Chapter 104 - 101. Midnight Waltz
As midnight rolled by, even the luxurious mansion was draped in a curtain of darkness, as if the earlier merriment was nothing but past glory. In a room where two people slept huddled together on a couch, only a slight flash inside a pair of dark eyes indicated the presence of someone else there.
There was no noise as the man walked by, not even a breathing sound. And when the dark eyes gazed upon the pair on the couch, his figure looked as still as a statue. Under the protection of the night, no one could sense him unless he wanted to be found.
Like right now.
"Cute, aren’t they?" he said with an easy smile, to the man who paused at the entrance with a blanket in his arms.
The crimson eyes stared at him with a slight shaking, before the owner closed them for a second. Without responding to him, Radia approached the couch and spread the blanket he held on top of the pair.
"How caring," the man didn’t seem to mind the lack of response. His voice was deep and dry, almost felt like mocking.
With a sudden sharp smile on his face, Radia gave a calm response. "You were the one who turned me the way I am now," he said while walking back to the door, feeling the gaze on his every move. He paused for a bit on the door frame, glancing back at the taller man. "Or was that not in your plan?"
As he heard the man chuckle softly, Radia resumed his walk, going out of the room and strolling through the corridors with a steady pace that masked the erratic heartbeat inside his chest.
Even with an enhanced sense of a 5-star esper, Radia couldn’t sense the man’s presence; the wave of mana was contained impeccably without any leaks, just like how the man hid his true self from the rest of the world. There was no sound of footsteps behind him, not even the sound of breathing. But he knew that Han Joon was there, following him with a smile that he didn’t bother to hide like in the past.
The only confirmation was his deep but soft voice flowing right in Radia’s ears. "My only plan is you, Dee," and Radia had to clench his teeth at the way the man called him; a mistakable pet name that was used by no one else but Joon. "Or did you still think I’m lying?"
Did he? Radia Mallarc had no idea of the state of his own heart. It had jumbled too much in so many knots that he had no idea how to unravel it. He had a clear mind facing anything else but this man, where his logic got marred too much by feelings.