I was the only device I found that evening. Maybe I should think that it was fortunate but it still made me collapse on the sofa. I held the round object in my hand, I stared at it blankly. While after that I finally gathered myself to use Travis’s anti-bug to at least find out what was that thing.
The screen showed that it was a listening device, and I could automatically give access to any equipment using Wi-Fi. I pressed the option that disabled the bug and laughed hysterically.
The next morning I still couldn’t recover from reading Simon’s book. From the beginning I thought of him as a well-mannered romantic type. Could I be seriously misjudging him?“Ana, give it a break! You are confusing Simon with the book character that he created! This doesn’t change anything, and it obviously shouldn’t change the way you think of Simon!” I tried to keep calm, and be reasonable.It was true t
I followed Ellen to a banquet hall, there were already many people waiting for Simon to come. All the waiters were running around filling the buffet with delicious looking appetizers and snacks. One of the waiters brought Ellen and me a glass of champagne. Finally Simon appeared at the hall entrance, everyone gave him a round of applause.“Thank you for coming to my humble event…” he started his speech elegantly bowing at the waist, and making the crowd cheer and laugh.
Simon’s pressed his lips on mine. They were hot. He began gently caressing my lips moving them until he slipped his tongue in my mouth. A sweet and warm sensation flooded my body. I couldn’t tell when I returned the kiss. My body moved on its own. It took me a while to realize what is happening… but I didn’t pushed him away. Instead, I slowly pulled back my head to break away from his grip.My lips were still tingling from the kiss. Unconsciously I touched them with my fingers to ease this burning feeling. I raised my head up and gazed at Simon. His sight was warm and passionate.
I walked to my apartment on weak, shaking legs, and fell on the couch. My heart was still beating furiously fast, and there were goose bumps all over my body.“What was that?! Why would he react that way?!” I couldn’t find any sense in his actions.Then I started to wonder how long he stood outside the building entrance.
I felt like all the air in the building left, I was suffocating. My heart was pounding so loudly that my ears were about to explode.“Is that what they call a “panic attack”?! Am I having a panic attack right now?!” the thoughts madly collided inside my mind.I used all my strength to force my throat to draw air into my lungs. My heart began calming down. My shaking hands were squeezing the
I spent a sleepless night, lying on my bed and staring at the celling. I was consumed by my own thoughts, and they were obviously dark, and unpleasant thoughts. I was exhausted to the point I wanted to cry. I might have act strong in front of others but inside, I was broken. “Maybe I should move out? Come back to my hometown, and forget about all of it?” I already felt like a looser for having such t
I took a deep breath and looked straight into Tom’s eyes.“Are you going to answer my question?” I tried to say the words slowly, so he wouldn’t know how trembling my whole body was.“Aren’t you going to sit down?” he chuckled and tapped his hand on the couch telling me to sit.
I went back to my apartment as soon as my mind functioned good enough to find a door… that was about an hour after Tom left.I took a shower, and flopped on a bed but I was far from being calm and much further from falling asleep. The shower didn’t help to get his smell off me, and the visions from what happened in his apartment filled my brain with every single breath. It was almost surreal, like all of my sensory neurons were designed to remember the sense of his caress. I could feel them even now, to the point when I got shivers after my skin touched the bed sheets.