Chapter 84GuiliaThe afternoon sun grew hot as we drove around Seattle in search of a man who'd decided that we must have a hard time finding him. Igor had suggested that he goes alone to avoid putting me at any risk, but I was too restless to stay still.I wanted to link the weird coincidences to Carlton at all cost and it was going to be hard for me to believe that he didn’t do everything I suspected him of.“I wish everything will be over with a snap of my finger,” I blurted my thoughts out loud.Igor sighed, shaking his head probably in regret. “We can still take a turn if you want,” he suggested again.“Nothing is going to change my mind, Igor. If anything, I’m more eager to see this to the end. As much as I want to be with the boys so badly, I can’t be free if I don’t know the mastermind behind these schemes. We just have to find out, and we’ll do that today,” I said firmly.Admiration glimmered in his eyes when I finished talking, causing a huge blush to spread on my cheeks.
Chapter 83Guilia“Are you alright?” That was a question that had been asked a bit too much on this trip. Maybe it was because I was always zoning out, hissing at every slight discomfort. By now, Igor should be tired of me because I wasn’t even following through with our plans. He returned home last night with a lead on how to get the man who dropped the picture anonymously and even though my heart was shattered, I still offered to go with him to find the man.“Guilia, you seem very distracted. Are you sure you still want this meeting to be held? We can cancel it if you’re not feeling up to it,” he said in that fatherly voice that made me want to lay my head on his shoulder and hear him say that everything will be fine.I sighed, squinting my eyes as though the act could stop the stubborn ache in my forehead. “So that he can escape? I’m not risking it,”His head moved in a doubtful nod. “If that is the case why aren’t you saying anything in regards to the plans I’ve been making sinc
Chapter 82VladimirCars slid past me in a blur. The city felt like it was on a standstill even though streetlights, and lights coming from the open stores and other buildings illuminated the road.It was past 11p.m. I should be home right now, better still, I should have been with her. This wasn’t how I planned my night. When I was alone in her room after wishing Dalian a good night, I’d envisaged her being happy to see me when she returned.But it was the opposite. When the door flew open and her eyes met mine, I saw surprise flicker for a while. It vanished and got replaced immediately by yearning, but that disappeared quickly too.By the time we were done talking, she was already fuming, sending me out of her room and shattering my heart into pieces.“Fuck!” the word flew out of my lips as I rammed my foot against the breakpad, pulling the car to a stop.I’d almost hit a passerby. How foolish I was to drive when I was under the influence of anguish and distress. I could understan
Chapter 81GuiliaI didn’t just cringe when he said it as though he was certain that I’d like his new idea of being fed, I was disgusted.His hands traced my collarbone in unsteady movements, his other hand grasping my dress wanting to tear it off. I struggled against him, fighting to keep my dress in place. This isn’t how I envisaged that this night would go.I knew that I’d be trying to fight against a man sexual urges, but I didn’t think that I’d be protecting myself against rape.“Stop, Carlton!” my scream seemed to have quieted the evil voices that spurred him to do what he did as he rolled away from me. “I asked you to feed me not to shove the food down my throat,”The lust in his eyes vanished. He fell on his knees on the bed, clutching onto my arm, wide-eyed. “I’m so sorry, I didn’t know what came over me,” his gaze strolled over my skin in careful scrutiny. “Did I hurt you?” he tried to touch me.I shrank away from him, flipped my hair to the back and ran my fingers through t
Chapter 80GuiliaThe tension in the air hung low, very palpable. One glance at him and I saw it all; he was tense, fingers clutching tightly onto the wheel in anticipation of what would go down this evening. I sat still on my seat, strung and apprehensive of the next turn of events.This was a bad idea, I thought.I shouldn’t have dressed provocatively, worst still, stirred up that beastly emotions that lurked in his eyes. Dmitri and I should have come up with a better plan. We should have thought of something better.One way to know a bad evening was one that was filled with ‘should haves’.“You good?” his jaw clenched after he asked.I almost admitted that I wasn’t. It almost left my mouth that I wanted him to turn the car around and take me back home, but the words never made it out of my mouth. Instead, I said. “I’m very excited, Carlton. I’m pumped, I can’t wait for you to show me how much you like me,”Bile rose to my throat, a bitter taste spreading throughout my tongue. What
Chapter 79VladimirThe basketball court seemed to be the best place to exert my energy while clearing my head. I was an average player, never aspired to win championships or take it to another level, but I liked the game. I enjoyed playing it.And since my brain kept working on overdrive, I decided that throwing the ball into the net blindly would help relieve the bone of jealousy that was stuck in my throat.First attempt. The ball got into the net and I shot my fist into the air, happy that I’d been able to win something after failing so much recently in nearly everything.I saw her this evening. After all the drama with Marian at the house, the argument which made me send her out of the house because I felt like I was losing my damn mind, I drove down to Dmitri’s to see her, to tell her how much I enjoyed the night we had just shared together.But there she was, seducing him, her semi-nudity shoved up in his face. He wanted to devour her. The hunger in those eyes couldn’t be dism