[ DISCONTINUED ] Reborn: Runaway Bride

Chapter 17: White Fox

Kit stood motionless as he watched the pale figure left in a flurry. Her cold words resounding in his head: You can stay if you want, but I don't feel the same.

An injured look flashed across his face. Despite the kindness she had shown him, his young miss was also extremely cruel, she heartlessly rejected him without any reservation.

Kit felt like his heart had been forcibly ripped out, empty and dead, yet at the same time so painful he could hardly breathe. He wanted to run after her, hold her tightly so that she may never run away from him.

...But could he? She would loathe him even more...

Kit had seen the flash of anger in her eyes when he tried to stop her from pushing him away. Her normally calm pale golden eyes had flashed with such malice that it was enough to strike fear into a grown man's heart.

...Yet the fire in his heart only grew...

Like a madman on the brink of desperation, he yearned for the untouchable flower that he couldn't have. And, of course, the ice-cold poisonous flower didn't even disappoint him one bit as she delivered the most brutal blow to his ego: a flat-out rejection.

Yet he's willing to give her everything... everything except... abandoning him.

When she had asked him to leave, Kit had panicked. The continuous restraint that he placed on himself finally broke and in his last final hope, he threw caution to the wind and blatantly revealed his emotions. Of course, as the saying goes, play with fire and get burnt, and he had no one but to blame it on himself.

Kit couldn't remember how long he had been standing there moping around until he heard the approaching footsteps.

... Has she come back?

Perhaps after what just happened, Kit thought she might not want to see him so soon so he immediately blended himself into the shadows. Yet when he noticed the scene in front of him, his expression turned complex.

Ai, who was dressed in a fine set of nobleman robes, was accompanied by a woman with pure white hair. A woman who was taller than Ai.

Kit frowned slightly. Ai's body structure, by no means, is petite, she could be considered taller than an average among the women and yet this new woman stood at least a head higher. But his concentration on their heights was suddenly broken when the new woman suddenly called out, "Wifey, wait for me!"

... Kit immediately paled. That voice. He knew that voice...

Ai sighed helplessly. Ever since they left the brothel, this Hayama, the neighbouring prince had been constantly on her nerves. She had tried to reason with him to stop him from calling her "wifey" but the stubborn man refused to back down. He had insisted that not only did she take advantage of him when she was drunk, she also left him without any money and thus him ended up in a brothel.

Ai wanted to retort; somehow he ended up in the brothel because he ate too much and didn't have money to pay for it so why was she being blamed again. But considering his position as the neighbouring prince, she didn't want to openly offend him so she had suffered in silence.

Only when closer to her house, Ai hastened her footsteps, unable to bear the incessant chatting any longer. Not only that, Hayama had also leaned on her as they walked. He had clutched her arms in death grips as they walked through the red light district and his whole body leaned on her like a drunken sailor.

...please your highness, your body is not that small or delicate, could you please behave according to your size...

But frankly speaking, Ai didn't know why he was doing that since he himself seemed to be in discomfort, bending his tall frame to hold her arms tightly. Yet that strange creature had continued to stick to her like a clingy beast, making her walk disoriented throughout.