"Yes."

Once again, his short reply filled her heart with a hot mess of conflicted feelings!

"Why would you do this?"

"Why?" He suddenly lifted both of his arms to pull her into an embrace, almost in a cautious manner. "What about you? Hmm? Why did you go to that psychiatrist to get hypnotized? To retrieve the memory of Lucas? Are you so reluctant to part with that memory? You only knew him for a day when you were little anyway, and besides, you have me by your side now."

His voice was calm, so calm that it sounded as if he was just talking about something insignificant, yet to her ears, nothing frightened her more than that voice.

He even knew… that she had only known Lucas for a day back then! It seemed that he had figured out everything and that she was the only one left in the dark!

Sensing that her body had just stiffened, he hugged her even tighter now and inched his lips closer to her ear to murmur to her, "Please stop digging up those memories. Isn't it enough that you hav