IN THE CAGE

153. FINALS

...ACE pov's...

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The figure I was waiting for finally arrived.

I have no doubts about Fawn. I knew that Fawn would come and get rid of Evan.

I know Fawn and her heart. He was a living figure and survived by having someone he loved by his side. If he had nothing, he would just end up like an undead. Because of Fawn's need to have someone she can love and protect, she won't let me die.

He will come like my angel of salvation.

Rusaku's.

I wanted to run and get to him. Encapsulate him and shower him with a kiss full of love. But, monitoring my current situation, I could only stare a smile as he came and brandished his gun towards Theo.

Near me at that moment, I saw Max approaching Evan whose life was already at the end of the esophagus. She held her son with a broken cry. His panicked voice was heartbreaking and painful to look at.

"Evan, wake up, Evan...? Evaaan, you can't go. You can't leave me here. Evan, EVAAANNNN!!! Son, wakeup. Evan, please..."

I looked at the situation and thought back to the day when Margot roared hysterically in front of my father's grave. That day, Margot fell to the death of my father with the same reaction. They are equally broken in the hands of the one they love.

At that time, I saw love and affection as a weakness. That, a feeling can be a tool that destroys you. Until Fawn finally came and became my strength.

"Oh.., Ahahahahaha." Margot suddenly laughed.

I turned towards him and saw that crazy reaction engraved on his face. She comes out from behind Jack's protection and laughs hysterically. This was the satisfaction Margot sought from the start. Seeing Maximillian trapped in despair and grief was the thing he wanted to see more than death.

"Do you feel it? Do you feel what I feel?" Margot crouches in front of Maximillian who holds Evan. He noticed how tears spilled from Max's reddened eyes. Deep wrath and sorrow were engraved on the man's countenance.

If sight could kill, Margot would probably die under Max's gaze full of fury.

"Ahahahahaha, this is how I feel, Max. This is the grief I felt when you killed my parents for your greed. You feel it, don't you? You look at it. You know what it's like when someone precious to you dies in your hands. Aaaah, this is a relief. Ahahaha..." Margot's gone crazy. He is full of obsession.

"You guys should just kill me." Max said, but what can he do?

Fawn's shot landed right in Evan's heart, there was no chance of saving him. Also, none of us had any intention of helping him at all. This is the end point. Victory was in my hands when Fawn stepped out of hiding. I had already won when Fawn decided to side with me.

"You said you wouldn't touch my son, you lied..." Max looked at me with a pointy look full of hatred. If it wasn't for Fawn's gun pointed at his head, he might have stood up and attacked me by now.

"I didn't do anything" I said. Honestly, I didn't do anything. "Evan came here already making his decision to die. You don't think he'll survive when my men are in this room, do you?"

I scanned Max before turning towards Theo who was still standing firmly and pointed his gun at me. "Evan and he won't be enough to get rid of me."

"Don't be confident. I could kill you here." Theo didn't seem to read the situation at all. Should I assert my position here?

Without a word, I swung my index finger in the air. I hinted at something to one more person who did not appear there-Rio. Then, not long after I gestured, without a sound, a bullet stuck in Theo's knee. The man fell with his knee hitting the floor. He groans in pain.

The gun in Theo's hand fell loose near his feet. Blood poured out of his knee, creating another blood there. Maximillian who realized someone was still hiding among us - while searching for the source of the shot just now.

"I don't like to mince words, so Margot." Leaving the now Max face to face with the crazy Margot, I headed towards Fawn who was still looking at me warily. I wondered what Fawn was thinking, but rather than that, I wanted to hug her now.

He is my greatest source of comfort.

"I didn't expect you to follow me here." When I came to her, Fawn did not reject me when I hugged her. I think he made the decision to stay by my side. It's relieving and fun. I feel like I can breathe freely now.

"I was worried about you, so I came." Fawn returned my embrace and buried her face in my arms.

"Sorry for taking your pleasure." Fawn's intention is to get rid of Evan. But I find no pleasure in killing anyone, Evan or Max, not a single death satisfies me. I basically, have no interest in killing anyone.

