While closing the buttons of his coat's sleeves, he entered his room to get his wrist watch as he had a meeting to attend. Completely focusing on closing his sleeves buttons, he stepped inside the door but as soon as he entered that room, he stumbled with something or in precise someone. It was so sudden that he could not comprehend anything and just extended his arm to stop her from falling on the floor as he saw her trembling. Rican wrapped his arm around her waist and that was where he felt that she was completely naked and bare under his touch. He snapped his eyes upward at her face so that even as a mistake his eyes would not land on her naked body.Nina's heartbeat accelerated when she felt him snaking his arm around her waist and for the very first time, she felt his touch with no barrier of clothing. That direct contact of their skins made her body shudder. She could not even define it through her words what kind of feeling she was feeling in that moment. Was it fear, nervous

“Can’t a person love someone without wanting to have their body in return?” Hearing her, he went completely wordless. Lifting her both hands, she fisted the front of his shirt in a soft and gentle grip. Her teary eyes remain glued with his. “I just wanted that kind of care and love from him because I don't want to be alone. No person in this world wants to be alone because loneliness hurts more than any kind of physical wound. It feels like a painful curse,” Nina continued to reveal everything that had been harming her from deep inside.“I just didn't want to be alone so I trusted him over you last night but you are accusing me here like that I was the one who made him do all of this? You are behaving with me like I told him to do that brutality with me?” Nina raised her voice at him again, recalling everything he had said to her a little while ago. She tightened her grip around his shirt.“You are making me feel like I am responsible for almost getting destroyed by the only person

“What relation do you have with her?” hearing that question of Cain's mother, Nina teared up more because she knew that question had been directed to not just only her character but his too. His character was getting questioned just because he protected her from getting ruined completely.“Why have you taken her here and why did she spend her night here with you when you don't even prefer your own parents to come here?” Rican gritted his teeth, hearing that question of Niley. It was true, after losing his wife, he barely allowed anyone to come here in his house because from the past seven years, he had been preferring staying alone over getting anyone's company, even over his own parents' support.“What kind of relationship do you both have with each other, Rican?” Niley snarled in her angry and accusing tone and that was where he finally decided to break his silence.“A kind of relationship which we don't find the necessity of describing to anyone,” he answered, still in his calm and

Taking her inside his room, he placed her down on the bed and looked at her face. Tears were streaming down from her flushed face. Her mouth was slightly parted as she was trying to breathe through it. Her whole body had tensed up after seeing that blood. She was looking petrified. He wondered what had made her like this? She got terrified just at the mere sight of blood but why? It might have something to do with her past or why would a person have such kind of bad trauma of blood?Exhaling a soft sigh, he placed his palm over her head.“You are fine. Stop worrying, Nina,” he said to her in his calm and tender voice while gently stroking her head which made Nina take her head upward slowly to look at him.“Breath. You are alright,” he gave her the assurance she had been needing to hear the most at that time. His words brought more tears in Nina's eyes, witnessing someone had really started understanding her the way she had always needed. Without being able to say anything to him, sh

His gaze landed on that dark mark on her right inner thigh which he had never seen or probably had never noticed before because he had never paid proper attention to her entire body, even in that moment when she was standing completely naked in front of him and in his arms. He didn't dare to ever look at her nakedness in any way until right now when his eyes fell on that mark on her inner thigh which was looking like some kind of burn mark. It seemed really very deep but old. It had almost worn a cover of a dark scar.Nina was peering at him when she noticed his eyes getting stuck over something. She followed his gaze and it took her to her lower region where she saw she was mostly exposed from there as the shirt she had been wearing had tugged upward mistakenly but her eyes widened, seeing that mark on her thigh getting exposed. Nina snapped her eyes upward and found his gaze which was still fixed at her mark. Immediately Nina pulled down her shirt and covered her mark and lower reg