A carpet of red [2]

"This isn't good..." 

Staring at the projection where Emma and Aaron appeared, my face darkened and my heart sped up a little. 

I suddenly felt an ominous premonition. 

'...I should've seen this coming.' 

I should've seen the possibility of Aaron getting matched up with someone like Emma. Or rather, I knew about the possibility, but I still chose to ignore it. 

Normally, I wouldn't have worried, but the current Aaron was not in the right state of mind. 

Of course, he wasn't.

I made sure he wasn't. 

Back then, when I had taken him outside of the building, I didn't just go to him with the goal of beating him up to satiate my thirst for revenge.

No, things were a lot more complicated than that. 

After Waylan and Douglas took him away from me, and after I regained myself, they quickly gave him back to me at my request.