Whimpers, sobs, repeated soft cries. Kayla perched a hand on her forehead, the headache was unbearable. She wriggled under the bed covers, squeezing the duvet. This headache again! What was that loud beeping blowing up her brain? She pawed the nightstand and reached for her phone to stop the alarm but froze when she realized the alarm was reminding her of the court hearing. She turned off the alarm.“Shit!” she cussed. 120 missed calls, sixty from Nora. How bad of a sleeper was she that she didn't hear the phone ring? Her mouth went agape… it was 7:49, meanwhile the hearing was at nine.Kayla sprang up but fell back and groaned, soothing her head and whimpering. Her movement worsened the headache. Moving was an obstacle she pushed through to snap in some painkiller. The morning was a rush, she managed the pain and took a shower. Anthony hadn't erased a person's memory before, Kayla was his first. Moreover, he wasn't healthy during the process, which he thought could harm her. He had
It was another session with Spencer in Anthony's study. Anthony studied Spencer's silence and unpleasant expression, Spencer had terrible news. More than anything, Anthony expected unnerving news. “How many percent of my human body do I have left, Spencer?” “You have 24%, and five months to live starting tomorrow being the month of June.” Anthony went rigid. Could that keep him until the day he'd kill Marcus? “HIS and HIC work perfectly to keep your powers at bay. Moreover, your current dosage is the highest you can go. We'd blame the fairy for your health degeneration, wouldn't we?” Of course, evident in the way his beast and the stupid part dominated him when it came to matters concerning her. Especially the days he fought the urge to drain her, protecting her. Anthony found it necessary opening up to Spencer about the cause of the medication's failure, perhaps Spencer could have some solutions as to what he'd do to control the beast functions.“Being around Kayla triggers my urge
Kayla curled over in the seat and pulled her oversized knitted cardigan around her. It was freezing. It felt like her blood iced over. Anthony wouldn't turn off the air conditioners. She tumbled to reality, her eyelids fluttering but her eyes not turning open. She was swinging; the cold felt natural than artificial. Her eyes flipped open and she took in her surrounding. It took her wee seconds to realize what was going on, still the situation was vague. She fetched her phone from the table. It was 10:39. Jeez, how did she sleep all the way from two o'clock to ten? She released a breath, she couldn't think of how she slept until night.She retreated to her bedroom after she finished in the kitchen. Without breaking strides, she threw the diaries and albums on the sofa, pulled her cardigan while walking to the bathroom to ease herself, and threw it on the sofa. She examined herself in the mirror soon as she reached. Her head ached slightly. Then she sighed. Tomorrow would begin her tou
The new month started off with a thousand wishes. Sonia, who just returned from Paris with her family, last night requested over the phone that Kayla joined her in a Pilates Program in her new friend’s Pilates studio. Sonia claimed her request was so that Kayla stayed fit for Anthony. If it were about Anthony, Kayla would rather let her hips sag to the floor; as going to the Pilates studio meant she’d give him some space, she agreed.The thought of being subservient to Anthony for the entire month of June troubled Kayla’s mind. What could make her break the rules? If being around Corey could, then that’d be a tremendous problem. These thoughts stole her focus during the Pilates class. The female instructor often wrenched her out of the trance each time she lost focus, guiding her through the Mat Pilates. Kayla followed instructions but got zoned out each time the instructor finished with her. Her mind went farflung until she stopped hearing Sonia, who was on the Pilates mat next to he
There had been no sign of Anthony since Kayla returned home in the evening. Although she was certain that he might be in his bedroom. The disturbing thoughts didn’t stop to linger — while having dinner, while in the shower, and there she was in her study with diverted focus. Kayla stood up and paced, frustrated. She scratched her hair, disheveling it, then kept her hands akimbo as she paced. It wasn’t supposed to be. It was strange how she worried herself sick because of an enemy. To her surprise, she couldn’t fight the feelings of sympathy toward him?Kayla submitted to the impulse that drove her to check on him and hurried towards Anthony’s bedroom, only to halt at the door when she realized she couldn’t input the biometric lock. Supposing she knew the pin, would she have walked into his room to see him? No, she shook her head. He was an enemy for Christ’s sake. She stepped back to her bedroom, forcing down the hesitation that nearly made her wait at Anthony’s door.Kayla turned ove
“Dr. Spencer, I need you to quit smiling and tell me what calls for the sudden session today?” Spencer suddenly gave him a Skype call there in his office, distracting him from his work. The old doctor had been smiling since he picked the call, and it was pissing Anthony off, yet he remained in his calm. “Get your skates on, Spencer, I’ve got an appointment by twelve.”“Have you gone through the mails I sent you last night?” “I’m too busy to go through my private email, so it’s clear I didn’t. What about it?”“It was your father’s research book, which I sent you. And the good news is… we found the cure at last.” Spencer gave a big grin.Anthony froze, gazing at Spencer. Did he hear Spencer correctly? Or was this a dream? It was sudden, unexpected, and unbelievable. He wasn’t sure whether to be glad or full of questions. He hadn’t dreamed for four years. Was his first dream after four years aiming to prank him with his longings? He tilted his head down questioningly, his brow raised. “
Kayla rose at five o’clock to prep and freeze Sledge’s food, not forgetting her many morning routines. Soon as she stepped out of the kitchen after the preparation, Anthony walked in to get lemonade. He was about going for a jog.Anthony was pouring himself a glass of lemonade from the jug on the countertop when the phone next to him rang. It was Kayla’s phone. He had no intent to check who it was. But inadvertently, he glimpsed at the caller. The caller's name held his attention for a brief moment. William Shithole was the name of the caller. Judging from the offensive name she gave the caller, Anthony realized it must be someone she had issues with. It wasn’t his business, so he ignored.The phone rang for the third time when he was imbibing the lemonade. He drew rigid; he tumbled into something. William Shithole. Did she mean William Dale? Setting down the glass of lemonade on the counter, he took the phone and picked up, waiting for the caller to speak.‘Kayla, are you there?’Ant
A minute didn't pass without Kayla chewing over the birthmark she'd spotted under Anthony's arm. She seldom focused during her meeting. The memory often waltzed in to distract her. As if the thoughts were inescapable. Somehow she wished Clinton would come alive again, but a strong fear laid beneath her desire— a fear she was yet to ferret out the cause. Certainly, she wouldn't wish that Clinton was Anthony by any chance. That schmuck could never be Clinton. Clinton was dead.She leaned her elbows over the office table and buried her head in her hands, puffing a long sigh. She took her phone, writing every similarity noticed between Anthony and Clinton. Afterward she sent them to Nora, who called her in a jiffy.“Birthmark under his arm, Clinton's piano lyrics, Sledge, abbreviation and so on. Wow, I think I'm tongue-tied, Kayla. But at least I'm sure a dead person can't live again.”“I think I'm sliding out of my mind, Nora. Anthony's starting to seem more than just an imposter. That b