Even though Alpha desperately tried his best to make the ship return back immediately to the Ariki's island, the journey is taking much longer due to the short and choppy waves of the sea.
Everyone tried to train but soon gave up as the movement of the ship made them lose their balance more often.
Someone suggested that they would use magic but Bahar adviced them not to, in case we might meet more monsters as everyone isn't fully recovered yet.
As for me? Bahar told Lion to place my body on a chair near the cabin's door, putting magic on the chair so it will not move, as doing that might give my body some "fresh air".
His logic doesn't make any sense but I'm not complaining as I don't want to be stuck inside the room staring at my body for a long time.
For once, he did something right.
Then he looked towards me and licked his lips.
I take it back.
Soon, everyone got bored staring at the sea so they decided to head back to their rooms.
Lion then slowly carried my body and headed towards our room.
....
Inside the room, Lion gently laid my body on the bed.
He stared at my face for a while as tears fell down on his cheeks.
After a while, a bathtub suddenly materialized beside the bed. Water began to fill up the bathtub as he slowly removed his clothes. Then he sat down on the bed beside me as he began to remove my clothes.
Um, what is he doing?
I'm hoping he's not doing something weird as I can't get out of the room.
One by one, he removed my clothes, placing them on the floor then he slowly picked my body up and held it towards his chest.
Soon, he began sobbing as his embrace towards my body seems to tighten.
He nuzzled my cheek as he kept coaxing me to open my eyes and look at him. He then told me that he is going to bathe me and asked for my forgiveness as he touched me without my permission.
Oh, my Lion. Of course you can. You don't need my permission if it's you.
He carried my body close to his chest as he went inside the bathtub. He then sat on the bathtub, made my body sit on his lap as he embraced it.
He opened the window using his magic and stared at the night sky. He began telling me about our past memories in which he chuckled at some of the funny ones. While he was talking, tears kept falling down his cheeks.
Slowly, he began blaming himself as he told me that all my sufferings started because I'm with him.
That's true. I never realized that. Come to think of it, except the time when I got sick because of my pride and stupidity, as soon as Lion showed his intent to bond with me and to make me his mate, all sorts of dangerous things happened in which I got hurt or almost died.
Wait.
The time when Lion and I mated, was the time that it got worse in which not only once but many times, I almost lost my life.
All of it had connection to the higher ranked individuals, especially the highest ranked individual, the Chieftain Monarch.
And it's not Lion who is being targeted but me.
Has Lion realized this?
Or is there something that he didn't tell me?
I need to know.
I think I'll ask Bahar next time.
Arrgh.
....
Lion became silent after a while, staring at the moons with eyes that seemed exhausted.
He then began humming the sad song again in which he started to sob uncontrollably.
That was a mistake. I should not have sang that stupid song.
He sobbed for a long time while I just looked at him. I tried reaching out to him when I noticed that the force preventing me from getting closer to him, was gone.
Oh.
I can finally touch him.
But won't he freak out?
I was about to touch his cheek when suddenly a bottle of liquor materialized beside him.
He held my body with one arm in which his other hand reached out for the liquor and drank the entire bottle with one gulp.
After that, he tossed the bottle towards the floor in which it rolled away towards a corner.
He began talking about how he never forgot the first time he saw me. Then he became silent.
What????? Tell me more!!!!!!!
I don't think he told me about that before.
Then he looked towards my face and smiled at me as if I gave him the greatest desire of his heart.
He held my face with his other hand as he kissed me on the forehead then my eyelids in which he whispered that he is willing to die right now just to see me looking at him even if it's just a short moment.
I wished that I could tell him that I'm looking at him right now.
Sigh.
Several bottles of liquor later, Lion became sleepy in which he suddenly remembered that he is still holding my body. He slowly stood up as he carried my body in his arms and came out of the bathtub.
He slowly placed my body on the bed in which he wiped it dry and covered it with a blanket. A comb materialized then he began to comb my hair as he sang another melancholy sounding song.
Some of my hair might be tangled as he made my body sit on his lap then he continued to comb my hair. He used his hands to untangle some of the hair in which he held my hair towards his lips and kissed it.
Even though I'm a spirit, I felt butterflies in my stomach.
I floated towards him and sat behind him as I embraced him in my spirit form.
He flinched and glanced around in which he facepalmed himself, mentioning that he must have drank too much.
He chuckled to himself as another bottle of liquor materialized again. He placed my body gently on the bed then he covered it with a blanket. He positioned himself lying on his side beside my body as he stared at my face while drinking the liquor.
I'm feeling a bit emotional that without thinking, I embraced him again behind his back.
He took a deep breath before sobbing silently. He finished the liquor in a few gulps and let the bottle fell on the floor as he faced towards the location of my spirit self.
He can't see me but we are facing each other.
I looked at his tear stained eyes and slowly kissed his forehead.
He closed his eyes as he murmured that even though he must be imagining things, at least it will give him a bit of comfort.
He called out my name, saying that he wants to feel my touch once more.
He must be really drunk. If I touch him more, he won't freak out, right? He will just think that it must be his imagination or dream.
It's so weird as my body is lying beside him.
Oh well.
I missed touching him too.
So I sat on the bed and caressed his hair. He kept me mentioning my name as tears kept falling on his cheeks.
I wiped away his tears as I slowly kissed him, nuzzling his face and his neck.
He began to sob loudly.
Oh. I made it worse.
He grasped his chest as he began to pant, in which I began to get worried that I impulsively embraced him.
Thankfully, my embrace seems to comfort him as he slowly began relaxing and then he turned towards my body and embraced it. He nuzzled the neck as he yawned. Then he fell asleep.
I remembered the time when I was gone for almost a year and recalled someone telling me that Lion almost became mad with grief.
That reminded me of the time that we got back from mating in which I saw the situation of the castle.
He is terrified of being separated from me.
Is he just terrified of being separated from me or is he terrified as a result of something else? Something that happened in his past, perhaps?
I don't know anything about Lion's past. Before, I used to respect his privacy but now, I'm getting curious about knowing his past before he met me.
So many things I wanted to know, yet nobody can answer them, not even Puma.
Not again.
Sigh.
I guess I have to call Bahar again as during the entire morning, he kept staring at me with ravenous eyes, licking at his lips when nobody's looking except me in my spirit self.
I called his name in which he instantly appeared by my side, grinning wickedly at me.
He snapped his fingers in which he told me that Lion won't wake up from his sleep for quite some time.
He took my body in which he laughed at me as I kept yelling at him to cover my body as Lion did not put clothes on it.
He raised his eyebrow as he licked my chest.
Why that sicko!
In my anger, I tried to hit him when I felt his chest.
I can touch him? There's no force preventing me from touching anybody anymore?
That's interesting.
Bahar widened his eyes in surprise as I launched several punches at him while I continued to yell at him to cover my body.
He sighed as he finally took the blanket and wrapped my body with it.
Good.
He sat on the chair, holding my body in his arms as he bit my neck. Blood began to flow down as he closed his eyes and sniffed at it.
His entire eyes turned into black as he licked my blood.
Ew.
I made puking noises as he laughed, in which he asked me if there's something I want to know about as he would try to answer it.
He sucked my neck as I began thinking about the questions that bugged me.
I finally thought of a good one.
Who is Lion?