Chapter 177: Even If It Takes All Night
[KAWAI]
"I love you. Please trust me," Konstantin said to Tamiko, who was confused. None of this was making any sense and Tamiko could tell that nothing would be alright after all this. No one would ever be able to explain what was happening.
"No... you don’t get to say that, not in these circumstances," Tamiko said, staring at the love he had lived for. He always wanted to be loved and cared for and now that Kosta was proving that to him, he wasn’t accepting.
Then again, no one in their right mind would ever agree to such a setup either way. The council members were talking at the duo with their eyes glistening with something that Tamiko couldn’t read into.
It was a first for him, but one thing that he had already figured out was that Kosta was in trouble. His erasthai had been standing there at the mercy of everyone, including his uncle and father, and boy did Tamiko hate this.
"My beautiful, I’ll be fine. Everything will be fine after this," Kosta reassured but Tamiko wasn’t biting into that reassurance. He had been around Kosta enough times to know that this was the sound of goodbye. And he felt it in the next second.
"I’ll take the punishment, as long as you don’t hurt him," Kosta said and Tamiko felt like he was about to lose his mind. This wasn’t how life was supposed to be for the both of them and he hated every aspect of hate this was.
There was just no way that he had found his mate and now he had to lose him again. It was a cruel fate, and Tamiko wasn’t going to let things go like that. He just couldn’t. This was Kosta; his Kosta... and he would not relent.
"Wait, no. What punishment?!" Tamiko asked as he looked at his father who was still looking at the council miners with no emotions on his face.