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39: Locked-in

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Oliver.

“You recognise him?” The officer asked. I couldn't catch my breath, bile rose through my throat filling my mouth with the debris of the food I hadn't digested yet. I clamped a hand around my mouth, scampering across the lawn toward the curb where the patch of grasses were, and threw up, letting the contents splatter across the dirt.

The flashes of Mark's eyes, bloody and gaping, the flesh red and sore caused another bout of bile to rush through my throat. It felt sore, like it had been sandpapered with the dry sands of the desert. My stomach clenched, my intestines wrangling on themselves.

When the nausea wave passed over, I stood, heaving before wiping the excess puke from my lip. I wanted to be far away from here as soon as possible, I needed to shower. All of a sudden, I felt like the entire puke was on my body and flies were swatting around my face.

I felt a presence behind me and I tilted to see the officer with his notepad.

“Do you need some water?” he enquired lazily li
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  • The Billionaire's dirty secret   39: Locked-in

    Oliver.“You recognise him?” The officer asked. I couldn't catch my breath, bile rose through my throat filling my mouth with the debris of the food I hadn't digested yet. I clamped a hand around my mouth, scampering across the lawn toward the curb where the patch of grasses were, and threw up, letting the contents splatter across the dirt.The flashes of Mark's eyes, bloody and gaping, the flesh red and sore caused another bout of bile to rush through my throat. It felt sore, like it had been sandpapered with the dry sands of the desert. My stomach clenched, my intestines wrangling on themselves.When the nausea wave passed over, I stood, heaving before wiping the excess puke from my lip. I wanted to be far away from here as soon as possible, I needed to shower. All of a sudden, I felt like the entire puke was on my body and flies were swatting around my face.I felt a presence behind me and I tilted to see the officer with his notepad.“Do you need some water?” he enquired lazily li

  • The Billionaire's dirty secret   38. Snitches get...

    Oliver.I had an awful feeling about what Sebastian had said before he ended the call but I didn't want to read too much meaning into it. Maybe he didn't want to talk about it? Maybe he was upset that I was canceling the date again? It wasn't my fault, he should know this.I didn't know if I was going to go through with what Mark was forcing me to do, but I needed to show up? I could try to talk to him one more time and convince him otherwise, and the client? I sighed, couldn't he find someone else?The feeling of going back to work to face that depressing environment that Benjamin had tainted with his bad attitude. My phone buzzed and I swiped before examining who the caller was."Hello?""Where are you?" The firm sound of Benjamin's voice filled the phone. I sighed, pulling it from my ear and staring at it one more time before responding."I stepped out to see my sister in the hospital, sir," I spat the title out, the disrespect already stirring inside me. I hated how Benjamin made

  • The Billionaire's dirty secret   37. His voice burns softly

    OliverThe phone rang for a few minutes before it crackled and his suave Italian voice filled the phone. It made my heart flutter with a warm feeling, just knowing that he was there and answered whenever I called.“Amore Mio, I have wait for your call for long now,” he said. I beamed, the anger evaporating from my mind.“Really? So why didn't you call?” I teased.“So I know you want me too,” I could hear the pride in his voice and I could perfectly picture his laid back attitude, the way he would be relaxed on the chair, beaming with smiles. He had started to grow on me, a few weeks ago, I would have hated this, but somehow, he made pride seem attractive.“Oh, please, Basty,” I poked harder. He growled, “I tell you not call me that, I hate nickname,” I cackled over the phone.“You laugh nice,” he concurred and it made me laugh harder, maybe as a way to appease him for what I was about to ask.“So why call? You just want hear my voice or what?” He enquired.“Well, I wish I could lie, b

  • The Billionaire's dirty secret   36. Flesh wound, scar to the soul

    Oliver.I can't help the way my feet continuously hits the car floor, and a fleeting thought about whether the floor can cave didn't bother me. How could Ruby do such a thing? Slit her wrist? My heart hammered heavily in my chest and I was worried that something could happen to her.“Be positive, she is alive and well,” I told myself. My fingernails found solace between my chattering teeth, I bit and spat the jagged nails, searching for some sort of order to my mind. Everything was spiraling too fast and too hard.I needed one day of break, some normalcy. All of these wouldn't have happened if I didn't start the job at Empirestark. I wouldn't have met Sebastian, I wouldn't have been on that date, I wouldn't have gotten jumped and I wouldn't be here, afraid that my sister may have crossed…Stop it! She is alive!I smacked my forehead, trying to expel the morbid thoughts that plagued me as the taxi continued to tear down the highway toward the hospital. As the large building slowly came

