Their Destiny (COMPLETED/EDITING)

An open book

"I will,, but you wont make me regret it,, right?" Arsen asked looking me in the eyes.

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I had no reply to what he told me. I don’t know if I’ll make him regret it or not, merely because I don’t even know what he wants to tell me. About 5 minutes passed, he walked away from me and stood again by the ledge with both his hands in his pocket. I looked at him for a while trying to figure out what the right thing to do is. Arsen just reached his hand out to me, how can I turn him down after all of this? I wanted to know it all, what has gotten in to me now that the truth is right in front of me and between my hands?

"After my father passed away." Arsen broke the silence still looking at the view in front of him. I guess he had planned to tell me regardless to my reply. Frankly I’m glad he did so, it was never my intention to reply. "And my sister had abandoned us for her husband, I inherited everything. A lot of things, money, companies, houses,, I had more money and more property than a person can ever need or want. So I sold it all, gathered it, and decided to take off to the U.S. But before I did, I got a message from my sister telling me her husband locked her in the house and had been assualting her and their daughter almost everyday."

"Oh god." I gasped.

"I went and took her and her daughter against his will. And flew with them to the U.S. We laid low for a bit until I decided that it’s time to put things together. I had reached for one of my father’s friends, Mr. Luiz Stifan. At the time he was going through a financial crisis, so I offered to help him and secretly buy a couple of facilities from him including the airline only if he helped me get a new identity so that Harry won’t be able to reach me."

"You own the Sky airline?" I asked widening my eyes.

"Yes, as well as 49 percent of the Stifan’s business. But nothing public of course, I don’t need that kind of attention. I saved Luiz’s business and he got me a new ID, Kayl Harton. And Kayl has to have a job, so I became Captain Kayl Harton of The Sky airline."

You know how your brain would freeze when you eat a lot of ice cream at once? All that he’d told me was like this bigass dose of ice cream that was thrown in to my mouth and took away my thoughts and senses. I. Did. Not. See. This. Coming... It wasn’t the secrets that will kill me, it was the fact that he told me. I didn’t know if I was ready for this. And even if I was, what he told me only added more and more questions to my mind.

"And those things being sent to me?" I asked shaking my head.

"That, I don’t much about." He replied.

"Yeah but they gotta be connected to this drama, right?"

"Perhaps." He said giving me vibes that he still knows more but won’t dare speak it to me, I didn’t even have a slight desire to know more at the time, I had already known enough. I didn’t think that this is where my curiousity was going to lead me, I didn’t think Kayl would ever let himself go in front of me so much, and now all I can think of is why he did this.

"Arsen,," I mumbled. "I can call you Arsen right?" 

"At appropriate moments, yes." He nodded.

"Why are you telling me this, why now?"

"After all that you’ve been through because of me, you deserve to know." He stated confidently.

"And you,," I hesitated not knowing if I should give myself the right to ask him this or not. "You are not worried I’d betray you?" A few minutes passed and he still didn’t answer me. His face didn’t look like he was thinking about an answer, but rather a straight face that looks like it’s waiting for the right moment to drop a bobmshell on me.

’’Tell me Destiny?" He broke the silence. "Have you ever fell in love?"

"Huh?" I asked too distracted to reply.

"Have you ever fell in love?" He repeated the question.

"Ah, yes. I was engaged before." I replied.

"How did you find out you love him." He added. "What is love?"

"It differs from one person to another, there is no definition for it." I said forgetting about the main topic. "For me, love is taking a whole person with his flaws and not wanting to change a bit about him. It’s being ready to pour your heart and soul out to someone without fearing them judging you or leaving you. It’s feeling like your safe place is this person."

"Love is,," Arsen spoke. "Love is being ready to get emotionally naked in front of someone with full confidence that they will cover you up." He turned to me and got close to me, both his hands grabbing both my shoulders. His gaze got deeper in to my eyes by the second until he leaned downwards and got his forehead touching mine. His moves were slow and steady as if he was silently asking for my premission to approach me. I was too frozen to react back; I just went with the flow overwhelmed by all that had happened.

"I will cover you up, Arsen." I whispered fearing speaking this outloud. "With no regrets."

"I know." And with that he wrapped his arms around me, holding me in tighter and tighter every second.

That moment, I felt something that I’ve never felt before, even with Edward. I felt super safe to the point I started to feel like I am going mad: What is it about him that got me feeling this way?! 

He then let go of me slowly, avoiding eye contact, and looking so weak and fragile. His face had signs of shock and disbelief on it. I’m also pretty sure my face had the same expressions. No other words felt appropriate at the moment; it felt like this really good movie that after you watch words seem to be lost and all you can think of is what had just happened. The weird thing is, even after this hug and all that have been said, silence wasn’t awkward; the uncertainty of the next step got me an adrenaline rush, a one that I didn’t mind at all. 

"I should get going." I declared getting up.

"Porter the driver will drive you to the hotel." He said taking the lead at going downstairs.

I reached the living room where Porter was waiting, Arsen told him to drop me off at the hotel then headed upstairs again without directing a single word or look at me. And so I got back to the car, in to the hotel, and up to my room with the biggest mind block ever. 

And at that night, at the anniversary party more surprises will happen. But was I ready for them? Or will I ever be?