Love Shimmers

Chapter 20

I did not know why I was shivering. It might be because I was too happy or because I was afraid of what will happen. From the moment I saw him, I knew that I would not be able to let him go. He was looking at me with those eyes which were hoping, begging, wishing me to go with him. A plea, a hope that I did not know if I was allowed to grant. I thought that I would be able to leave as long as my determination was enough but no I could not escape his grasp, from the moment his velvet voice reached me…

“Leticia”

It was only my name. A name I had heard countless times since the day I was born. However, his velvet voice made everything different. How many times have I dreamed, hoped, wished for this voice to call me once again, I wonder?

His voice…

It was the most powerful spell. My conscious were ordering me to leave and get over with the engagement ceremony but… my heart was pulling me closer and closer towards the source of that enchanting voice, Eric.

I wanted to run away but at the same time I wanted to just jump off the balcony and be with him, my Romeo, the thief of my heart. However, reality was never that easy. I knew that I could never leave with him. In the first place, I could not understand why he was here, dressed like a prince, with a silver crown shining like the moon.

“Why are you here?” I said with a voice that could even freeze a volcano. Inside my heart, I hoped that he would leave and make things easier for me.

“You should know why I am here.” It was that voice again. The voice that seemed to draw me in, the voice which was promising me that everything would be alright, the voice which was compelling me to go with him, the voice which was saying that I have every right that this was my personal fairy tale.

“Leave!” I ordered him. He was making things even harder for me. It had took my all to not just run to him but his shining eyes made it even harder, almost impossible to refuse him. That’s the key word, almost…

“You know that that’s not what you really want, Leticia” He said while searching for something, for the part of me which were begging to be with him.

I quickly averted my eyes and steeled my heart. “Yes it is what I want.” My voice was weakening. I was going to break down sooner or later. Tears threatened to spill from my eyes. I reminded myself again and again that I will not, cannot and must not go to him for the promises that I made to Dahlia, for the soldiers that died for me and last but not least, for Undine who forsake her love for me.

Silence dominated both of us. The loud sound from the ballroom was long gone. The only one left in front of me was only him, always him…

My heart wrenched when I imagined life without him. For days, I had convinced myself that I would be fine. Damien would be there for me. However, that was before he appeared once again before me. I could not take it any longer. It hurts so much to not be with him. Soul mate, it might seem foolish but it was real. A special someone was created along with us. They were meant to be with us through happiness and sorrow, through spring and winter, till death do us apart.

 “Come!” It was a simple word, just four alphabets but those four alphabets shattered my will, my barrier. It was not an order that I must follow. He did not have that power over me but I felt my body edging closer and closer to the rail. Rose thorns pricked my hand which was not covered, as my blood drop, my heart melt.

“Come! Come to me Leticia!” he repeated those words and it was then that all my perseverance left me. Without caring for the world, I closed my eyes and jumped down, believing that he would catch me. It should have been frightening jumping from the highest room in the castle but I felt lighter. The lower I fell, the happier I felt. I was going to be with him once more, my heart soared.