"Come on." Aldrich spread his arms wide and looked at the girl in front of him. With her eyes watery like two beautiful and delicate jewels, the figure of Elfida looked small and defenseless. Maybe it was because of the concept that approaching Silvanna and taking Silvanna away from them. You can tell at a glance that Elfida is emotional, but not everyone who knew Elfida would believe she was vulnerable Actually, no one shouldn't judge the book by its cover.
Aldrich might have thought so if he hadn't known that the Ismeralda family was the founding family of a prominent martial arts school and owned multiple security companies. Which of the natural children in such a family would be vulnerable? It must be admitted that Silvanna's sister of the same blood is also a little scary. Deceived by Elfida's gentle and vulnerable looks, was there a young man who lived this life fast?
Aldrich did not know how many martial arts the girls with the two diamonds of this family had mastered. Maybe even a big guy like him would have him face down on the floor in one second.
Tigers pretending to be sheep!
There was no way she could be defenseless.
But it looked like that.
Taking a deep breath, Elfida spread her wheat-skinned, attractive arms to her sides, and she and Aldrich hugged each other. Aldrich sighed deeply. Keeping his body as distant as possible, for a moment he heard the voice inside him speak. He always ignored the voice that hid within him and made up the 'evil' side of his human feelings.
He thought that the woman in his arms and the woman he loved, deserved better. Maybe they were born in the wrong era and time. No one could fathom what kind of state the Earth is going through right now. Human. Human, who produced weapons to destroy more effectively, was destroying everything. Even to themselves. Every second, every moment we take a breath...
Aldrich spoke as he hugged Elfida lightly.
They knew what was coming.
"People don't want to get hurt. People don't want to hurt, they don't want to hurt even an ant. But, It is interesting that they want to kill. They want to kill so they don't get hurt or hurt something. I feel sorry for Silvanna because there will always be a selfish man next to her. A man who doesn't want to hurt her will be there for as long he can live. İn her hearth. Of course, If God allows. Haha! I'm not sorry for you, little witch, because I think you're a piper from a rat village. I will never forget the days when you tried to drive the selfish snake out of its nest with your sweet tongue. ''
By the end of his speech, Elfida's slender hands pressed tightly against Aldrich's back muscles. Aldrich could be sure there were a few fingernails in the area of his shoulder and back muscles. Elfida's celestial face was deeply embedded in Aldrich's chest, and her long black silky hair obscured the side of her face. The distinctive scent of her attractive body filled Aldrich's nostrils.
''I do. In these days when whore is in vogue, we're fighting for manhood." Aldrich's face turned solemn from Elfida's sudden 'attack'. Aldrich said playfully as the overly supple and soft, milk-filled pieces that took up too much volume touched his body. As he said this, he turned his body slightly to the side.
Although he had a deep loyalty to his soul or feelings in his heart, he could not control the body's physiological response. The hug ended with Elfida's sudden attack. For Aldrich, this hug was an interaction between two people who understood each other and were very close. Not because he didn't think too much, but because he didn't dare to think too much. Doubt ... A little skepticism can cause a crack as big as an abyss stretching to the horizon.
Elfida pushed Aldrich away from her with her flushed cheeks and gently wiped the tears from her eyes. A feeling she'd never felt was swirling around her body as she hugged Aldrich. She thought it was because it was the first time she had come into contact with a man so closely.
Elfida knew that emotions she shouldn't be feeling right now were growing stronger inside her. Today will be her sister Silvanna and Aldrich's happiest day. At least that's what Aldrich insisted on. It was a small one-witness wedding in the hospital room. An event that makes the days of two little ants or birds the happiest. She was the only one other than the main character at the wedding.
The bride's sister, Elfida.
She was so embarrassed that her sister was looking at the man she loved through a woman's eyes. But...
When she felt Aldrich's arms gently wrap around her, she realized how beautiful and sweet the forbidden fruit would be. Maybe Aldrich was right when he always said that she watches too much drama and romance movies.
Calling her the little witch... No, that was Aldrich's stupidity. Absolutely. It was his stupidity.
She knew it was morally inappropriate. If this had happened, many insults and bad words would have been said to her by pointing fingers in public. If she had seen or heard someone else like this, she would have criticized the situation because it was inappropriate and unethical.
She felt uncomfortable.
She didn't feel embarrassed for caring about society. Nor did she feel offended by the sacred chains of morality that restrained the savage side of people. She was ashamed of the evil words that formed in her heart and whispered in the ear of the devil, of thinking about committing bad vices. She felt uncomfortable because she was ashamed to look at her sister's face.
At first, she was attracted to Aldrich's extreme 'obsession' with her sister.
Would it be more accurate to call it selfishness rather than obsession?
One day he came to their house. Her sister fell ill that day. It was then that she first contacted Aldrich. The first feeling Aldrich gave her was that of a cold and distant gentleman.
