I stood before him, damn speechless and surprised. Have I been tricked by Zacky? What’s the meaning of all this? I watched his every move, as he dropped the cigarette from his fingers down to the ground. This is just great. Just a fucking mistake to come down here and let myself became vulnerable again.

I turned my heels and started to walk away from there hastily but then suddenly I felt a hand grabbed me by the arm and spun me around until I was buried inside a warm embrace, an embrace so tight that I missed so much.

“Addie..” he called me softly but in such urgency and I just snapped from my dream-like state. I pushed him away harshly but his arms found themselves around me and wrapped me even tighter.

“Get…off..me!!”

“No, baby. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. I missed you so fucking much, Addie.”

“Bullshit, Brian! Just stop all this bullshit!”

I managed to crack away from his breathtaking hug and I didn’t realize how hard I cried because I can’t really see him clearly from all the tears in my eyes. He took a step forward to touch me again but I stopped him – by pulling out my gun.

“Don’t you dare take a step closer or I swear I’m gonna pull the trigger.”

Brian was stunned and frozen, his eyes wide as he gazed down from the gun to my teary eyes. But then his body relaxed, his eyes hooded down on mine, his steps increased slowly until he was right in front of me, towering over with the tip of my gun pressed hard on his chest. Directly on his heart.

“Go ahead baby. My heart is yours to do whatever you want.”

I was shaking, not knowing what to do because to be honest I don’t wanna hurt him at all. Fuck I don’t.

“You’re lying.”
“No I’m not.”
“You’re getting married the day after tomorrow.”
“Not anymore.”
“What?”
“You heard me.”

He raised his hand and snaked inside his jacket pocket, my gun still pointed to his chest. He brought out a silver ring from it and held it in front of me. I frowned at it, is that…his wedding ring? Without realizing I lowered my gun to take a good hard look at it.

In one swift move he threw the ring away and landed both of his palms on my face, his thin lips pressed on mine. He sucked my lower lip gently and ran his tongue on it. I refused to give him access. But he didn’t give up. This reminded me of our first kiss by the beach. How he would slowly win me over, with his arms snaked around my waist and pulled me closer gently.

“Addie,” he parted and whispered on my lips. “Let me in, baby. I missed you too damn much.”

“No. you will break my heart again.”

He sighed and blew a warm breath on my face. His forehead rested on mine as he swam deeply into my eyes. I don’t know why my knees still buckled under his touch and all my defense just fall away when he started to stroke my cheek down to my lips with his fingers.

“I swear I won’t do it again. I’m sorry. You’re the light of my life, Addie.”

Usually I would cringe at the cheesiness of that kind of sentence but tonight it melted my heart again, like it always did everytime he spoke with his sweet little mouth. I put my handgun back to its shaft and took his face closer, catching his lips. Something that I had been dying to do all this while.

He granted access for me immediately and slid his tongue through my parted lips as I buried my fingers in his spiky hair. He moaned in my mouth and lifted me up a little higher, pressing my body close to his and forcing me to tiptoe a little bit. But then he pulled away, both of us gasping for air.

“Are you hurting anymore?”

I shook my head, telling him that my wound was healed.

“Good.”

Then he continued to crash his lips on mine, his body moving me backwards until I was pinned against the wall of a dark alley nearby. Shit, luckily nobody was passing by or else we’ll be caught like teenagers right now.

He moved his mouth down to my neck and I tilted my head to the side, giving him clear access to it.

“Addie,” he whispered on my collarbone and bit it softly.

“Hmm yeah?”

He raised his head up, staring into my eyes deeply. “Let’s run away together.”

---

“CHEERS!!”

The girls stood in a circle, raising their shot glasses high - celebrating the woman of the hour who happily clinked her glass away. Stood among them, her twin sister, not really feeling content with her.

"Aw come on Val. Don't be a fun sucker. Lighten up a little! It's your sister's wedding for God's sake!"

Valary glared at Gena, her eyes menacingly pierced when she turned her gaze away to her sister, Michelle.

"I'm going to the washroom."

She excused herself and went away from the scene, leaving Michelle, Gena and Lacey baffled with their beverages. Michelle took a chance to follow her twin and when she caught up from behind, she grabbed her shoulder swiftly.