  • The Billionaire's dirty secret   35. Collateral damage

    Oliver.“What is this, Mark?” I felt the air seeping from my lungs, escaping every time I tried to inhale.“I'm sorry it has to come to this, Oliver, but you left me with no choice,” the line crackled and went dead. I pressed the phone against my ear, drowning in the recurrent beeps from the dead line.This can't be happening, I felt my nerves fray and subtle feeling crawling up my skin like an itch. My heart pounded in my chest, slamming wildly against my ribs. I couldn't breathe anymore, it felt like my lungs were collapsing.I gripped the edge of the table, forcing my organs to begin their work as before but nothing was working for some time. Why would Mark do this to me? This was a low blow, it was beneath him. We were promised confidentiality during the work, so why?Deep down, I knew I wasn't worried for myself. No one would care about the fact that a random boy was getting fucked by another man, there were millions of hardcore male on male pornographic films surging the net eve

  • The Billionaire's dirty secret   34: Uno reverse threats

    Oliver.I closed the door firmly behind me, blurring out the heat radiating from Benjamin's angry threats. They were meaningless to me, I didn't care about what he would think and what he would do about the words I had said.I didn't even plan on carrying out the threat. I was just upset, seeing him perched on his high horse, being condescending and demeaning to me. My choices? When he did the same thing?But what did I expect from someone so deep into the closet that he could sniff the devil's asshole. He was a hypocrite. I tried to understand the fact that he had this image to protect, a reputation as well, but that didn't give him the right to pretend.I was getting tired of his bullshit, it felt like we were trapped in a perpetual cycle of fucking and after the post nut clarity, we would pretend like we didn't exists or our testosterones didn't burn for eachother.Then Ruby.I sighed as I trod toward my office, she was…different, changing. A few years ago, the sister I knew and lo

  • The Billionaire's dirty secret   Chapter 33: bruised bonds

    Oliver.“You do not want me to walk you inside?” Sebastian struggled having a difficult time letting me out of his car. I had been discharged a few hours ago and he towered over me like a mother hawk over her kids.“I'm fine, Seb, it's just a little bruise on my face,” I tried to assuage the worry that was etched into his conduct.“This is not a little bruise, Oli,” he warned, his voice dropping a decibel. I sighed, I knew it wasn't but I couldn't stay couped up in that hospital staring at the beige walls and marinating with the smell of antiseptic and bleach.“I'm sorry,” I apologised.“Why say sorry?” He scrunched his brows, confusion riddled in his expression.“I shouldn't trivalize it, you've been with me since it happened and I should acknowledge that,” I stared at him, the confusion still swirling in his bulbs.“I do not understand big words, Oli,” Sebastian chuckled and stretched his hand to hold mine firmly in his. I laughed, it was like talking to a child, a beautiful child.

  • The Billionaire's dirty secret   32: A faux trip to Paris

    Benjamin.There was a gentle tap on my office door distorting the concentration I had built for a while staring at the prints. I scowled, assuming it was the manager announcing her presence.“Come in,” I grumbled. The door slid smoothly.“Good morning, sir,” the husky voice of the old man filled the room. I snapped in his direction, surprised that he was back from his break.“Welcome, how is the family?” I asked, he gave a stiff smile and nodded.“Alright, you may leave,” I excused him and he closed the door firmly.Another gentle tap and I sighed, “did you forget something?” I flipped through my documents, unbothered to look up. A soft cough came from the doorway and I looked up.My heart dropped to the pit of my stomach, my breath hitching in my lungs when I saw Oliver by the door. His face was a disgruntled shade of purple and blues.An ugly yellow stained the sides of the bruises circumferencing the deeper shades of purple. His lips was split, bulging out, but reddened with dried

  • The Billionaire's dirty secret   31. Sebastian at the end of tunnel.

    OliverWas this the afterlife? I never pegged the after life to smell like antiseptics with the irritating beeping noise.It was dark, I always imagined it would be bright for some reason, I mean, whiteness meant tranquility right? I had no sense of direction, everywhere looking and feeling the same. “Hello?” I called out to the deep and the vacuum swallowed my voice. The beep spiked, the intensity aggravating.What the hell is that? In the midst dark eerie darkness, I felt this loneliness cradle my chest, engulfing my body wholly. Was this how it was going to be? Was I going to spend the remaining parts of my life here?Was I even still alive? The last thing I remembered was Jamie and his cohorts attacking me before Sebastian swooped in and…Fuck, there was a gunshot somewhere, who had been shot? Was Sebastian okay? I didn't trust Jamie and his airhead friends, and…Ruby. Sadness ravaged my entire frame. She had stood by, watched as everything unfolded.I knew I didn't like Jamie for

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