(A/N: The names of the characters, the places, nor the story line were merely a coincidence as this story was solely based on the Author's imagination only)
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I can hear voices, and a voice that my ears loved hearing it all the time. And it seems that they were arguing on something but I cannot understand for I only hear nothing but their faint voices. I wanted to speak up, I wanted to open my eyes but I can't, I can't move my body, nor a finger but I forced my eyes to open
I opened my heavy eyelids as my eyes adjusts to the brightest of the light. As soon as my eyes opened, the room became quiet as deadly it is, then I saw him rushing towards me. I felt my throat burning through its dryness
"Water" I manage to said with a raspy voice that I myself didn't recognize if it was my voice or not. Lucaon grabbed a glass of warm tap water as he guide me to sit up and drank. The water made my throat comfortable from before
"Let's give them some space to talk" A humal wolf said, the four lords nodded their heads and leave the room, leaving me and Lucaon alone
"Love"
"Lucaon"
We both called out at the same time, I bit my lips as I fidget my fingers, looking for the words to speak. Then, he hugged me
"Lucaon?" He hugged me tight with comfort, controlling his strength not to crushed my bones. I felt his breathing shaking under my body
"Let us stay like this for a while" He said with a husky tone, I nodded. e he lie down at the bed beside me as he hug my waist closer to his head. "Lucaon, what happened?"
"I should be the one asking you" He said. "I came back to your chambers to see you before I leave, but... " He paused but continued. " didn't found you, I asked the servants if they have seen you but none of them did, so I called the four lords and start a search group"
"I don't know that feeling, the feeling I will lost you, I felt... Scared" He breathed out. "Your scent was still here, but I unable to locate you. But as soon as I did, I saw you there... Lying on the ground, unconsciously. I was so scared, you have been on this bed for three days now"
Three days? I was unconscious for a three fvcking days?! The heck?
"What happened Kyon?"
"I... I don't know for myself" I said in a whisper. It's true that I don't know but those memory that I have before I was found by Lucaon was unexplainable, I do not know who he is nor what he is talking about. By just remembering that night made me uncomfortable
I felt his breathing calming beside me as I placed his hair. I took a closer look to his gorgeous face, seeing a hint of black circles in his eyes. His face was tired and full of worry, he didn't get enough sleep beca of me, he must be tired for looking out for me. I found myself smiling out of nowhere, feeling comfort with his arms
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Yesterday, Lucaon kept me beside him at all times. Today, Lucaon will be leaving with the three lords, Bane, Eros, and Geir. While Herleifr will left behind to babysit me
"I'll be back Love" Lucaon said is he kissed my forehead and left
"Herleifr, Lord of the South. Greeting To The Empire Of The Night" He said with a bow. " Please to be your acquaintance, My La—"
"Kyon" I cut him off. " Please do call me by my name instead"
"Kyon it is then" He said. Herleifr is the opposite of Bane, his quiet and not talkative and only bare talk if you asked him some questions. I groaned in boredom not to care that he is here with me
"Herleifr, I am fvcking bored"
"I can see that, Kyon" He said and that's it
"I am bored Herleifr..." I kept on saying, he put the book down and removed his glasses. "Shall we play a game then?"
"A game?"
"Yes, a game" He said and stood up, he called for the servant and asked to bring him two decks of cards
"Sooo... What is the game?" I asked him
"You'll know Kyon" He said and smiled. The servant arrived with a deck of cards in the tray a gave it to Herleifr
"This game is called Double Concentration"
"Double Concentration?"
"Yes, 'Double Concentration', also known as Match Match, Match Up, Memory, Pelmanism, Shinkei-suijaku, Pexeso or simply Pairs, is a card game in which all of the cards are laid face down on a surface and two cards are flipped face up over each turn. The object of the game is to turn over pairs of matching cards"
"As the name suggests, we play with two decks, with regular concentration, if the numbers match then it's a pair. But in this version you also have to match the suit" He explained as he dispatch the two decks at the table in front of us that separates us both
He split the first deck into half, gently bending each half of the deck and riffle the deck in his thumbs and cascade it as he do the the same thing to the second deck of cards
"So even though as twice as many cards there are only single matching pairs out of all 104 cards?" I asked and he gave me a nod as a reply for my question
"If a player fails to find a match then it is the other players turn; if a player finds a match then their turn continues until they are unable to successfully find a match then their opponent may begin their turn. The player that finds a majority of the 54 pairs of cards wins the game" He said
"Now, shall we start?" He asked me with a smile— no, a smug grin. It was a most sinister smug grin that I could ever imagine
This is going to be A Hell Of A Game