Ah, you can use it if you want to!"
"Can I?"
His tune was hushing, kissing her shoulder with the hot air that left his nose and nuzzling her bare shoulder. She cringed. Why was she acting like this, already she was plotting a serious discussion with him but everything that was going on currently sounded entirely different from whatever she was setting in her head.
"Of... Course."
The words flew out of her mouth faintly, barely breathing, his fingers rolled the strand of her hair away and his lips landed on her shoulder, he bent more leaving gentle butterfly kisses on her shoulder.
Her hands dropped, numbly and senseless, stiffened by the flow of the situation, her heart was thumping so fast, about to break her chest and fly out and her brain stopped functioning the moment, she couldn't even swallow, all she did was to let herself be devoured by the daze.
He continued kissing her until reaching her ear, the time his lips parted and he said, "You are my wife, and there is no other woman but you. They will know you slowly, for now just be my girlfriend in front of them."
Finally, she could swallow. This game was annoying and the twisted situation hurt her, but when he was close, she could let go of everything and just focus on him, pushing the chill over her down and be damned. It was wholly irregular, the unusual one to her.
"Did you tell him about my identity?"
Hu drew back, his heart couldn't take this, to be beside her and control his mannish urge.
"I did, he became concerned."
"Then?"
Hu extended his hand and waited for her to take it, "I will tell you, but first have some food. I will answer all your questions tonight, I'll be yours, you'd do whatever you want."
She blinked multiple times, was he serious? Why did he get so naughty out of the blue?
"Okay!" She grabbed his hand.
Having her food, he was looking at her the entire time, not even taking his eyes away for a second.
"You still love carrots!"
He stated.
Dan drew her tongue on her lower lips and he smiled, "this move was familiar too."
Hu saw her fingers that curled on her pants, taking her hand, he continued, "as you see no one can force me into an arranged marriage."
"Is it because of me?"
"Nope, this is my personality."
He extended his fingers forward and brushed her bangs away.
"The girl was here to become your wife."
"I know, but I don't want her."
Her eyes rolled on him, directly looking into his iris.
"But I carry someone else's child."
Her face tensed and her jaw ran hard. Hu's face became blank again. Letting go of her hand he folded his arms. Now that she opened this topic, he would want to continue it.
"What do you remember about that night?"
She just blinked, not discovering the motive behind the question.
"Not much, I was drunk!"
Hu clenched his jaw, he couldn't tell her about this. The girl just went through too much and it could be dangerous for her health.
"I don't care about that, we both must forget Qiang, please don't bother yourself. It will be nine months of space until I announce our marriage. If you want you can continue your studies online."
Dan also thought about it, but she could not do this, being in the class could make her focus on her studies and stop overthinking.
"If I felt that I might need it, I would tell you."
Hu was waiting for her to speak of the facts that Bella had revealed but nothing came out of the girl's mouth, she didn't even point out it.
Dan hardly could control her guts not to ask about him, being truly in love with her. No, she shouldn't do this, she didn't want to force him into something, perhaps the time was needed to help them in this case. She couldn't pressure herself and him.
"Okay, I think that I am ready to discover more about my family."
He paused, reading her face, instantly. What was in her mind? He could not already simply pass what he heard behind the door. His heart was full of desires, he wanted to start a new life far away from others, only with her.
"You were there when your father's enemies attacked your manor. You are the only witness. You can't remember any of that, right?"
Dan just stared at him, when he kept being quiet, hesitating for her answer, she eventually said, "I remember nothing but often I have nightmares. I kill some men who were about to hurt me."
"It was exactly ten years ago, the winter I was away from here. I was wandering in Murky webs, like every other curious boy. There, I read an article, that the Bear Mafia group had dispatched their long-term enemy, the owner of Gu casinos. His wife is missing and his ten years old daughter had disappeared after killing three men."
He paused for her reaction, nothing changed on her face. Did he need to make it clearer that the girl was Dan, and the dead man was her father?
"Where is my mother?"
Was she alive? If so, why didn't she come after her? Looking at her hands, she recalled the nightmares, there was a knife that she stabbed at some attackers, exactly in their neck where they could never survive. She did it as hard as she could, her whole body was covered by blood, her hands painted in blood, then she woke up from the dream when light and a horn sound resonated and pain embraced her whole body.
"I don't know, I left no stone unturned but I could find no trace of her."
She owed Hu, a lot. It was him being humble or his emotion, she couldn't decide but he had done so much. Now, it was obvious why Mr. Qin Bin was concerned. Her father was a mafia man, her life would change after this, and being with Hu could drag danger to this house, to his family.
'I am trying to find a way rather than leaving you, but anytime I see the spark of light, it will be turned down.'
She thought to herself while staring at him.