DROWNING DESTINY

Chapter 39

("Are you asking me, or you are asking Yvonne? Can I go there and join you guys for breakfast?") Yvonne asked from the other line and she sounded like she was a tease.

Naizen's eyes narrowed upon hearing Ellen's words. What the heck? What sound was that? Why would she tease him?

"Just stay where you are, Ellen and you are fetching Leticia later," he answered and ended the call without a second thought. "Are you done?" he asked again Yvonne when he didn't get any responses earlier.

"I am," she simply answered and she really did felt hungry after she was done taking shower. Oh. She ate a lot of cakes, cookies, etc, and she was still hungry as hell. What the heck!

"Alright, so let's eat," Naizen sounded so excited.

He stood up from his own seat and pulled a seat for Yvonne. Yvonne didn't expect that and that made her stared at the man. For the first time, in a closer interaction, she found out that Naizen really have this perfect face. His eyes, nose, mouth and the shape of his face, it was really perfect. He obviously has many girls around his arms.

Well, now that he got a family, maybe not at all. Not now.

"This smell so good," Yvonne commented the moment Naizen took off the cover he put for the food. Naizen looked at her and smiled.

"I asked the helpers to cook for this so I could bring you here a breakfast. Try them, I swear they are good," he said. Yvonne kind of panicked when Naizen put some food on her plate.

"You don't have to. I can manage," she was stopping Naizen but the man only smiled at him and continued.

"Just let me," he simply responded.

Yvonne didn't argue and she just started eating. "Hmm. This was indeed really good," she said smiling so widely and her mouth was full of the food that was spoonful.

"I am glad that you liked it. It was my favorite," he responded and that just made Yvonne smile even more.

Naizen was just smiling like an i***t while staring at Yvonne who was so happy eating. She was very busy eating by herself and she's not even mining that she has company. Naizen even bit his lower lip to handle his laughter. He just bring his attention back to his own food and the smile on his face wasn't leaving.

"So, how was your family?" Yvonne asked that kind off caught Naizen off-guard for he stopped chewing and looked at her.

"What?" he asked like he didn't hear the question correctly.

"Your family, gow are they doing? I was just curious, I mean, you went home after the months of being in the force," Yvonne answered smiling to lighten up the mood of her question.

Naizen's eyes narrowed with her sudden question. He drinks the water in his glass before he faced Yvonne smiling and ready to answer her question. Naizen couldn't help it but to think the different meaning that the question has.

"They're fine. They were happy that I was able to get home, whole and alive," he joked and even chuckled a little.

"By the way, I opened your tv here and I found out that you have a brother in the military as well," Yvonne said and Naizen didn't expect that.

The smile on his face was slowly fading and immediately went serious, his eyes gets furious remembering the path that Harry was able to take in. He loves the f*cking council a lot.

"Yeah, he was a captain but now, he was gone," he answered seriously.

Yvonne noticed the seriousness in Naizen's voice that she smiled awkwardly. The topic about his brother was kind off sensitive. Well, the way they lost him was really painful. His love for the country was given back with death. Even the fact that he was called hero, that couldn't do anything to bring Harry back into life.

"I-im sorry," she apologized for she thinks, she was being insensitive.

Naizen shoke his head and smiled a little — smiled bitterly. "It's fine. Everyone was talking about my captain of a brother when he was reported all over the media dead. Everyone was entitled with their own oponion and that is why it's fine to talk about him.

"I didn't know the feeling how is it painful losing someone you dearly loved. Losing a family, I haven't been in the situation," she said and Naizen was seriously staring at her.

"You living your life alone made you stronger. That made you trust yourself more than you trust other people. That made you never allow to have your guard down, which indeed correct," Naizen stated without taking his eyes off to Yvonne.

"Yeah, and that was the part that I would thank God for letting me live by myself. However, aside from that, I don't think I have enough reason to thank to," she responded and smiled awkwardly. "I'm done," she chuckled when she spotted her plate with no food at all.

Naizen also looked down to his own plate and let out a little laugh.

"I am done as well," he mumbled.

"I'll do the dishes," she volunteered and Naizen was about to argue but she raised her palm in front of him to never make an arguement.

Naizen chuckled and just helped her fixing the table clean and then just allowed her to do the dishes alone. Yvonne was leaving early later before lunch but she don't know how to tell Naizen that she's going to leave.

However, on the other hand, he deserves to know that she was leaving. It was a shame for leaving the place do not belong to you and the owner was just roaming around and inside the four corners.

"Do you have something you want to do ahead of the day?" Naizen immediately asked and that made her stopped and looked at the man.

"What do you mean?" she asked, clarifying Naizen's words. Although, she heard them all, it was just, it seems blurred.

"Aside from running in the morning, are you planning of going out? I mean unwinding," Naizen explained looking at her, smiling.

He was planning of bringing Yvonne at the Academy. Maybe she would like to do some body activities for she was kind of a athletic woman.

She nodded and answered. Naizen's smile was slowly fading the moment he heard her answer.