I Wish You Well In Your Next Love, My Love - Chapter 94
The moment I slowly tried to close my eyes, the scenery around me stopped like a painting. I thought I might be seeing things right before death. But at some point, the angry wave that had been rushing in began to settle obediently, like a well-tamed beast. The seawater that had overflowed all the way onto land also receded, as if returning home after finishing everything it had to do.
“The, the Commander has collapsed! Bring him this way, quickly!”
Several people brushed past me and ran forward. I still could not find you. After that long, grueling night passed, you regained consciousness after a week, thanks to the efforts of the highest-ranking Purifiers gathered from countries all over the continent.
With your memories fragmented.
As if something rotten had been carved out, I no longer existed within you.
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My throat felt rough, as if I had chewed and swallowed sand. A groan slipped out from the terrible thirst.
I’m thirsty.
When my lips stuck together and then parted, there was a dry cracking sound.
Then cold water began to flow into my mouth little by little.
Ah, it’s cool. It felt as if a breathing hole had opened inside my desert-like body. My head followed the water moving slowly away until the very end.
“Don’t get up.”
Along with a voice whispering tenderly, a firm hand slipped behind my head.
At the gentle contact, my eyes opened on their own. After I blinked my blurry eyes a few times, they came into focus.
“Rest a little more.”
Gerard wiped the water from the corner of my mouth.
“Guh…”
As soon as I came to my senses, I felt pain all over my body, as if I had been beaten. At the same time, the remnants of the nightmare-like dream withdrew, and in their place, the wet sensations of last night rushed in.
Crazy.
My blood ran cold. As if having a seizure, I slapped his hand away and raised myself up.
“Ugh.”
But I could not even fully sit up before sprawling backward.
At that moment, my vision spun, and I saw a high, splendid golden ceiling.
“Did I try to eat you or something?”
He said it while firmly massaging my legs, and I could not answer. When I turned my head and looked around, it became even clearer.
This was not my house.
There were many things I wanted to ask Gerard, but the most important thing to me right now was where this place was.
“…Where is this?”
“Melvers.”
At the words that struck my mind dead-on, my mouth fell open. Where did he say I was right now?!
“W-Why…”
“I know you’re reluctant to go to the temple. I don’t want to do things you hate either, as much as possible, but your fever rose like crazy. You kept groaning as if you were having a nightmare, and no matter how much I shook you, you wouldn’t wake up, so I had no choice…”
I stared in horror at Gerard, who was stumbling over himself as he explained. His energy was the most stable it had been recently.
The rampage rate had been resolved, but I was facing another problem.
What if the other Awakened or priests of Melvers had seen me and Gerard? If Madam Marcella found out about this…
‘I might be locked in that mansion again.’
After Gerard lost his memories, Madam Marcella no longer paid me any attention.
She was a person who did not even linger over a card that had outlived its usefulness.
But if word reached her that Gerard had brought me, collapsed, to Melvers Temple, Madam Marcella would try to use me again to make the marriage proposal he was refusing go through.
Was it because I had dreamed of that day, of all days? My anxiety surged twice as high.
Enduring the muscle pain that felt as if my body would break apart, I lowered both legs off the bed.
“You’re leaving?”
“Yes— ugh.”
“Get healed one more time before you go. You still have a fever.”
“I’m fine. It’s not dangerously high either.”
“I’m not usually the type to stop someone who says they’re leaving, but I think I’ll regret it if I send you away right now.”
His gentle yet firm eyes held my gaze.
