Trapped With The Devil

Section 19

Ears buzzing. He could feel pain all over his body but could not afford to just moan. When he opened his eyes there was only a white light around him. Then he could faintly see a long-haired woman bowing her head, staring at him. The woman seemed to say something to him, but everything turned dark again and the pain suddenly disappeared.

***

The truck!

The home phone slid smoothly from Mrs William's hand, hitting the marble floor under her feet.

The servants who were standing around there seemed to directly approach the host who almost collapsed following the phone he held just now.

The middle-aged woman was engulfed in tears. "No way..."

"Mrs, are you okay?!" a panicked waiter.

Lady William shook her head. "DANCE..." Her tears are getting bigger. "Eros..my son..."

***

"Are you going to like it?" emilia asked as Alex opened the car door for her.

The man wrapped his hand around Emilia's shoulder and led her into the house. "You're always thinking about what Mom likes or what she doesn't like, huh?" Next to his eyebrows raised. "Don't worry, I'll be happy. He's never been to the Maldives."

"Then we have to go there with Mom later."

Alex nodded. "Can be arranged."

When the door opened, butler—Aunta Anna— rushed over to Alex and Emilia in a hurry after hearing the sound of the couple's car.

"What a coincidence, where is Ib—"

"Master!" The middle-aged woman hurriedly bowed until she almost fell forward. "I'm sorry that I interrupted you. But..."

That expression was definitely not an expression that described happiness. Eros realized that something might have happened.

"But?" he asked after Aunt Anna did not continue her words.

"The lady's not home."

Alex gnashing. "Don't make small talk."

Aunt Anna seemed to bite her lip before replying, "Mrs to the hospital. Mr. Eros."

Emilia. Without asking any more questions, Alex turned around and ran towards the car. Emilia followed with a bit of a limp because of wearing heels.

"Alex!"

Emilia gasped while sitting next to Alex who was already wearing a seatbelt with a panicked face. The man cursed as he tried to grab the key of the car that had fallen under his feet.

"Alex, look at me!" Emilia touched the man's face with both hands. "Look at me!" he said half screaming.

Both of Alex's eyes were shaking. The man looked agitated and frightened. This was the first time Emilia had seen such an Alex.

"Calm down" said Emilia softly. "Eros will be fine. You know that, right?"

Alex shook his head while touching Emilia's hand. "All my fault." The man swallowed. "I've lost Dad, I can't—"

***

Selena again.

Eros turned his attention to the ceiling of the room. The light of the lamp looked so bright and dazzling. On the sofa near the entrance, there was Selena who was down and busy with her phone. The woman had not realized that Eros had been awake since two minutes ago.

Eros did not want to reprimand or say anything for now, but his throat was completely dry and he needed to drink immediately.

"Water."

Selena jerks. His head looked up after Eros' weak voice distracted him. He hurried to the man. "You..conscious?"

"Water."

Selena gnashing. Quickly grab a glass of drinking water and help the man to gulp it down. "Don't be stubborn or you won't be able to drink at all times" he said after seeing Eros's gaze as if reluctant to be helped by him.

Eros surrender. The man let Selena lead him until he finished off half of the water from the glass.

"Sometimes you have to reduce the stubbornness of your head."

Eros threw away her face as Selena kept her glass back on the nightstand. Just like a few days ago, he did not understand why Selena was always there when bad things happened to her. Either Eros should view her as a savior or a pesky carrier, but the woman is always present at the right time. Eros has never relied on anyone else, but has twice let Selena see her weak side.

BRACKET!

"EROS!"

Selena took a few steps back as Lady William hurriedly approached Eros with a face filled with tears.

"Why can it be like this?!" Madam Emilia sobbed, Especially when she saw the bandage on the arm and head of her youngest son. "Oh my God..this must have hurt a lot, right?"

"Not to overdo it" said Eros weakly.

"Mom's worried about you, son!"

Selena smiled bitterly. I don't know why, but his eyes were glazed over. Maybe he was just carried away when he saw the panicked face of Mrs William and her crying that never stopped. Eros was lucky, even though his father had died, but the man still had a mother who could double as a father at once. The man just forgot to be grateful.

For a long time, Selena had not heard her mother's scolding or been stared at with such a worried face. He wanted to get through the times when his mother scolded him for being too worried. Makes Selena feel so valuable. Makes Selena think that she deserves to live because there will always be a mother who loves her. Makes Selena feel, her existence.

Selena knows Eros and her mother's relationship isn't very good, so she thinks it's a good opportunity to leave them both. Sometimes calamity makes a person closer to—or further away when that person leaves us for eternity. But the name of a person will always be in the heart, even though his form will be destroyed in time.

Just like that, Eros was just a lonely figure. But the man takes refuge behind the ego and does not want to show his weak side, because he is a man.

Selena only hopes that this calamity can make Eros repair the bond that was once broken between her and her mother.

Trying to close the door without making a sound, Selena heaved a sigh of relief and rubbed a tear that seemed to be in the corner of her eyes. When he turned around he saw Sam walking in the corridor and waving towards him.

"Thank God." The man immediately hugged her tightly while giving thanks many times. "I'm glad you're okay."

Selena smiled and nodded. "We'd better get out of here."

Sam sighed softly while embracing it carefully. "You'd better stay at my apartment tonight."

When Selena and Sam get to the corner, they cross paths with Alex and Emilia. Time seemed to be running slowly, Emilia and Selena stared at each other without greeting each other. While Alex looked unconcerned and slightly ran over with a worried expression that could not be hidden.