Chapter One Hundred and Two

♕—Delilah

After dinner, we headed to the central park at a late hour. We took a slow walk, not uttering a word. The darkness was just like it had been on the night we first ventured out, and it had rained. Recollections of that evening came back, it had been something else then, it wasn't anything good, he was just my captor back then I was just his captive, however, this night was completely different.

Two days, Delilah, two...

"Tonight was..." I trailed off, lost for words, my cheeks ablaze, "It was nice..."

"It was, wasn't it?"

I nodded, "Thank you for remembering," I said and I knew that he understood what am I talking about. He remembered such tiny detail about me, I didn't even remember telling him that I wanted to go to an amusement park, it was a childish dream. I had seen Disneyland on TV back home but since I was Princess Delilah Regina Gutenberg, amusement parks were beneath me.

Lorenzo spotted a quiet, shadowy bench in the corner and drew me toward it, my breaths coming