Hellbound With You (WN)

”I… I dreamt about it that night before I got kidnapped. I was so excited and wanted to tell you about it. But you left and… ” her words slowed down after that. Zeres saw that her face contorted a little and he knew it was due to her remembering the suffering that she endured during her torture.

His expression grew darker. Then he rose, bracing his hands against the table.

”So this must be the reason why that vampire tortured you to the extreme like that. Because he knew you had already known something about it and he wanted you to spit it out… ” he said, his voice filled with disbelief.

Iryz did not understand what was with him again right now. Why was he standing there throwing a fit? Should he not be rejoicing with this information?!

”Why? ” his voice cracked a little as he dipped his head down, seemingly unable to look at her face. ”Why didn ’t you just say it out, Iryz? If you ’ve just revealed the information, he wouldn ’t have tortured you to the extreme. Why did you choose to be tortured like that instead of just telling – ”

”Because I don ’t want to! ” Iryz yelled out in frustration. She could no longer take it. Why? How could he ask her that? How could she like this man so much when he was such a frustrating little… little moron! ”Because I don ’t want anyone else to find it but you, Zeres! You… you ’ve been looking for it like crazy! You don ’t even sleep or eat because of it! How could I let a bad stranger have it when you were the one who had been so desperately looking for it?! ” she released all her pent up frustration and confusion and it blew up. She was not sure why she was feeling such a mixture of jumbled and chaotic emotions too.

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He looked incredibly shocked as he stared back at her. At the way she had just blew up with his one question. Iryz ’s emotion was so all over the place right now. No one could make Iryz this emotional other than this man!

She threw him a pained glare and stood up abruptly, but just as she spun around to storm out of the kitchen, she was yanked back and got buried in someone ’s embrace, Zeres ’ embrace. W-what? Why was he…