I Can Hear Your Heart

29. Our Relationship

I sat by Ralph's bed. The room was quite wide with white color dominating the entire wall of the room and the bed. He was still lying there in silence, his handcuffed hands had been released. I managed to get the angels to agree to open the handcuffs in his hands even though IPTU Candra clearly strongly refused the request.

I stared fixedly at that face. Beautifully carved her face in my heart. Almost the same as the face she showed me when she was a ghost. Ralph's bushy black hair, his neat eyebrows like ants marching, his pointed nose and his sensual red lips. Her jaw was firm with her chin slightly split and her perfectly oval face framed the sweetness of the entire piece.

I held my breath and moved my index finger hesitantly. Tracing his nose and then down into a tiny niche under his nose to then touch his thin lips, chin, neck and down to the clothes he was wearing. Every now and then I pinched the surface of her cheek skin gently just to make sure it was real. He's real. I wonder if the demon allowed his spirit to enter his body?

My hand was still right in Ralph's chest when a hand held my wrist hard and shocked me. His eyes opened and looked at me with a look full of anger and hatred.

"Ralph, are you conscious? I'm glad we could meet again. I thought I wouldn't see you again." My eyes were glazed over, I smiled happily looking at him. I dismissed the fact that he looked completely different.

He will always take care of me.

He won't hurt me.

But I was wrong, his hand moved around my neck. Giving birth to the pain in my new neck trunk a moment ago received the same treatment from her.

I hurriedly tried to pull his hand from my neck. Yet futile. He got up from his lying position and immediately pulled me hard to hit the wall of the room. I tried to thrash and escape without hurting her. Eventually, he threw my body on the floor of the room. I held her hand that was getting harder and harder to choke me. My breaths. I almost ran out of air.

He once said he was dangerous to me. One because he's a boy and because he's a ghost...

"Manager Li!" The loud call was heard along with the entrance of Iptu Candra into this room. Assisted by the angels, he beat Ralph's body hard and successfully handcuffed Ralph's hand. "Are you okay?" I held my neck which hurt. But the success only lasted for a moment. Somehow Ralph managed to break the handcuffs on his hands easily, as if they were made of only worn plastic straps.

It was only his first retaliation on IPTU Candra, as his second retaliation was even more painful, as Ralph moved his hand, IPTU Candra's body reflexively flew and slammed violently into the corner of the room. He was silent and did not move anymore.

He acted to avenge the angels. It only takes the death of one angel in his hand, then the order of creation will be ruined. I brushed aside my selfishness, asking the angels to get out of this place with IPTU Candra.

I thought about ambushing him hard to break his attention to the angels I asked to get out of this place, but I had only arrived a few steps before him when he moved his hand and somehow my body was sculpting. He tried to chase after the two angels who were about to come out by carrying the body of IPTU Candra. I tried hard to let go of my body stiffness.

"Ralph, I want you to let go of my body!" I stared back into her eyes as she came to a sudden halt and glared at me. Somehow the stiffness in my body disappeared. Something that then surprised him.

He jumped back at me. Ambushed me. I dodged. To the right and he's on my right. I fell on his nursing bed with his body on top of mine. We wrestled until we fell from the bed and slammed into the floor of the nursery. His hand choked me back.

He's definitely not the person I used to know. I don't know what the demons did to him. I can't imagine it.

He once said he would take care of me. He will always be by my side. Because he loves me.

All the shadows I experienced with her flashed in my mind. When he appeared suddenly in my room in a rage I did not understand, or when he appeared and caught my body falling from the roof of the Supreme hotel, he said, when he protected me from Rosta who appeared in my room by hugging me in the bathtub, or when he took me away from the demons in the former Lamara hotel. And finally when he gave himself up by plunging into the demon hole to save me.

I grabbed her sleeve, pulled her face on my face. My tears flowed more because of the pain of his attitude even though my neck was almost crumpled.

Is this the end of my life?

If so, I would have died in his hands like he would have died to save me. I pulled his collar stronger, his handsome face drawn closer and cup. I kissed him at the end of my life. "Goodbye. Thank you for coming into my life."

Thank you for letting me be by your side.

Ralph remembered he had said the same thing..... The fog filled his mind.

"Chernivtshh!" He shouted and held his head as if a heavy pain had hit him.

***

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"But.wait..." Emely stopped her meal that had been almost exhausted in a short time due to the delicacy of my cooking. He turned his eyes to look at me from head to toe.

He has a beautiful face. A pair of sparkling gray eyes, a pointed nose and sensual red lips.

Emely said in her heart while guessing which girl I had kissed.

"Stop thinking about the non-no" I said with a face that met red.

Huh huh? it seems like he's back to reading my mind. And her face was red, wow this is just my guess or it's true she remembers someone she kissed. Was that person his first love?

I heard Emely's heart speak again.

"If you know who that girl is, maybe we can figure out who your family is."

"Just finish your meal and go back to sleep." I said ketus because I realized the girl would not be able to help me find my family or my identity. Because that girl is Emely. He stole my first kiss. The first time we interacted in his room. When she tried to kick me out and I ran over her body until she slammed into the bed, and Emely's lips touched mine....

"Why is your face red? Do you remember anything?" the burrows frustrate me. "Tell me who that girl is, I'll find out about her. You're too handsome not to have a lover and the first kiss is too memorable to be forgotten. So you must remember....Who's the girl? Tell me."

