A Vow So Beautiful

Any other time, Dane would have murdered the devil for wrapping an arm around his lynx but right now, there was another man on the very top of his murder list.

Senator Visalyaputra.

One look at Prisana broken and sullied on the screen, forced him to snap. He couldn't even begin to describe this surging emotion inside of him. Right when he found Prisana facing the senator all by herself on the screen, he dropped whatever he was doing to find her. Looking at her now, he didn't think rage could boil until every vein popped but it did.

Prisana's neatly done hair had been tousled and torn by that man's hands. Her makeup was in shambles, with the smear of her lipstick outlining the bruise at her cheek. It was too much for him to bear. The beast inside was shaking.

At first he was relieved to simply find her in his line of sight. And then, he was glad Leo was blocking him from his lynx because he would lose his chance to exact retribution. He would have wrapped her around his arms just to forget the world around them. Right now, there was something he had to do that was past due.

He was clenching his fist. The senator looked up to the face of his timely end and the moment he did so, Dane was already walking over to him in few easy strides. That's precisely why when the senator tried to flee, Dane aready had him right where he wanted him. He lunged straight for the senator's face.

The sound of Dane's knuckles hitting his jaws must have vibrated throughout the hallway. The senator was sent flying onto the ground, grasping and crawling for something to hold onto like his escape. But in the presence of the beast, the senator was no match.

"That was for Prisana," Dane uttered, voice full of venom. "And this one...This one is just because you damn well deserve it."

He couldn't land his next fist into the senator's face. That was because he was pulled back by someone, who would also get tossed if they continued holding him back.

"...Dane!" Cleo brought him back to the world as he held Dane by the arm. "Stop. The media is getting all of this."

"Like I give a damn...I won't be satisfied until I give him retribution for hurting her. No one touches her like that and should expect to get away with just a broken bone."

Dane lurched forward despite protests from Cleo. He knew the media was watching and yet, his rage wouldn't quiet down. Ever fiber of his being still burned ferociously. Prisana didn't deserve that. Didn't deserve the hell recieved by this horrible excuse for a father. She didn't deserve anything he did to her and by god, the senator should have known a beast would be waiting to devour him.

Everyone including the media was just watching this, feeding on every absurd moment passing by. They were stuck in a trance but of course the media kept flashing their cameras, yet keeping a distance as the beast inside was still rampaging.

He grabbed the senator's shirt and lifted him high up in the air. "Say you're sorry. Like you ordered me that day on the yacht, you'll kneel down, strip yourself, and beg for her forgiveness or I'll make it so that you won't be able to speak for a lifetime."

The senator began shaking but he continued his act of bravery in the eyes of a beast. "Are you angry? Why? It's not like you were the one whose hair was pulled and whose face was scratched."

Dane punched him the second time, apparently earning a grunt from him. Now, the senator was screeching and showing true fear as the look in Dane's eyes must have crossed that line. And yet, the senator dared to strike Dane in return, landing a clean hit in his jaw. Dane wiped away the pain with his hand and exchanged blows with him until the senator was left as the loser.

Dane turned the senator over to Prisana, "Say it."

"Sorry," he mumbled, almost mockingly like he didn't mean it at all.

Just as Dane was going to strike another hit, a voice called him back from this fit of rage.

"...Dane!" came Prisana's voice.

She ran around him and suddenly, her soft petite form was hugging his back. Something inside of him twisted to relief. Just knowing that she was beside him relieved him of the tension that had seized his whole being, boiling inside.

"It's okay now," she cooed, and he could feel her burying her face further into his back. "Thank you Dane but it's okay now. You can stop now. Let him go. I don't want his fake apology. I just want you to stop because you've done enough."

Enough? Nearly not enough. The man wasn't even the least bit remorseful for having almost killed his own daughter or being exposed to the very public standing before them now.

He shook his head, still holding onto the senator with frightful force. "Prisana, I can't forgive him for what he did to you."

"You don't have to. Just let him go. It's okay Dane. I'm okay."

That was all he wanted to hear. That she was okay.

He had to take a deep breath to calm himself. Only then, did he let the senator go who scrambled away but he was already too late as the media went on to question him about what had just transpired, blocking the exit. Even the security had him blocked, one of them commenting,

"We'll be taking you into custody for attempted murder charges, senator."

Both beast and lynx began to ignore the world until it was only the two of them standing there.

Dane turned around and cupped her face. He looked to her misfortunes shed to light, feeling the rage boil all over again. Perhaps he should have put more force into that first strike. He went too easy on the senator. Way too easy. The senator was still here. Dane tried to go to the senator again but Prisana pulled him back and held him tight.

"Don't. You're scaring me."

Scaring her? Suddenly, his hands fell to his sides and he felt like the most hideous beast.

"Oh Prisana, I didn't mean to...It's just that..."

Her hand flew to his battered chin as the senator had fought back and landed clean hits. "I'm scared that you'll continue getting hurt."

Dane finally laughed, which eased tension all because she had been scared of him getting hurt. "But dear, I'm a beast."

"You're my beast in shining armor," she declared.

And in this moment, beautiful was truly in arms reach. Even though misfortunes plagued her, it didn't rid of the fire burning in those brown eyes nor the wonderful smile that could outdo a thousand suns.

Truly, Dane was no match for his lynx. She glared at the senator without a shred of fear. Without cowering as he had given in to the senator's trick earlier. It was like this woman before him had morphed to the most mightiest lynx of them all before he could even recognize the beautiful change happening.

Dane laughed again in an almost roar like sound, for the one that always needed saving was Dane himself.

"I was wrong this entire time, my love."

"Why?" she inquisitively looked up to him.

Dane lovingly chucked the underside of her chin, per usual.

"It feels like I'm in need of saving more than you need it. You're the true lynx in shining armor."

The announcer interruped the chaos to add more to it. "...And the winner of the elections is Dane Lennox!"

Winner...

He couldn't believe it but he won. Dane had to look at the live screen displayed off to the distance to confirm what the announcer was saying. By now, Cleo had successfully pushed Dane and Prisana toward the elevators as the media and public were swarming to get a word out of him. They were being shouted at from all directions.

All the while, Dane and Prisana climbed into the elevators with his secretary acting as the bodyguard.

"Everyone please, move out the way or the elevators will close on your hands! Alao, please refrain from taking pictures, because that would make more work on my part...Oh, don't come in or I'll have to use force," Cleo kept warding them away but it was almost no use.

In the elevator, the two lovebirds were stuck in their own world despite Cleo's stressful situation where he had to do all the warding for them.

Prisana's sparkling eyes met Dane's as she exclaimed with joy, "You did it. Look at the screen, it's truly you that has...mmh!"

In one swift motion, while Cleo was busy blocking the media and public from entering the elevators, Dane leaned in to claim his reward. They were blocked by Cleo's back facing toward them. He placed a soft kiss against her lips while the commotion kept stirring in front of them from open doors.

When he pulled back, Dane smiled with her in his arms, "We did it. And, I'd like to have my reward now dearest. You."