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Starlyte strode down the hallway, towards the exit of the castle. She was pissed beyond any know limits. 'How dare he! How dare he assume I'd let just anyone bite me! How dare he assume I would tell him anything after what he's done!' she snarled and scared one of the no-name servants that crossed her path. She could feel his eyes plastered on her ass and she let her mind gloat.
She kept walking. She didn't know where she was headed, and she didn't care. She only wanted to be as far away from her brother as possible. She stopped and looked at her surroundings, and for the first time she felt the pangs of fear start to hit her heart because she knew she was lost. She smiled and then let out a laugh.
She leaned against a tree as the laughs racked her form. She held her arms around her chest and leaned her head back against the tree. 'This is what has been coming for a long time. I'm finally going crazy!' she felt the tears running down her cheeks, but made no move to stop them. She kept laughing; she couldn't stop. Her mind stayed on the fact she'd finally lost it, and it brought neither relief nor fear.
That's how Kaiba found her, laughing and in tears. He watched her for a good ten minutes before summing up that she'd gone under too much stress in the last forty-eight hours. He stepped over to her and placed both his hands on her shoulders. He shook her none to gently and she blinked.
Once, twice, before she stopped laughing.
Her gaze focused on him and she smiled. It was strained and the proof came when she fell, unconscious, into his arms. He picked her up and carried her with him. This was the first time he'd actually held her without the thought of finding out something or with malice in his touch. He'd grown too close to this woman already. With her mark scarring his shoulder, he'd never be free of her, just what he wanted; he believed.