Chapter 157 - Coming from someone who slept with a demon lord

Clara extinguished the fire and nodded her head at him. 

"Are you okay?" Leo asked, seeing the flicker of emotions in her eyes. 

"I'm fine." Clara replied 

He reached out his hand and held her own, "you have no idea how happy I feel." He said, making Clara look at him with a confused expression. 

"I'm happy that we could both be like this, talking to each other. I'm glad you're not pushing me away anymore." He said and Clara could only bits down on her lip. 

She didn't know how to counter that. 

The two decided to visit Ella after. Clara assured him that she's totally fine and nowhere hurts, when he asked if she could walk. 

Immediately they stepped into Ella's ward, Tim was stunned at their appearance. 

"Hey dude! Why do you look like the patient? And you Clara. You look way too beautiful for someone who just woke up from a vegetative state." Tim said.

Tim has visited Clara's ward twice after the incident. He stopped when he couldn't bear with the sight of Clara wrapped tightly in Leo's arm. 

He just felt his heart hurt, because Clara has made it clear that she didn't want him. 

Clara found the situation a bit awkward. He would give Tim a salute as he is very good at making things look normal.

They have not crossed paths since they talked about the club night and she drew the line between them. 

"What is vegetative state?" Clara asked, making Leo and Tim stare at her in awe.

"Why are you two looking at me like that? I will just have to Google it then." Clara said, not feeling a little bit embarrassed. 

"You seriously don't know what it means?" Tim asked.

"Yeah." Clara replied casually like it's nothing, while Leo still has his eyes glued on her.

"Dude, you have a lot to fix on your girl." Tim said like it's nothing, but a glint of sadness flashed through his eyes which went unnoticed by the two.

Clara wants to clarify Tim's claim, but on second thought, she decided not to. It's better this way than clarifying things.

"It's okay, Clara. You don't have to stress yourself. The ones I know are enough for the both of us, you look cute when you are confused about something, I love that." Leo said shamelessly.

"What!" Clara exclaimed, glaring at him.

'Did he do that on purpose?' Tim asked in his head as he felt bitterness in his heart at Leo's word.

His pretense has it's limit. He didn't find anything wrong with Leo's words, as he would have done more than that if Clara had become his. It just hurts to know that he really lost.

"So noisy! Are you guys here to visit the sick or flirt around?"

The three of them look at each other before looking at Ella who just spoke, and currently looking at them like they were a bunch of idiots.

Tim was not shocked that she is awake, as the doctor has told him that Ella is perfectly fine now, which seems like a miracle to them, but she lay still on the bed refusing to get up. 

Leo and Clara, who had no idea about that, rush to her side, "are you okay? How do you feel now?" Leo asked, making Tim and Ella roll their eyes at him.

"Of course I'm okay,. This annoying dude looked like he just lost his child, each time I opened my eyes. I don't like that, so I just kept sleeping." Ella said nonchalantly. 

"She's fine. She didn't wake up on purpose.This silly thing." Tim said, not minding her.

Clara recalled Leo's word about her not liking to be pitied, so she put on a straight face and smiled at Ella. 

"Your skin looks pretty bad." she commented.

Ella looked at her and saw the nonchalant look on her face, making her grin. "I like you." She said. 

"I'm not into women. At least not the one with a skin like yours, sorry not interested." Clara said, because if she needs to raise her opinion on Ella's life, she needs to act as natural as ever.

Leo has mentioned that she hated pity. 

Leo and Tim stare at Clara in surprise. 

"Hahahahaha," Ella laughed, "you are a bold one. I will admit that I like that." Ella said and sat up gently, while both dudes were about to make an attempt to go and help her, but she shook her head. 

"Don't worry about my skin, as this is something money can take care of. And I'm also not into women, I just like your guts." Ella added.

Leo look at Clara and felt like she's up to something. 

Tim also find it unlikely that Clara is so blunt with Ella.

"Why are you guys looking at her like that? You guys should be glad you fell for a woman like her, she's amazing." Ella said as she saw the weird look on both Tim and Leo. 

'Can't she be a little bit less annoying after she just woke up?' Leo and Tim thought. 

"Says the woman who slept with a demon lord and nearly foolishly got herself killed." Clara said.

Tim: "..."

Ella: "..."

'Not right now.' Leo pleaded in his heart, but Clara has started anyway.