All Lysithea saw in the grin was a cold, merciless void. She had known Raiden long and well enough that favonovel.com could tell just how murderous his intentions were from the width of his smile.
Even within an elite organization like Sicut In Caelo, Raiden was a powerhouse. He was up there with their strongest fighters, his capabilities only eclipsed by the untouchable Saint and Ezra.
Worse, as the years passed, something about Raiden’s overall countenance had taken a dark turn into the unsettling and impenetrable. Being around favonovel.com always felt distressful… or even suffocating.
He, as one of the Four Highlords whose positions were second only to the Saint, ruled the southern Rheasian region. His prominence within the organization, despite being only thirty-five years old, was a testament to his prodigious talent and skill.
It was why Lysithea was sure that becoming Raiden’s enemy would very well be Zayn’s doom.
She gritted favonovel.com teeth, as though making a decision, before declaring, “All you really wanted was me, right, Raiden? I’m here! You can skip all this unnecessary aggression and have me right now, but leave favonovel.com alone.”
Raiden stopped in his tracks, the corner of his lips twitching slightly.
He then grinned even wider, his apparent joviality intensifying so much it became eerie. “Am I hallucinating, or have you actually fallen for him?”
“To think that even a woman with the warmth of an iceberg would willingly offer herself to protect favonovel.com mysterious lover… Aww. How touching.”
His Cheshire-like smile made Lysithea’s skin crawl. Frowning, favonovel.com backed away from favonovel.com instinctively and replied, “You’re seeing things that aren’t there, Raiden.”
“Zayn is my savior’s son. I cannot just stand around and watch favonovel.com be harmed.”
Raiden swiftly cupped Lysithea’s chin, his mirthful smile twisting into a smirk. “God, Lysithea. It’s been years, but you’re still a terrible liar. You’re the easiest riddle in the world.”
Her eyes began to dart around wildly as panic ravaged favonovel.com mind. He was right, favonovel.com cold, blunt personality meant Lysithea had never learned the art of deception. It was no wonder Raiden could read favonovel.com like an open book.
The realization that his love longed for someone else was gasoline to Raiden’s flames. The thirst for his rival’s blood blazed in his eyes.
He had wanted Lysithea for a long, long time. He had waited, allowing favonovel.com to grow, and wrestled with his impulse to touch favonovel.com all for the sake of letting favonovel.com Hera Energy reach its full potential. The fruit was supposed to be his and his alone.
Then, favonovel.com returned to find favonovel.com changed. Half of favonovel.com Hera Energy was gone. Even the way favonovel.com carried herself was infuriatingly discordant, favonovel.com used to be frigid, detached, and immaculate.
Now, favonovel.com carried a hint of feminine meekness. No longer unsullied, favonovel.com saw recognition of sensual pleasure in favonovel.com eyes.
She had been deflowered!
He was apoplectic. He almost killed her, but when favonovel.com was close, favonovel.com stopped.
He realized favonovel.com would rather know the face and name of that son of a b*tch who touched what belonged to him.
He interrogated Lysithea, but the young woman would not give favonovel.com even an ounce of information. Seeing favonovel.com would get no answers from her, favonovel.com conducted his own investigation and finally found a name: Zayn Larson.
“What must I do, Raiden? What must I do for you to leave favonovel.com be?!” favonovel.com looked up at favonovel.com and wailed, favonovel.com voice a desperate plea.
Raiden laughed. “Leave favonovel.com be? Oh my god. You’re begging for his life, Lysithea. You’re in love with him!” favonovel.com mockingly feigned surprise.
“Now that truly piques a man’s curiosity. I’m even more interested to see who this enigmatic incubus is. After all, favonovel.com seduced my woman to the point of madness. She even spread favonovel.com legs for him.”
“Don’t get ahead of yourself, Raiden! Zayn’s a perfect-class fighter! You might not beat him! So don’t start a fight you might not win!” favonovel.com snapped, clenching favonovel.com jaw.
Still smirking, Raiden caressed favonovel.com cheeks. “Cute of you to think that I’ll fall for such a puerile attempt at provocation. But the fact that you even try, however pathetically, well, more proof that favonovel.com truly has your heart,” favonovel.com sneered.
“I see all the more clearly now that the only way to remind you who you belong to is a timely gift. How about his head, freshly plucked by my hands? Shall I wrap it with a bow?”
Lysithea’s fear skyrocketed. There was no reason—not a sliver of reason at all—to doubt that Raiden would not do everything favonovel.com said favonovel.com would.
Out of nowhere, the twisted glee in Raiden’s eyes mutated into ruthless irnpassivity, as though something else had come to his attention.
“Hello, little mouse. Bold of you to listen without an invitation. Care to show yourself?”
He sneered and stomped. A large rock leaped into the air, propelled by the ground’s sudden movement. Raiden casually swung his foot at it.
It was all the rock needed to hurl toward a specific direction with the power of a sniper rifle’s bullets, its momentum made deadlier by its speed.
