THIRTEEN

Mary immediately stopped on her tracks, her heart beating speedily.

She slowly turned around to face him.

"You are still awake?" She asked pretending not to have seen him earlier.

"Yes! I had some late night work to do" he said looking her over. Mary tried to read his facial expressions, if he had Known she had been eavesdropping on him.

"I can see you are just coming back".

She nodded, he moved closer to her. "You smell like alcohol, did you drink?"

"Just a few bottles" she said with a silly smile on her face. Must have been the effect of the alcohol.

"You should go get some sleep, you look wasted already". Mary staggered as she went up to her room. She fell into a deep slumber even before her head touched the pillow.

That night Mary had a dream, she saw Adonis holding a gun with blood stains all over his hands and clothes.

She was awoken the next morning by the ringing of her phone, she stretched her hand to pick up the phone on the side table while massaging her