Lord Shadow

Chapter 1184: One beautiful night (2)

Katarina then ask him

‘Are you just going to sit there and stare at me?’ she said. Azief suddenly get up and Katarina looking at this chuckles 

‘I thought we were going to talk’

‘Well, it is night. And I am hungry’

Azief rolls his eyes.

‘We don’t get hungry’

Katarina tilt her head and then said 

‘You really don’t know how to set the mood’

Azief hearing this walk forward and his sudden move startled Katarina who takes a step back. Azief is close to her, so close she could smell him

And he smells good. Really good. What kind of cologne he wears? She thought to herself. Did the Orvanians have some kind of cologne? It sure as hell not coming from the production of the Seresian world, she thought to herself.

She thought of all kinds of things to distract herself from thinking of what happened yesterday.

Azief could see she was blushing and he takes another step forward, a naughty smile on his face.

He leans down a bit and look at her eyes. 

‘I don’t know if I told you this before’ he begins, his eyes looking at her, like a predator looking at his prey, a smirk on his face, yet, she could not help but stares at that eyes, one of them hazel, the other have a tint of green ‘You are very, very attractive’ and he smiles

And she blushes even harder. He is the only man that could ever make her respond like this.

His tone of voice, his smirk, all of it seems to be perfect.

Her heart is beating fast.

Katarina is the most beautiful woman in the world. She did not give herself this title. But it was everybody else that gives her this title

And so, it has always been a common occurrence for someone to compliment and flatter her appearance.

But never in his tone of voice. Or maybe…. maybe it is not about the voice. Maybe, it is about who is saying it.

She blushes because it is him saying it. And saying it so close to her, that she could hear his heartbeat speeding up

Beings like them could control their heartbeat. And Azief is actually practically an energy form based being.

He could scatter his body into tiny particles of Laws, merged with the world and the laws around him

So, controlling his heartbeat might be the easiest thing he could do. yet, the sound of his heartbeat sounds like the rushing of a horde of warhorse in the plains. 

It is a signal to her. All of this makes her feel all kinds of feelings. Azief inches closer, his lips are so close to hers.

And then just right before his lips grazes on hers, he stopped, looks at her, smiles and said

‘What about now?’

‘About what?’

‘The mood’ he said in that teasing tone. 

Katarina smack his chest and a shockwave exploded. 

Azief saw the shockwave in slow motion and could see that if he did not contain it, the balcony would be destroyed. He just waves his hand and the shockwave dissipated almost immediately

‘Hmph’ she snorted as she passes him by and goes to the open kitchen. He just shakes his head with a smile.

When godlike beings like them do normal things even as simple as simple hitting, it could create a disaster. 

But they also had learned how to deal with it like Azief method of containing the shockwave with a force field

‘Hey. Don’t get angry. You were the one saying that I’m not good at creating the mood. I just rise up to the challenge’

‘You just like teasing me’ Right now, even though they look like they are complaining to each other, they are both smiling.

Tonight, they were like normal people. 

There are no world powers that they need to think about, there is no plots and schemes, nothing to consider, their actions would not affect world power or the world itself

At this moment, they could be a version of themselves that they used to be. Yet, it is not exactly the same version of themselves. 

It is a version of themselves that is better……better because they both have experience so much, and learn so much.

A version of themselves that have become better, because they found love. And love found them. 

A version of them that have experience pain and come out of it stronger. 

There is still pain, there are still scars……but right now, in this moment of perfect bliss and happiness…. those pains are forgotten, the scars for a moment is not there.

Katarina goes to the kitchen and Azief follows from behind. 

‘What are you doing Katarina?’

‘I like to cook’

Azief raised her eyebrows and shakes his head

‘Cook? You?’

‘What?’

‘I tasted your omelet before’

‘And?’

‘It’s horrible.’

‘I think you are exaggerating’ Azief put his hands up like he was surrendering and said

‘Trust me. I am not’

Katarina pouted. 

And Azief chuckles. 

To him, she looks very cute when she is pouting like that

She is already at the stove and on her hand is the pan. 

She is ready to make another omelet.

Katarina used to eat from a can or things that his brother cook for her. She herself never cook that much. 

Though, she doesn’t think there is anything wrong with her food. 

That is of course until she became the Ice Queen and have access to many foods. Only then she knows that she is not exactly a good cook

But she doesn’t think that she is a horrible cook. Azief come to the kitchen, grab the pan from her hand and said

‘Let me cook.’

She lets him. And then she went to the sofa and sat down. Azief then suddenly realizes something and he laughed

He looks at Katarina who is on the sofa. All the while he is opening the gas and put the pan on the stove and putting oil on it.

After a few second Katarina could felt that Azief is staring at her and she looks at him. He only looks at her, with an expression that he knows what she is doing and feeling guilty she could only say

‘What?’

Azief laughed

‘You tricked me into cooking’

Katarina then chuckles.

‘You were the one that volunteers to cook. Don’t blame me now’ Azief look at her and he could only shake his head while smiling

He did not care that much to be honest. 

He cracks a few eggs and began cooking. He looks around him and he nodded to himself

The vibe, the ambience, everything is perfect. It is a beautiful night. Every once in a while he would steal glances at Katarina who is waiting for him

Then once again, last night memory come into his mind and his smile falters a bit. 

‘This is not the time to think of that’ He did not want to think too much. At least, right now, at this moment he just wanted to enjoy this happiness

It did not take long for Azief to whip out a good meal. Azief had develop many skills in his years of roaming the Multiverse.

He brought the food to the table and Katarina eyes widened. 

With one glance she could tell that Azief had cook quite an appetizing meal. There is a bit of meat, a few wrapped food and an omelet. 

It is not that fancy of a meal.

But it is enough for them. If they wanted a fancy meal they could call the chefs to cook up a dish but that is not something that they wanted

Azief put down the plates and the bowl

‘You made soup?’ Azief nodded

‘It was very fast. I thought it would take some time for the soup to boil’ Azief pointed to his eyes 

‘Heat vision’

‘Ah’

And Azief meals would not be complete without his own brewed coffee. It is a habit he could not rid of.

Katarina chuckles as she saw Azief put down the cup of coffee in front of her. 

‘What?’

‘You still like coffee?’

What. It’s good’

I know. She said still smiling as her finger hold the handle of the cup and the coffee immediately turns cold

‘But I like mine cold’ Azief just shakes his head. 

‘Tell me about that story’ she said as she took the fork and take a bite of the poached eggs.

Azief sat beside her, like it was the most natural place for him.

‘Which story?’

‘the barista in Australia’

‘Ah’ Azief smiles ‘That’

Azief then began his story with a smile on his face. And Katarina smiles because Azief was happy talking about it.

Katarina and Azief had this certain magic between them. A magic that needs no spell, need no ritual

Love…. the simplest and hardest magic of all. It requires luck and effort and unlike certain other magic…everyone could have it.

And it is a magic like none other

A magic that could change your life. A bad love destroys one life. A true love saves one soul. It is the only few magic in the Universe that touches someone deep into their soul

It is a magic that have darkness in it, and yet it also contains so much light and love. 

And it is this love that made them be able to have simple conversation yet it fills the soul like a thirsty man in the desert finding an oasis that quench all thirst and fatigue