Who knew he really was what he seemed? Without any dirty tricks, he had exactly the same personality as the feeling he gave in their first meeting. Gentleman. Cold. Calm. Even the answer she got when she talked a little about it with Aldrich silenced her.
'Either be what you seem or be as you are.'
A lot of things happened as Silvanna's mistake progressed. She wanted Silvanna to get rid of this virus and stay in peace. She wanted her to be able to sleep peacefully and carefree. Many new feelings and thoughts emerged. She wanted to comfort her older sister, Silvanna. But she needed consolation, too.
It was easy to push Aldrich away from her sister. She was giving him some fake attention and snapping his tail right away. Many of her friends said she was as beautiful as her sister, and she knew it too. That's why she was confident. It was easy to stun a young man.
No matter how hard she turned to a monkey for attention, things were not going as she thought. Actually, no didn't need to explain much. Things don't go as she hoped and she was a girl who started to take care of the man who try to steal her sister's love. Like in drama and romance movies.
The longer she kept her beautiful eyes on him, the deeper she went into the swamp.
She began to like Aldrich's ordinary face. Hearing his calm voice comforted her. It was a difficult concept in the events that she lived. Feel relieved
The man is called the 'ideal groom' by her long-lost father.
Aldrich Karaeski.
"Are you ready, little witch?" Aldrich asked in a gentle tone.
After seeing Elfida answering his question with a small smile and a raised thumb, Aldrich confidently pushed the doorknob and stepped through the threshold.
It could be argued that Aldrich's outward appearance was deceiving. The rapid beats in his heart showed his excitement. It was as if his heart had been in his throat and was about to burst out the moment he opened his mouth.
Curtains stuck to the walls of the hospital room blocked the window, which was the mirror of the outside so that the person looking out the window could see the outside with limited vision. The sky had the darkest atmosphere of the century. The rain never stopped and the storms threatened the lives of many people. Today was a day when it was very difficult for sunlight to pierce the clouds.
Except for a large chair in the corner and a white hospital bed in the middle of the room, there was not much in the large hospital room. But for Aldrich, the presence of Silvanna, lying in bed and living a life dependent on machines, was enough to illuminate this hospital room.
"Silvanna!"
Lying in the hospital bed, patient Silvanna looked in the direction of the door with her white, cataract eyes. In fact, her head was always turned towards the door. It was as if she was waiting for him. No...
She was waiting for him.
She had a slight smile on her face.
Smile.
It was an upward millimeter curl of the lips.
'Don't give up hope. '
"Hahaha smiling on our happiest day shouldn't have been this hard. Look how easy you can do it! '' Aldrich said in a happy tune as he walked towards Silvanna.
'Evil will always reign, but if you plant a sapling of smiles, this sapling will grow around you and turn into a huge forest.'
Elfida saw Silvanna smiling with rotten and missing teeth. She remembered that those teeth used to be as white as a pearl and as beautiful as the moon. She remembered that her skeletal and pus-covered features had once been as bright as the sun to dazzle the beholder. Silvanna was a lotus. She was a lotus that never stopped rotting. Elfida's heart seemed to be grasped by something covered with thorns.
She was hurting.
It was the most beautiful smile Silvanna had ever seen on her face. It didn't matter when Silvanna was free or when she was sick. Yeah. She had never seen Silvanna smile so beautifully before.
'Despite everything, the sun will rise again and one day it will knock on the door called hope.'
When Elfida was little, she didn't like Silvanna at all, she was a nuisance. She was more skilled in combat than she was. She used to smile better than she did. Unlike her, she always had a friend. When she didn't want to practice combat, it would be Silvanna who would reach out.
What kind of sister was this? She used to spread love, compassion, smiles, and help all around.
Elfida didn't know whether to call it huge hypocrisy or a huge stupidity.
When Silvanna got sick, she started to hate her even more. So-called human, is that it? Where is their hatred, where is their depression, where is their jealousy?
Maybe she wasn't stupid, she was just a little too smart, for she was able to hide all this under the gentle mask of her smiles!
The words that the man she had come to love deep in her heart had spoken to her a long time ago, the words she didn't know why and that Aldrich had said, echoed in her ears. They were having a face-to-face conversation in the hospital corridor on a day when his interest in Aldrich was growing day by day. Silvanna's illness was in the early stages. Elfida had argued with Aldrich, seeing the doubts and disappointments in Silvanna's heart. Aldrich finally ended the conversation with this sentence.
''If there will be a small smile that will come after the tears at the end of the abyss called 'Despair', I am ready to sacrifice all my laughter for it.''
She had met Aldrich two months after Silvanna's illness came to light.
She had no recollection of Aldrich laughing.
Yes.
His face was a piece of dry wood.
A wooden puppet that can show facial expressions.