Chapter 2753: Rarest Treasure (part 1)

"Isn't that what you were knitting a while ago?" Lith asked with the hoarse voice of a man who had swallowed sandpaper.

"Yes." Kamila nodded. "I remembered how it was one of your teen dreams having your girlfriend wear one of these things so I had to learn knitting from scratch. I couldn't risk telling Solus. You two might have fused again and spoiled my surprise."

She had to constantly pull the hem of the skirt down since it rose dangerously high every time she moved.

"Also, making a sweater like this proved to be harder than I thought. It took me several tries to- What are you doing?"

Lith raised his hand to ask for silence while he made a quick call.

"Mom? Is everything alright with Elysia?"

"For the gods' sake, yes!" There was audio only and Elina sounded really annoyed. "Stop calling every other hour and enjoy your date."

"Thanks. Would be a problem if we prolonged our absence until tomorrow late in the morning? Maybe for a couple of days. A week tops."

"A week?" Elina's voice went from angry to utterly confused. "Of course not, but-"

"Thanks, Mom. Love you." Lith ended the call, giving his full attention to Kamila. "You heard her. We have one week. We must make it count."

He was so serious and spoke with such a solemn voice that Kamila half blushed and half giggled.

"I take it as you like the dress and you're happy we didn't have dinner at the restaurant."

"I love the dress and the rest of the guests are happy we didn't have dinner at the restaurant because otherwise, I'd have to make a massacre to not leave witnesses." Lith put the dinner in the pocket dimension to keep the food warm and the drinks cold while he took care of much more pressing matters.

Kamila was still giggling like a little girl when he wrapped his arms around her and gave her a deep kiss, fighting the urge to rip the fruits of her labor to shreds.

Even though Lith had known her for almost four years now, Kamila still managed to surprise him.

After three lives spent on two different planets, around people who would say anything to get what they wanted just to disappear the moment things got rough, there was nothing more amazing than honest feelings.

Ever since they had met, Kamila had never professed her love through cheap words or empty promises, always through action. Every time she had been confronted with one of Lith's disturbing secrets and presented with the chance to walk away, she had chosen to stay.

After discovering Solus' existence and the ambiguous relationship with her that Lith would never sever, Kamila had left out of shock when his career was at its peak. Yet she had chosen to return to him and propose to him at the lowest point of his life.

Not even learning about his first life on Earth and his past as Derek McCoy had been enough to push her back on her wedding vows.

The things that she had learned during the day he had come clean with her about being an alien, a day that was supposed to be one of the worst of her life, Kamila had treasured them.

The Virgin Killer dress had been but a fleeting thought as he recounted to her the despair of his years on Earth, yet she remembered about it.

Despite her job taking most of her time, despite Solus' magic lessons to be ready to take care of Elysia, despite the things that kept happening in his life, Kamila had managed to learn how to knit just to make one of his old dreams come true.

That was their first true date in months and she was still severely depressed after losing her powers, yet Kamila had brought the dress with her and spent the whole day preparing for that moment.

nulli'That's why she wore the one-piece swimsuit. She wanted to see my reaction.' Lith thought, still incapable of believing how lucky he was.

In a world of shadows and lies, a person like Kamila was the rarest and the most precious treasure that he could ever hope to find.