Chapter 14

Plumeria woke up with a big headache. While she was sleeping, she felt like falling through the air, but she was falling infinitely like there was no bottom.

She smelled disinfectant around her in the air and something warm that was touching her hand.

She slowly opened her eyes and saw that she was in a hospital room from the surrounding equipment.

"You're awake!" Axel exclaimed in relief. "You scared me, Plum."

"Help me up." She told him, feeling a bit lightheaded.

Axel left her hand, which he was holding, and helped her sit on her bed.

She looked at him, confused. She remembered that she was sleeping in his room.

"What happened?" Plumeria asked him.

"You passed out at your fiancé's company." He told her.

"Eh?" she asked in confusion. "But I was sleeping in your bedroom." She told him.

He looked at her with concern.

"You don't remember?" He asked her.

"Remember what?" She asked him.

"You ran out of the apartment and went straight to that guy's company where you kissed him and confessed your love for him in from of everyone." Axel told her.

Her heart dropped after listening to him.

"You're joking." She said, not believing him.

"I wish I was." He told her and shrugged. "Oh, and you slapped his brother, too." He added, as his frown deepened.

Plumeria looked in horror.

"I don't remember any of that." She told him.

"You sure you don't remember any of it?" Levi asked, coming in front of her with his hands in his pocket. He looked at her.

Seeing him made her get a flashback to him kissing him, but that was all she remembered. What amazed and shocked her was the fact she remembered clearly how kissing him felt.

She remembered his warm and soft lips touching hers. His gentle breath on her face and the warm, comfortable fuzzy feeling inside her chest.

She snapped back into reality and blushed deeply. Now that she remembered that part, she wished that she didn't and wanted to bury herself deep in the earth.

"Oh, so you do remember." Levi said when he saw how embarrassed she was looking. "Why did you pretend that you didn't just now?"

"Stop bothering her." Axel told him with a slight scowl.

He was looking at Levi with his arms crossed over his chest.

"Why don't you shoo away? It's between me and her. Do you really like third wheeling that much?" Levi asked him and walked closer to Plumeria. He placed an arm over her shoulder and looked at him.

Axel looked at him, pissed. But when he saw her shake her head a little, he had to swallow his anger.

"I'll be right outside. If he tries anything, yell." Axel told her, thinking that she didn't want him around, he went outside.

'You big idiot! Why the hell would you leave me with this manic?! Was my expression not desperate enough or are you blind?!' she screamed at him desperately inside her heart.

"Finally." Levi said and sat in front of her.

"Now, what was it all about when you suddenly decided to… show a burst of affection at my workplace?" He asked her with a serious look.

Her heart beat loud enough for her to hear it. She looked down and muttered something so low that it was impossible to hear.

"What? Speak up. I can't hear you." He told her.

"I don't remember much. I just remembered…" she didn't want to say it.

"Remember what?" He asked her.

She hid her face under her hand.

"The kiss." She told him.

Somehow, he felt happy hearing that.

Levi grabbed her arms and pulled it away from her face.

She was biting down on her bottom lip, looking like a red tomato. It made him snicker.

"Maybe if I kiss you again, it'll jog your memory." He told her and leaned forward to kiss her.

She looked at him with wide eyes as he came closer to her face.

By instinct, she shoved his face away and, in doing so, she unintentionally scratched his face with her nails. She even felt her scratch him.

Levi winced as she gasped in regret.

"I didn't mean to hurt you." She said worriedly, and tried to look at the damage she had done to him.

He got angry with her and stood up. He glared at her and that's when she saw his face. She saw blood coming out slowly where she cut him.

"Stop acting! You wanted to do that!" He told her in anger.

He wanted to say a lot of things to her, but he thought that he shouldn't because it would interfere with his plans for her, so he just turned around and walked away from her.

"Wait!" she called out to him and jumped out of the bed, which she regretted instantly.

As soon as her weight was on her feet, a sharp pain shot through her feet. She lost her balance and fell down on her knees with a low cry of pain.

Levi turned around to look at her. When he saw her wincing in pain on the floor, he ran up to her. He crouched down and looked at her worriedly.

"Who told you to stand?" He scolded her out of worry.

He froze for a second.

'What the fuck are you doing, Levi? Are you seriously getting worried about your enemy? Did you forget that she's pretending all of this?' he asked himself.

Plumeria looked at her feet and saw that they were in a bandage.

"I didn't know." She told him in a tone that sounded like she was holding in her tears.

He let out a frustrated sigh.

"Are you that stupid? Both your feet were cut earlier." He told her and lifted her in his arms.

"How?" she asked him and looked up.

She gulped when he saw him from this angle.

He looked extra hot from the angle she was looking at.

'Look at that sharp jawline and his Adam's apple. He's so handsome and hot.' she thought.

But her thoughts were short-lived because he threw her on her bed, distracting her from her thoughts. In fact, he threw her so hard that her head collided with the bed frame.