"Stop teasing me. I really don't like humans like you. You're too brave, too intimate..."

"You mean like this?" Emely jumped up to me holding my body with her two arms outstretched on the wall, she locked me in the middle. That closeness rattled me. I hated it when I realized my deep feelings for her. He stared at my physicality.

There was another mist filling Ralph's mind. Another memory of Emely being similar to the face of the woman before him and him....As he was soaking in a bathtub and Emely ran into the bathroom and found water in the bathtub that spilled fullness and swayed as if someone was soaking there. He was a ghost back then and was invisible to Emely...

And the woman's voice hit her. There was a memory that possessed him as well. The same memories he had...

Ah, what era is this? Don't tell me today's ghosts also like to soak in bathtubs.

And speaking of soaking in a bathtub, is a ghost also bathing naked? What is the body of a ghost? What if he's a male ghost his body is also like a man? Haha, so how is his body shape? Was he a middle-aged man with a fat belly or a thin young man? Or a man with a body sixpack results of regular exercise in the fitness center? If it's wow, there is enough that can be used as an eye wash...

Who told you to read my mind?

I protest.

My mind is mine, I can think whatever I want. Including if I think: in my room there are ghosts. A fierce ghost man. Maybe he died by suicide because he cheated on his wife or was killed by his wife's affair because he hated all women....

"I didn't kill myself or be killed."

Oh, he didn't commit suicide or be killed, maybe an accident took his life and because he had so many sins he was stuck in this world and now lives in my room.

***

Ralph clutched his head tightly. The angels told him that the demons had kidnapped and killed his lover... Then who is this woman? She was very similar to her Emely...

"How about we make a deal between us. " The memory hit his mind again. He could hear this woman in front of him also reminiscing about this story. "I'll stop teasing you as long as you tell me who you are. Your name, your origin, your family and how did you die?"

"Is that important?"

"It's very important."

"What if it doesn't?"

"I won't stop teasing you" I threatened.

"You know? I'm dangerous." I threatened him back. He smiled mockingly. "First because I'm male and second because I'm a ghost." He did not even seem to fear me and instead welcomed my threat with a chuckle. Don't want to be intimidated. "I can take your life, possess you..."

He doesn't care about my words. He thinks I'm too good to do that to him. I pulled her body and then she felt something that made her freeze. My lips, which he thought were soft and tender, felt like they were touching his lips.

Next to my hand was coiled around her waist and my other hand felt on her back neck. I heard him say in his heart: 'this is not my first kiss, I had kissed my girlfriend in college. But of course it was my first time kissing a ghost and I don't know why I like it. I love the sensation of heat hitting my body because of this activity. I like the sensation of his lips and his real touch only on my nape and waist, but it brings a big impact like a gentle breeze tickling my whole body.'

She let her instincts lead her back to my kiss. His hands moved slowly in my hair. Then he realized something, he couldn't touch me. I did deliberately turn transparent and let her touch penetrate me.

"I can't touch you."

He's squealing. I grinned mischievously. "But I can touch you" I said and reunited our lips. It was our second kiss and if she knew, I wish I was alive to be with her forever.

***

The astral creatures caught him again. He was screaming hysterically. Then I, a shadow like mist, attacked the invisible creatures and saved them. I threw down the creature that attacked him, back into the hole. And that man, in the general manager of the hotel named Mr. Mario, helped him get up when I couldn't even help him, he sat in pain holding his neck. My heart aches when he's hurt.

Then the memories flashed in his mind, he remembered just like today, a few days ago I was also the one who saved him from these evil creatures. Holding his body in my arms. Prepare to face the creatures to save him. Obviously he also guessed that I was the one who made him forget these memories because it was too horrible for him. Because more than that, I want to protect her from those evil creatures so as not to know where she is. Removing those memories from his mind was like erasing the traces so that those demons would not know of his existence because they could not read his mind about that mystical event.

The other astral beings compactly moved against me. Assisted me. They're ganged on me.

"Use your sword and save him!" I heard him yell at the General Manager. "Save Alex!"

"We need to get out of here as soon as possible before this building really collapses."

He snatched the sword from the General Manager's hand as I slammed it back down after the evil demons threw me against the wall.

I'm still fighting there putting those demons back in their holes. Finally there were two demons left when the General Manager who could not force him to leave instead pulled him into his arms. He struggled, but in vain... His eyes locked on me.

There was sadness in his eyes when our eyes met.

I will always take care of you.

I pledge.

Have you had dinner tonight?

If not. I've prepared it for you in the room. It might have been very cold.

I let him hear my heart. My eyes looked at him deeply before I jumped into the demon hole with the two demons in my arms.

"Alex!" He was screaming so loud. Stumbling so that Mr. Mario releases his embrace.

Thank you for letting me be by your side.

He was crying very hard. My heart hurts so much. It was like dying back when I realized I was going to lose her forever.

If God gives me a chance, I'll take care of him for the rest of my life.

The deg!

"You have to live." His voice sounded faint, but I could feel his body clutching at me so tightly. There were tears falling on my face. She was crying for me. Her hands trembled as she pulled me into her arms for a while before putting my body back on the floor. He broke through the door of the ward with all his strength. It should not have been broken down because the room was made of the hardest material in the world, but after a few times he managed to knock down the door.

Then he hurriedly carried my body outside the room and made the angels run away.

"Please save him!"

I heard that scream before I fell unconscious.