Chasing my lovely wife.

Chapter 18.

Neli was lying on her bed when she suddenly heard a knock, Neli felt scared because it was not a knock coming from the door of her room but from the door of her room balcony. She covered herself with a blanket out of fear, because she knows that she couldn't run because of her leg.

She suddenly remembered what her and Grandma had talked about back then, that her life might be in danger as well. What if the person knocking on her door wants to kill her, she was about to scream for help when she suddenly heard someone calling from the outside.

"Neli."

The voice sounds familiar to her.

"Neli, open the door please."

Caleb?

It has been two weeks since she last saw Caleb and according to her father, he was always outside their gate and waited all day for the entire two weeks just to let him in. Caleb didn't accept all the foods that Camille offered either and just sat patiently in front of the gate. They said that he did not attempt or insisted on entering their house after he found out that it was her order not to let him in.

Neli looked at the clock on the table beside her bed and found out that it was past nine o'clock in the evening.

But what is he doing here at this time?

She slowly stood up, took her crutch and walked towards her balcony door and saw Caleb there when she opened the curtain. Her heart softened when she saw that he had lost a bit of weight, his beard had also grown as if he didn't care about himself anymore.

"What are you doing here?!" she asked with a frown.

"Open the door, please."

She took a deep breath before she opened the door, maybe he has a reason why he is there now.

"What do you want?"

"I'm so sorry, Neli." he apologized after she open the balcony door. "Please let me explain."

"Sorry? Sorry?!" she said angrily. "Don't you have anything else to say to me other than sorry, Caleb? Why? Did you think that everything will be okay if you apologize to me every time you leave me to go see Hazel? I don't get--. "

She stopped talking when he suddenly hugged her, her knees becoming weak when she heard how loud Caleb's heart beating. She felt her anger and resentment in her heart subsided, so she pushed Caleb.

"I will stop saying sorry, but please let me explain."

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath to calm herself. She turned her back on him and started walking back to her bed, but Caleb immediately carried her and laid her on the bed. She was even surprised when he lay down next to her, he spread his arm under her head to be her pillow then hugged her.

"I know Grandma has already told you why Mom and I are close to Hazel, right?" she nodded.

Her heart pounded when Caleb started talking, perhaps tonight is the right time for him to explain everything to her.

"Mom and Dad are both lawyers before they enter the business industry, as early as I can remember my life was always in danger because of my parents enemies back then. I have been kidnapped and tortured several times and hit by a car most of the time when I was young, and there were an incident of assassination as well. But I survived all of those things because of the people around me, but it caused them their lives."

She felt sad for him because at a young age, Caleb has already experienced traumatic incidents. He saw how people around him lost their lives because of him, she couldn't imagine how much suffering and pain Caleb experienced because of that.