My eyes shuddered open, wet due to a sprinkle of water on my face. And the face I noticed was of Holden, bending down on me. Immediately, I attempted to punch him but he held my hands as I struggled like a fish out of water to hurt him.
“Ellie, please relax, I am not going to hurt you,” he assured, holding my hands, in the fit of fury I spat on his face desperately, and he backed off with disgust.
“Ellie just calm down!” shouted Judy, as she entered the room carrying another glass of water. A splash of relief broke ove
The arrival of March marked the end of gloomily snowy weather, as spring took over, bringing with it a vow of joy and a picturesque scenario. The streets of London seemed to illuminate with breathtaking beauty as the local trees blossomed with an exotically motley bunch of flowers of variant colours.Mum appeared to be rejoicing heartily at the change of season, as she busied herself in watering the ravishing bunch of flowers in our backyard. I helped her mow the lawn while dad brought out the gardener in him and skilfully chopped the plants using his trusted pruning shears, thus, resizing them efficiently. James and
“Ellie, get up!” yelled James, shaking me hard. I found myself lying in James' car which was stationary, as my eyes fluttered open. Utterly confused, I peeped out of the window to find dad and Jared standing on the roadside as a mechanic replaced the car's tyre.“Where are we, and what happened?” I muttered, my head aching terribly.“We are at Tottenham Court Road, you lunatic. The front tyre got punctured while you were luxuriously dozing off, perhaps dreaming about your boyfriend Matt,” James teased, sniggering loudly. Waving aside his playfulness, I placed my hand on my fore
I was an insomniac that entire night after Matt dropped me home. My heart had been bulging with a mixture of gargantuan rage, revulsion, and shock, at Emily's despicably murderous acts. No matter how sulky, bad-tempered, and saucy she was, I never in my wildest dreams could have imagined that she would go to such an extent to take revenge. I was boiling with fury, still in disbelief that someone whom I knew, let it be an aggressive competitor, could stoop so low for a petty reason.However, some part of me also felt pleasantly bewildered at the magical appearance of that angelic lady who saved my life. Was she an angel of God? Or could it be only a figment of my imagination in that
“What did they want from you?” demanded dad, sitting on his rocking chair and smoking his cigar. Mum appeared extremely worried too and had not eaten anything since morning.“Nothing much dad,” I replied casually, moving towards the dining table and grabbing an apple, I hadn't eaten anything too since those officers had taken me and thus, was extremely famished. “I knew Emily Billings, she was in History class so it was just an ordinary inquiry, other students were taken too,” I lied fervently, avoiding the possibility of an extended curfew and enhanced fear and trepidation amongst mum and dad.“Edward, we should change her school, its affecting her academics plus the association w
Holden's dramatic transformation and change in lifestyle seemed to have been the astounding result of a lottery of twenty thousand pounds that he had won a nearly a month ago, which he deserved, I believed, considering how he had sagaciously unlocked my psychic abilities and telepathic powers, and the potential peril in which he had placed himself during the process. He led me inside the small room behind the counter, where my powers had been revealed to me. The room looked the same, except that a new set of couches had been placed there and instead of the tiny green bulb on the wall, a small but glowing chandelier hung from the ceiling right at the centre. He offered me a large mug of the finest French Vanilla coffee that I had ever tasted, as I gave him a detai
A splash of water fell on my face as I jerked up instantly, with Holden towering above me, holding the bottle of water that I had moved, with a mean and furious expression on his face.“Get onto your feet!” he bellowed angrily like a beast. “And get the hell out of here! You are not fit to be trained by me. It was a grave mistake agreeing to help you. If anything had happened to you, it would have been on my head and conscience,” saying this, he yanked me up onto my feet mercilessly and pushed me towards the elevator. “If you ever show me your face again, I will become a killer like Matt,”
The second phase of my training turned out to be excessively intense and adrenaline rushing, as Holden had planned a three-hour session for me. As I stepped out of the elevator into the training arena, I discovered him standing upright with his chest thrown, fully dressed as a British soldier, wearing a khaki uniform with a bullet-proof waistcoat over it and a matching pair of heavy combat boots. Holden's new look surprised me pleasantly as I marched towards him, with my hand in a salute and he nodded approvingly.“Miss Ellie,” muttered Holden, removing a bullet-proof vest from a bag he held in his hand and handing it to me. “You are going to wear this bullet-proof vest during the entire session today,”
Darkness conquered the sky before the break of dawn as I stepped out of the minicab outside ‘Drake's Bar' which had its doors closed as usual then. I paid the cab driver and placed the change in my clutch bag when I felt some eerie presence around me. My eyes circled, discovering the street to be empty, however, my intuition raised an odd alarm that I was being watched by a pair of eyes, which monitored my every moment around the place. Chucking fear aside, I walked over towards the lane and entered the tunnel by placing my hand on the camouflaged panel. Scanning my fingerprints and eyes across the scanner besi