It'll Come Naturally

result before he arrived here but didn't anticipate it would be so decisive.

"Mignonne, stop trying to persuade me. I need time! Maybe I'll forget you soon, or maybe it'll take me my entire life to get over you. But right now, don't tell me to stop loving you," Gerard voiced out his thought mournfully and tried to keep smiling. He had expected this "Trust me, Gerard, unrequited love is dismal and exhausting. Have you thought about that?" Leena asked, gazing up at him. She knew the acrid taste of unrequited love very well. It was the most miserable memory of her life, so she knew how much it hurt.

"I feel it now. But compared to not loving you at all, I'd rather it be a one-sided affair so that I remain true to my soul." Gerard smiled, shrugging. To many people, he was just a noble French boy born into a rich family. He was used to the party life. But in truth, he only hoped to spend his entire life with someone special.

"As you wish! I can't stop you from doing it, but I hope you can live happily," Leena said faintly. No matter what, Gerard was still her friend. Why would she want him to be unhappy?

"If I hadn't let you go in the first place, do you think you would have been my wife by now?" Gerard asked, holding on to the last shred of hope. There was a saying that went, "The best are always unpossessed." That was true for Gerard too.

"No. Because we aren't suitable for each other," Leena said, taking a sip of her wine. She turned to focus her attention to the door and tried to avoid eye contact with him. As she glanced in that direction, she saw something that shocked her.

She found Kevin and Daisy walking into the hotel hand-in-hand, wearing casual clothes and standing awfully close to each other. Daisy laughed at something Kevin said. Both of them were so good-looking that they attracted a lot of attention. They looked like a real couple.

Unbeknownst to Leena, the army's plan was in action. The criminals were staying at the hotel. Kevin and Daisy had come here to get acquainted with the lot and to make sure everything went well.

They went to sit near some foreign men. The people around them couldn't tell that Kevin and Daisy were alert to the slightest noise. The pair behaved intimately like they were a normal couple. The two of them talked and laughed together, all the while touching each other casually.

Leena, who had begun to tremble in shock, kept her eyes on Kevin and Daisy. She couldn't believe what she was seeing with her very own eyes. She might be able to doubt Kevin's love, but she couldn't doubt Daisy, who loved Edward so deeply.

"Mignonne, what's the matter with you? Why do you look so terrible all of a sudden?" Gerard asked in confusion, looking at her with concern.

"Oh! It's nothing. Enjoy your food!" Leena said as her lips trembled. Her quivering smile looked worse than when she cried. She knew she shouldn't think too much of it, but she couldn't ignore the truth of what she just saw. Luckily for her, she was at a corner seat of the restaurant and couldn't be spotted by the two of them so easily.

Kevin and Daisy sat a little far from Leena and didn't see her. Moreover, they didn't pay much attention to others, keeping their eyes on the targets sitting next to their table.

"There are too many people here for us to take action, so we need to wait till they get into the room," Daisy whispered, getting closer to Kevin. From afar, it looked like they were flirting. Seeing this, Leena all but gasped.

"Got it. If it was one versus one, there would be no problem. But two versus five? That's risky. We need to protect the innocent people here from being taken hostage," Kevin concurred with Daisy. They didn't want to start a fight with the criminals in a crowded place. They needed to gather more information first by sitting close to them.

"Hmm. From what I can tell, one of them is a veteran retired from the special forces. So we will have to be more cautious." As they conversed on this very serious issue, they looked at each other tenderly, doing their best to look like a real couple.

"All right. We have to make sure we take them down before they get into their room. Just in case they have bombs or other weapons of mass destruction stored inside," Kevin said, frowning. He knew normal guns wouldn't do much harm. But if the criminals had sub- machine weapons, this could rapidly turn into a disaster.

They leaned towards each other and continued to talk in close quarters, unaware that they were being gazed upon by a pair of extremely sad eyes. Leena's gaze was pinned on them, her face miserable.

"Mignonne, what are you looking at?" Gerard asked, following her gaze. He didn't find anything suspicious about some couple in love enjoying their dinner.

"Gerard, come on! Cheers!" Leena exclaimed as she filled up her glass with more wine. She lifted it up and clinked it with his, telling herself that things were fine. But try as she might, she couldn't calm down.

"Sure. Thanks for your hospitality," Gerard replied politely, watching Leena drink it all down in one big gulp. She swallowed her drink so fast that she couldn't help but cough slightly.

"Slow down!" Gerard said, looking at Leena with concern. He could tell there was something wrong with her, but he didn't know what had suddenly happened.

"Sorry. I forgot my manners," Leena said, her eyes reddening a little. She had been trying so hard to find excuses for Kevin and Daisy. But just now when she saw how close they were, she couldn't believe that there was nothing between them. 'Kevin lied to me,' she thought in a daze. 'He is still in love with Daisy."

"It's fine. Here, take some water. It'll make you better," Gerard said soothingly and poured out some water for Leena. She told him that she was happy, but from what he could tell, she didn't look happy at all. Her eyes couldn't lie. The sadness in them was for everyone to see.

"Thanks, Gerard," Leena said in gratitude and sniffed at the irony. Only minutes ago she had been convincing Gerard to get out of her life, and now she was glad to be looked after by him. "Mignonne, you are not living a happy life as you described, are you?" Gerard asked with some sympathy. He had never seen such sadness in her eyes. Coldness, yes, but never such misery. "Pfft! What are you talking about? Have you ever seen anyone happier than me?" Leena laughed, pretending to be unperturbed. Her heart was bitter and suffering but she didn't want Gerard to see that.

"Don't you always say lying to ourselves is not good behavior? Your eyes have already betrayed your lie," Gerard replied. He loved her eyes. They were so pure and innocent; her true self reflected in them. He had never seen this kind of beauty in anyone else. None of his other friends were like her. Gerard realized once again that he had been too stupid to cherish her back when they were together.

"Eyes can deceive too. Never judge someone by their eyes, Gerard," Leena uttered, taking a sip of the water. She was upset, yes, but she didn't want to drown her sorrow in drinks. Her situation wasn't so pathetic yet. Moreover, what one saw with one's own eyes was not always true. 'If Kevin and Daisy are behaving like this out in the open, they must be undercover on a secret mission, 'Leena wondered if it was a possibility. She didn't plan to ask them in person what was going on, no matter how confused she felt. She might ruin their task if she interfered.00000