"You damn bastard…! How dare you stand there and say you missed me after everything?!"
Thud!
"Do you have any idea what it was like?! I had to leave! I was forced to leave!"
Thud! Thud!
Her forehead pressed against his collarbone as she continued hitting him, the strength behind each punch fading into something closer to desperate clinging.
The emerald eyes that had been cold only minutes earlier were now red and swollen. The blonde strands mixed into her light-brown hair stuck to her wet cheeks.
"It was because of you," she whispered in pure anger.
"You pushed me that day. You made me so angry I accepted the sect's offer just to gain the power to protect you. And then I was gone. Months of training in a place so far away I couldn't even send a proper message. I thought about you every single day. I trained until my body broke just so I could come back stronger… and the first thing you do when you see me is take every hit without fighting back and then say You missed me?!"
