Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2164

"Thank you." Only after hearing those words did Lith return the embrace.

"You are welcome, silly man." Kamila snuggled her face on his chest. "You don't have to worry about me either. I can understand why you kept your origin a secret, but the day I accepted to marry you, I also promised to accept every part of your life.

"Or in your case, lives. If you see me shaken is because I am, but also because I feel confident enough in our relationship to not be forced to pretend that everything is alright when it's not.

"I don't want to wear a mask and neither should you."

"Gods, what the heck did I ever do to deserve someone like you in my life?" Lith held Kamila tighter, losing himself in the sweet scent of her hair that he had feared lost forever.

"A lot." She replied. "Don't get me wrong, you are still a homicidal asshole, but you are my homicidal asshole. You saved your parents from poverty and our respective sisters from illness.

"Even though you carried a lot of secrets since the day of our first date, now I know that you've always been honest about your feelings for me. I will need some time to process today's events but that doesn't mean that I'm pushing you away."

Once again there was no lie in her words.

Lith remained like that for a while, appreciating that moment without saying anything.

That night they slept simply hugging and when they woke up, Kamila had Solus Warp the tower to Salaark's beach. They watched the sunrise there and spent the rest of the day in the place where their family had been born, promising to return there.

Solus was happy to be part of it, but also a little awkward.

"Are you sure you don't want some privacy?"

She asked while they were sunbathing and Lith experimenting on how his Abomination form reacted to water.

"Are you kidding me? I can surely use the company of my wife." Kamila chuckled. "Also, you knew about Lith and Derek all along. I need your expertise now more than ever."

"About that, I don't think I can be of much help." Solus replied with a shrug. "To everyone else, they are different people, but to me, there has always been only Lith. I'm not saying that his past as Derek is irrelevant, just that that part of his life had already started to fade by the time I met him.

"His old self, the one that still inhabits his Abomination side, was a hopeless broken man who cared about no one but himself. Even the four years old Lith worried a lot about his family and worked his ass off for them.

"He often lied to them, but never to hurt them. He did it to protect them and himself. You must understand that just like you find it hard to accept his previous incarnations, so does Lith.

"He always worried about how his parents might react if they discovered the truth and he still suffers from some kind of imposter syndrome. The very same lie that allows him to have a second chance at life at the same time keeps him from truly appreciating it."

Those words conjured the memories that Lith had shared with Kamila, making all the times he had called himself a malevolent ghost flash in front of her eyes.

"Now that you know the truth, Lith is as scared of you as you are of him." Solus said. "You hold a power over him like no one else ever did before. You can tear his life and heart apart at any moment and he knows it."

"I would never do such a thing!" Kamila said in outrage, noticing Solus' stare at her womb. "But you are right. Knowing Lith, he's probably picturing some convoluted scenario based on the ghosts in his head right now."