My Only Love: The Targeted Heiress

"You... when you said you killed my mother... you were lying, right?"

Vincent smiled, "How do you know if I'm lying or not?"

"I just felt like you were trying to make me hate you and then used that excuse to part with me."

Instantly Vincent's smile vanished, and his expression turned flat again. Cathy became anxious and worried, noticing the change in her lover's facial expression. So her guess is correct? Why? Why did that man want to break up with her? Is it possible...

'Vincent will suffer when with you. Do you want Vincent to live in misery by your side?'

Cathy thought back to her uncle's words. All this time, she thought that she should leave Vincent. All LS members and her brother didn't want to see her with Vincent because she would live in misery.

But she forgot one thing. Vincent's family, maybe even Vincent himself, would also suffer if he is with her. Was it possible that Vincent wanted to leave her because he didn't want to be with her?

If that was the case, should she give up? Should she let go of the man she loves?

Both of Cathy's hands which had been gnawed on Vincent's arms, now loosened and fell off the man's arms.

"So... you did mean to leave me? You said you didn't call me on purpose to protect me. Was that just an excuse? Has... your feelings towards me have changed? Has the promise you said by the lake no longer valid because I am a Chloeny's daughter? Because I was the daughter of a woman who ruined your future and made you suffer too?"

"Why do you still want to hold me? Why do you still want the killer of your birth mother to stay by your side?" grunted Vincent while wiping Cathy's tears gently.

What the man said was in contradiction with his gentle gesture. Vincent's tone sounded cold and contained a threat of danger, but his attitude, especially when wiping her tears, didn't change at all. Still soft and warm just as she remembered.

"Then I'll ask you one more time. I want you to answer honestly this time," demanded Cathy, pulling Vincent's two hands, still touching her cheeks and holding them tightly. "Did you use these two hands to kill my mother?"

Vincent shook his head, making Cathy breathe a sigh of relief.

"Is it difficult? Why are you acting as you killed her? Why are you trying to avoid me? If it's because you don't like me or feel miserable with me, you can be honest. I... I will let you go if that's what you want. But..."

Cathy leaned closer to Vincent and looked straight into Vincent's eyes.

"If you feel you have to avoid me because you feel guilty or don't want to make me suffer, throw away all your plans to make me hate you because I can never hate you. Because I, Catherine... little Rinrin can only fall in love with Vincentius Regnz. There is no longer someone in this world who can replace you in my heart. I wouldn't be able to fall in love with someone else if it wasn't you. I know I have disgraced myself by saying it, but I don't care if you look down on... "

Cathy's sentence was cut short when she felt her body move onto Vincent's lap and into the man's arms. Two muscular arms hugged her very tightly while she felt a burden on her shoulders because Vincent put his head on it.

She could feel Vincent's body trembling slightly. Her nose was filled with the distinctive lemon scent that made her tears flow again. Not tears of sadness, but tears of joy because now she believed Vincent has returned to her.

She felt complete as a whole individual, and her feelings of anxiety or that she blamed Vincent have disappeared without a trace. She no longer cares about the past or the conflict between the two sides of their family. All she knows is that her life was perfect in Vincent's arms... by this man's side.

After hugging each other and letting go of each other's homesickness, Vincent breaks his embrace and allows Cathy to rest her head on his shoulder. Vincent remembered when Rinrin was whining spoiled and clung to him. He didn't expect that even the adult version of Rinrin would do the same.

'Because of me, a Catherine ... little Rinrin could only fall in love with Vincentius Regnz.'

Vincent thought Cathy would hate him and leave him. Even though he wanted to be with the girl, he didn't want to make Cathy suffer with him. Therefore Vincent gave Cathy a chance. If the girl wanted to leave him but didn't have the courage, then he would go. He uses a way to make Cathy doubt him and make it easier for him to part with him.

But when she heard Cathy's confession, her heart was filled with great happiness, even more so than when Cathy received her statement on the lake last year.

Vincent does not care whether their relationship will be hit by various challenges in the future ... as long as Cathy still wants it, he will not hesitate anymore. Together he will maintain their relationship.

After all, in this world, only Cathy was in the seventh number ... someone who could perfect her life and complete her heart.

"I can only love you too, Cath," whispered Vincent softly as he kissed the top of Cathy's head.

Cathy blushed when she heard Vincent change her nickname. She could hear the man's tone filled with a love that nothing could measure when he said his nickname.

"Vincent,"

"Hm?"

"Do you mind if I want to know what happened to you when you were fourteen? I heard you had amnesia. Have you recalled it?"

"Hm. I remember it pretty well for the most part." actually, Vincent did not want to remember or discuss it again. And Cathy felt her reluctance.

"You don't have to tell me if it makes you sad."

Vincent smiled at that. "I'm going to tell you anyway. You deserve to know what happened nineteen years ago."

Without moving from Vincent's lap, Cathy straightened up in her seat and listened attentively to Vincent.