The kiss lasted for a few more minutes before Aisha broke off the kiss because of lack of air. Aeron rested his head in Aisha's uninjured shoulder, both of them are breathing hard.
After awhile, Aisha cleared her throat and ask Aeron, "What's wrong? Why are you angry?"
Aeron furrowed his brows, his mouth is twitching in anger.
This woman still had the guts to ask him why is he angry? Is she serious?
When he recieve the news that Aisha was in Country A and she's in the casino, he adjourned his meeting with his fellow mafia Bosess just to rushed to the casino. He wanted to spend the night with her but he was chased out by her because of his brother. When he thought about how he will spend more time with her, he couldn't sleep at night because he was too excited to be with her this morning, he even made a plan of their activities today and bought a bouquet of roses just for her but when he got to the hotel, he was told that she is missing. He find her from everywhere in fear that maybe something happened to her, and when he saw her, she was almost naked with an injury.
And yet this woman still had the guts to ask him why he is angry?
He had never met someone who is infuriating and dense as she is.
Trying so hard to reign his fury, he bit hard at the junction between Aisha's neck and shoulder. Aisha let out a yelp and slap Aeron's back.
"You ask me why I'm angry? Didn't you promise me to spend the time with me? And yet you had the guts to leave the hotel without informing me."
"Excuse me?" Aisha was shocked at this, he was mad because of this? Must he be so childish? "First of all, I didn't promise anything. Second, you told me to help with my problems in Country A, and not spending some quality time with you."
Aeron lifted his head and gaze at Aisha. "Same thing." He replied.
"I really want to know what kind of dictionary you are reading." Aisha deadpanned.
Aeron chuckles, he must be sick because he thinks that Aisha is so cute at the moment. He couldn't help but to rain quick kisses in her soft lips.
Aisha pushes Aeron as she frowns at him but she was slightly taken aback at the affection in his eyes as he gaze dearly at her.
He stared at her as if she's the most beautiful woman in the world, as if she was the person he cared for the most.
Why? Why is he being like this to her? She didn't understand.
"Why?" Aisha whispers, her eyes held curiosity and uncertainty.
"What do you mean why?" Aeron was confused, what is she talking about?
Feeling the lumpness in her throat, Aisha cleared her throat before mustering a courage and ask him, "Why are staring at me with affection?"
Aeron blinks before flashing her a wide smile that seems to take her breath away. "Because I adore you, my Queen."
Aisha sucked in a deep breath, unexpectedly, her eyes watered but she quickly blink her tears away, but Aeron already notice it.
Aeron cup Aisha's face with both of his hands, his eyes worried with concern. "What's wrong?"
"I don't deserve it." Aisha whispers.
"What?" Aeron was surprised, what she didn't deserve? His affection? His love?
"I said, I don't deserve it." Aisha repeated, louder this time, her voice stern and firm. Regaining her composure, Aisha pushes Aeron off of her.
"Who told you that you don't deserve an affection from someone? Who told you that you don't deserve kindness? Love?" Aeron grabs both of her arms, his determined eyes lock into hers. "Look at me, why did you think that you don't deserve it?"
"Because I am tainted," Aisha said, her eyes fierced as she stare right into Aeron's deep blue orbs. "I am ruthless, a monster! I killed thousands of people, and made them suffer! My heart is only filled with rage and revenge! I don't deserve to be loved, nor any kindness or affection in the world. I even killed my own mother." Aisha unexpectedly hiccup at the last sentence.
She wasn't crying but Aeron could feel her pain, her sorrow, everything. This girl who is always cheerful in her childhood days, this woman who is always indifferent and stoic, she had opened her heart to him willingly, letting him to glimpse at her scars and sufferings.
"Ciana," Aeron called. "Look at me, if you think that you don't deserve it, then what about me? What about those people who did more bad things than you? Do they not deserve to be loved?
You said you had killed thousands of people, and that is a fact, but you did it for a reason. They also did horrible things, and it's not like they are innocent people.
You said your heart is filled with rage and revenge? Then what about me? My heart is also filled with fury amd hunger for revenge to those people who made me suffer. Aren't we the same?
And your mother, do you think she will like it if you punish yourself like this? You said you killed her, although I don't know what truly happened, in that time, I think that your mother also want to die than harm her daughter.
Aisha, you did many bad things, but you are not a monster. The real monster is those people who made us like this."
Aisha was now crying by the time Aeron was finish speaking. Even before her Father died, Morano didn't shower her too much of affection to her, there was an invisible wall between them after Aisha killed her Mother.
This was the first time, after Kristin's death, that someone shows her too much kindness, even go as far saying that she isn't a monster and is deserved to be loved.
Aeron loosened the grip in her arms and Aisha encircles it around Aeron's neck, hugging him as she cried in his shoulder.