Alluring Mask - ENGLISH VERSION

CHAPTER 35

CHAPTER 35

"What are you doing here, Mrs. Collazo?"

I was frozen for a few seconds when I heard his voice. He was still looking out the bay window while smoking. With every drag and exhale from his cigarette, the smell reached my spot.

"I'm just looking around. What do you think I'm doing here?" I replied sarcastically.

I heard him chuckle softly at what I said. I walked towards Helios' spot like my feet had a mind of their own. If he tried to kill me, I could easily pull Saf from my hair and use it as a weapon against him.

"Hmm. I don't really know if you're just looking around here or if you're following me. Who knows, maybe your husband sent you to kill me." That's when I finally saw his face.

"You're here to kill me, aren't you? Maybe I'm right about that."

His serious, ash-grey eyes made it hard to tell what was running through his mind. But there was something strange about him—it seemed like he was both annoyed and sad, but I felt like it was just my imagination. On top of that, it was clear he wasn't in the mood, given how furrowed his brow was as he stared at me.

He walked toward me and passed by. I quickly pulled Saf from my hair, and my long hair fell freely. I slipped the ends of my two golden stiletto-style weapons into my fingers and hid them behind my back.

False rumors—but I guess I was wrong. How could I avoid them when the person who spread them is right in front of me? I closed my eyes and took a deep breath to calm down.

"I'm not his wife, okay—"

I stopped mid-sentence and turned to him. My eyes widened as I saw his right hand moving toward me, gripping a pocket knife, ready to stab. I quickly stepped back and grabbed his hand, twisting it until he dropped the knife.

I pulled his hand toward me, bringing his body closer. That's when I found the opportunity to punch his stomach. He quickly blocked the punch with his hand, then grabbed my foot and dragged me, making me fall onto the cold wooden floor. He continued to pull me across the floor.

"Not so fast, Hexia," he replied, as if he were joking with me.

I gasped in shock from what he did. I tried to kick him with the foot he wasn't holding, but he kept dragging me, moving me around the entire mini-living room on the second floor of Hyperion's library. He was treating me like a mop! I was becoming a rag because of what he was doing!

He knew exactly how to annoy me. He knew exactly how to boil my blood with anger. I thought only Oceanus could do that, but I was wrong. Now, he was the one leading.

"Stop it!" I screamed sharply. "I said fucking stop it, Helios," I said seriously. I raised myself until we were almost pressed against each other.

I didn't struggle since I could lift my own weight. At the same time, I trapped his hand that was gripping my foot, squeezing it between my thighs and pulling it toward me. Then, I shifted my full body weight onto his trapped hand, twisting in midair and bringing him down with me onto the wooden floor.

He was caught off guard by my move and didn't recover immediately. I pressed the small button on Saf, and I heard a faint click coming from the weapon in my hand, signaling that the cover had come off.

I straddled his chest while breathing heavily and attempted to stab him with one of the golden stiletto-type weapons I was holding.

My hand was trembling, and my chest was rising and falling rapidly as I felt like I was running out of breath. The playful expression on his face disappeared when our eyes met again. I felt like I was drowning in the way he looked at me.