body.

 

"Ah, that's just my estimate" Reddick said.

 

"You look like everyone else, Lion." Delvin.

 

"Other people? How's it possible?"

 

"Of course it's impossible, but I feel like you're 180 degrees different from the Lionel I know. Even I don't feel like I know you now." Delvin who has been busy in the pantry now appears with a glass of Americano.

 

"On women?" reddick asked while receiving a glass of sodor from Delvin. The most prominent of a Lionel is a female enthusiast. I like to change women over and over.

 

"Especially that. A lot has changed for you."

 

"It's still me. Everyone can change, right?" Reddick.

 

"I'm not sure."

 

"Recarely start now." Because I can't possibly act like Lionel because I'm Reddick Wyclif.  Silence while watching the man in front of her.

 

“I will try to be sure that you are indeed someone else,” Delvin said seriously. Reddick took a breath. Either relieved or alert.

 

***

 

Reddick repeatedly tried to call Bellina's number stored on Lionel's phone. But not connected. Even at the reject. Reddick frowned.

 

"She still won't take my call?" reddick asked on the flat object in his hand. He chose to put it on the table and let out a breath. Look out the apartment window.

 

His body moved away from the chair and closer to the door. During his stay at Lionel's apartment, Reddick never once explored it. He just sleeps, takes a shower and sits in the reading room.

 

The night sky looks bright because there are many stars there. He hadn't looked up for a long time. To that beautiful sky. He often feels less good. Especially in the household.

 

Bellina, I remember that dark time. Where I see your tears. Maybe I misinterpreted it was a fake. This second life is really a punishment for me. Fate wants to show me how stupid I used to be.

 

Reddick's bead pinched the feeling of seeing someone familiar down there. Reddick's closing in on the concrete balcony railing.

 

The bellina!

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