While eating with her head lowered, Emily asked worriedly, "I know you're planning on doing something. Can you tell me what you're going to do?"
However, Kobi only looked at her with an indifferent expression.
Raising her head, Emily looked at him intently. "Are you afraid that I'll tell anyone where I am now?"
With this, she smiled bitterly. "Now that I am locked up by you, what else can I do?"
Since she couldn't get out of here, she wouldn't be able to get in touch with anyone.
Moreover, even if she could run away, she might not tell others what had happened to her.
Until now, she still loved this man very much.
If she told on him, it would do him no good, which was also a form of betrayal.
"Have you finished eating?" asked Kobi who avoided answering her question.
"You promised to let me know what I wanted to know. Do you remember that?" said Emily who bit her lips.
"Don't try to provoke me!" Kobi raised her chin and added, "There's still some food in the container. I hope I won't need to send you to the hospital."
"Are you are afraid that your identity will be revealed if you send me to the hospital?" Emily was quite smart sometimes. "Now that I am gone, the Hudson Family must be very anxious. If they can't find me, you will be suspected."
Because of their relationship, the Hudson Family would definitely think of her when they failed to find her.
Glancing at her, he smiled and responded, "Well, I could lie to them. I told them that you sneaked back to Mathines out of anger?"
"You..."
"You don't know many people in Beachmarsh City, and no one will keep looking for you, especially when it's logical to claim that you have returned to your home in Mathines." Kobi shook his head and laughed. "Don't play tricks on me. You will never win."
Emily really didn't know how to trick him. She hoped she had seen through him a long time ago.
"Kobi, have you ever loved me?" Emily looked at him and asked suddenly.
Kobi frowned but didn't answer her question.
Staring at him, she muttered, "I know you still love me. I don't think you could forget the happy times we spent together. You have always been serious in our relationship, right?"
If he didn't love her, why would spare her life?
If he had no feelings for her at all, he would have definitely killed her without hesitation.
But he didn't.
Looking at her with a stolid expression, he said, "I spared your life because I don't want to get myself into trouble."
"W-What?"
"Killing you won't do me any good, so the best way is to keep you alive," Kobi replied faintly. "If you die, your family will definitely look for me, which would be a huge trouble for me, so why would I want to kill you?"
Emily felt stinging pain course through her body as she heard that.
After a long time, she smiled bitterly. "Should I thank you for not killing me?"
The expression on her face was so pale as tears seemed to well up in her eyes that glittered with love mingled with despair.
Kobi couldn't help but feel a jolt in his heart when he looked at her.
This was a facial expression which he had never seen before, and he was so shocked that he could not utter a single word.
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