Livid Guardian's Endless Coddling

Chapter 391: The sunset

Zara apprehended she said about her suicide and she became quiet and looked ahead to avoid his gaze. Ceon held her arm and forced her to face him, "Zara, why did you try to kill yourself?"

Zara frowned, freeing his clutch on her, "It's nothing."

Ceon didn't let her avoid his gaze, his hand moved to her backhead and stopped her head movements, "Tell me what happened."

She still tried to move away, "Ceon, don't step out."

"Zara, you are telling me now."

"I am not obliged."

His voice turned gentle saying, "But you are telling why you tried to kill yourself. I know I can't change the past but I can help you out of it." 

Zara always tried to avoid that topic from everyone but she chose to accept seeing him concerned. She moved his hand away from her head and took a long breath before speaking.

"I was in a relationship with Toby Lewis, the singer, and actor who was sentenced to death five and a half years back. I got to know he was just fooling around with me. When he got to know that I perceived everything, he didn't feel sorry, instead, he had laughed at me when I met him. Those were really painful days and in the spur of movement, I had slit my wrist. Luckily the housekeeper had come to my room to give me a glass of milk and I was admitted to the hospital."

Ceon could say she still regrets attempting to suicide and she wasn't depressed any more to try again. He gently wiped her tears understanding why Zara seldom met new people. "You were the reason The Fourie bashed Toby and you slapped him."

Zara nodded with light hum, "Hmm..."

Ceon knew well why Toby Lewis was sentenced to death and why ninety percent of the business family are scared of Alan Morgan but he didn't feel the necessity to tell Zara that Aria was kidnapped by Toby.

"Talking about 'Blue Lurker' I have something to show you." Saying it, he alighted the car.

Zara was perplexed and saw him opening the driver seat door, "Get off, get down..."

"Huh?" Zara alighted and Ceon pushed her towards the shotgun seat, "I will drive. I will take you somewhere." He opened the door and closed when she sat comfortably and drove towards the peak of the hills instead of towards the city. "Ceon, we will get late."

"Don't worry, we can reach post lunchtime, we will reach back home by nine or ten. The Blue Luker I know will surely enjoy the spot I am taking now."

"But..."

Ceon cut in, "You should listen to 'On the Verge' sometimes"

Zara chuckled and sighed inwardly. She glanced at Ceon again and looked ahead, she had thought he might laugh or scold or feel disgusted or look down on her but he didn't. On the contrary, he wanted to cheer her and was excited to know she was the Blue Lurker who followed his every post.

"If you love blogging and traveling, why did you study Business management?"

Ceon glanced at her and smiled. He had thought Aria and Noah would have given all his information to Zara but they hadn't. "Ms. Zara Wood, you know nothing about me."

"Then let me know."

"I started traveling right after school. Initially, I just enjoyed and then I got the inspiration from a travel blog, so I started too then I added food, places, hotels etcetera. Initially, I paid for my own expenses. Now I get paid to travel to most of the destinations. I learned Photography so I have..."

"Royalty picture website?" Zara guessed.

Ceon glanced at her and nodded, "Yeah. I need business skills to negotiate and I have my own small studio like company managed by professionals. I just travel, take pictures, write the blog, rest of the things will be taken care of by my team."

Zara's mouth was wide open in surprise trying to understand everything and mumbled to herself, "No doubt, these four agreed to you so easily." Initially, she was really confused when the Fourie supported Ceon who seemed like he wasn't serious about his life.

"What did you say?"

Zara shook her head and asked, "Why do you have a playboy image? And why haven't you revealed your face and hardly anybody knows about you?"

Ceon was amazed but he didn't show it on his face and responded, "Dad thinks this is a waste of time so I had to hide from him so I concealed my identity. A very few know about it. That little devil cent percent knows everything about..."

"Don't you dare say Little Devil to Arrie in front of others. If Rian gets to know, he will slaughter you." Zara gave him heads up leaving Ceon astounded.

Ceon quickly clarified, "No, I am not using the nickname. Aria Cooper is an actual Little Devil. You just know the sweet bubble little girl. Even experienced businessmen think hundreds of times to go against her and attending meetings with her is like waiting for a decree from hell."

Zara chuckled seeing him sigh, remember it, "If she isn't authoritative, in this man dominating the world, she wouldn't be standing high. We are proud of her... Coming back to you, why do you have a playboy image?"

Ceon didn't want to hide anything from her so he revealed, "I had a girlfriend, she was double-timing and dumped me for the rich old man. Now she is married and has two pigs. So to hide it."

Zara didn't want to laugh but she couldn't control and burst into laughter, "Pigs? That's so mean."

Ceon tried to justify making her laugh more, "Hey, it is the truth okay. That man's business partner's son is my friend. He had uploaded those kids' pictures. They weren't only big fat and ugly, they had no manners to eat."

"Please, everybody can't look cute like Zoe."

"My kitten is cutest."

Both continued to talk and soon reached the top of the mountain. They had to climb the uneven path to reach its peak. As mentioned by Ceon, Zara loved that place. They could watch two cities that looked too small from their place and the surrounding was lush green.

In the end, Ceon had to pull her to leave the place so that they shouldn't get late.

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After the inspection, both routed back to city B. Zara put up a request when they again reached the mountains, "I want to watch the sunset."

"We will get late."

Zara retorted back, "I will ping Noah that we will be late and we will have dinner in a highway restaurant."

Ceon saw her already messaging Noah. She hardly asks anything so he decided to take her to sunset point. They reached on time of sunset, nobody was present and they silently watched sunset hearing the birds chirping going to their roost.

Ceon hesitatingly asked, "Would you like to join me on my next tour?"

He thought she would decline or get uncomfortable but heard her excited voice, "Really? Can I come with you?"

Ceon smiled and hummed, "That's why I asked. I will let you choose where you want to go."

Zara started thinking where she would like to go and that place should be new so that Ceon could write his blog. Thinking she walked back and forth forgetting they were on the cliff.

"Zara!" Ceon yelled but he was late and Zara lost footing and fell down.