Chapter 33

Isabella's POV
I started to see Lucas's overly exaggerated side. It was disgusting but I still had to control myself so as not to show my true feelings. That I had a purpose behind all of this.
Lucas kept insisting on giving me the best impression while I was staying at Shadow Fang Pack. I started to give him freedom. Even though I was worried that he would embarrass me in front of many people later.
"Um, that's true, but I want to make a beautiful impression on you while you're staying here. Until finally, you have to...." He started to show a sad expression.
I patted his shoulder.
"Okay, do it!" That was my only comment, not much.
I just tried to give him new enthusiasm so that he wouldn't suspect my real plan for him.
Lucas' facial expression looked brighter and more cheerful.
"Okay then." He answered enthusiastically.
On the other hand, I thought about my husband who said he would be traveling for the next few days. Worried that something bad would happen to him. But I always hope he will come back and take me home from here.
Unknowingly my thoughts that drifted to Ethan began to be known by Lucas. For some reason, he asked the right thing that happened in my mind. So it made me suddenly surprised and began to look restless because I was worried that my other thoughts were read by Lucas. Indeed he can always read me. Has he known this figure of mine? Why is he so close to the truth of my soul than Ethan himself who is my husband? I am now confused again by this kind of situation. Again and again, my thoughts began to drift to my true identity.
"Are you thinking about Ethan? Why are you daydreaming like that?"
"Huh what? What did you say?" I pretended not to hear.
"Ah forget it!" He did not prolong the discussion about his previous question.
I also began to breathe a sigh of relief again. For a while, there was silence, but suddenly Lucas began to give me instructions.
"Isabella?"
"Yes, what is it?"
"This is for you!" He took a pendant necklace from his pants pocket and showed it to me then intended to give it to me too.
"Huh, what is this?"
"This is Elara's, also yours." He seemed to change his expression to be more lethargic.
For some reason it made me feel sorry for him. I immediately put my palm on his shoulder. Making him surprised, and he turned his head towards my hand, then towards my face, he stared. I was shocked and just as shocked because I had spontaneously done that to him.
Then Lucas continued his words without me asking too.
"This is Elara's pendant necklace that I took when she was dying. I wanted to keep it as a memory, that's what I mean. A moment later, I took this pendant necklace from her neck. Suddenly someone was about to attack me from behind. Luckily I had kept this pendant necklace in my pants pocket. I was shocked and immediately blocked the opponent's attack swiftly. After I managed to defeat her, I suddenly saw Elara's body had disappeared who knows where. Maybe it was stolen by the opponent, or how exactly, I don't know until now. Instead, it became a big question mark and left a sense of curiosity and dissatisfaction until now. I was really devastated at that time."
He paused and paused his story. He shed tears that I saw so now. It made me swallow my saliva, feeling what he was feeling now. Trying to empathize and silently waiting for him to be stable again.
I really felt what he felt. The sadness was really deep. In fact, it was rare for me to find a man who cried. It meant that Lucas's wounds were really deep. That meant that my father's suspicions were invalid. There was no way Lucas would do all this just because of power politics. I think he sincerely loves Elara. It was proven by his attitude which seemed pure without any engineering.
A moment later he told his story again after his tears had come out quite a lot. He began to tell his suspicions about me as the reincarnation of Elara.
"Emm, that's why this is it; this last tragedy is what makes me feel like you are the reincarnation of Elara. Your face is exactly like hers. I don't know about your personality, I don't know you very well because I haven't known you for long, Isabella. I haven't been able to judge you, let alone judge you. We just met.."
Hearing him say, “We just met," I started to feel too deep to try to get into Lucas' mind. It turned out that Lucas wasn't as crazy as I thought before. He still had the common sense to differentiate between me and Elara. He was still able to see clearly that there were two different figures, Elara and Isabella.
"I'm sorry."
I don't know why I suddenly wanted to apologize to him. It made him shocked, and he immediately looked at me.
"Apologize for what?"
I was unable to answer Lucas' question. Trapped in an embarrassing situation. I could only be silent waiting for him to change the subject. Sure enough, he didn't really question what I said. He even continued what he said earlier.
"So... I feel like Elara is still alive because I never buried or burned her body. That never happened and my eyes didn't see it directly. This is the reason why I always believe that you are my old Elara."
He became a strange person again. But I didn't deny it like before. I just kept quiet and thought that what Lucas thought could be true. So where did Elara go? Am I Elara herself? But I don't remember anything about things in my past. I just remember enough about my childhood with my current family. Until I was a teenager, and until now, I was Isabella, not someone else. Not Elara that Lucas meant.
Even the name felt foreign to me. But the story that Lucas presented to me was really like I had experienced it in my life. But how could that happen? It was a ridiculous and strange thought of all time, and during my life, I had only heard stories about the chapter of reincarnation being something that only existed in fairy tales, not in real life like now.
"Umm, so what do you expect after this and in the future?" I started to speak.
"I hope you can be the answer to all my worries so far."
"Huh, what do you mean?"
"You will understand later on your own."
After getting close to Lucas I began to feel that Ethan and Lucas were not like brothers. Their personalities were really very different. But is it possible that Lucas was a figure who had lived thousands of years ago?