Chapter 118 LET GO

PYRO'S POV

I was sitting on my piano, playing a song that I played when we were at the mall. The tears were flowing down my cheeks. I had no ability to wipe or stop it. Fira would not be fully happy beside me. I was just giving her a hard time to deal with me.

Her smile popped into my head. I could see how mesmerizing it was. From the moment on, I saw her bleeding from the hands of the hunters. She still looked gorgeous despite the blood in her stomach and a weakening body.

I knew I would see her again because I put the symbol in her, but I did not expect that she would show up in the middle of my grief and then suddenly, the pain gone and converted into a heavenly feeling, which I did not feel before.

"Open your eyes!" I was tapping her cheek. I checked the hole of her nose using my finger to know if she was breathing.

Damn. She is dead!

I held her shoulder and shook it. "You'll never die! I hate people passing away in front of me!" I did CPR. She was not responding.

I had hesitation to give her mouth to mouth resuscitation because that would be the first lips that I would taste. But despite my doubts, I pinched her nose, blew air inside her mouth and then released her nose. I was desperate to bring back her life.

In my years of living, I did not panic like that. I was thinking that one person died again in my hands. I did not deserve to be a king. I did not deserve my power.

Because a king is a protector. A king is brave, strong and ready to give his life for the people.

That's my mother teaching.

The liquid streamed at my face. The rain was slowly dropping until it continued to drip until it flooded.

"You need to open your eyes! Damn! Survive!" I was putting pressure on her chest. I was desperately doing my best. When I saw her mother lying next to her. I looked up at the sky. The thunder was drawing to it. The droplets of rain were falling into my face.

"Why are you doing this to me? I am a king. The Alpha King of Fire! Why do people need to die in my protection!"

My tears mixed with the rain. I held the hand of this unknown stranger that said living in the Elemental Kingdom. I cupped her cheek and kissed her lips. "Don't join your mother. You need to serve me."

I held her hands tightly, looked up at the sky and then screamed. "I, Pyro Aiker! The Alpha King of Fire, giving my symbol to this woman. I am willing to be her mate for good, sickness, tough, sadness and happiness. I will love her and only her!"

I will love her and only her…

My sob was just silent. The piano's sound was showing what I felt. This would be my last play because Fira was not by my side. I could not play when it was not Fira listening.

I stopped tapping the keys when Colden entered my room. He looked awful.

"Eira left me!" Like me, he was crying. It was funny, the Elemental Kingdom, especially the training, was teaching us that crying was the sign of weakness, but when love hits you.

Being weak is the only choice left.

"Fira, too." My tears stopped producing in my eyes. I was looking straight at my front.

"Why...why didn't you fight!" Colden shook my head. "I thought you loved her! Is your love doesn't enough? The decision is in Fira! If you only let out his father in the slavery. They didn't need to go!"

I stood up, turned my back at him with no energy. "Sleep. It's a matter of rest."

"Rest?" He marched in front of me. He glared at me with so much anger. "If for you, it doesn't matter because you can handle it. You're strong. You're brave! For me...it's not!" I watched his sweep. He had difficulties in breathing. "I'm freaking weak! It's my first time to feel this." He put his index finger on his heart. "But now, how can my heart pump again when Eira is not here!"

"You live eighteen years without her. It's just a month. Then you are telling me that if she is not by your side, you'll die? How ironic." I blew a boastful air with a bit of a chuckle.

"Freak!" He moved closer to my face. "I didn't know you're shallow. All my life, I believed that Pyro is the model that I should follow steps. Because you are a great dodger, a great fighter in the battle. Me? I was just hiding behind your back or Raiden or Zephyrus back! I can't hurt anyone!"

I observed the clenching of his jaw. His voice was crack due to excessive crying, but he was managing to speak up. "I saw how you love Fira. I looked up on you, but I found the real trash." He moved again. Face to face. "It's you. The coward of all cowards!"

He walked two steps backward and then left me hanging.

You're right. I'm a coward. I feel fear. I am afraid to know that Fira is going with him because she realized that she loves him.

Unlike you, Colden. No doubts. No hesitation. No other thoughts. Eira loves you.

My knee weakened, resulting in me sitting on the floor while holding my chest. Crying with my heart out.

Fira would not go far from me if she really had a spot in her heart.

From that moment, she walked away from the kingdom. That's the time that I will free her.

Because love is not always about fighting. Sometimes we don't have a chance so we need to let go for them to be happy.

We need to give up, but it does not mean we stop loving them.

She takes the spot in my heart and she will live here forever, even if the Earth stops rotating.

Release the person, but not the feelings, not the memories, not the love.