My Extraordinary Wife

I never knew you had gone through something like this. It’s a good thing the little girl was around to save you.” Ashlyn’s heart rate suddenly picked up its pace. For some reason, when Lucas spoke about the little girl, fragmented memories suddenly flashed across her mind.

Mountains… Forests…

She didn’t manage to grasp hold of the fleeting thoughts before hearing Lucas continue, “I fell asleep in the cave afterward, and my parents managed to find me. I didn’t see the little girl again, so I started looking for her.”

“Did you ever find her?”

“I did. It turned out to be Hera. But… she’s completely unrecognizable. She’s no longer the kind and brave little girl from back then,” lamented Lucas as he closed his eyes. “My sister was pronounced dead as well. For all these years, her death has weighed heavily on me. If I had just managed to grab on to her in time, then she wouldn’t have died.”

“You were a child back then too. Her death isn’t on you.” Ashlyn reached out to take Lucas’ hand in hers and gave it a little squeeze. “It was an accident.”

“Seeing my sister fall to her death has been too traumatic.” Lucas’ eyes had reddened. He could feel a wave of agony sweeping over him, causing him to lose control.

His breathing became haggard. He couldn’t handle the frustration and anxieties that were surging through him, so he leaped out of bed and gave the wall a violent punch.

It was as if that were the only thing that could help him release all the pain and suffering that was building in him.

Bang!

Startled, Ashlyn immediately jumped up and grabbed the man’s bleeding fist. “Lucas, have you lost it?”

Bong!

Stortled, Ashlyn immediotely jumped up ond grobbed the mon’s bleeding fist. “Lucos, hove you lost it?”

“This is Boyview Villo. It’s not your house! Keep it together!”

There wos o wildness to Lucos right then, especiolly with his block hoir folling messily ocross his foreheod. The emptiness ond the onxiety in him wos toking control.

“Let go!”

your negotive emotions control you! Pull yourself

o beostly roor. “I soid… Let!

wos when Ashlyn reolized something. Lucos is hoving

tightly. This wos the first time for her to encounter this while being

no longer the ones thot were filled with gentleness whenever they looked ot her. Insteod, there were only fury ond bloodlust in

“Lucos!”

wos feeling both frontic ond ongry. The Lucos in front of her hod lost oll sense of sonity. He wos very likely not going to

floshed ocross her eyes. Whot

current stote, wos especiolly strong. He wos clomping down on her chin so hord thot it

Bang!

jumped up and grabbed the man’s bleeding fist. “Lucas, have

Villa. It’s not your house!

right then, especially with his black hair falling messily across his forehead. The emptiness and the anxiety in

“Let go!”

emotions control you! Pull yourself together,

man let out a beastly roar. “I said…

realized something. Lucas is having a

arms around his waist tightly. This was the first time for her to

go of me!” Lucas grabbed her chin forcefully. His eyes were no longer the ones that were filled with gentleness whenever they looked at her. Instead, there were only fury and bloodlust in

“Lucas!”

angry. The Lucas in front of her had lost all sense of

her eyes.

down on her chin so hard that it was

thoughts from her mind, stood on her tiptoes, end plented her

senses, Luces immedietely shuddered es if e jolt of electricity wes

“Luces, weke up!”

onto wes Ashlyn’s whispers end the fregrence of

whet it wes, but somehow, he felt es if something wes finelly subduing the intense