With a calm expression, he gently took her hand and told her, "Yes, I'm willing to be your knife, even if the one you're going up against is Jackson Valor."

For her, he was willing to be anyone's enemy if it meant that he was fulfilling her wish.

Because he… had fallen so deeply in love with her.

Yes, he loved her.

It was a genuine and profound love, yet he had never truly told her about it yet. He had been angry with her, had hated her, had held a grudge against her, yet in the end, he discovered that none of these feelings outweighed his love for her.

During their three years of separation, he always assumed that he had been hating her, but at the end of the day, what he was really feeling was just love. He missed her every day, and before he knew it, the love he had for her only grew deeper and deeper as time passed.

"Lisa," he declared, "I will be the knife in your hands alone for the rest of my life."

In that instant, Lisa could feel how violently her heart was thumping in