Chapter 876 Complex Feelings


    Alyssa had had a rough time during the period when Rocky had been assumed dead. Even rougher


    than the immense dangers she had faced in the spiritual racend. She had turned into apletely


    different person in that period, and all was just for a man.


    The same man who was suddenly right in front of her after all she had had to endure. There had been


    no warnings, nothing to help prepare her for this moment, making it very hard for her to ept.


    Her initial instinct should have been tosh out at him in anger. Essentially, he had fooled her for all this


    time, ying dead and tormenting her in the process. However, seeing him in front of her, hale and


    hearty, none of her anger would stir to life. Instead, an overwhelming sense of pleasant surprise


    overcame her.


    All of a sudden, she wasn''t sure how to face Rocky. As happy as she was to see him, a part of her was


    still seething at the fact that he had faked his own death. The sane part of her mind knew she couldn''t


    just kill Rocky or do anything to punish him. After all, he held the only clue to help remove the curse on


    her.


    The other part, well, it couldn''t help but be ted to be able to see Rocky again. She blinked hershes


    rapidly over her eyes, trying to obscure theplex feelings hiding behind them but failed.


    "Have you looked your fill? It has only been a little over a month since west saw one another. Did


    you really miss me that much?" Rocky teased Alyssa who was now staring at him nkly. Seeing


    Alyssa so lost in thought appealed to him. It reminded him of a girl in her youth, longing for her lover.


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    Once she was back to her senses, she slid back to her now-familiar arrogance.


    She snorted derisively, staring pointedly at him, "What did you just say? Watch what you say, or you''ll


    regret it."


    "If you didn''t miss me, why did you bring me out in front of this crowd then? Aren''t you afraid of being


    misunderstood?" Rocky asked with a smile. Gossip would spread like wildfire in their wake as they


    waded their way through many of the Timber Deity Empire''s people. Alyssa was too smart to have


    done that without being aware of what that would have looked like, which meant there must have been


    a reason she had done it, one that Rocky was dying to know.


    Alyssa''s behavior so far led Rocky to believe that she didn''t intend to kill him. He couldn''t see any trace


    of homicidal intent in her eyes. If Alyssa really wanted to kill him, she would have already done it.


    Instead, it looked to him like she had something to say, which he found odd.


    Now that he was certain that Alyssa wasn''t going to kill him, Rocky breathed a sigh of relief. He knew


    that killing him wouldn''t be that difficult if she put her mind to it.


    "Rocky, you''re not dead? How are you back here now?" Alyssa asked after some time of silence.


    "Maybe I wasn''t fated to die so soon," Rocky responded, raising his eyebrows.


    "I don''t believe that." Alyssa wasn''t buying such a bullshit exnation. She took advantage of Rocky''s


    distraction and reached out a hand full of spiritual power. She pressed her fingers to his throat and


    coldly asked, "What is your game? Why did you y dead and deceive everyone?"


    "What game do you think I''m hatching? One that would require me to fake my own death?" Rocky


    asked her, yfully. To him, Alyssa thinking he had faked his own death to work some sort of scheme


    was amusing. What an active imagination she had! But he didn''t me her for being suspicious.


    Upon hearing this, Alyssa was a little stunned. She didn''t really know. However, seeing Rocky appear


    here in the Beast Master Contest on behalf of the Cao n with a fake identity, she couldn''t help but


    be suspicious.


    "Then tell me why you are here. Why did you join the Cao n and take part in the Beast Master


    Contest under an assumed identity?" Alyssa blurted out her thoughts on what made her doubt him.


    "It is a long story. Though, if you had intended to kill me, you wouldn''t have asked me that. Anyway,


    you''ve caught me. There''s no running away even if I tried." Rocky had chosen his words deliberately


    because he knew he was safe. The only weird thing, however, was Alyssa''s behavior. The woman in


    front of him waspletely different from the one he knew before. She used to be bad-tempered like a


    rose with fierce thorns.


    She was too indecisive with none of her previous vigorousness and assertiveness.


    "Who says I am going to kill you?" Alyssa spat coldly, freezing him with an icy re. Then she whipped


    her hand back.


    "Prince Woods was right. You have changed," Rocky remarked at her strange reaction to him while


    stroking his jaw.


    "Woods? When did you see him?" Alyssa perked up her ears hearing her brother''s name.


    "A few days ago." Rocky smiled.


    "He knew! He knew you were still alive, yet he didn''t tell me." Her face darkened in fury.


    "I told him not to tell you. I think he was also worried about what you would do to me if you found out.


    Anyhow, I saved his life." With a smile still drawn on his face, Rocky attempted to defend Woods.


    "Well, he doesn''t know that you are..." Alyssa stopped before identally letting out the secret she had


    been keeping.


    Noticing that Alyssa was trying to hide something from him, Rocky frowned. He asked, "Where are you


    taking me?"


    The question gave her a pause. She hadn''t really thought of where she was taking him, only that she


    wanted to get him out of here. Her body had been acting of its own volition in an instinct so she hadn''t


    had the time to analyze. Alyssa knew that this was nothing like her, and this wasn''t how she normally


    handled things. It didn''t take a genius to realize that it was Rocky''s effect on her that was making her


    act this way.