Concealed Love

Chapter-35 " I believe in God but i believe in her more. "

Small drops of rain starts falling, hitting the roofs and falling down the widow glass, it carried with it a gentle sound, acting as a background music for the people inside the house.

The falling drops could see the people inside the house standing in pairs. They sang a gentle note as they hit the ground almost as if they're wishing happiness to the people inside.

Ella saw the drops that we're peeping at them through the glass with flushed cheeks and said, " Don't joke about it. Everyone knew you liked Minerva. "

Al was still resting his head on her shoulders, he raised his hands holding her arms and told her his past feelings for her as well as their first meeting along with her mother which would and may never remember again.

Ella was close to tears when she heard about her mother and how she died protecting her, and on the other hand she could hardly believe that all those days she cried alone thinking it was only her, he was also thinking of her, that to her was just a story which was too much of a fiction to believe.

Al lifted his head from her shoulder straightening his pose and looking at her eyes, they stared at each other and Ella tried to avoid it but Al leaned in connecting their foreheads, " I'm telling you the truth Ella. I would never joke about my feelings for you."

Ella closed her eyes and stood still as hard as a rock not daring to speak anything up, trying to lessen her heartbeat and her breathing as they tried to run towards the man in front of her.

Their breathings synchronised and their heartbeats combined, Al closed his eyes as well and said, " Can you please not reject both your feelings and mine, Ella? But it's okay, I'll wait for you as long as you want, even as long as you waited for me if that will make you accept me. I just hope that you would not suffer alone ever again, I'm here now, solely and only for you to lean on. "

Al took a few steps back giving her some space and Ella slowly opened her eyes as her eyelashes fluttered.

They just stood silent listing to the music created by the rain and Ella mustered up some courage slowly as she asked, " Why me? Why did you never told me anything? You knew I was a disaster, how can you accept me."

Al sat on a couch that was on the side and directed his hands to the other one, " If you'd like, I will tell you everything, about me and what your mother truly was. Would you like that? "

Ella agreed and walked to the couch and positioned herself to listen to his side of the past that she never knew.

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Down the floor Jace had explained everything to Iri who was finding it hard to collect and understand that much information in her head. She fall back on the couch as she heaved a deep sigh, lucky for her the falling rain calmed her down, easing her headache " I don't even know what to ask and what to believe really, where you among the ones who hurt Ella previously? "

Jace was ready to answer whatever she ask sincerely so he replied truthfully to her, " I was not, I had some idea about their plan but I was not among it, at that time it didn't matter to me. "

Iri laughed feeling some hopelessness as she tried her best to control the stabbing the pains in her heart, she asked him, " Was I..... Was I a part of your people's plans? "

Jace was quiet for a while and after some time, making Iri feel more hopeless, he spoke out a bit shamefully, " The first time we met it was not. "

She chuckled almost as if she was laughing at the hopelessness she was feeling inside her heart and said, " So you mean that all the other times it was? "

" No, being with you may be a part of it but I liked being able to be by your side, and every single word of love I have ever said to you were true and the truth alone. You are the first time in my life that ever made me wish I was a normal person. I was prepared to lose everything and had said my goodbye to you but Im glad Ald... The prince gave me another chance to apologise to you and I'm grateful to him for that. I'm really sorry, " He frowned as he thought of never getting forgiveness from the one he love.

She looked up towards the ceiling as she tried to hold the tears that were forming in her eyes. She said almost as a mutter, " Well, I really loved you too and I'm glad that your safe, I don't really give a crap that you're a demon but Jace.... I don't wanna forgive you, I don't wanna love you, I don't think I'll be able to be with a person who hurted Ella and even tried to kill her. I can accept anything but that, she is the most important and precious person to me, I believe in God but I believe in her more. "

He expected every bit of her word and every letter hit him as hard or if possible harder than he had believed it would. He had lived to fulfill his missions, he had lived in a kill or be killed world but it was a first for him to live wishing for someone, throwing away everything, even his reason for living this far for her. And because of this he didn't know where to go or what to live for if she hated him and never accept him for the rest of his years.

Hearing nothing from him she turned down to look at him and saw him making a face like it was the end of him and she laughed at the situation, almost like she was hoping it was all just a dream. She spoke out, " I don't have the right to restrain your feelings nor your life but if you really feel sorry and if you really loved me, I hope you spend your days making up to Ella as well as making yourself a better person. Maybe along the way I may forgive you and believe in you again."

He snapped his head up at her, looking at her he thought to himself, ' Ah, I really do like her. ' He told her, " Thank you, thank you Iri. Thank you. " He felt like he had found a reason to live on with his life again and this time it was his own choice made by himself with his own goal, and his destination and reason was all the only person he ever loved, Iri.

Iri saw him making a relieved and determined face and cheer up a little as well as the environment saying, " Nope, not Iri! "

Jace looked at her a bit confused and she said with a teasing voice and a commanding tone, " You shall call me by my full name until and unless I forgive you and allow you to call me Iri, is that properly understood? "

He chuckled shortly and said, " Yes, your Highness. "

She added, " Well that's also fine, I like the sound of that as well. "

They laughed and the situation got a bit better, than she turned a bit serious again and asked, " Umm... Do you know what is going on with Aldri and Ella? "

Jace shook his head, " No, I don't know much, she just didn't act like she usually did in front of him after he got his powers back. "

" Powers hmm, can you tell me what he is? Ella told me some but I still don't understand properly of how he came back and his powers that well. " Iri was still a curious creature.

Jace said, " I don't know much about that too but I can tell you what little I know of him. "

Jace told her about his abilities and how he was able to get it back and how powerful he is considered to be.

When he was done Iri smiled and said almost jokingly, " I can't believe someone like that was close by, if he is really all that than I guess Ella willl be safer now. Though I was hoping for him to get together with her but since Minerva is here I guess that is not very much possible counting they were past life sweethearts. "

Jace looked at her a bit confused, " Past life sweethearts? "

Iri said in a disappointed tone, " Yes, Ella said they were almost married in their last life and this time they will remember and fall in love with each other again. "

Jace said in a puzzled tone, " But she is not someone from the past. "

Iri was also puzzled and asked, ' what? ' so he continued, " She is not someone from the past so the pure bloods whom I was previously working for never targetted her. They can sense if the soul is incomplete like they did with Aldrich but she is not like him, she is a complete human, the similar faces might have just been a coincidence. "

Iri was a bit surprised to hear that and it also made her a somewhat happy. " Really! Than does that mean Ella can be loved back? " She whispered to herself the last part.

Jace looked at her confused and she smiled. Sira came to them at the perfect timing and said, " Your rooms are ready, I will show it to you now. "

Jace said, " Okay!" And Iri said, " No I'll go back. "

Jace almost felling a bit guilty told her, " Your home is damaged. "

Iri raised her voice and asked unbelievably, " Again? "

Jace made an apologetic face and Iri cursed hatefully at the demons inside her head and asked, " Where's Ella? "

Sira answered cheerfully, " The young master and the miss has gone to their own rooms. "

She showed them their respective rooms and went back, Jace couldn't go back to his house because it was safer for him to hide at the enemy's enemies place.

As for Iri, the first thought she got after going into the guest room for her was not anything deep or sad but that, ' the maid just called Ella like she was a mistress of this house. Hehe.. '