Whispers in the Gale

Chapter 16

|Ch.16

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A week later.

The days are already over when they blinked. Inside the room,it reeked sex,the two men only came out to have their meals or do their bathroom needs,that's all. Most of their time was spent in their room,wrapping themselves in their arms,snapping their hips,in short,they were ruined to the bits.

It was the last night Storm and Heeseung were spending together inside this room. They stayed on the bed,in each other's arms,naked. But the blanket was covering both of their lower parts. The silence between them was peaceful. Both were exhausted at this point.

"You don't really have to come with me,you know",Storm mutters as he traced his finger on Heeseung's collarbone.

Heeseung looked at him with furrowed eyebrows,"Storm,my best friend is there —"

"I know",Storm cuts him off. "I'm not telling this because I don't want you there but that world —it's dangerous. Especially if you are with me"

"Storm",Heeseung looked straight at Storm's eyes. "I know it. It might be much more dangerous than how the book has described but trust me,I know what I am getting myself into. Even if I don't know,I would still come with you"

Storm sighed with closed eyes,"There's only enemy out there in my world. You have no idea how many people I have offended. I've screwed around too much. Every man is out there for my blood. But if they knew you are with me,...Well you saw what happened. Gloria took Jake because she couldn't get a hold of you"

"What,what do you mean? Was she specially aiming for me?"

Storm went silent at that. He had this unreadable expression on his face as if he didn't know how to explain it.

Heeseung,"Why me?"

Storm looked away from him,as if running away from the question itself,"...I don't know"

Heeseung had a lingering idea why but he was scared to ask. He was scared to get hurt. What if this is just a fleeting feeling for Storm? What it's just a temporary attraction? What if it's only lust for him?

Silence again.

Tomorrow is going to change everything. Their whole lives would change. No,maybe their lives had already changed. It changed the moment Storm came to their world—no,it changed way before that,when Heeseung found the destiny book right next to his door.

"You know.....my mom was killed 8 years ago",Heeseung said quietly.

Storm looked down at the man in his arms with a confused gaze. Heeseung smiled,"She was killed by one of my dad's rivals. For years,I blamed my dad for that. I blamed everyone around me. I despised every living being. I even hated myself for being such a pathetic lowlife. I couldn't even do anything to protect her"

Storm was silent. His eyes were blank. But Heeseung knew that Storm recognised the familiar pain.

"That's why I paid a lot more attention to you when I read the book. I thought we were similar. So,I understood you more than any other character in the book. But then I realised,no body can actually understand and feel what another person's life even if we went through something similar......Emotions are complicated"