Taking a quiet sigh, Kyle peeked through the tree trunk. The patrol unit were still moving around there. He could have just left her there by the road, but he did not know how he ended up running off and grabbing her along with him. And right now, he actually felt like he did not want to let go of this girl just yet.
"Uhm... are they... still there?" he suddenly heard her muffled and weak voice asking from the general region of his chest. He had pushed her so close to his chest that it must have pressed her face right into him. Kyle could hear her heartbeat beating erratically and her breathing was slightly breathless. Was she nervous? Or was it because he was this close to her?
"Are you scared of me?" he asked. He just could not stop himself from talking to her.
"Nope."
"Your heartbeat is really loud right now," he said that in a slow whisper, causing her eyes to widen as she quickly looked up at him.
"It’s... because you’re too near. P-please move back a little." She stammered a little and her face flushed red. Kyle’s tantalizing smile widened.
"Can’t be doing that, little witch. Unless you are wanting the guards to catch us?" Kyle arched one of his brows, not able to stop himself from teasing her.
"Why do you keep calling me that?"
Kyle pressed his lips tightly together for a moment at her question. He did not even realize he had used that nickname on this girl again. But somehow, the nickname flowed easily from his lips.
"Because..." he tilted his head a little. "You’re not telling me your name." Kyle managed to come up with an excuse.
"Alright, I’ll tell you my name so please don’t call me that again." she replied, her voice taut and he could sense that she was uncomfortable.
"You hate it?"
"Yes." Her firm answer caused Kyle to keep silent for a while. But eventually, he nodded and smiled at her.
"As you wish. So? What should I call you then?"
"Luna. That’s my name."
Kyle could not help but laugh after she was out of sight, and he walked around and entered the forest again. He still could not quite believe that she actually rejected to knowing his name.
He could not stop smiling like a fool as he continued walking deeper into the forest. "What an interesting little witch..." he muttered before he suddenly halted. His smile fading as he realized what he was currently feeling right now. These familiar feelings... these were the things that he could only feel around... Lilith...
Kyle’s jaws clenched a little. Lilith... just thinking about that name alone was enough to give him heartache.
That girl... why did he casually called her as ’little witch’ twice in a row? He realized now he had called her that before he even realized it. Why was that so?
And now he was actually feeling this way? To a girl who was not even Lilith? Was he... does this really mean that he was attracted to that girl now?
Kyle could not deny that in his efforts to forget Lilith, he had tried to look at other girls, perhaps even to hook up with them. However, until now, no girl was able to even catch his interest at all, much less tempt him to hook up with them. No one made him feel anything despite him already meeting quite a number of girls in the past few months.
His father had even arranged for some dates with a few daughters of vampire nobles back in their kingdom as well and none of those girls, no matter how beautiful they might be, had ever sparked anything in him at all. And Kyle thought that he might really never would be able to feel anything for anyone anymore if it was not Lilith. This was the first time that someone had made him feel like this since that last time he met up with Lilith – the forbidden girl that he could not have.
He had started to believe that no matter what he did and no matter who he will end up with, his heart would forever be Lilith’s. Kyle just had the feeling that his heart will never beat for anyone else again. Until now.. Until tonight.
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