"You didn't snatch anything, now..." I rubbed Fawn's black mane while the sound of gunfire burst out loud behind. Without even looking, I knew what was going on in the back. Without even turning my head, I realized a bullet had landed on my back.

"Aces?" fawn Gumam. He's dumbfounded.

Fawn then loosened her arms from me in panic. "Aces?"

His voice greeted my ears, over and over like a scream. I looked back and saw Theo's gun in Maximillian's hands. The man shot me while Margot's bullet landed in his head. He fell behind me with a smile on his lips. That fucker. He thinks he's..ugh!

"Ace.." Uncle Jack's voice resonated large inside the greenhouse.

"Ace, don't lose consciousness.., I'll save you." the water droplets were from Fawn's tears. He sobbed in front of me full of fear. I tried to smile to calm him down, but my eyes were black.

What the hell just happened?

When I think about it, I have lost my own consciousness.

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I'm not dead, maybe that's good news. I realized this after I woke up in the middle of a quiet night.

I found my consciousness slowly when I heard someone's breath near my face. A strange machine sound faintly sounded in my ears. I opened my eyes, saw where I was.

In my brain, I began to string together memories of events that had happened to me before I lost consciousness. In my memory, a shot landed on my back. Maximillian shot me and then he was shot dead by Margot. Fawn and Uncle Jack panicked and I fainted.

It felt like it had only happened a few minutes ago, but my stiff back showed that I had been asleep long enough in this slanted and uncomfortable position. How long have I lost consciousness? What happened while I was being treated here?

Fawn, what happened to him?

Back then, when I forced myself to open my eyes, I felt two warm hands creeping down my neck. Will suffocate. The movement felt very slow and full of doubt. I thought someone was trying to kill me, and I thought I was going to die now.

Right now, even to open my eyelids feels like a very heavy effort, so.

Damn, where's Carcel when I need him? Why would he let someone break into my room and try to kill me? Does he not realize how many enemies I have in this world? Does he expect me to die?

"Haaaa.." a long sigh rang out shortly afterwards. The hand around my neck was drawn backwards. What was? Why did he give up?

I blinked my eyes, trying hard to see who was trying to get rid of me. When my eyes finally adapted to the light and my eyelids had opened, I found a white wall surrounding me.

In the same room as me, close to my reach, I saw Fawnia Alder by my side. His hands covered his face while his breathing was tired.

"Today I failed again" he lamented to himself.

Without asking what he had failed to do, I had already found the answer. Today again, Fawnia has failed to kill me.

He's trying to get rid of me.

I didn't know how to process the information, so I closed my eyes again. Fawnia and I, if the love between one of us withers, death will pick us up instantly.

It was me who killed Fawn, though,

or Fawn killed me.

"Ace, wake up soon.., I'm tired of being alone." Fawn's voice whispered kindly in my ear. Without me responding, without me opening my eyes, I felt a kiss coming from him. Landing on my lips with a tenderness that made me feel homesick. I want to grab her, return her kiss. I want to open my eyes and stare at her beautiful hazel iris.

"I love you, Ace. So please, don't sleep too long." Fawn muttered as she leaned her head against the open palm of my hand. Her cheeks felt at the end of my fingers. Warm and soft.

I love you Fawnia too. Therefore, when I wake up, I will close my eyes to the fact that you tried to kill me.

Since I love you, I will try hard to make you give up on killing me.

...Because, if you don't give up, I'll kill you....

I love you, and that word is the cage that will now lock you in my life.

...EXPIRE....

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Author's note :

Hello everyone, welcome to part with Inside the Cage. Wkwkwkwkwk. Finally this crisp story finds its end. XD I'm excited to be able to participate writing in noveltoon and share my amateur stories with all of you. Although the plot of this story is still a mess here and there, I am happy to be able to write all the way to the finish line. My only goal from the beginning was to write to the end, and yeay.

Thank you everyone for following my story, for reading and for providing long support. Although the end is not so satisfying or boring, I hope you guys understand my amateurs :"""""

Lastly, see you next time and at another opportunity. May everyone live long. I love you all.

By, Viper.