I had been watching her sleep for some time already. How could they be so different, and yet the same? She had that protective streak in her the same as before, the loving nature that made her so special, but messed by her experience in this life. So much is that she feels guilty when she does something improper. Something against her values.
Unfortunately, her torture
It’s been two hours since I parked my sweetness a block away and crouched on a branch on top of a tree, recognizing my surroundings. The street in this part of Smithtown was empty and quiet, maybe because it was after eleven in the evening. Most of the families were getting ready for a good night’s sleep, but my eyes set in one house. The house. I had already sent a message to Shane, telling him I was back and to meet me in the morning.
My heart came to a complete stop when I snapped my eyes open and I couldn’t feel Liz anywhere closer. She broke her promise; she broke our deal. Dread crept in me, and I loathed this foreign feeling, but it was like that with her, fear always knocking at my door, skulking around and a maddening sense of helplessness. I strode through the house like I was preparing for the battlefields to find Anton in the living room, eyes closed and concentrated, with a bluish glow around him.
His words hit me like a blow and when I realised I was already on top of him, holding his dear life by a thread. The teen in the picture, now that I thought about it. She had the same eyes as me, but sort of bluish green ones, and she looked terribly like him. That beautiful girl was my sister, and I couldn’t be happier. But she was a grown woman now, what kind of life did she lead, what horrors had she seen? This man in my hands was a coward who delivered his family to vultures and not once thought about fighting back.
Shane approached me all rude the minute I stepped out of my bike in front of the deli we agreed to meet in the City. I didn’t expect that from him. He was transfigured, grabbing me by the arm and pushing me to an alley a few steps away. I understood our past encounter got a little out of hand, but that didn’t give him the right to manhandle me like that.
“Alex, please, care to elaborate.” I gave him a light nod, I just needed a minute to gather myself.Gosh, how could I explain? I wallowed in shame, and it was even hard to look at him; he taught me better, but in the course of my life with the Agency, sometimes I wasn’t the most ethical person in my means to achieve my goals. I worked with what I had
How could I describe what I was feeling? I’ve never been the type to let people in. No one in my existence knew the real me, only the facade I showed to the world. Liz was the only person I let in, she was my haven and with her, life was easy. Suddenly she was there, by my side, and I couldn’t put into words what was inside me. My emotions were a tornado passing inside me, ripping, crashing, destroying everything in its path. The only feeling I could devise in this storm was the unforeseen sorrow squeezing my chest.
Shane- Alex, I’m in trouble.Alex-
I stood like a statue in the middle of that room, staring at the blond woman with a puzzled face by the corner. The silence was oppressive and to tell the truth I didn’t know what to say, where to start or what to do. She looked at me with an awkward face and puzzled eyes.“Do you know who I am?” I asked the first thing that came to my mind. She gave