His Punisher

"Promise me, Easton…..you will never leave me alone," Flora breathed out in his ear, while hugging him tightly. For the first time, she felt that sudden kind of desperation to have someone as hers, to call someone as hers, to claim someone as hers only and only hers.

When she didn't get any answer from him, she pulled back from his neck and found him staring at her blankly. The softness and warmth in his eyes had long gone as soon as he heard her asking for his closeness for the rest of her life.

Lifting her hands up, she cupped his face in between her warm and soft palms.

"Promise me that you will never leave me alone, no matter what…. Easton," she again uttered those same words to him. Her desperation and pleading was evident in her voice and eyes but they were not enough to make him part his lips into two to answer her. He just stared at her, deprived of every kind of emotion on his face until he saw those tears forming in the corner of her hopeful eyes which turned hopeless aft