Filed to story: Healing My Disabled Husband Novel
He squinted his eyes, feeling an urge to shut Casey’s mouth up right now. If she kept talking like this, he might have to face a truth that he couldn’t anticipate. Maybe it would be a dirty and shady truth.
Casey noticed Damion’s serious expression and didn’t hold back. “Damion, have you thought about it?
Capital is not an easy place to survive in. The temptations there are much bigger than here. You let this girl out for four years, and if she continues her education for seven or eight years, who knows what could happen? She’s only twenty now, young with endless possibilities. Are you willing to wait for her all these years?”
Damion fell silent.
He had never thought about what Casey just said before nor did he ever consider such a situation could happen.
But hearing Casey say it out loud made him realize that he was overly confident before.
The reason why he didn’t think too much about the future was when Ivy looked at him with those eyes of hers, she had already laid bare all her emotions in front of him. This made Damion understand how special he was to Ivy.
Because of this realization, Damion didn’t need to imagine anything else anymore. He only needed to do what he should do best while letting everything else unfold naturally.
However, things took an unexpected turn now. Something that even Damion couldn’t anticipate happened suddenly and caught him off guard.
Even, it can be said that he was caught off guard by the beating.
Casey gave Damion ample time to think before finally saying, “Damion, I’ve known you since I was born. No one knows you better than me. What I want to tell you is that if you’re really sure about her, don’t cut ties.”
Damion snapped out of his thoughts and looked at Casey. “You’re thinking too much. It’s not that serious.”
But Casey held up a finger and waved it in front of Damion’s face. “No, don’t be so blindly confident.
Birds of a feather flock together and we all have the same attitude towards love. Once we find true love, we go all in and become devoted. Look at my three brothers, Eden and Ben – they were all single for over 20 years until they found their true loves and became doting husbands overnight. So don’t think you’re exempt from this behavior because we are all cut from the same cloth.”
Damion was truly convinced by Casey’s words. Indeed, from the facts presented, Casey was right.
Even she herself was in the same situation.
Damion lightly tugged at the corner of his mouth and said, “Looks like you’ve really grown up and are able to think about things like this.”
Casey remained silent.
Why did she feel like Damion was mocking her? Wasn’t he basically saying that she had no brains?
Staring angrily at Damion, Casey said, “Don’t act all innocent after taking advantage of me. I treat you no differently than my own brothers and that’s why I’m telling you these things.”
When did Casey ever speak so seriously with someone? If her three brothers found out about this, they would be shocked.
Damion curved his lips into a smile and said, “Okay then, thank you for your advice.”
Casey smirked arrogantly and waved her hand saying, “No problem at all. We’re family after all.
There’s no need to be so polite.”
It only took three seconds for them to return to their usual selves – with Casey being her usual self-
centered self while Damion remained grateful towards her despite it all.
Casey’s words had indeed made Damion start thinking deeply about something. Regardless of anything else though, there was one thing that Casey had been right about.
He needed to re-examine his position on Ivy. If he only saw her as a young girl, felt sorry for her, and wanted to help her out, Damion believed that even he couldn’t convince himself with this reasoning.
Instead, he might have to seriously analyze the extent of his feelings for Ivy.
But there was one thing that Damion was certain of: no matter how he felt about Ivy, what he had to do was make sure she understood that she would have a bright future and that her life choices were hers alone. She didn’t need to make any decisions based on him, and all she had to do was follow her heart.
If she decided that being a lazy bum without any goals or aspirations suited her best and just lay in bed every day waiting for death, then Damion could accept it. But from what he knew of Ivy’s personality, this wasn’t the case.
So instead, he would help open up new opportunities for her so she could boldly explore the world around her. Once Damion realized this point clearly in his mind, all doubts vanished.
“Even if it takes seven or eight years or I cut the kite string,” said Damion confidently, “she’ll always come back to me.”
Casey looked at him incredulously. It was the first time Casey heard such domineering words from him.
Unable to resist herself any longer, Casey gave him a thumbs-up and exclaimed, “Damion! Who knew you were such an alpha male!”
Damion glanced at Casey before standing up and walking towards the bathroom.
The young girl had been inside for quite some time, and without needing to ask, he knew she must be crying in there.
He had to go in and talk to her. Otherwise, her tears would have been shed in vain.
Damion knocked on the bathroom door and asked, “Ivy, are you okay?”
Ivy was indeed crying inside the bathroom. However, she didn’t dare cry too hard for fear of being found out. She looked pitiful with her tear-streaked face.
But it was hard to hide the redness of her eyes after crying for so long. She splashed water on her face repeatedly but couldn’t seem to get rid of it.
