Hitman x Wives

Chapter 238 238- Scarring Hatred

As Kai's mind was working at full throttle to find an escape route, his father seemed to have been quite affected by his son's words. 

His face had a visible frown on it and his mouth seemed to twitch ever-so-slightly as if he wanted to speak but couldn't. His ego had taken a hit from his son's words and it didn't feel nice at all.

He was a man with blind confidence in his abilities and yet those words affected him greatly. Especially the part about the fact that he killed his own wife with his hands. That was sadly the truth.

That was his one and only mistake that he believed was horrible from his side. Even to that day, he still regrets what he did to her. He was so completely clouded by his desire to conquer that he threw away the only person he loved in his life.

What made it even worse was the fact that Kai knew that it happened and yet he didn't seem to hate him. He just simply considered him as a man who exists, nothing more, nothing less and that seemed to be even worse than hating someone.

If you hate an individual then that means that you acknowledge that whatever they did is of importance to you. However, if you completely ignore someone, that means that you don't even see them as worthy of invoking any feelings from your side. Akin to passing beside strangers on the street and never remembering them again.

His son seemed to see him that way. His only heir completely disregarded his existence. A man with the ego of a god would never accept such an insult even if he knew that he was the one at fault in all of it.

*BOOOM*

As he was contemplating and conflicting himself, Kai had already moved as he smashed the wall behind him with a simple punch before he turned around and dashed away at top speed. He didn't even look back once as he moved away from his father and Aria.

Aria watched his silhouette move away. With each step he took, her pain felt like it was only growing, far beyond being bearable. She had finally lost the only person she loved in her life.

Yet, even as he ran away, he didn't look back at her at all. Something about it hit her hard and tears finally spilled from her eyes.

'Curse it… Curse it all…' She thought to herself as she pointed her head down.

She just felt like ending her life right there and then, just so that she doesn't feel this pain anymore. But, she knew that she must stay alive for at least a while so that she could make sure Kai's father didn't break his promise.

"*Whistle* and there he goes. I knew that he wouldn't foolishly fight me. As angry and hateful as he seemed, he still knew that he wouldn't be able to win against me. I raised him well." Kai's father laughed as he turned around and looked at Aria.

"I always keep my word, Aria, that's what a god shall do. It's beneath me to break a promise." He exclaimed.

However, Aria didn't reply immediately as she wiped her eyes before she lifted her head.

"You still didn't fully keep your promise. Where is my father?" She asked.

When she arrived at the temple, Aria quickly asked to see her father since she knew that he was held hostage by Kai's father. He was the second reason why she even went on with this plan since in the first place, he was threatened with this political marriage between her and Kai.

She knew that his life and her life were at risk if they didn't accept and even if they did, it didn't guarantee that her father would stay safe which pushed Aria to try and trick Kai way before she even met him.

Kai's father made a promise to her that he would let them go if she got some information about his son that he couldn't extract from him otherwise.

Everything she did from the first moment she stepped into that library was all a plan to get close to Kai and get the information needed to get her freedom.

Ironically enough, before stepping into that library on that fateful day, she harbored hatred toward this boy named Kai. His existence was the reason for her father's suffering and so she wished he didn't even exist.

However, all those thoughts vanished as she spent time with Kai. Her impression of him at first was that of a quiet and odd kid who didn't seem to know how to deal properly with people. Quickly, she realized that Kai was nothing like his father.

He wasn't an arrogant scum with a god complex like she expected him to be but instead was an honest, smart, and even gentle person. He treated her well even though she disturbed his reading session and didn't kick her out. He also didn't have the ego of someone of a high standing such as his and with the sheer power he possessed.

He just did what he loved to do without any scheming or trickery. Aria found herself quickly and completely engrossed in their conversations no matter how simple or mundane they were. She could feel it without even seeing him that Kai truly understood her.

He understood her struggles, her pain, her insecurities, and her true self. In a sense, Kai was a copy of her that dealt with the same problems or even worse and ended up alone, just like she was.

As days passed, Aria started forgetting about her initial mission she even came in contact with Kai and started becoming addicted to him. The more she started feeling strong emotions toward him, the more her mind shuddered in fear of what could happen when she needed to make a choice.

She kept putting that thought away whenever it came back to her and simply focused on enjoying every second of her time with Kai. Perhaps her mind, which was still that of a small child, prioritized pleasure over cruel reality and perhaps that was her biggest mistake.

Perhaps if she told Kai sooner about it, they could've done something about it. But, her intense desire to protect Kai made her completely disregard that idea as a whole since it had many possible risks.

"Oh, about that… Follow me." The man said as he turned around and walked toward the door.

Aria felt a slightly bad feeling when she saw his reaction but she still followed him nonetheless since she wanted to make sure her father was safe and sound.

Walking out of the throne room, the two walked quietly down the stairs to the lower floors of the spire where her father was supposed to be.

Apart from being the way to the garden, the lower floors of the spire had another secret, not many people knew about which was a prison for the people Kai's father captures and wants to personally deal with.

Not many had the opportunity to enter that place and no one would ever wish it upon themselves since those cells were dark, humid, and suffocating. They mentally torture the prisoner and pushes them to the limit.

The two went down the stairs till they stopped in front of a metallic, old, and rusty door that had no light that could reach it from the outside.

Kai's father then said with a small smile. "He's here."

After that, he opened the door to the prison and walked inside followed by the ever more anxious Aria who was starting to have a really bad feeling. She couldn't feel her father's aura no matter how much she tried to.

Moving through the tight corridor of the prison, Kai's father finally pointed at one particular cell. "That's where he was put. He was provided with food and water so he should be alive."

Aria, however, ignored his words as she quickly kicked the cell open and rushed inside with terror written on her face. After all, how could she ignore the smell of rotten corpses that filled the room?

"Father!!!" She screamed when she sensed his presence in the corner of the cell, chained to the wall. His clothes were tattered and dirty, his hair and beard were long and unkempt and his body was riddled with numerous deep injuries that bled dry.

lightsnοvεl However, Aria ignored all of that as she quickly put her fingers on his neck to sense his pulse only to get shocked. No matter how much she tried to feel it, that quiet booming sound inside his body, she didn't find it.

"No… Pulse…"

Everything crushed down on Aria like a bomb. She fell down to the ground, unable to stand. Her face was frozen in terror and shock. She didn't know what to feel or what to say at all. Her mind completely stopped working.

"Oh, he committed suicide? Now, that's unfortunate. I didn't expect he would break this quickly. Ah well…"

Suddenly, Aria lifted her head, her face crunched with deep, impenetrable hatred.

"DAMIAN!!!!!!"