Chapter 340 - Don't make me kiss you

Unconsciously, Seraphina grabbed the back of his bathrobe --tightly, as her fist tremble. She just dreamt of her first encounter with Luciano… the person who showed her real fear and turned her life upside down.

Probably due to the short warning she received earlier, the memories with that terrifying clever man resurfaced.

"I'll kill him, I'll kill him…" She repeatedly murmured with a stronger conviction every time. Dragon, on the other hand, c_a_r_e_s_sed her head to her back without a word.

Though he was also mildly surprised that Seraphina and the old Luciano had a stilled relationship towards each other, he doesn't need to probe any further as he guessed Seraphina's endless hatred towards the said man.

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Dragon assisted her to bath and Seraphina didn't retaliate or rather she didn't even react. However, the aura she emits was too strong and had a murderous intent which one couldn't overlook.

"Don't make me kiss you to bring you back," Dragon unenthusiastically muttered to snapped her back. He scrubbed her back and god knows how tough it was for restraining himself from having a taste of the tempting delicacy before his eyes.

"That man… I murdered him -- a million times in my mind." Suddenly, Seraphina faintly spoke as she hugged her knees and looked at the unmoving water.

"If it wasn't for him, huh, I always wonder what kind of person I'd be… on another note, it's probably just my bad luck." She added. 

Seraphina never opened up to anyone regarding the man who forcefully turned her into a monster. Yet, she was tattling about it with Dragon on her back. 

Dragon listened attentively and kept his silence in respect to her. It was the first time that Seraphina partly slid the curtain behind her facade which made him feel honored. Moreover, he might know how many moles and the location of each that she had on her body; he might have also spent months living under the same roof with her, alas, Dragon d_e_s_i_r_e was to know her; not just every inch of her physical body but the real Seraphina within her.

He doesn't want to question which is true or not anymore. He was utterly tired and drained with this mind games with her. Hence, all he could do was listen and process her words.

The original cold, apathetic Dragon was buried and his instinct adapted her carefree nature. Her demands to compliment other beauties at times and be laid back every once in a while -- Dragon unconsciously acted just like what she wished.

But, unbeknownst to him, deep inside his heart, he was doing it to keep himself from going crazy. He already had too much blood in his hand and he doesn't want to massacre everyone just because.

The weight of his wicked responsibility to remain at the top of the underground world weigh too much that if he lost his cool, he'll die together with everyone else.

Therefore, Dragon wanted to have closure. He wasn't asking for her to return his intense love but, knowing that they were fine, he's more than willing to share the burden with her. After all, he promised to Sebastian Yue that as long as she was happy, he'll willingly step aside… even if it means he wasn't the reason behind it.

"When I died in the past, I swore to kill the man who caused me pain and misery… but aside from you, that Luciano was part of that oath." Seraphina continued after a pause. Recalling her death moment in her previous life, not only the look of Dragon's inhumane coldness as he pointed the pistol on her forehead but also, Luciano's cunning smirk filled her mind as she uttered her revenge inwardly. 

"Me? Caused you pain and misery?" Dragon finally broke his silence as he thought she was referring to the accident caused by Max.

"In that lifetime, you sent me limbs and other body parts of people whom I interacted with… you killed Uno and even Gramps, in front of me." Seraphina continued to mumble her memories which stopped Dragon's hand from shampooing her hair. She resumed,

"I was so sure it was you… until I had that glitch memory of Riggs dying and 'you' violated me beside his lifeless body -- that is when my certainty wavered."

With that said remarks, Dragon forcefully turned her around to meet his disbelief countenance yet with a little caution not to hurt her.

"What are you talking about?" He aggressively growled as an unreadable glint flashed across his eyes. However, Seraphina's blank face didn't change as she flatly responded,

"What I'm saying is the answer to your biggest question."

Dragon slightly blinked as he slowly retracted his hands from her shoulder. It's not that he could not believe her but rather, he was convinced. For her to hate him that much to the extent of her deliberately targeting the lower groups under his wing, she needed a strong conviction of doing so.

Glancing down while his palms held on the rim of the tub, he muttered. "You said I killed everyone, how certain are you that you weren't just dreaming?"

Seraphina lightly scoffed recollecting everything that happened to her previous lifetime. "Because everything happened just like what it's in my head."

"Project AUGUR, just like its literal meaning… it is intended to foretell results or the future -- impossible," Dragon's grip on the rim of the tub tightened as he concluded the only possibility of Seraphina's condition.

"Impossible… that's a failed experiment! How?--" Dragon mumbled trying to keep his heart at bay. Recalling the past, their child was killed due to that deadly experiment and it was a miracle that Seraphina didn't. 

Alas, what he couldn't understand is that, after undergoing such process, Seraphina should see the result after doing so but she didn't hence… now that Dragon thought about it, that very same time, the unjust ending of their relationship took place in a tragic accident.

"No… that, can't be."