Dark Autumn's

21. The Section Of Secrets

Since hearing what her grandmother said at dinner a few days ago, Val has tended to be quiet and less talkative when attending her family's regular events.

Lea's better condition than before was also unable to restore Val's feelings for the better.

After today's dinner ended, Lea awaited Val's arrival in their room. Nearly thirty minutes after dinner, Val hasn't returned.

"Actually where is he?" lea monologues. Lea was also worried that Val had become quieter since the day's events, adding to the assumption that his head was stacked twice. "What is Val really hiding from me?" continued Lea.

Until the sound of the doorknob opened surprised Lea who was staring straight at the glass wall which revealed her bias sitting on the big and comfortable bed.

Val's figure appeared in a different outfit. I don't know when he replaced it. Lea focused only on the anxious look that these few days encompassed Val.

"Are you sick? Why does your face look a little different than usual?" ask Lea.

"No! I'm fine!"

"Then why do you look so moody?"

Val shook her head, she just walked towards the bed and threw herself under the thick blanket that covered half of her body.

Secretly, Lea also threw herself under the covers. Glanced at Val's momentous presence, then said again.

"I don't know what you're hiding from me Val! I hope it's not something that makes me want to get away from you!"

Instantly, Val opened both of his manics. Perfectly patterned with a frightened face.

"Sleep! It's night!"

Getting an answer he did not want, Lea changed her back to Val. His fingers crumpled irritated the blanket that covered the body to the extent of the chest. Trying to close even though it feels very difficult, until finally Lea managed to enter the subconscious and fall asleep.

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Val knows, tonight, is the night she has to meet Henny. Give themselves up as they should to do the same thing they have done so far.

Opening his eyes in the dim light, Val finds Lea sleeping in her place. Val got down the bed slowly, hoping Lea didn't wake up. Then walk out the room without sound—stuck.

And just as the door closed again, Lea opened her hazel width. Go down the bed and pull the door lever slowly so as not to be heard by Val who may not be too far away.

However, when it made it through the door slats of the room, Lea no longer saw Val's figure along the hallway which was only illuminated by a few dim lights attached to the wall as lighting that would help step on the path to get to another room.

Damnit.

Lea sped up her leg movements, hoping not to lose Val and ended up being caught by one of the Val family members.

And for some reason, his steps were directed just like that to the empty house behind the warehouse.

When it almost reached the place, the smell of the Rose flowers that stung the inhaler felt so clear. So is the mark on Lea's wrist that suddenly heats up without her knowing the cause. Lea flicked her arm a few times, but to no avail. But the sign was burning like embers that hurt his marble. Lea squealed, even holding back a groaning sound due to the pain that arose.

Henny's?

Feeling how his heart was like it was destroyed by a meteor hit, a moment later followed by the sound of a familiar man's growl.

Val?

Trying to resist the conjecture that appeared in his head, Lea muttered in her already flabbergasted heart.

Nah!

No way!

The denial.

With a step that felt heavy like it was burdened with thousands of tons of concrete, Lea approached the door of the only building that looked worn. Doubtfully touching the knob that was slightly rusty, but everything he did stopped for a moment, even when he felt it was also stopped at this time. Lea closed her mouth in disbelief with both palms, her body trembled violently, her maniknya blurred and let out heavy tears when she heard the conversation of the two presences in the room—Yang interspersed with screeches, and also sighs.

Dizzy, Lea's head was no longer able to digest what was going on in there. His feet moved backwards, away and now ran with tears that he could no longer hold. Trained, even almost fell down while pushing the dark streets amid the dark and dark that only accompanied the sound of the ringing of night animals.

"So, the one he's been hiding from me all along—"

Lea could no longer speak. He only hoped this was just a nightmare he had been having while sleeping from thinking too much about Val, and would disappear when he woke up. But if it was a dream, he should have seen his body lying there, on the bed. But there was no one there, he could not find a body lying on the bed, nor did Val look lying next to him.

Lea locked the door of the room, slumped slowly touching the cold floor. Her sleep dress just dangled when her legs were together.

It's all real!

Lea shook her head, raising both hands for her to insert between the already very messy mane. Sowing it strong with a patter that still could not stop.

Angan that he had summarized Beautiful with his man was destroyed in an instant. Only disappointment remained, which he could feel within him. Leah tried to get back on her feet. To tear and hide deep disappointment to demand an explanation. Ya—at least Val has to explain all this to him. About what he heard tonight, about the place, about the lies this family was hiding, and also—

About what Val and Henny did. []

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