Chapter 162: Listen To Me
"What?" Followed by a pause, Kylian muttered in a confused tone, meeting Zenith’s sad face with his rolled ocean eyes.
The look of despair prominent on his face stirred his heart with an unusual ache as if Kylian could sincerely feel Zenith was truly sad while he conversed those words straight out of his heart.
His onyx eyes were darkened with grim, and still keeping that small sad smile intact, he muttered before leaning his gaze down from Kylian’s, "You’ve heard Ruben too, and just like he said, I was truly a freakin’ piece of trash whom everyone had hated. I used my power and influence to treat people like commodities and threw them away when I was done.
I have always lived my life recklessly like that...until I found you, Kyle. I know I don’t have any words in my defense, but my heart knows, you’re the only one who looked at me as if I were an ordinary man. Being with you, I am learning how to find joy by doing simple things together...and...I thought I would be able to prove myself a better person for you... But looks like I had forgotten my deeds couldn’t be easily forgotten. Now being with you...I must be having a bad influence on you too, right? Maybe I shouldn’t be...mmph!"
But before Zenith could complete his words with his low, deepened voice, suddenly Kylian marched close and pulled him closer for a soft, tender kiss.
Being his lips suddenly sealed by Kylian, Zenith stood a bit fazed with his onyx eyes rolled in shock, but after a few seconds, when Kylian parted his lips away from him, his furious expression from before looked a lot relaxed now when he held Zenith tenderly by his side face.
"Just stop blaming yourself, and listen to me first, okay? I didn’t mean like that when I said it to you. Do you think I am the kind of person who would let anyone have a bad influence on me? Haven’t you realized already how stubborn I am? Do you think staying with you is what made me have those twisted thoughts for that twerp? Seriously?"
Keenly gazing at the concerned gaze Kylian held towards Zenith this time, all those twisted assumptions that had been puzzling him from inside until a while ago suddenly subsided as if Kylian was the ray of sunlight, the only one who could keep Zenith away from his own cloud of dark thoughts.
As he stared into him intensely, Kylin softened his mellow gaze and cupped Zenith’s face with both his palms before he spoke, "The problem lies in me, not you. Since growing up, I only had my Mom by my side, and...whenever she would be a little nice towards other children...I would have a tinge of jealousy growing inside me.
"I was very young at that time to realize what those emotions were called, but not even once I felt my jealousy would erupt so viciously like an active volcano, to the point...I wanted to kill that boy for touching you! It all happened only after I found you, Zenith."