Hellbound With You novel Chapter 762

Chapter 762 - Focus

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"The reason why I didn't tell him your real name was because…" he paused again.

Alicia kept her gaze on him, almost unblinking, refusing to give in this time until he answers one more question. Right now, Ezekiel's calmness seemed to be being tested, by her.

He was still able to keep his expression straight but the look in his eyes was not as blank as before. He had some undecipherable look in his eyes right now. She wondered if he was formulating thousands of different scenarios in his head which was causing that look.

"Because your name will ring a bell." He sounded as though it was already a great struggle for him to tell her that. And Ezekiel… she had never heard him falter before, in words or in actions. This was the first time. And it shocked her.

The utter misery in her chest was slowly dissipating, the longer she watched him struggle even a little.

"My name will ring a bell? Why? Sebastian is… he had existed for hundreds of years just like you. I have never met him before, nor seen him in any of the memories that the previous witch queens passed down to me, much less recognised his face. So why would my name ring a bell if you had mentioned it to him?" she asked again, intent on wanting to get the answer to this at least. And he closed his eyes at her insistence to know.

"I can't answer that question." He finally said after another bout of silence.

"Why." Alicia immediately threw the word out, her voice hard and stubborn.

Slowly, he opened his eyes then looked at her. The disturbing calmness was now back. It was as though the earlier uncertainty had never been there at all.

"Listen closely, Alicia. There are secrets better left buried. Besides, you are not here to seek answers in the first place. You are here with me because you have a goal… and that's to kill me, right? So don't you forget that. You're not meant to know about this, about Sebastian… no one knows about him but me and Alex. You've learnt about a secret I had been trying to hide for hundreds of years… you, a witch who is trying to kill me of all people…" he shook his head, "I can't reveal anything more. You have known more than you already should. I know it's not your fault. I was the one who brought you here after all, and that's why I answered the questions I never wanted to answer. Also…"

His gaze travelled back to her lips again.

"What's the point of you wanting to know more about all these? Didn't you accept your fate already? That as long as you meet your goal, it'll be alright for you to be gone now? You aren't even trying to find a way to save yourself. You've long since given up. Anything other than your goal shouldn't matter anymore, is it not?" Ezekiel now bombarded her with questions and statements that were all true, causing her to not be able to retort in the slightest.

That hurt her, so bad. Why did his words always feel so incredibly painful? Was it because he was right? Or was there another reason?

Before a treacherous tear manage to fall from the corner of her eyes, he pulled her against him, tucking her as close as possible to his hard body as he stretched his hand and create another spinning vortex. It was the same vortex of darkness he had created before that when they teleported.