On the VIP Word of City Life Hospital:
A faint trace of a peaceful smile appeared on Mantisha's face. In almost like an eternity, for the first time in the last two years, she slept like a baby. She felt like she was waking naturally, while feeling the Sunbeams over her face.
She stretched and rolled her body over the bed while intending to open her eyes. But a sudden flash of scenario appeared in her mind.
…
"That day in Moscow, it will all come true,
When, for the last time, I take my leave,
And hasten to the heights that I have longed for…"
A tall profile of a person loomed over her face, his hands cupped her cheeks. He leaned more, and stood close. So close his hot breaths were brushing all over her face. She could feel that a mint fragrance was coming from him.
With his thumbs, he started stroking her cheeks, and leaned more. Slowly he drew his face near her ear and said with a low, raspy voice,
"…Leaving my shadow still to be with you."
With these words, he kissed on her earlobe. Then muttered, "Excuse me for a few days Manman, I'll be back. I'll come to you, soon."
…
"You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire."
Hearing a familiar yet unknown voice, Mantisha jumped on the bed. Making her round eyes even larger, she stared around her surroundings with contemplation.
Within a second, her eyes became still on a person, standing near the glass window. With her utter surprise, she muttered,
"Second Young Master Wilson! Why are you here?"
With very slow and lazy movements, Steven turned behind and threw his usual cold and blank gaze towards her.
"And why I can not be here?"
Until he gave his nonchalant reply, Mantisha was in a daze. She was still in a trance of the scene she just witnessed. She could not believe that this time, she had a dream of this man, saying soothing words, and even kissing her!
Still in a daze, she could not process what was happening. So she just asked, "Huhh?"
But after just asking that, she bit her tongue. She saw the IV drip still attaching with her hand, and the surrounding, though it seemed luxurious, but it still seemed like a hospital. Or she would rather say, a hospital bed with a few machines in a seven star hotel suite.
"So yesterday you drunk so much that you could not even remember huhh?"His cold and distant voice made her focus shift towards him.
"Sorry?"
"Hmm you should be." Saying this, he turned around and faced the glass window again.
Mantisha became speechless. Everybody stays in a trance after just waking up okay? Who was drunk? She? Why would she? She didn't even touch a single drop of alcohol after making a fool of herself in their seniors farewell party. Besides she just had a weird dream again. That's also with a weirdo like him. She saw him kissing her and she didn't feel awkward at all. Gosh! How creepy!
She muttered under her breath. "You are the one who is drunk. Your whole family is drunk."
But somehow he still managed to listen what she said. He sneered disdainfully.
"Otherwise, who would start reciting in her sleep?"
"I wasn't sleeping back then." Mantisha protested. "I was already woke up."
"Then I should say, even before waking up and getting over from the drunken state."
Mantisha glared at him hard. Was this man trying to piss her off early in the morning. But just then his words striked into her head.
'Wait, had I started reciting? But that was a dream and he was the one who was saying it in her dream. So did I pronounce it by myself?'
"That dream felt so real!" A slight tingling of pain started appearing in her head. Mantisha held her head with her hands as she felt she was missing something, something that she should remember but she couldn't.
"And I thought it was some code to wake you up. So I said the rest of it." Steven sneered with disdain, "Who knows, if little girls still need to listen lullabies to sleep and wake up."
At this point, Mantisha completely forgot what she was trying to remember and became completely enraged.
"You… What do you mean by saying little girls? Who do you think you are?"
"Your savior." Steven coldly replied.
"Huhh?" Mantisha became dumbfounded.