Attention

Keith looked sad, somehow the smile he showed looked so bitter. Sheera could see a heart shining brightly in Keith's chest. He has great love in his heart and that love is the source of his strength.

"I understand, Keith. You love her, right?" She smiled gently. For this, she was able to quickly understand Keith's meaning and that was because she also had the same feeling, love for someone so great that she didn't want to give up on meeting that person.

"You wait here, I'll get suitable clothes for you!" Keith said as he walked towards his room and checked the clothes in his cupboard.

There are only t-shirts, shirts, pants, jeans and all men's clothing. He completely forgot that Keith didn't even have anything at the moment. He was forced to take his plain white t-shirt and give it to Sheera.

"I only have this, use it!" He said. Sheera immediately took off her towel and took the t-shirt from Aiden's hand.

"Hey, don't take off your towel in front of me! Go to your room! Just wear clothes in the room!" He shouted irritably. There were countless times he almost had a heart attack because of Azura's reckless attitude, who didn't understand the situation.

Azura nodded and immediately went to the room to wear clothes. She was wearing Aiden's t-shirt which was definitely too big for her. The T-shirt that Aiden usually wears actually becomes a mini dress when she wears it.

"It smells good, Aiden's scent is really good." She muttered. She really liked Aiden's scent, it made her feel comfortable.

She stepped out of the room while Aiden was serving two plates of pasta on the table. Her face lit up when she smelled the delicious aroma that made her stomach hungry.

"It smells so delicious."

"Tsk, it turns out you have a sharp sense of smell too, huh? Let's eat!"

"What's this?"

"This is pasta, try it!"

Feeling called by the delicious aroma, Azura immediately held the hot pasta in her hands before sitting on the chair first.

"Agh...so hot!" She shouted and immediately threw the spaghetti pieces in her hand.

"You're really stupid, aren't you? Don't use your hands! Use a fork. You look like a primitive human, where do you actually come from?" Aiden shouted in annoyance while cleaning up the spaghetti that was scattered on the table.

Seeing Azura crying while holding her blistered hand made him feel sorry. He approached Azura and asked this girl to show her hand.

"Show your hands!"

"It's hurts-"

"Of course it hurts! I just cooked it, you should leave it until the pasta cools down a bit! Wait here, I'll get some medicine!" He said while filling cold water into a bowl and taking the cream for burns in the medicine box.

Aiden asked Azura to sit on the sofa, while he cleaned Azura's hands with water and rubbed burn cream on her hands. It's not a serious pliers wound, but if it's not treated, it might be quite painful when she uses her hands.

Azura looked at Aiden who was right in front of her eyes. Aiden didn't say anything and just focused on rubbing the cream into Azura's palm.

"Aiden?"

"What?"

"I'll go tomorrow!"

"Do you remember your house?"

"N-no-"

"So?"

"I-I'll try to remember." She said. She tried to suppress her feelings because she didn't want to cause Aiden any more trouble. She thought maybe she could go look for Ethan alone.

Aiden lifted his face and looked into Azura's eyes. Azura was stunned because she had never seen eyes that sparkled like gold before.

"Listen, you don't need to force yourself if you still don't remember anything. Honestly, it seems quite troublesome, but I can still handle it. I will take you home if you really remember your family and home. But if you still can't remember Whatever, I will never let you go alone."

"Because you promised Jacob?"

"Yes, that's one of them. But I have another reason why I want to help you."

"Why?"

"I can't tell you. Never mind, forget it! We'd better eat now!"

"But I ruined the food-"

"It's okay, there's something left on the plate that I can still eat. You can eat my share of dinner!" Aiden exchanged his dinner which was still intact with Azura's.

Azura was stunned, she felt strange. It felt like in her life she had never received such sincere kindness before from another creature, apart from Ethan, who she helped first. But Aiden, she never did anything for Aiden. So why was Aiden being so nice to her?

During her 80 years trapped at the bottom of the sea, she always thought that all humans were cruel, except Ethan. Wars and disasters make people blame them and accuse them of being the bringers of disaster.

Hundreds of mermaids were hunted down, brutally slaughtered and killed. Her friends and family were killed and she was the one who had to be punished. Locked up and isolated in a very quiet place without sunlight. The only thing that made her able to survive through the loneliness that felt so painful was the hope of being able to meet Ethan again.

"Aiden?"

"Yes? You don't like my cooking? If you don't like it, you don't have to eat it!"





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