Devil's Prisoner of Love by Prefer

Chapter 467: I Missed You

Julian met her earnest gaze. "Haven't you already learned everything about my past?" His eyes flickered with hesitation, as if unwilling to revisit those memories.

"No, I don't know. Not at all. For instance, this Daria." Aurora turned his face to meet hers directly.

A sudden fear gripped her. She was terrified that there might have been another woman before her-perhaps someone he had deeply loved. What if the romantic love she believed in was nothing more than a carefully constructed lie? What if she wasn't truly his one and only?

Back when their relationship wasn't as deep, Aurora never thought about such things. She used to tell herself not to trust men.

No matter how kind a man appeared to be, there was always a motive, always conditions attached. No one would be good to her without reason.

Aurora repeated this mantra to herself time and again, but those words lost all power the moment Julian appeared in her life.

She began to open her heart, allowing herself to believe in love again. She dared to trust this man in front of her.

In just a few months, she had given him feelings a thousand times more intense than what she had ever felt for Hayden.

Back then, being with Hayden had been like children playing house. She hadn't understood what love or passion truly meant.

It wasn't until Hayden's betrayal that she realized love could be synonymous with pain. But after meeting Julian, those scars disappeared completely.

Love wasn't about pain. Love was about cherishing one another, about treasuring the relationship above all else.

She had placed love on a sacred pedestal. If someone were to destroy that love now, how could she possibly cope?

expression, Julian's lips curved into a smile. He reached out and gently

made

back. She admitted to herself that she was jealous. For a woman to be willing to die for him, the feelings she must have had... they

him brimming with jealousy, Julian's smile widened.

change the subject. Tell me, what exactly is

wasn't

first, she hadn't paid much attention to it,

discover that it had stuck to the dried blood. If

and left in a rush, wrapping the wound hastily with a

soaked through, staining the scarf a dark crimson, obscuring its

over ten hours without sleep, his heart consumed by thoughts of Aurora. It wasn't until he saw

is eagerly waiting for you! "You call this nothing?" Aurora's voice was both angry and filled with concern. "You were clearly hurt before you even left home, and you didn't even bother to properly bandage it.

anymore. Surely he knew how to care for himself

scolded him, Aurora forgot about her own tendency to dismiss her injuries. When she was hurt, she always

of love-caring deeply for someone else, even if you neglected yourself. Sadly,

hurry to see you," Julian said softly, lifting her chin with his uninjured hand. His fingers brushed against the corner of her lips, the very place another man had touched

you? No, I'll call a nurse to bandage your hand right now. I-" Aurora started to rise, but before she could finish, his cool lips pressed against hers. The room was quiet, the temperature outside dropping steadily. Julian had just come in from the cold, and

private hospital room, with only the two

chest, trying to stop him.

filled with an

three words shattered all of Aurora's defenses. During her most excruciating moments, the only person she