Chapter 0044

"Right! A fine man always limps and has blood trickling out of a gash in their stomach."

He chuckled, his shoulders shaking. "Spare me the sarcasm, Syd."

"How did you even get to such a remote place?" I blurted out. I couldn't wait any longer. "I mean you just burst out at the right time and saved me." I squinted at him which caused his lips to stretch in a hypnotizing smile. "Have you been following me, Luigi?"

His eyes eyed my hair then they dropped to my dress. "You look like shit right now. You should find a place to wash up."

*Answer my question," I growled playfully.

He arched his brow, a mischievous smile still dancing across his lips, "I've saved you twice, and you still doubt me?"

know him all that much but I could tell that

I was with

there's always a price to pay back. There are no incidental

me and there was also a reason why Luigi was there

a place like that and at that time too. Such coincidences are rare." I determinedly held his gaze and reprised, "Why were you there?" There was a sly smirk on

my eyebrows at him, silently telling him

the look in his eyes was

wasn't even an option. "Protect me from what and from who?" I got on the edge of my seat and continued

that look again, that twitch of his lips as if he was contemplating if he should speak the truth or not. "I can't tell you too much, Sydney," his expression had grown dreary now. "Just know someone

whatever I could get. Who exactly is this man? And who sent him? The voice in my head scoffed, Was he

Nope. I almost laughed at the idea. No way it would be dad. Neither he nor his wife had ever cared about me. So who could it be? Who wants me safe and who wants

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