Chapter 24

Elijah:

I laid with Anastasia in my arms on my bed.

The two of us somehow managed inside my bedroom a while after our second round. The third round was just as pleasing, and need I say, just as exciting.

I didn’t want her to leave just yet. Therefore, I was enjoying the fact that she agreed on staying a little while longer.

It was funny how just a few days ago, I was admitting that I was getting her in bed to distract her from things that I wanted to do. Wanting her to be close enough to me as to let them go. But having found out that she already knew of most of what I was doing and was being quiet, I couldn’t help but feel both guilty, and grateful to her. My own feelings for her changing to those that I couldn’t even understand.

“How’s your mom?” I asked snapping her out of her quiet daze. She looked at me and I smiled. She was yet to know that I knew that she sent her mom to a safe house, and as annoying as it was to know that she sent her because she didn’t trust my intentions; I