The Blood Moon King ➳ JJK [✓]

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"Um . . . why did you save me though?" she asked with her mouth full of porridge and the room fell into silence. Baekhyun found it hard to answer because he himself didn't know why he did that.

Now that he remembered how he reacted when he saw her on the floor in the castle. How he was so distressed when Eleanora was treating her, how his heart kept beating faster and fear grew more and more with every passing second.

How he was relieved when he got to know she was fine as if he came back from almost dying, how he reacted when she said she tried to kill herself, how his blood boiled and he felt a different sensation whenever he heard Jungkook's name from her mouth, he didn't know any of it and so did Lisa.

She didn't know why she felt a different connection, why being around him makes her feel safe that even if she has no one, he is there for her, to listen to her. Whenever she reminisced that night she met him, it makes her feel strange how fast they bonded together, even if she wanted to just use him.

She remembered the first time he touched her, the first time he helped her heal the broken knee and how she told him her name so obediently, strange, isn't it? Suddenly the scene flashed in front of her eyes when she drank the poison.

Baekhyun was begging her to keep her eyes open, his eyes were pooling with tears. She was still conscious when he picked her into his arms and ran out of the castle as if he delayed a second, he'll lose everything, fear was clearly visible in his eyes.

But her question was why? Why would he cry for her? Why would he be so scared of something happening to her? Why does he care about her so much? And the biggest why is, why she can't find herself going away from him like everyone? Why is she letting him be close to her? She was confused, so confused.

She came out of her thoughts and saw him still spacing out so she snapped her fingers in front of him making him come out of his daze as he looked at her confused.

"You're spacing out," she normally said, putting the empty bowl aside.

"Oh," he scratched the back of his neck awkwardly.

"I asked you something, why did you save me?" she repeated her question once again, looking at him.

"Nothing, just felt like," he shrugged off and got up from the chair, "I've some work so I'll get going and-" he couldn't complete his sentence when Lisa grabbed his hand, stopping him from going any far.

"This isn't my answer, Baekhyun," she looked up at him before getting up from the couch, still holding his hand.

"What do you me-" she didn't let him speak and continued herself.

"You know very well what I mean, don't play dumb with me. Don't forget I was still conscious when you came. I saw the pain and fear in your eyes. My eyes never lie to me. Why would you have tears in your eyes for me?" she started shouting at him with her hoarse voice and Baekhyun went silent. He didn't know what to say because she was indeed right.

"Tell me! Why are you doing all this for me? What do I even mean to you? I'm just a-" she couldn't finish when she a hand pulled her forward by her waist and felt a soft pair of lips over her own.

Her eyes widened when she realised what was happening. But that didn't make her budge from her position as she stood there frozen at her place. Baekhyun pulled away after a small kiss and looked into her eyes.

"That's enough of an answer, I guess," he softly spoke making her come out of her daze. She blinked several times to process what just happened but her eyes didn't leave Baekhyun's. They kept staring at each other as if time stopped for them.