My palms were sweating as I walked down the steps with a drumming heart. This was a bad idea, I already knew, yet there was this spark in me, a spark I had not felt since Elio walked out. The excitement was just too much for me to give up my bad plan. I locked the house, turned and made my way to the car. My nerves ate at me. I felt as if my guard and driver would not allow me to go out looking like that but as soon as I approached, my guard stepped out, opening my door for me. I would never get used to it. Because of my adventure, I forgot all about the feud fight between us three. “Thank you.” I said back to my guard, smiling. Even getting in the car was a hassle. My boobs were spilling out, also afraid my ass was showing. All in all, I was abusing the dress. I was expecting it to rip at any point. Even those thoughts had my blood rush with such urgency I would soon sweat. “Where to ma’am?” The driver asked when we were all settled. My eyes shot out wide. I had been busy plannin
Irya squeezed my hand with my head snapping to her. She gave me a reassuring smile. “Don’t worry.” She said whilst I was smiling back, clenching her warm hand harder. It suddenly was a bit better, watching the lights fly by until the cab stopped. Prisha’s friend paid, us getting out. My eyes moved up, seeing another club indeed yet the line there was not much. We moved and joined it, phone held in hand. I was supposed to be calling a ride home but my curiosity got the best of me. I wanted to see what was inside and Irya was so nervous. She was clinging to my hand. It was obvious her sister was dragging her by the nose and I would not leave her alone with the vulture. We shuffled over until it was our time to get in. The club was nothing like the one we came from. It was not as packed. A large stage stood at the center with couches all around. A few waiters moved passing drinks. The club was not for partying surely. My eyes moved to Irya. She stared back at me with the same look. We
ELIO The phone rang in my hand, tipping it down in the early hours of the morning. I could not help but stare at my torn skin, the wound having clotted. This time I had taken it too far, I admitted to myself. A whole month raining nothing but hell. I shook my head, feeling more like a monster than a human. All that was left to shed my skin from my body so I could be the beast I truly was deep inside. I was ashamed. If Lethu could see the man I was, she would see why I left. I stopped myself just as I was about to count the days without her. Everything was dark. All I felt was anger, hate, and pain. “Speak,” I spoke into the phone, bloody eyes on the driver who was speeding through the dark empty road to my house. The panic could be heard even before Lethu’s guard spoke up. I sat up in my seat, already knowing something was terribly wrong. “Sir…” I did not have time for such stupidity. I cut the call fast, moving to check surveillance in the house and yes, Lethu was not in her be
The phone was still clutched in my hand. I sat quietly as I thought over how I would tear Rendal from the inside out. I would make sure his heart bled first before I shred his skin from his screaming self. I slowly ran my eyes down to the phone in hand as it rang for the forth time. This was it. There was a thin line and I did not want him to cross it. I did not want to push him to the point where my Lethu would suffer. My face was stone cold, my heart a black stallion with skin pale. I was not ready for this. I was not sure I wanted to hear her screams. I was not sure I wanted to see her being struck over and over. I knew they would not take it easy on me and it killed me. My heart clenched painfully at all I had put Lethu through. Surely, I was a curse to her. Taking interest in her was the worst decision I had ever made in my life because I had also opened her up to a world of danger. I swiped the screen and put the call on loudspeaker. “Do you think we are playing?! She will pa
LETHU I stirred back into consciousness and it was like déjà vu yet this time I was hanging from a beam in a brightly lit room. My eyes fluttered close from the assault of the light. In that second, the pain rained over my body like summer rain. It was too intense I could not even cry out. My whole face was on fire, my arms and legs aching deep from the bone because of the position I was hanging in. I could feel what was left of my dress twisted and turned around my body. My mouth tasted of blood and burned. The tears bleed out, glazing down my burning cheek as I sniffled. The cloud slowly slipped away with it settling on me what had happened. I shot my eyes out wide as more tears flooded out. My heart ran its own race as I shook so much it had me slightly swing in the position I was in. The fear, such fear, it was consuming. Not again. I kept thinking, shaking even harder until I thought I would faint. I could recall how hard the boot had come on my face. I was afraid they had
ELIO I always prided myself on my patience and that day it was truly tested. We hopped on the jeeps, taking off to soon be jerking around as we took ways unconventional to many. The car was dead silent even with the six men sitting in with me. A convoy of black G wagons jerked through the rugged terrain. The sun was hidden away by the tall trees. It was hot in the car but no one dared crack even a window. I was in my thoughts and I did not want to be disturbed. Lethu’s images danced in my head, her smile keeping me bolted down as I made the way up the mountain until we stopped and took camp. We would proceed by foot when the time was right. The beta team checked in, having also reached their destination. I rolled my sleeves up, undoing my button as the other men changed into the appropriate gear. I had no time to change nor the patience. With binoculars in hand, I checked the security around the targeted compound. We would wait till dark. The darkness did not change anything but
LETHU I drifted in and out of consciousness. I could have been dreaming the whole thing; my body pulled down, boots hitting the ground with such emergence and car tires screeching. I knew I had been dreaming it all. I knew nothing but pain waited for me when I finally woke up. I dreaded it with every cell in my body. My body itself seemed to be in the roaring fires of hell with how hard it ached and burned. I felt my tears slip even in my unconscious state. I felt the painful purr pull from me with each jerk of my body. I felt hands on me, and I wanted to fight but I was stuck in the state I was in. I felt the hands grip and pull me which had me wince so hard. I was pushed up, arms carrying me. It was cold and I was fading slowly but surely yet the tension could be felt. My eyes fluttered and closed, darkness all around with the silence dreadful. Was this it? Were they there to bury me alive? Was more torture coming my way? Whoever was carrying me was walking and soon they stood.
I was clean and warm. I was in a large black sweater which I kept pulling on its sleeves. Elio changed my bandages and I had held onto him for dear life, not wanting to see the open wounds on my skin that burned with no remorse. I sat with legs crossed on the chair in the closet. No words had been spoken since the shower. So much had to be said yet both of us afraid to open the channel. It had wrecked me so much seeing Elio in tears and I swore I would bury anyone alive that left him in tears again in this life. I would burn the world for him just as he would for me. My eyes followed him with every step he took. Something in me had exploded in that shower. A layer had been shed with a different one worn on me. I felt so protective, this hardcore feeling overpowering. His pain became my pain and it killed me seeing him that deep in his mind. The man was far from fine. He worked on autopilot, cleaning the room until it was pee free. His bare feet tapped on the floor. My head turned