When Ivy heard Damion’s voice outside the door, she became even more flustered. She quickly wiped away her tears with a tissue and turned around to open the door.
Damion was standing outside waiting for her. As soon as he opened the door, his worried eyes met hers.
The pent-up frustration that Ivy had suppressed suddenly surged up again when she saw him. Damion noticed how tightly she was clenching her teeth. He let out a sigh before reaching out to grab hold of her wrist saying, “Let’s talk.”
Ivy obediently followed Damion out of the bathroom into another room but before entering it, she hesitated slightly. Damion looked down at Ivy and said, “This is Camdyn’s room where I always sleep whenever I come here.”
Hayden’s Mansion was huge, and Camdyn had given each of the younger generation their own room.
Even when other guests came to visit, they wouldn’t be sleeping in these rooms. Now, they had become their exclusive rooms.
Ivy was shocked. Although she didn’t know how many rooms there were in Hayden’s Mansion, she was still scared by this arrangement.
But since it was Damion’s exclusive room, Ivy didn’t feel burdened anymore.
She obediently let Damion pull her into the room. But the next second, she felt a new sense of unease.
Although she had been living with Damion in the same house for two days now, this was someone else’s home after all. Even though nothing would happen between them here, Ivy couldn’t help but worry about leaving a bad impression on the Haydens.
Damion didn’t give Ivy too much time to think about these things. He pulled her over to sit on the bed and then brought a chair over to sit across from her.
Damion looked particularly serious which made Ivy somewhat nervous. She anxiously watched him and tentatively called out his name, “Damion.”
Damion said, “Before I didn’t understand some things clearly. It’s my fault. Now I want you to listen carefully to what I have to say.”
Ivy nodded obediently but her heart beat wildly inside her chest. She was very nervous and extremely afraid that if what he said next were something that she did not want to hear, what would she do?
If Damion were to tell her, “Ivy, you shouldn’t like me. We’re from two different worlds and you don’t deserve me,” what would she do?
Although Ivy knew that Damion could never say something so cruel, she also knew that she needed to put herself in a certain position and not harbor any unrealistic hopes.
The truth was so cruel, something Ivy had never considered before.
But now it was going to be presented to her in all its bloody reality and Ivy was truly afraid.
Damion said, “Ivy…”
“Damion,” Ivy hastily interrupted him. She didn’t want him to continue speaking. She looked at him pitifully and said, “Shouldn’t we help out with something first? Stay for dinner? It’s not good to do nothing.”
She awkwardly changed the subject, wanting to avoid a cruel voice.
Damion said, “Let me finish first.”
The light in Ivy’s eyes quickly dimmed.
She had no choice but to face the facts now.
This was too cruel.
Ivy hung her head low and mumbled, “Go ahead, Damion. I’m listening.”
Just let her completely give up.
Damion looked at Ivy with helplessness before reaching out and hooking her chin, making her look into his eyes.
He said, “Ivy, if I were to say that I don’t know what you think of me, then I would be a jerk and doing the most despicable thing.”
When she heard this, Ivy’s expression became even more tense.
The thing she had been carefully hiding was now being pointed out by Damion so bluntly. Ivy didn’t know what to do.
She wanted to cry so badly but it wasn’t the time yet. She couldn’t cry.
Damion continued speaking, “What I want to tell you is that I welcome your feelings towards me and am happy about them. Do you understand what I mean?”
Ivy nodded but then shook her head again in confusion. She was getting flustered and didn’t know how to face Damion after his confession.
Was this Damion confessing his feelings for her? Could she really think like that?
Ivy dared not think any further.
Her eyes were already blurred with tears. She bit her lip, and her entire heart was suspended in a crisis that made her feel as if she had fallen into a huge pit.
Damion continued, “I told you before that if you wanted to fly away, I would cut the kite string and let you fly. That still holds true until what I’m about to say next.”
Ivy felt another wave of disappointment wash over her. Her teeth unconsciously bit down on her lip, and she barely held back an emotional breakdown.
Damion felt helpless as he reached out and pinched Ivy’s chin. “You have this habit of biting yourself all the time. When are you going to change?”
Ivy sniffled and couldn’t bite her lip anymore. Some words just came out without thinking first.
“I’m about to be abandoned anyway, so why bother changing?”
This statement undoubtedly angered Damion.
He raised his hand and flicked Ivy’s forehead hard enough for her to yelp in pain.
But Ivy wasn’t angry with Damion. Instead, she leaned closer towards him and said, “Go ahead, flick me some more! You won’t have any other girls left who will let you do it.”
Her words were jealous but also carried an unmistakable sense of despair.
Ivy had already sentenced herself to death row mentally, and believed that whatever Damion was going to say next would only make things worse for them both.
