Chapter 172 - Clinging onto his life

"What!" Clara exclaimed in astonishment, "Shouldn't you be thinking about Mick now? He lived and you should be in a hurry to see him. " Clara said, but that was an excuse to divert her mind from his touch. 

She was feeling over the moon right now. 

Leo grinned. 

"That's exactly what I'm doing, my adorable feisty lamb. You helped with his recovery. Shouldn't I at least show some appreciation?" Leo asked, looking at her with a big grin still plastering on his face.

"I don't think giving me a heart attack is the best way to show your appreciation." Clara said, her voice getting low, as she tried to control her breathing. 

"That's not possible, my feisty lamb. You are still too young and not ordinary to have one." Leo said.

"This is bullying!" Clara exclaimed. 

"Wait! Adorable feisty lamb? Seriously?" She suddenly noticed the name he had suddenly given to her. 

"Yes. It suits you so perfectly." He said and she saw his lips reaching closer and felt her throat dry, but it was planted on her forehead, which made her shut her eyes and oh dear! 

The way her heart felt warm was just too good to be real. She never believed that she would ever feel like this. 

Never!

Actually. The two couldn't believe this was happening. 

They tried blocking out all their struggles and pain and just feeling each other. The warmth from their touches on each other was magical. 

It felt so nice and their hearts felt beautiful. 

After all these while, they are now here. Their feelings finally became mutual. 

Leo suddenly smirk after retracting his lips and seeing how she still had her eyes closed and biting down on her lower lips. 

She looked too beautiful for his heart to handle. 

"So I was thinking, since our feelings are mutual." He said and Clara opened her eyes and looked up at him. 

She looked so serious and was lost in their world, not knowing that he was about to tease her. 

"That bond sealing thing would be achieved by us, through you know…" Leo said raising his brow in a 'you should already understand what I meant, manner.

Clara's whole being froze for a second before she opened her mouth and closed it again. And when she finally got a grip of herself from the shock, she cursed out loud.

"Damn you! Are you doing this on purpose? How can you bring that up out of the blue?" She growled and tried to free herself from him with force.

But Leo didn't budge. He was too strong and he enjoyed how she trashed like the cute feisty lamb that she was. 

"Like I said before, not a chance." Leo said, trying so hard to contain his urge to laugh. 

"Ok! What do you want?" Clara said, giving up on her attempt to free herself, since Leo's body was just too strong for her.

A victorious smirk tugged at the corner of his lips. 

"Nice one, my adorable feisty lamb. It would have been nice, if you are this obedient from the start." Leo said, releasing her.

"Heh!" Clara looked at him in awe. She wondered why he let her go when he was acting like a hulk a while ago. 

"Weren't you trying to free yourself just now? What's with the look?" Leo asked, putting on an innocent face. 

"You're bleeding." Clara said, looking at the blood surfacing on his shirt, at the area of his arm that just got treated. 

She had totally forgotten what brought the man into this room in the first place. 

Her chest heaved as she recalled how she thrashed in his arms to get free. 

"It's nothing. I must have stressed the muscle while trying to make you behave." Leo said casually, smiling at her.

"Are you sure you're okay?" She asked him again. 

"Okay enough to seal the bond with… .you know… ." He wiggled his brow at her again and she rolled her eyes. 

"It seems that you are fine. Shut up already!" Clara snorted and excused herself, "I need to go and get some clothes to change into and take a bath." 

After saying that, she turned to leave.

"I will drive you." Leo said.

"No need. The new ones I bought are still in your car trunk." Clara reminded him. 

"Oh!" Leonard exclaimed. It's true that they forgot that when he dropped her off at her place before she received the little princess's call for help. 

"You can come and take your bath here, after" Leo said, making him receive a glare from Clara.

"It seems you have a death wish." Clara threatened.

Leo squinted his eyes innocently and shrugged his shoulders. "How do you mean? It's clearly a suggestion." He said. 

"You pervert." Clara said and rushed out, before those eyes of his turned her face into red completely. 

Immediately Clara's figure disappeared from sight, Leo groaned in pain, holding his bleeding arm.

Of course, he wouldn't have let her leave that easily if not for the pain, that was getting unbearable as he tried to hold her still.

He slowly pulled off his shirt and tugged on the bell switch to get a nurse come over, while sitting down on the bed. 

He has stressed the hand so much that it throbbed him and felt like it has dislocated.

It didn't take long before a nurse rushed in and seeing his wound that had been perfectly sewn and treated earlier, bleeding so much, she held the urge to sigh.

...

Meanwhile. 

Back at Leo's residence, in the training base, that those captives are being tortured. 

Mick still greedily held onto his life, no matter what they did to him. He just refused to die despite the pain. 

His cries and whimpers resonate the entire place. 

The boys were amazed by his strong will to live, despite everything he has done.

He never would have believed that a whole him would be going through all this.