27. What happened to Dad?

Reaper stared at her without speaking while Natasha waited for his response. After waiting for about a minute and he didn't say a word, more tears streamed down her face. And she buried her face in his chest. "I am sorry for asking," she said and sobbed into his clothes.

She should have known to stick to herself no matter how strong the pull was on her to him. She should have fought and tried to stay sane and clear and headed. When she thought he would be as usual without responding or reacting to her, he wraps his hands around her, surprising her again the second time for the night.

"Natasha," He called her name and she raised her head to look at his face. He stared at her small and innocent face and something flickered in his lifeless eyes that she did not quite understand in her current dazed and drunk state.

There was something he didn't tell her when answered her questions before, she was not the only one who will be affected by what he had done by giving a piece of himself to her, he was too. He knew that yet he did it anyway.

He was attracted to her and desired her but he had often always stopped himself from acting on it. He was a devil whose lust and desire could not be measured but he found himself holding back, not to harm his little Bunny or scare her. She was innocent even a Saint could see that, then how much more a devil.

"You love me?" She asked looking hopeful with teary eyes.

Reaper didn't know what life was but he knew lust. What even he did not understand was what was holding him back or why he was holding back. So, he did not know he to answer her question.

Seeing as ye didn't say no to her question, she smiled lightly. Usinhjer hands that were still around his neck, she made him lean towards her and she slammed her lips on his.

A normal person would have been stunned but he gave no reaction, but he did kiss her back.

She pulls away and stared at him with her face looking flushed, he stared back at her, the colour of his eye even brighter than ever. She then rested her head on his chest again and fell asleep immediately while standing.

Reaper looked at the sleeping woman in his arms with a frown that had found its way to his usually stoic and impassive face, his hand moved to her face and cupped her cheek and lightly caressed it. He picked her up and climbed up the stair with her taking her to her room and tucking her in bed. He stood by the edge and watched her sleep for a while before he disappeared from the room.

What she did was daring but he also knew that she was both drunk and in a messed up state of mind but he also knew how she felt. So what she did not was fueled by her feelings too and he has almost lost himself had she not pulled and fallen asleep right at that moment.

Reaper appeared in the underworld and was received by another man who had similar physical features as him. Dark hair, golden eyes and clad in black, but unlike Reaper who maintained his expressionless face all the time, the other man smiled at him as if he had seen his favourite person in the underworld.

"You seem distracted." the man said.

But he was ignored and soon left alone in there as Reaper had disappeared quicker than he appeared. He tsked and humphed. "What a bore."

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Back to Ariz City,

Selena let out an ear-piercing scream that echoed throughout the mansion waking her children when she woke up and saw the state of her husband's body.

He has a bullet hole on his forehead with blood still gushing out of it. The pillow his head was resting on was stained and painted red by blood. Tears continued streaming down her eyes, while she covered her palm over her mouth as she stared at her husband not understanding how he could have been shot with a bullet to the head.

No one got into the room while they slept and no gunshot was heard so how was it possible that he was shot? Quickly picking up the phone, she called 911 to report the situation even though it was already too late but she thought she had to do something and let someone know about what had happened in her house who better to tell first that the cops?

"911, how can help you?" the person who answered the call spoke and Selena let out a sob that the woman heard and asked again, "What is your emergency, Ma'am?"

"My... Husband... was shot," she said between her sobs. "Help!" Selena said before she could say more, she heard a knock on the door of her bedroom followed by the voices of her children. Selena froze and couldn't speak more on the phone.

When she did not reply or go to open the door the children became worried and started to bang on the door snapping her out of her frozen stupor. "Mum, open the door." Her 18-year-old son yelled in worry for his mother followed by the voice of his little sister behind her to come and open the door.

"Come quick," she said to the phone and dropped it without disconnecting the call. She dragged her feet to the door and opened the door but she didn't allow them inside and blocked their view when they tried to look past her.

"What going on, mum?" Her son, Liam, asked. They could see the tear stains on her cheek but she had not said anything to them. "Mum?"

Selena broke down and they came forward to hug her and in the process, got a view of the inside.

"Dad?" Her daughter Sara, call in shock as she saw her father. Pushing her mother aside, she rushed inside and approached the bed with her hand clasped against her mouth.

"What happened to Dad?" Liam asked also. Making his way inside and standing beside his sister.