The Butterfly Trap

Part 47's

I felt the relationship getting unhealthy, every time I was about to get out Zurich always watched over me like an eagle eye watching its prey, although after the incident he had never forced himself on me again but he rarely started talking to me, only sometimes he appeared behind me and suddenly hugged me.

I who still have a heart for him also can't bear to refuse, sometimes I also try to think about Zurich's feelings but the fear of my death is more terrible for me than my love for him.

That night I stood on the porch looking at the night sea illuminated by the moonlight, thousands of stars dotting the sky like glittering jewels, I sipped the red wine that was in my hands.

" Why haven't you slept?"

Suddenly Zurich had appeared beside me, she was wearing a loose white shirt that was not bagged so that her city-box-shaped abdominal muscles were beautifully plastered facing me.

" I can't sleep!" I answered not once to look at him.

" Are you still mad that I locked you in here?"

I turned my body to face him, looking at the blue pupils looking at me with a sad look, his eyes glazed over as if his tears were about to fall in that instant, I sighed.

" How could I be angry with you, you've stolen my heart, no matter how you treat me I could never hate you, maybe I'm that stupid, but whatever my day is, I can't control my heart, the more I want to get away from you the more I get hurt by it".

" Why do you keep running away from me? why don't you think about trusting me just once?" ask her in a soft tone.

He stepped closer to me then dropped his head on my shoulder, I gasped a little but I let him be like that.

" I never intended to hurt you, I just.I hurt when I heard you leave, like my heart was slashed, I said, though I believe you also have the same feelings as me but why did you leave? maybe to me you're my priority but not yours".

I could hear her voice trembling and warm water drenching my shoulders where her head was, I was stunned.

' Is this boy crying? this crazy boy crying? I must have been hallucinating' I thought I was trying to look at her with my side of my eye but our eyes met each other and I quickly turned my face away.

" What do I have to do to make you believe me? why is this pain so painful? I feel like I can't help it but I can't let you go either, how am I supposed to live without you here? I'm used to your existence, why are you so cruel to just leave me? am I the only one who thinks that you and I are us? am I the only one who can't imagine my future without you?"

I gulped, Zurich's words made a sense of pain radiating from the upper reaches of my heart, it was as if it was gnawing at my chest.

" I........"

I again gulped, the words I wanted to convey were stinged in my throat, I held back the puddles of tears on my eyelids from falling.

" I'm afraid you'll kill me if I say it" I hesitated in a very quiet voice.

He got up and looked straight into my eyes, there was a bitter feeling emanating from his eyes, his eyes were still wet with a cry that was not heard earlier,

" What do you mean I'm gonna kill you? what kind of shit are you saying? which cruel man killed the man he loved?"

" What do you think I should do when I hear with my own eyes you'll eliminate me?" yelled at him.

" A. Q. When did I say that?"

I turned to face the late night scene, back I sipped my red nod, it seems that I have started to enter to the point that I said the things I had been hard at keeping.

" What if I told you I was the one you were looking for?"

" The last heir of the Mgcnagal family!" I shouted along with his words about his first love girl.

He who heard my words flabbergasted, he pulled my shoulder to look at him, I just stared down, I did not dare look at him.

' Mampus! What side are you doing? why did you give her? now it looks like you're ready your head will roll into Lanta'.

" Try repeating, you heir..."

" The last heir of the Mgcnagal family you're looking for!" I said it quickly.

" Now you're gonna eliminate me, aren't you? do it quickly so that I don't endure the pain any longer, it seems like I've become a fool out of my love for you!" I said as I closed my eyes, waiting for how he would finish me off.

She laughed so hard that I opened my eyes, I saw her close her eyes with my hands.

" Are you messing with me Si? it's not funny anymore!"

" Do you think I'm joking now? I tell you I'm risking my life, and I say I'm playing?"

" You...really the last heir of the Mgcnagal family?" repeated again.

I nodded my head.

" Why do you think I keep running away from you when I say I like you too, you think I'm the kind of person who would play around with people's feelings?"

Zurich stepped onto the porch fence shakily, he stared deep into the dark sea, his hands resting on his body and fingers intertwined, he turned his head towards me.

" So that's the secret you've been covering up all this time? now that I understand why you didn't want to register our marriage at the center, it's certain that your data was recorded there, that's why you know so well about Garaga Q and don't want to tell me who taught you, it all makes sense now" he said.

" Who else knows about your identity?"

" In addition to you, Marquis Rafael, Miranda, the Prophet and also Stella".

" That's all?"

" Omm. i... Fengyin also knew about it".

" How can you tell him so easily but you have to make me do all this so you can tell me, or maybe he's more important to you than you? so you don't trust me?"

" No, Fengyin knew before I told him, he said my grandmother was his friend, I can't say this but since it's wet I'll tell you everything, Fengyin is not from the Sui country but rather from the Demon Region, she knows my grandmother and grandfather well, which is why she always helps me when I'm in trouble".

He was flabbergasted, not believing the information that had just come out of my mouth, he was facing me, trying to convince himself that what I just said was not the truth.

" Then what is his position in the Demon territory, there is no way he is just a regular resident, then why did he not appear in the festival yesterday? though many emissaries from the region are coming?"

" I don't know, he said he's investigating the homunculus and its generals, because their presence upset the balance, he's also helping Miranda to get information about the monsters".

" Unbelievably, I suspect that he's not an ordinary person but that he's a friend of your grandparents? so how old is he now? he still looks young and charming".