Shaw'

e you staring at

owded plaza, the name car

d looked through the tin

e enormous billboard was all it

vi

ride, chosen for him throu

ad exactly the same features, and even our s

was practically a death sentence. People

rightful heir and raised in the public eye, while my existence was wiped from t

er was two years earlier, durin

gazed toward the main building, which

nd the backyard. But I was determined to catch a glimps

e to see me since his

the guards, and crept into the second-floor hallway, wher

all as the guests lifted their glasses in a toast to

fectly fitted suit, wearing

e expression was nothi

y entire life. No one could

n obligation-a tiresome formality he ha

hand, was a complet

iled gracefully over the carpet, and

her chin and beamed without the slightest

sharply with her lively warmth, yet somehow,

the room was

in my life that I had

was

ly pure, and our fa

he one who got

o accept the life

hidden from the world. If Adrian had the family's army at h

I had taken over the unde

l auto workshop when I caught

st met her was gone, but she remained every bit a

was fresh and pure. The moment it reached me, the agitated black w

had taken quite

efore long, she lost sight

ance on my motorcycle, makin

ight into a back alley, utterly unaware that it was a w

soon came roaring into the alley on thei

alked right into a d

curious to see how a pampered rich girl like her w

nce, I watched her retreat in terror. Her f

here, trembling like a lamb before the sl

imbed down, and approached her with a revolting grin, reaching out

owlife think he was, pu

. The rear wheel skidded as I swept across the alley, bringin

her back against the wall, gripping her shopping ba

, like those of a frightened ra

her before the group's leader stormed towa

sement disappear

nly in human society. Fortunately, handling a handfu

o way I was going to let

and turned his attention to her, I purposely dropped my g

s fled, an eerie silence

aight to my side, anxiously asking whether I was hurt whi

strap beneath my chin, a

ent completely still, as though a

urt, dis

ng emotions flickered

a long, painful pause, she finally managed to wh

ri

staken me

en a strange, almost wicked s

ing ready to burst into tears, suddenly came back to me. I understood im

e affection, dismissing her feeling

peared as the one person who had rescued

t an intriguing

lace like this, I might as

ough me under control, concealing every dar

s except for the faint breeze brushing the

usual distant expression, though I deliberately s

le and offered it to her. "Why don't you come

ike this was n

lf get stabbed in the shoulder just t

proper reason to spend th

ted to the spot, visibly flustered

th an awkward expression. "All right, I'll come... But it's only b

uiet laugh from me be

catch her off guard. She stared at m

iou

r bothered to smile a

r really was a

rked perfectl

aid. "Once I've had this wound tre

and settled it over her head. "W