Chapter 16
In the following days, Cadence and Brayan visited The Colosseum, Ledy chapel, and Holy Angel Night Castle
They danced gracefully along the streets of Rome, shrouded in the darkness of the night.
The bright moonlight reflected on their faces, adding a hint of ambiguity to the cool night in Rome.
Brayan’s hand covered Cadence’s hand, and the two gradually touched noses.
“Do you know?” Brayan looked at Cadence, his deep blue eyes becoming even more mysterious in the darkness.
“What?” Cadence felt her checks flush, and she made an effort to avert her gaze from Brayan
Here, at the Holy Angel Night Castle, the runaway princess and the destitute journalist experienced exile and escape, finally discovering their feelings for nech other and leaving behind an eternal kiss.
Brayan’s warm breath grow closer, scorching Cadence’s face.
Brayan gently tilted Cadence’s chin, slightly forcing her to make eye contact with him.
And you?
Cadence couldn’t help but meet Brayan’s affectionate gaze. In that moment, she wanted to let herself sink cinto the depths of the sea, to explore the jemotions beneath the ocean’s colors
Brayan’s warm lips were about to touch hers, but Cadence suddenly pushed him away.
In Brayan’s astonished expression, roars welled up i in Cadence’s eyes.
She covered her face and turned around to run away, fleeing like a coward abandoning the battle
Cadence sat alone on a bench under the shade of a tree by the side of the street, burying their head between their knees, crying incessantly,
She didn’t know why she couldn’t face Brayan’s feelings for her.
Perhaps she had not completely emerged from the shadow that Malachi had cast on her.
Brayan sat quietly beside her, without saying a word.
Silence flowed between the two, only the chirping of cicadas announcing the passage of time.
“Sorry.”
It took a long time for Cadence to say ing gloomy tone
Brayan looked at the tear marks on her face and said, “I should be the one to apologize, it was me who scared you with my impulsiveness Cadence shook her head repeatedly as she looked at Beayan.
There was no
no trace of anger in Brayan’s eyes, instead they were filled with tenderness.
“No,” Cadence struggled to suppress her sob, “I was the one who was supposed to come out, but it was still me, trapped in the past.
Brayan saw the delicate and charming girl in front of him and couldn’t help but ask, “Can I hug you?”
Seeing Cadence nod, he turned around and hugged Cadence.
Unlike the scent of cologne on Malachi, there was a faint grassy fragrance in Brayan’s embrace,
“What perfume did you spray?” Cadence sniffed and asked Brayan in a muffled voice, nestled in his arms.
Brayan burst into laughter and said, “I was a doctor, I didn’t have the habit of wearing perfume.”
there any strange taste?”
“No, it smelled good,” Cadence buried herself in Brayan’s arms.
She was amazed to find that the accumulated grievances and frustrations in her heart for years seemed to flow away with tears from her body.
“If you needed someone’s embrace when you were crying, I hope it was me.”
Beayan said softly, “It’s okay if you can’t move on, as long as you don’t want to be trapped by the past anymore, I will slowly accompany you to move Chapter 16
forward, until you accept me.”
Cadence lifted her head from Brayan’s embrace and gazed at his superiorly smooth jawline.
“Brayan, will you really accompany me? Will there be a day when you leave me, and no longer love me?”
Brayan lowered his head and looked at her, his prominent nose gently brushing against her forehead, and he slowly said, “No, it won’t, never.”
Cadence stared at Brayan, the ocean in his eyes deep and resolute
How long has it been since she last heard someone earnestly promise her to love her forever?
Cadence’s fingertips tapped on Brayan’s forehead, “Brayan, why were you so good–looking? Why were your eyes blue?“.
It looked like a sea. But Cadence didn’t say the second half of the sentence.
Brayan laughed and said, “My mother, Aaliyah Pratt, was Centronian, and my father, Josue Pratt, was French; my eyes and nose were like my father’s, and the rest was like my mother’s.”
“That Josue and Aaliyah must have been very handsome and charming,” Cadence replied with a smile
“If you went to see them, they would definitely be very happy.”
In Brayan’s deep, ocean–like eyes, there was a reflection of Cadence
Cadence’s cheeks flushed again, and she quickly got up from Brayan’s embrace.
“You were French, you didn’t understand that in Centronia, only couples who promised each other a lifetime would meet each other’s parents.”
Brayan looked at Cadence’s sulking appearance and siniled gently, “I wasn’t born and raised in France, I grew up in Centronia until I was fifteen, and then my family moved to France
He twisted Cadence’s shoulder and looked into her eyes firmly, “So, I knew the meaning of meeting the parents.”
“Cadence stared at the man in front of her, her face turning red with embarrassment,
“Brayan, you were being too unfair!”
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