"Val, I'm sorry about what I said to you the other day. I was in a pressure, with Brian cheating on me and everything. I thought, you know, you of all people would understand me..since-"

"Chelle, what the fuck have you done?"

"What? What do you mean?"

"The airport assassination attempt. Was it really you?"

Michelle blinked nervously, her eyes gave away guilty conscience but her lips curved upwards a bitter smile.

"No! What makes you think that? Look, I knew Brian cheated on me, like he always did but I didn't do anything Val. I thought he really have changed when he agreed to get back with me but I was wrong."

"So now? Has he changed at all?"

Michelle smiled sincerely this time, her hands crossed upon her chest. "Yeah, I can tell that he has. He stopped getting in touch with that security girl. I checked his phone. He deleted her number.”

Valary heaved out a sigh and shook her head. Somewhere deep in her heart she wanted for Michelle to be happy, to find happiness of her own. Maybe travel the world, meeting new people instead of clinging on to just one guy and one complicated memory.

“Michelle, Brian is not made for marriage. He cheated on you countless times, and he will do it again. Believe me.”

“I know. I’m already aware of that.”

“So why do you still want to be with him? This is just fucking insane, Chelle.”

Michelle dropped her head down, her grin grew a bit wider as if her evil clutch was still there inside her, carrying a greedy glimpse.

“I just love him, Val. I can’t let go of him.”

Valary sighed again, her hands fiddling with the wedding ring on her finger. “I swear to God, you and Brian are straight out of Unholy Confessions lyrics. I hope you know what you’re doing Chelle.”

Michelle chuckled and looked up to her sister. “I’m sorry Val. For everything I said. I can’t live without you.”

“Me too.”

They hugged each other tightly, with Valary sincerely shut her eyes and forgave her twin sister for accusing that River wasn’t Matt’s, while Michelle snapped open her eyes – her alter ego brimmed slightly in her eyes.

---

“What?”

I pushed his chest softly and my brows furrowed at his idea of running away together. Is he crazy? He would ditch his career just like that for the sake of one woman?

“Let’s go far away from here. Where nobody would recognize us, and we could just live together.”

Yes, that would be the life that I’d been dreaming of, but it’s not that easy. Brian is after all, still a future king and I still have to find out about the mastermind behind the crime. We can’t just leave the real world and pretend like nothing had happened.

“Are you crazy, Brian? You have your career and it’s on the top of the ladder. Why would you run away from it?”

“I just do music, Addie. I don’t care about the fame and fortune. And right now I can’t concentrate on one thing that I’m good at without thinking about you.”

He slowly cupped my face and caressed my cheeks with both of his thumbs.

“But..but..” I tried to protest but he took my lips hard and sucked it before parting, leaving me hanging high.

“No buts. Let’s run.”

He entangled his long and slender fingers with mine and led the way out of the dark alley to the main road in front of the stripper’s bar. He ran with little steps with me desperately followed from behind. His grip on my hand became tighter when suddenly there was a car parked right in front of us, making us both stopped running.

“What the..?”

Two buffed guys came out from the car, surrounding us with their intimidating hands raised up high. Brian stood in front of me with both of his arms spread wide protectively. What’s going on?? Who are these people?!

“Addie, stay behind me.” he murmured but I can hear him loud and clear. What was I thinking?! I have a fucking gun don’t I? My hand sneaked around my back to reach for a handgun within the shaft near my back pocket.

“Oh no, no you don’t get to have your gun.”

Suddenly my hand was grabbed from behind as my mouth being pressed hard by a fabric with a stranger’s palm on it. As I sniffed a strong stench of something chemical, I widened my eyes - screaming, but my voice drowned within the clasping palm in front of my mouth. I saw Brian was resisting those two buffed men but his head turned to me. He called my name, but it sounded hazy and blurry. His hand reached out for me but I watched him being taken away by force as my eyes started to get fuzzy and my head spinning like a carousel. What’s happening..?

All I know was I heard Brian’s voice faintly calling me from afar.

Notes

A/N: next update: MONDAY. haha comments guys XD