His most special person

Lucian glanced at Aisha besides him and heaved a deep sigh. They are driving towards his villa that they are going to stay while they are here, and ever since they got off in the plane, Aisha hasn't said a word.

From the stories he heard, and from his memory, he knows that Aisha's mother died while they are in Country F. In all honesty, he wasn't really planning on making Aisha go with him here. However, he knows that Aisha will forever blame herself for the death of Kristin if she will not face it, and couldn't move on.

He has no right of doing this, seeing as he was also blaming himself for the despair that his mother, Luce, had gone through because of that one rash decision that he made in the past.

But he wants to move on and forgive himself, and he wants to do it with her.

Lucian took a quick glance at Aisha, and saw her looking at the window with her chin resting on her palm. Her eyes looked dull and void of any light as she observed the place covered with thick snow.

Country A is in the middle of spring but Country F is currently in their mid-winter this month. It was freezing cold and the heater wasn't helping to reduce the coldness from the outside.

The green light in the traffic lights turned red so Lucian stops the car and face Aisha. He raised his hand and carress her face.

Aisha stiffen at the sudden coldness from her cheek, Lucian's hand was cold even through the heater of the car. She turns her body to face him and she was greeted by his warm smile.

"Wanna go somewhere else? I know a place." He said as he carress her cheek. Aisha's cheek was tinted red from the cold, as well as the tip of her nose and ears. She look incredibly cute at that moment that Lucian have the urge to hug her tightly in his arms.

"Aren't we going to your villa?" Aisha asked and she unconsciously took his hand off of her cheek and rubs it with her own two hands to heat it up a bit.

Lucian's chest tightens at her small action. His heart wells up with all the love and affection he have for her.

"We can go there later," Lucian retrieve his hand only to take Aisha's and give the back of her hand a feathery light kiss. "But for now, I want to show you a special place. Would you go with me?"

Aisha blushes by his sweet action and hope for Lucian to not notice it. She cleared her throat before muttering a soft, "Yes."

Lucian grins and at that moment, the traffic lights turns green. He let go of Aisha's hand and made a U-turn. "Although, I am taking you to that place but even I don't know what becomes of that place. It's been years after all."

"Is that place really special for you?" Aisha asked out of curiosity.

It's also special for you, Lucian said in his head before he smiles a bittersweet smile as his gaze remained on the road. "Yes, that place contains my childhood, and where I met the most special person in my life."

That caught Aisha's attention. Now that he mentioned it, she really didn't know much about Lucian. All she knows was he is the illegitimate child of Rafael who appears from who knows where.

She didn't know Lucian has lived in Country F. She didn't know what happened to his mother, if she is still alive or not, nor how he became the Boss of the Lumière famiglia and his hardships. She didn't know what made Lucian hate the Cavellis from the hell and back... all in all, she knew nothing of him.

She badly wanted to know more about him, but her instinct tells her not to for it may bring bad memories for him.

However, with the mention of his "special person", Aisha couldn't help but to feel a tinge of hurt in the depth of her heart.

She knows it was petty and selfish of her to think like this but...

She wants to be the most special person in Lucian's life.

And no one else but her.

When they got to the place, Lucian parked his car somewhere before they went out of the car. "Cars aren't allowed here so we need to walk to the place I am talking about."

"Hmm," Aisha hums in response. Her violet eyes behind the sunglasses are scanning her surroundings. It looks like a food district since there are many restos, cafes, bars, bakery and food stalls in the area. Since it was still early, there aren't many people around the area but Aisha is sure that once the sun kiss the day goodbye, this place will be buzzing with people.

Lucian arranged the beanie in her head, and pulls her scarf up to cover half of her face so that she will not be too cold. Then he took her gloved covered hands, entwined his gloved covered fingers with hers and put it inside his coat. Lucian manage to pursuade Aisha to wear a matching coat after a huge punch on his shoulder which is still swollen and bruised.

As they go deeper to the district, Aisha noticed that the place they are heading seems like it has been abandoned by those people who run this district.

However, Aisha couldn't understand why her heart thumps loudly in her chest as they go deeper to the district.

This place seems... familiar to her.

"We're here." Lucian stops in front of a run down building, which seems like a small bakery. He had a solemn look on his face as he gaze with such sadness to the place.

Aisha also looks at the bakery and she almost stumble backwards upon seeing that familiar bakery from her childhood.

Then her memories from childhood flashes through her head.