Chapter 788 - 122 - Awakening And The True Reunion (4)
Juna and I walked away from the others, stepping into a quiet spot where only the breeze could listen to us, and no one else could overhear.
She turned to me, her lips curled into a soft, almost serene smile.
For a woman who’d borne two children and was already in her forties, she carried an ageless grace that seemed to defy time itself.
If someone had told me she was just Zeruel’s older sister, I wouldn’t have doubted it for a moment.
Her skin looked smooth, her posture calm yet strong, and there was something about the way she held herself that erased the years written on paper.
She didn’t look like a mother at all—and nothing about her figure hinted otherwise. But that smile she wore... that was different.
It radiated warmth, kindness, but also a quiet, unsettling knowingness. As if she could see straight through my chest, past the beating of my heart, and read the words etched into my very bones. It was a smile that felt as gentle as it was heavy—like she was silently telling me that she knew truths I hadn’t yet spoken aloud.
"First of all, Leon, I want to thank you," she began, her voice gentle but edged with gravity. "For bringing me back, I mean. I’ve heard from Doctor Natasha that before all of this, I was admitted to a hospital that had already given up on me... but you’re the one who caught me, isn’t that right?"
Her words hung in the air, and for a moment it felt as if time itself paused to listen.
"Well, I don’t think ’caught’ is quite the right word," I admitted, my tone dropping a little, as if weighed down by honesty. "I did it because I had an ulterior motive—or something like that."
"Oh? You’re not going to hide it?" she asked, arching a brow.
"Of course not. Hiding it feels pretty pointless, don’t you think?" I replied, my voice calm, but inside I could feel a slight tension coiling in my chest.