The Prince Who Loved Me - Chapter 14

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Chapter 14

However, Charlotte, who had been digging into the background of all this, suddenly died.

After investigations from multiple angles, Charlotte’s death was concluded to be a simple accident.

But Damien couldn’t shake his suspicion that his sister’s death was murder.

His overreaction when the fortune teller drew the death card earlier was because of this.

‘There might have been hidden pressure behind Charlotte’s death being closed as a simple accident. Corrupt forces have infiltrated everywhere within the royal family and intelligence agencies.’

That’s why he had made his nest here under the guise of a Monaco trip to independently investigate her death.

“It’s questionable how decisive the evidence he has is. When his purpose becomes clearer, attempt contact.”

-Yes, understood.

When the call ended, Damien took a deep breath.

Then somehow it seemed like Bada’s scent was wafting from the shirt she had bought him.

Thanks to this, his tense nerves seemed to calm down.

He recalled Bada’s face once again.

The situation was complicated in many ways, but he couldn’t let her go.

‘How should I approach her.’

He had to approach carefully since it would be terrible if she ran away after he unnecessarily pressured her.

Currently his range of action was limited, so it would be good if he could keep her by his side.

‘I can find ways as much as I need to.’

Having finished his thoughts, Damien slowly walked back to the bedroom.

* * *

Two days had passed since the date at Devil’s Den.

To enjoy her remaining vacation, Bada went to the beach again today to surf.

Having taken lessons every day, she was now sufficient to surf alone without the coach’s help.

Wearing a rash guard, she was floating on the water lying face down on her surfboard.

The frangipani flower-shaped hair clip that River had bought her sparkled in the sunlight on her head.

The moment Bada’s gaze, which had been watching for incoming waves, turned toward other surfers around her, she let out a small laugh.

‘Why do I keep looking for River.’

The words he had said when they parted a few days ago echoed in her ears.

‘See you again.’

They hadn’t set a specific meeting place, and they didn’t even know each other’s contact information, so how were they supposed to see each other again.

‘Well, he’s probably already forgotten about me by now.’

Being that handsome, there were probably plenty of women clinging to him.

Actually, this was the place where she had first seen him, where he had been riding waves that day.

Would he laugh if he knew she had come here thinking he might appear?

She found herself ridiculous for harboring feelings for someone she had only dated once.

She wasn’t the type to easily fall for someone at first sight.

She was strangely and fatefully drawn to him.

To the point where it was scary to feel such emotions from just a few meetings.

‘Well, even if we meet again, it’s not like I’m planning to do anything. I just want to see him once more before leaving Bali.’

Just then, while she was lost in thought, a huge wave began rolling toward her from the distance.

Bada looked up and quickly assessed the lineup.

This time it was her turn to catch the wave.

Paddling hard with her arms, Bada stood up in time with the arriving rolling wave.

Successfully completing the takeoff and balancing with both arms as she rode the wave, a smile naturally formed.

But the thrilling moment of riding the wave was brief.

A novice to her left tried to force his way onto a wave, got swept up, and fell off his surfboard.

The man swept up by the wave ended up colliding with Bada.

“Whoa!”

It was an accident that happened in an instant.

Losing her balance from the impact, Bada was slammed into the water along with the rough wave.

Due to the rotational force of the wave, her whole body spun as if she were inside a washing machine.

Unable to distinguish up from down underwater, she became frightened.

Bada hugged her board like a lifeline and waited for the wave to pass.

When the surface became calm, only then did Bada float up to the water’s surface by the board’s buoyancy.

“Puha!”

Just as she stuck her head out of the water and gasped for breath.

Right in front of her, she saw a heavy longboard being swept down by the wave.

It was the board that novice had lost earlier.

In that moment, Bada’s eyes filled with terror.

If that thick board hit her face directly, her facial bones might fracture.

‘No!’

At the same time she thought she had to dodge, the board swept quickly by the wave struck her head hard.

“Ugh!”

Along with a splitting impact sound, she felt pain as if a hammer had struck down on her head.

Her body went limp instantly after being hit in the head.

Bada’s slender body floated like a jellyfish corpse and was carried toward the beach.

Swoooosh.

Carried all the way to the sandy beach, she lay face down coughing.

Salty seawater flowed from her nose and mouth.

Only then did people start screaming after discovering her collapsed in the distance.

“Over there! Someone collapsed over there!”

Tinnitus rang in her ears and her vision blurred.

What should she do.

Was she dying?

If she got hurt while surfing, travel insurance probably wouldn’t cover it.

She found herself ridiculous for worrying about money even in this situation.

But if she died, none of it would matter anyway.

Her eyelids kept getting heavier and her whole body’s senses became dull.

Suddenly, through her blurry vision, she began to see illusions.

The eyes looking at her were blue enough to make her shiver.

‘…River?’

He placed his hand on Bada’s neck to check her pulse, then unzipped her rash guard.

He was shouting something with veins bulging in his neck.

But no sound reached Bada’s ears as if they were muted.

Somehow she felt like laughing.

After just one date. Did she have feelings for this man to the point of seeing visions before dying?

Only the sensation of cold water droplets falling from his body onto her cheek was vivid.

Soon, with her consciousness fading, Bada slowly closed her eyes.

It felt like being submerged in endless darkness.

* * *

Due to high fever, Bada had nightmares.

More precisely, an incident she had experienced in 6th grade of elementary school, before going to study in America, resurfaced.

That day, Bada left school early due to sudden abdominal pain during class.

Even after taking medicine in the nurse’s office, the pain only got worse.

Breaking out in cold sweat, she barely made it home and opened the door, only to find her younger brother Kang-san appearing, armed from head to toe with expensive golf equipment.

Kang-san grinned mischievously and shouted.

“Mother! Sister skipped school!”

Her mother, Esmeralda, favored Kang-san, her younger brother by two years.

She believed without a doubt that Kang-san would someday make it big as a professional golf player.

Thanks to their father who ran a mid-sized company, the family was financially comfortable, but only her younger brother received full support.

Seeing Bada suddenly appear, Mother spoke as if troubled.

“Why do you have to get sick on a day like today? Kang-san has to go to his golf lesson. Do you know how long we waited to get lessons from that professional player?”

She tossed a medicine bottle at her as if annoyed.

Bada clutched her aching stomach and said.

“I already took medicine at the nurse’s office. The nurse told me to go to the hospital.”

Then Mother exploded in irritation.

“What does some school nurse who isn’t even a doctor know! It’s all psychosomatic. You’re getting sick because you’re stressing yourself out trying to study so hard.”

Then Kang-san spun his golf club around threateningly, as if mocking Bada even more.

Mother embraced Kang-san while glaring at Bada.

“Stop being dramatic, you little girl!”

A few hours later, Bada was taken to the hospital by ambulance.

It was fortunate that a neighbor had found Bada crying in the corridor, clutching her stomach.

The cause of the abdominal pain was acute appendicitis.

Only when Bada saw the medical staff scolding her mother, asking what she had been doing while her child got this bad, did she feel relieved.

Because she hadn’t been making a fuss over nothing.

From that day on, Bada developed the strange habit of enduring pain even when she was hurt.

Even when she was seriously injured during a lacrosse game in high school, and when she collapsed from overwork at the company and was taken by ambulance, she tried hard to act like she was fine.

She didn’t even realize that deep down, there was an unconscious belief that she wasn’t worth protecting even when she was in pain.

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