All Chapters of BENEATH THE MASK : Chapter 71 - Chapter 74

POV: Akayda It was finally Friday morning and I couldn't wait to go home.I did not sleep at all throughout the night.Not even for a minute.When I got to my room last night after our little quarrel, I locked the door behind me and just stood there, looking at it. For a second, I told myself I wouldn’t cry. I told myself I was stronger than that.I wasn't going to cry because I did nothing wrong.But the tears still came anyway.I had let my back slide down against the door until I was sitting on the cold floor. I pressed my hand over my mouth so no sound would escape. I didn’t want him to hear me crying. I didn’t want him to know he had that kind of power over me. Nothing gave him the right to say those hurtful things to me and I wasn't supposed to cry because of what he had said. Yet I had sat there for what felt like hours crying.I was still sitting on the floor when I heard him leavethe suite. The door has closed shut quietly, almost gently. I didn’t move. I just sat there on

POV: VivianMy eyes have been glued to the picture in my hand for what felt like hours that the edges of it were beginning to bend slightly under the pressure of my fingers.Yet I still didn’t look awaI couldn't bring myself to take my eyes away from the picture.My room was silent except for the faint ticking of the wall clock above my dresser and the consistent hmm of the air conditioner.The Morning sun streamed through the tall windows, spilling across the marble floor and the cream colored rug beneath my feet. It was a beautiful Saturday morning.But all I could see was the picture in my hand.The picture of Damian.And Akayda.The two of them were walking side by side in the photograph. It had clearly been taken at the airport. Their luggage was next to them and Damian was leaning slightly toward her, his head tilted close to her ear as if he was whispering something.Akayda, on the other hand, was laughing.Not smiling.But full blown laughing.The kind of laugh a woman gave w