Chapter 143: See You From Afar
Jules’s sharp rumble echoed intensely inside Barnes’s head, freezing him momentarily. His heart was churned from the agony he had endured over all these years, and now Jules’s question led him to face the reality that he never knew the answer himself.
But a small sad smile curved his thin soft lips when Barnes mindlinked his answer, "I don’t know, Jules. I don’t know what would happen if he remembered me once again. But the only thing I am certain about is...I don’t want Master Aiden to hate me...
"For that to happen, I will be glad if he never retrieves the memory of the past we shared in the first place. But I have made my decision already. Until I am alive, I will not abandon him this time, no matter what happens."
His determined words made his wolf Jules fall completely silent inside him as he couldn’t bring himself to oppose his decision which sounded like an oath upon which Barnes’s life depended.
Amidst the anticipated silence that fell between those two giant men standing in the hallway, Barnes initiated to start a cordial conversation first and stretched his hand for a formal handshake, "Then...shall we reintroduce ourselves once again now?
"Hello, I am Barnes Weikfield, and I am...very happy to meet you, Master Aiden." His lips curved wide with a warm smile.
Aiden didn’t reciprocate his handshake and rather stared intensely into his smiling brown eyes that had a tint of sadness in them. Being able to observe someone keenly, Aiden felt a strange uneasiness growing inside him at his formal greeting, and rather chose to keep a distance from him.
"Since you know me already, there’s no need to reintroduce ourselves." Aiden coldly stated, slowly tainiting the smile from Barnes’s face. He crossed his broad arms over his chest before inquiring him, "I am very curious, how did you get inside the Academy in the first place? Are you working for someone here?"
"Oh...yes. I am working under Young Master Zenith here...as per instructions by my Boss Mr. Clark." Barnes answered his question in an amicable tone but the moment Aiden heard about it, his face turned quite solemn.