Chapter 780: THE DAY BEFORE THE BATTLE
This was decision Cane had made. He knew what he could take or not. He would rather to shoulder it alone than to see Iris became someone he was barely able to recognize.
If he had to be hurt, so be it. At the very least, he still could find comfort in her smile... oblivion was a bliss and he wanted her to have it when he couldn’t.
"Okay..." Iris lifted her head, she raised her hand and touched his cheek. Cane closed his eyes and tilted his head to kiss her palm. "Is there something else I can help you with?"
She became her former self again, the person that wanted to help Cane with whatever she could, but too afraid to face her own demon.
Therefore, when Cane told her that she didn’t need to remember, somehow, she felt glad. A tiny part of her heart was relief, albeit the nagging feeling still plagued her mind.
If she could, Iris didn’t want to remember about what happened with Kellan. It made her felt disgusted with herself and was helpless. She hated that little girl, who was being assaulted by him...
"Don’t be sad, Iris." Cane opened his eyes and kissed the tip of her nose. "You hurt me so much when I saw you in pain."
Maybe it was the night, maybe it was because they had gone through so much, or maybe he was already so tired and put their guard down for her, he was defenseless, bared his feeling without any scrupulous, where you talked how you were feeling, instead of what you were thinking...
Cane had been very vulnerable with his feeling to Iris, despite everything that happened and how he hid the truth from her.
Maybe because the hidden truth was too massive for him to have the energy to mask his feeling, so he poured his heart out in the open for her to see. He put his heart within her palms and exposed it for her to know, so if one day she learned the truth and she remembered everything, she would know he had done everything he could to protect her even if it costed himself...
He wished, she could understand and was not very sad...