bookbashuk Chapter 95: Is The World Ending?
Chapter 95: Is The World Ending?
The moment Grace walked through the Porta and stepped into the living room of her apartment, two strong hands grabbed her shoulders and she was pulled to stand in front of the man who had concern filled in his eyes.
"Are you alright?" Davian asked as his eyes
Grace returned from the kitchen minutes later, holding a classic wine bottle and two wine glasses. "It’s a strong one." She warned as she poured the wine in the glasses before handing one of them to him.
"Strong is exactly what I want." Dr. Kian replied as he accepted the glass and swirled the wine before taking in its rich aroma.
The two were silent as they took their first sips of the wine, enjoying its taste and letting it do wonders to their tongues and minds. Several long minutes of silence passed between them before Grace finally decided to speak. "You might want to learn about all the unbelievable things you say tonight."
Dr. Kian didn’t respond immediately, but when he finally did seconds later, he decided to just nod positively.
Grace took another sip of wine, thinking about just how much she wanted to share with him. It wasn’t just about her own secrets, but Davian’s secrets as well. Shifting her full attention on Dr. Kian, she spoke, "Before answering your questions, there’s something I want to ask first."
Listening to her words, Dr. Kian shifted his gaze toward her. "What is it?" He asked, staring into her beautiful deep green eyes that never failed to pull him in like a magnet. He loved them. He had loved them from the very moment he saw them looking at him in trance during their first meeting.
"After seeing all that you saw tonight, do you want to leave?" Grace finally asked the question and watched as a small smile immediately made its way to his lips.
Dr. Kian locked his gaze with hers as he replied, "If I wanted to leave, I would have when we were in the Capital City. I’m already yours now, Ms. Blackwood, and I have no plans of leaving your side."
Grace couldn’t help but inhale deeply when she heard his reply. The way he called himself hers, took her by complete surprise. Quickly pulling herself together, she nodded her head and took another sip of the wine.
She closed her eyes and took in another deep breath, hoping that she was making the right decision and wouldn’t end up regretting it later. When she opened her eyes, she found Dr. Kian looking at her as if he was trying to see what she was thinking.
Before she could have started speaking, he did. "If you can’t talk about it, then you don’t have to. I want to know about it because I’m unable to understand how all those things happened in the first place, but I’m not pressuring you to reveal anything to me that you don’t want to."
Grace watched him in silence for a few more seconds before she let out a sigh and decided to reveal everything from the very beginning. She started from the day she woke up in her office after dying. She told him all about her previous life and how he was the one who created the System 2025 and merged it with the magical space.
By the time she finished, Dr. Kian’s expression had changed over ten times in that span. He was completely silent and there was no telling what was going on in his head.
"You... don’t believe it?" She finally asked when he remained silent even after certain long minutes had passed.
He let out a deep sigh and shook his head while replying honestly. "I don’t want to... but everytime I want to deny, I end up recalling everything that I saw and experienced tonight. After traveling through a portal, watching a car appearing in front of my eyes out of thin air, and all those medicinal supplies vanishing... how can I deny that there’s no such thing as magic."
He became silent again and his expression shifted to that of seriousness as he asked, "Is the world really going to end?"