Mark Of The Destiny - Chapter 300

Luo bent down in front of the woman curled in the corner. Raising his head to caress her head, but retrieved at her flinch. He sat down, eyes fixed at the woman looking warily at him, scratching her skin repetitively.

[Wish I had not turned away from you. Wish I had listened to my heart once. Wish I had dropped the thought of finding Lucy years back. Wish I had…..]

He sighed. Her eyes shone when he takes out a candy from her pocket. She snatched it. A grin replacing the frown on her face. “Be good. I think I have found Lucy. Once I bring him safely to Ma Roma, I’ll be free from this guilt. I’ll be free forever. Free to live my life with you. Somewhere far from this cursed place. I promise to give you a good life. Just a little more. Will you?”

Amara licked the candy, enjoying the flavours at the tip of her tongue. She pushed Luo on chest, and ran from there, “Stupid Luo. Stupid Luo. I won’t share my candy. This is for my babies. Baby? Where are you? Mummy brought a candy!”

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Honey winced as Suyin cleaned his wound. She blew cool air with every wipe of antiseptic. Wang Shi held him on lap, stopping him from wiggling.

“Fairy, can you tell us how you know bad man?” Suyin asked carefully. She saw him pulling lower lips in and gently pinched his chin. ” Don’t do this. If you don’t want to tell us, it’s fine. I was asking because it could be a big help to us.” Honey looked at Wang Shi who blinked.

“You saw him on ship, don’t you?” Considering how bothered Honey was, Wang Shi concluded. It must be when Zena kidnapped him and tried to leave the country through sea route. That was the incident Honey never spoke about. Not even after countless attempts by his therapist.

“Yes.” Honey hesitated, but finally revealed something after years.  Suyin and Wang Shi waited patiently. Encouraging him with back rubs. “When Zena took me to the ship, he was already there. Had a long yellow snake at his feet, and one on his shoulder. They were scary.”

Honey frowned as if recalling, “‘I brought him, you can do whatever you want. Get your revenge.’ Zena said, and he threw a bag at her. I don’t know what it was, but she smiled after seeing it and kicked me in bum toward him. I fell at the yellow snake.” Suyin squeezed his hand, Wang Shi hugged him tight.

“Mum, when I tried to run, snake— round round around my legs,” he forgot the correct word, and tried to use whatever came in mind to describe. “I cried. Everyone laughed at me. Zena, too. Dad, snakes are dangerous. You should stay away from them.”

“Not snakes, sweetie, it were the humans. Not all humans are bad, but some are. And your daddy failed to protect you from the bad ones.” Wang Shi said. Honey shook his head.

“You came on time to save me. Otherwise those spiders would have eaten me up,” he said, “I don’t know what I had done, but bad man was furious at me. I was not even being naughty, yet they took off all my clothes and put me in a glass box and let spiders all over me. I peed in the box.” He tried to show the size of spiders with his hands, but Suyin was applying medicine.

As he continued, Suyin and Wang Shi could finally join the dots about the reasons behind Honey’s behaviour. His hatred for women. He being scared of being touched. His dislike against creepy crawlies. Him being trembling at night, and jerk awake. Him wetting his bed for very long. Him not talking about the incident. Him being reserved and not trusting anyone.

Though Honey being a child couldn’t tell everything in detail, not even could describe his feeling properly. His parents could feel everything. Just the thought of how he must have struggled in a box with spiders, send shivers down their spine.

Wang Shi even got to know they had left the ship abruptly midway. This only means someone had leaked the news of his attack much earlier. That’s why when he attacked Zena’s ship, he found Honey curled in a corner on the deck, shivering, only a tattered rug thrown over his n.a.k.e.d body. There were no signs of any third party other than Zena’s family.

“Mum,” every time he calls her that, she feels a pang in heart. She encouraged him to speak with a soft touch on cheeks. “I even apologised, but the bad man said, he will do everything with me that had happened to his son. He said, he’s making me pay the price.”

Wang Shi frowned, “Anything else you could recall?”

“One thing more,” Honey looked up, “He said, none of this had happened had your daddy died in the plane hijack. What plane hijack he was talking about?” Suyin and Wang Shi looked at each other, shocked.

Suyin, “Sweetie, can you tell us what does he looks like?” She took a second and grabbed the tab lying on bed. Scrolling through Tamis old picture. “Was it him?”

Honey shook his head instantly, “No. I would never forget his face. He was old, like GG (Great grandfather) and was walking with a stick. If I ever see him, I will let you know.” Suyin finished the bandage with a kiss on both cheeks. A little one gave a cute smile and reached to snuggle in her embrace.

“Take some rest. I will ask someone to get you food, and after that daddy will give you injection, you know about it, right?”

“I know. Monkey bite equals to dog bite.” Honey pouted, “Will you still be here?” Suyin didn’t have any answer. Time was ticking. She had only three hours, out of which one had passed. Honey caught the hesitation and insisted on being fed by her.

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He was awkwardly quiet, sneaking glances at Suyin and Wang Shi now and then as they took a moment to talk and discuss course of action with others. Though drowsy because of the effects of the injection, he sat down silently on the uncomfortable wooden chair, dangling his legs, listening to the elders as they discussed something. Half of which was tangent to his head.

Only one thing dreads him~ Wang Shi had agreed to let Suyin go alone while he’d come by a different route, following Evan’s directions. But to coax his little heart, Xiu Mei let him have a laptop through which he could follow Suyin’s movements on a map. They could even talk to each other.

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