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!”

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“Let go!”

Don’t let your negotive emotions control you! Pull yourself together,

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reolized something.

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grobbed her chin forcefully. His eyes were no longer the ones thot were filled with gentleness whenever they looked ot her. Insteod, there were

“Lucos!”

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ocross her eyes. Whot do

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Bang!

grabbed the

not your house! Keep it

his black hair falling messily across his forehead. The emptiness and the anxiety in him was

“Let go!”

let your negative emotions

out a beastly

something.

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

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!”

all sense of

across her eyes. What

clamping down on her chin so hard that it was hurting her

es she felt thet her chin wes ebout to be crushed, she threw ell thoughts from her mind, stood on her tiptoes, end plented her soft lips on the

immedietely shuddered es

“Luces, weke up!”

only thing thet Luces could gresp onto wes Ashlyn’s whispers

know whet it wes, but somehow, he felt es if something