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Chapter Seventeen
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Wine Stained Lips Chapter Seventy Seven
Calla's POV Ever since, I was back at the Renault wine-- the same place James and I met for the first time. I've been stuck on nostalgia. The very first place I saw his beautiful almond eyes. The same place my heart skipped a beat for him.I couldn't stop replaying what I overheard his mum say to him that day. Did she think of us the way she and his dad were. Was there ever a time love was so beautiful that you don't even see the signs when it starts to rotten until one day ,you're older and alone and realize you had wasted all your good years chasing nothing.I wonder how differently things would have been if my mum and Justin,my biological father were together, If she never met my dad,Clay Grayson. Would I have met James? Would the universe ever intertwine our paths? What if this was it-- our story had come to an end,we had solved the mystery of our history. I feared we were gonna stretch things till it snapped and one of us will be left broken.I feared I'd be the one that's left,
Wine Stained Lips Chapter Seventy Six
James' POV My father died from a severe medical complications while recovering. His autopsy report showed it was a major relapse in coma due to shock that led to the inevitable. I wondered what he thought about before finally given up the ghost. Did the best moments of his life flash before his eyes , like they say it would or did the faces of people he had killed mouth "fuck you!" to him. I'd never know,but I kept wondering if there was a slight chance he regretted not doing things differently.He didn't deserve to be mourned. His life wasn't any better than the lives of those he ruined, neither was it more significant. That's the thing about death,it owes loyalty to no one. No matter how rich or powerful you are. On the third after the funeral,my father's lawyer called a family meeting to read the proceeding of his Will. I didn't think he'd leave anything behind,not after the clash that broke my family apart when his atrocities were revealed.I didn't care for his money though,I w
Wine Stained Lips Chapter Seventy Five
Calla's POV Every story talks about the fall of a villain but no one ever talks about what is left of the pieces after. You get a hero and you get a villain. The hero wins while the villain loses. Sometimes,the hero loses too.I waited outside the bathroom as James washed up and casually came out of the bathroom. I haven't been able to read a single emotion out of him. Sometimes,the scariest emotions is no emotion. He looked numb,not in a sober way,not in a hurt way,but in a way that looks like had shut off from processing any information that requires big emotions. Like, something this big of a deal happened had no reverence.I called his therapist as the crippling fear of him loosing his mind randomly like in L.A would happen again. I didn't want him to pretend to be okay,most especially now but I couldn't force him to process things fast and react either. His therapist told me to help him pour whatever he was feeling out instead of suppressing it. Her clauses was to help him proce
Wine Stained Lips Chapter Seventy Four
James' POV Sleep was impossible in Boston. Not after everything that had happened in this town. I spent the night journaling my thoughts down instead of spiraling from it.I heard the engine of a car roar ,as the headlights reflected into the bedroom.I peeped though Calla's room window and I saw a black car parked up front. It was around 5am. Who could that be? I didn't want to wake her so I watched and waited, wondering if it was a neighbor rushing early to work. The car rolled away few minutes later and I went back to bed.Yet,I couldn't sleep. What if it was him? What if my father somehow found a away to get out and came here. I couldn't ignore the lingering thoughts of "what if's". I tried to look for other reasons. Maybe it was truly a random people rushing somewhere. Besides,the only person that knew I was back in Boston was laying fast asleep beside me. Her lush hair was tied in a loose bun that made her look ethereal,like old Roman castles. "Hey,you're up?" She mumbles half
Wine Stained Lips Chapter Seventy Three
Calla's POV I woke up with a neck cramp from laying down wrongly on my pillow. The bed I had been used to for years, suddenly felt different from the way I remember. Or maybe it was from my flight yesterday. I looked out of the window to see my Nigerian neighbor's toddler on the front porch of their house. He had grown taller. My room wasn't any different, it was the same yet it changed. It felt like it had shrunk in size and I had become a bigger.It seemed that way from the airport. Everything in this town had either grown too big or smaller than I last remembered it.Boston had changed or maybe I have.One thing was the same though, the flicker of memories of my mum hunting the walls,the ceilings and corners of this house. I walked down stairs to looking at her painting that were displayed, collecting dust like old relics in an abandoned house.There was one place I couldn't bring myself to go into-- her room. It would be too real. And I didn't want to be back here knowing that s
Wine Stained Lips Chapter Seventy Two
James' POV Christmas started faster in the big cities. Decorations were already displayed in windows,lawns and on the street. But it didn't feel like old time. Things had changed.It's been almost a month since I got the stare. The one where you're recognized from something bad and the person that recognizes you is stuck between wondering if you're truly the one or not. Then,there are the one's that react by calling you awful names with deadly glences. There are also,the one's that thinks if they say something, you're gonna hurt them too like the other victims of you father. Neither of them were better than the other. They were all equally bad.Today I got the stare. And it felt just like the way it had always been. Bad.The first hearing to my father trial was holding soon and I wasn't ready to be back in the loop of the awful stuff he had done. I don't think anyone will ever be ready for something like that. And I know it'd be worst when I go back to Boston.Gus was preparing to g
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