Dark Autumn's

22. Disgrace

Cold and humid air filled the room. Outside, the moonlight shone quite faintly within the Full Moon. Val walked with tired and broken steps.

If only he knew the life he lived had to be like this, he would be very grateful when his parents used to throw it in the lake without anyone who would find—mati. But all is not like that, having died, now he lives in a more terrible scope than death.

For some reason, the passageway he was currently walking through felt colder than the surface of his skin. More terrifying than the fairy tale Nana used to read to her when she was a child.

And unfortunately, when he managed to open the door leaf of the room he occupied with Lea, he found the girl sitting on the bed with a feeling that looks chaotic and destroyed.

Val quickly closed the door and was about to approach where Lea's current position was. However, his steps stopped when Lea floated her arm in the air. Gesticulating Val not to come any closer. Instantly the wide stride came to a halt, stagnant with pupils pounding between eyes. The haggard face turned stiff.

The mane that was dangled was messy, visible flashes of tears that were held back from Lea's beads, and also a long nightgown that looked messy and dirty. Val was overcome with a great fear.

"Le—" he said as he tried to increase the number of steps to cut the distance between them.

"Stop saying!" lea said in a flat tone.

Suddenly, silence enveloped the vast room. Val who was silent, and Lea who tried to resist all the rumbling of anger that at any moment was ready to burst out uncontrollably.

"Just answer the question I asked!"

Val stared with an indistinguishable look, all wrestling into one when he heard faint Lea take a weak breath.

"What's your relationship with Henny?"

Val chuckles, laughing at himself which isn't even funny. Stupid, he felt like he was really stupid.

"You won't believe it if I say it!"

"Tell me!" sahut Lea flat. He had already lost half of his control, but tried to keep it down.

Val's heart melos.

"You must have seen it!"

"No! I just heard it! So give me an explanation!"

Val doesn't know what to say. It was a disgrace that he turned into a secret.

"Henny, is my owner!" answer's short.

"So, you mean, you belong to him in bed?" lea said with a terrible pulse of pain.

Lea rubbed rough her disheveled face as she watched the nod from Val. Staring at the ceiling of the room to hold back his tears.

"It's the only way I can survive!"

"I wouldn't force you to stay, if after knowing all this, you wanted to leave me! You're free to get out of here if you want!"

Lea tilted her head deepening the eye link on Val's figure.

"But one thing you need to know, Henny won't let go as easily as you think!"

Lea smiled miris. "Then why? What difference does it make if I live or die?"

Val was astonished, his gaze turning heartily upon hearing what Lea had just said.

"I know if it should end up as a redeemer, but—" Lea paused for a moment to cut the distance with Val. "—didn't you say it earlier!" the whisper was right in front of Val's face.

Val's fingers were clenched perfectly as Lea's warm breath greeted her face and dim.

"In order not to hurt my heart like this!" he still brazes the view on Vallen's sapphire blue bead.

A moment later, Lea stepped back. Feet bare and dirty will splash wet soil dragged on the floor, shaken, until staggered and fell back on the edge of the bed.

"Sorry.." Val said slowly, almost like a whisper.

Lea shook her head, there is nothing to forgive according to Lea. Because it's all too late, and it hurts. "No need to apologize! Everything is going as it should! As you all want!" sembilu.

The two were silent for a moment, only looking at each other in the destruction that already stood with a solid foundation, and ready to be built to rise higher.

"Go back to your father! It's the only way you and your future son can survive!"

Lea smiled obliquely, "Our son? Even we do that without love!"

Val was again surprised by the spicy sentence that came from Lea's lips. Val was wide with a dim sapphire blue bead.

"If you present this child only as the redeemer of your curse—" Lea paused, choking on the saliva that suddenly descended through the esophagus. "— I'm happy to take his place!"

"No! I'll protect you both!"

"Protect? You even became slave—"

"I'll do it!" sahut Val fast. "Protect you even if you end up losing yourself!"

For some reason, Lea was not willing to hear that.

"So I beg you one more time, for the last time, for you! Stay with me after you know all this shameful stuff! Please hold on.."[]