He probably regretted it long ago, unwilling to give up the outside world for me alone.
“When Lucas was little, something happened. His father and I were busy with work and didn’t take good care of him.
“It led to him being kidnapped by human traffickers and suffering greatly.”
Mrs. Sinclair’s words pulled me back from my thoughts.
I hadn’t expected Lucas Sinclair to have such a past.
I looked at him with complex emotions, just in time to meet his cliservant gaze.
Soon he came over, took my hand and led me back to the room.
“If you feel uncomfortable, you don’t have to come often in the future.
“Aria, I brought you back just to tell you.
“Tm serious about you, so you need to give me a proper status.
Lucas Sinclair spoke sincerely. The sudden confession left me at a loss.
“Lucas Sinclair, what do you like about me?
“It can’t be that I’m… ‘wife material?”
Lucas Sinclair’s expression froze, then turned helpless.
“So this is how you see me? Hmm?”
I was embraced and fell onto the soft bed. Lucas Sinclair’s gaze looked like he wanted to devour me whole.
The storm I expected didn’t come. He gently held me and slowly said:
“Over a decade ago, I was trafficked to a rundown village.
“I was beaten a lot for always trying to escape.
“But there, I met a little girl. Her father was a gambling addict, her mother had run off with someone.
“Her clothes were tattered, she didn’t have enough to eat or wear, yet she was always cheerful.
“Tacked her what she had to be happy about.
“She told me, smile more and you’ll feel less sad.
“Her gambling addict father beat her until she coughed up blood, but she didn’t shed a single tear.
“She just patted herself and cheered herself on.
“In that village I hated, there was actually a little girl who could be so strong
Lucas Sinclair’s words uncovered memories I had long buried.
I never thought those miserable experiences could have another interpretation.
“Those days that weren’t fit for humans, I originally couldn’t have made it through.
thing wasn’t so bad.
“But seeing you, it felt like everything
“Because of that strength, I persevered until the day the Sinclair family found me.
“Unfortunately, you had moved away and I couldn’t find you.”
“You looked for me?”
After my gambling addict father drowned in the mud pit, I was taken in by my grandmother and we moved around making a living.
“I searched for you for a long time, until a few years ago when I finally got news of you.
resilient and confident as I remembered.
