Devotion Emotion ( x Reader story) (Extreme romance, reverse harem)

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"Y-You...overheard me..?" I stammer, unable to look Ace in the eye.

"Look, I get that you're mad at me and all... But..." Ace blushes.

Ace looks at my packed bag.

"...You can't leave me."

"W-Why?! I thought you hated me!" I shout.

"I don't hate you (Y/n)."

"Then why are you so ignorant towards me?!"

"Because...I don't like the way you make me feel..!" Ace says bashfully.

'What does he mean?? ' 

"How do I make you feel then?? Resentment?? Hate??" I ask, with a hint of irritability.

"No!! It's not like that..!!" Ace says. "It's...Different." 

"How so?"

"I-I won't say!!"

"Ace, don't spew crap at me if you won't tell me what it means!"

"Fine. I want to talk to you privately in your room then. Instead of standing out here in the corridor." He says, cheeks still flushed with colour.  

I invite him in to my room. He sits down on the edge of the bed, while i unload my bags. My plan to run away from the mansion has been postponed.

"So what is it?" I ask, with my arms folded in an angry manner.

"You make me feel...a way I don't want to feel." Ace says.

"Yeah, I get it. But what feeling ??"

"What would you say if I told you...I liked you..? Would you freak out?" Ace asks nervously.

Wait. Hold up. Am I receiving my first love confession...From Ace ??! 

I hesitate to speak.

"Well by the way you have been treating me, I wouldn't know what to say." I reply.

"I see." Ace looks a little disappointed.

"So.. do you like me?" I say.

"..I'm just so afraid."

What kind of reply was that??

"Pardon??" I ask.

"I-I'm afraid to fall for you (Y/n)." 

"W-Why..?" 

He looks out my window, which is widely open. His red, fiery hair brushes against his cheek in the wind. 

"Because of my mother." He finally returns back to the conversation.

"What happened with..your mother?" I ask him quietly, slowly sitting down beside him on the edge of the bed.

"She fell in love with my father. He was the wrong man for her. They...Got into a fight, and then.."

Ace hesitates.

"...She was murdered by that son of a b*tch."

I start to have sympathy for him. No wonder he is afraid to fall in love. He doesn't want something like that to happen again.

Ace turns his golden-brown eyes towards me, and stares right into my eyes. 

"Do you want to know why that ring is so important to him?" Says Ace.

"I would. ..If that's okay."

"Mother wore that ring ever since a merchant sold it to her. It was at a fairly low price for a sapphire ring. According to rumors, Father had received a call from some shady men. They would pay him thousands for that ring. Overcome by greed, Father asked Mother for the ring. I remember watching through the ajar door when I was 12. Mother would not give up her ring. They got into a serious physical fight, which ended up with Mother being wounded in her stomach. I was forever scarred."

"Oh Ace..." I sympathized. 

"I can become easily corrupted (Y/n). If we were in a relationship...and it happened to us.."

Ace begins to space out.

..Then he comes back to planet Earth.

"I would never forgive myself." 

"Ace.." I call out to him silently.

"(Y/n). You must stay away from me. I am dangerous."

"Ace, no you aren't! You have just been badly affected by what you saw that night."

"(Y/n)..." Ace whispers.

Suddenly he wraps himself around me, and pushes me onto the bed. He lays on top of me, inches away from my face.

"I want you." His lips brush against my cheek.

I hear the door squeak open.