I Can Hear Your Heart

9. Ghost Protector 2

I arrived at my hotel room, sitting sweetly on the surface of a soft king-size bed. It took me a while to realize that I actually got here without having to take a taxi. If I had met this ghost when I was in school, this would have been a big advantage for me because I could use the cost as an extra pocket money.

When father and mother had separated, we experienced economic stagnation especially when the father had remarried. Mother became the sole backbone of the economy.

"Darkr.." My daydream stopped because of the loud moaning from inside my bathroom. I ran and opened the door hard and my eyes were fixed on the mist that resembled a human figure, lying in my bathtub filled with water until it spilled.

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...

"Could you stop that bouncing mind of yours?!" He screams to surprise me.

Who told you to read my mind?

I screamed out in protest, then realized this was the kind of protest I might receive from people when they found out I was peeping into their minds.

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.

"Can you shut up?!" He screamed furiously and somehow the light hit my body until it was pushed against the bathroom wall. " Can you show me a little bit of gratitude after saving you? You don't know what I'm going through because I have to save you?"

His misty form slowly solidified. For the first time I could see his true form. I could see the figure of a handsome man with a body that had suffered heavy burns and grimaced in pain.

Was that due to the sunlight when he helped me earlier?

He just looked me in the face before he fell down.

Fixes. Seems right. Although it felt strange because when he hugged me earlier I did not feel a burning or hot feeling, but a gripping cold.

*a ghost cannot touch a human without inflicting pain on the human, unless he sacrifices himself to feel his own pain.

Wow, what is that? He let me

heard heart*.

He fell down like he was resting under my feet, his body shaking withstanding the pain. I tried to help him get up, but in vain. My hand went through her body. I can't even touch it. Makes me feel more guilty.

"I can't help you stand up to the bathtub again. You have to get up on your own and tell me what I have to do to help you heal your wounds."

I hope he realizes the guilt in my heart and forgives me.

Troubled, he was finally able to return to the bathtub. I took the initiative myself to add pieces of ice cubes in the refrigerator in my room into the bathtub to cool the body more.

"I'll take one big plastic ice cube in the hotel's kitchen cooler."

"Don't go." His words stopped my steps. " He's still looking for you and if he finds you now I probably won't be able to protect you."

I was stunned to hear his words.

He was trying to protect me. This ghost who out of nowhere came to be my guardian angel.

And his eyes glared at me sharply.

Where is my fault, then? Will he be a ghost, cook for angels? You ghost labil.

This time I found her sad eyes glittering mad at me. I chose to run away as soon as possible from the bathroom before he went into a rage and moved to ambush me back.

***

I just saved my duty file when I heard a faint commotion in front of my bedroom door. Removing the earphones that covered my ears, I was led to the incident that happened behind the door.

Rosta forced his way into my room. Some hotel staff said I hadn't been back since. But the man insisted. I jumped out of bed and rushed to Rosta's briefcase, which also contained Sarina's phone, and ran to the bathroom. Hiding the bag between the bathroom wall is hollow because the former place a mini heatwater machine that was removed and has not been put back by the engineering and maintenance department. I covered the howl back with a mirror.

Then my hearing heard their voices in my room.

"You see, Manager Li doesn't exist."

I ran to the bathtub, pulled up the curtain and put my foot into the bathtub, then realized there was another figure in it was casually fluttering and now glaring at me because I stepped on his half-naked body. I was just about to pull back the curtain to get out of the bathtub when her hand pulled me.

We were standing in the bathtub. His body and my body are attached.

Wow, I can really touch it. I think I can only touch her if she lets me. I tried to hold my beating heart beat, hoping he wouldn't hear it even if it felt like it was impossible because I'm the only one with a heartbeat here.

Next second the curtain of the bathtub blurred. There were four pairs of eyes now staring at us. Rosta, room manager, Cindy and a hotel security officer. I closed my eyes and chose to immerse my face into his chest while waiting for their reaction when I saw him here.

Then everything went away. Impossible.

Did you make them not see me?

I looked at his face, then found a small nod there. I just realized that looking at it turns out he's a pretty handsome and sweet ghost. His body was taller than mine, my crown was right under his chin as we hugged earlier. His face is oval and his nose is pointed. His chest was field and his shoulders were wide enough like a swimming instructor.

"I know I'm sweet and handsome." He whispered in my ear, creating a tingle in my ear because his voice was like a gentle breeze. He was clearly peeping through my mind. Obviously it's kind of an unwritten warning to me that I have to keep my mind and not think weird. " Do you intend to think strangely of me?" He teased me again. Obviously just peeked into my head. I could feel a pink hue flowing down the surface of my face.

Escaping was the thing that came to my mind to avoid it. But just now I was about to move out of the bathtub, his hand holding me back. Then slowly come down around my waist. His sharp eyes looked at me more closely and unfortunately my heart even spread. This is not logical.

Wait, is this ghost trying to tease me?

"Ckckck, do you think you're so pretty?" His mouth surprised me. Again he read my mind.

Then why are you arresting me?

I squealed in my heart just as Rosta reappeared looking at this bathtub. Maybe I feel something strange. But I don't understand what it is. He stared fixedly at the shaken water in the bathtub - around my feet. While this handsome ghost in front of me looks smiling smugly looking at me.

"No ge-er, I just want to save you. Who likes a woman like you?" He whispered. I turned my lips and made her laugh. Blissfully.

I let him laugh. Once in a while pleasing a stress ghost is okay.

Something is strange.

Rosta's heart whispered. But back to not understanding. His mind was just filled with anxiety about the evidence I had brought running away. He's back moving away.

This time I did not rush away from this handsome ghost. For the umpteenth time we came back close. Maybe if he was human, I would feel his breath blowing around the skin of my face, his racing heartbeat jumping out of his chest cavity and punching the surface of my chest skin. But he's a ghost. There was no breath that hit my skin because the only one breathing here was me. But still I felt something strange running through my body. This is the first time I have stood so close to the opposite sex, not only near I am now in the arms of a man..Yes, even though he is a ghost, but still he is a breed?

He still hugged me.

Thank you for saving me.

I stared at the gray bead of her crystal clear eyes. Then her slightly pale lips were attracted creating a beautiful smile. Ghosts can smile too.

"So I can stay with you?"

I widen my eyes. Didn't understand his request. Shouldn't ghosts live in places that are quiet and far away from human life? In the woods or in the cemetery.

He glared at me again. I was in a hurry to change my mind.

I'm not sure. But I'll let you stay for a while until you find your own place to live because you helped me.

I found a disappointed twinkle in his eyes for my answer and somehow it hurt my heart. But then he nodded as well. Just then I heard the sound of my door closing. The uninvited guests have left. Then I hurriedly jumped out of the bathtub.