Chapter 243: Graceful Light
"That’s me, the dark moon," Esme answered as he almost sounded proud while talking about his name and the meaning behind it.
"That’s a really beautiful name." Annalise couldn’t help herself from adding and watched as the man gave her a slightly longer look before he asked a question that really surprised her - "What is your name?"
She stared at him with a shocked expression on her face before blurting out, "You don’t know my name?"
Esme immediately shook his head in the negative, surprising her further.
"Are you for real?" Annalise was really having a hard time believing his words. How could he not know her name when he knew so much about her and what she had been up to these days?
"Why are you looking so surprised? I just never paid enough attention to you to find out about your name. Though I must have heard it once or twice, I don’t really recall it at the moment." Esme explained.
However, his explanation only made Annalise feel even weirder. Just maybe, it was better for him to not know her name entirely instead of him forgetting it after hearing it. Her name was not that common or uninteresting, was it?
"It’s Annalise." She finally murmured her name while answering his question.
"The Graceful Light," Esme whispered more to himself than for her to hear but her enhanced hearing still picked up every word very clearly. She looked up to face tge man and found him looking right back at her as he whispered, "It suits you just perfectly, a name meant just for you."