Semua Bab Bad to the core: Bab 21 - Bab 25

ALICIA I took a shower, trying to get him out of me, then packed my clothes on the huge suitcase. Some of my clothes couldn’t fit on the suitcase, forcing me to leave them on the closet. I made my way downstairs and saw him sitting at the dining table drinking whiskey from the bottle that was already half. He shifted his gaze to me, showing me his emotionless face. He watched me walking out of his house but didn’t move a muscle. I thought he would stop me from leaving, especially because it was after midnight, but he never did. When I got to the driveway, reality kicked in—I had nowhere to go. I took my phone to call Lisa, but her phone went straight to voicemail. Calling an Uber at that time of the night was a very stupid and dangerous move, but I had to get away from him. The Uber arrived within ten minutes. The driver helped me put the suitcase on the trunk and opened the door for me. When the car was moving away from Jason’s Villa, I looked back at the Villa and saw Jason thro

JASON I placed the glass of water on the nightstand and climbed on my bed. It was freaking hot, but the house felt so cold, dead, and empty. I scrolled through my phone, trying to find something to distract me, but I failed to keep my mind out of the place that I never wanted it to go to. It was the same routine every night—getting on my bed, hoping to fall asleep without thinking about her, but kept on spending the next two hours thinking about her and blaming myself for telling her to leave. She had been gone for two months, and each day I kept on convincing myself that I would go on with my life, that I would live my life the same way I was living when she wasn’t in my life. Well, lying to myself and being delusional had become a part of my daily routine. I didn’t want to admit it, but I was fucking missing her. Being in my office was a torture, seeing the view of the pool but not seeing her relaxing or swimming felt so wrong. Having dinner all by myself made me to not even enj