After a long lunch and the afternoon fast approaching, I head to the kitchen for a snack, not expecting Marco to be sitting there.

I turn to head right back out,

“Don’t go,” Two words I once wanted to say, two words that would have once held much more than what it means now.

“Why?”

“Please, stay,” I think about it carefully, before I turn around and see him sitting by the counter with a chair and his laptop.

“I didn’t know you wear glasses.” His eyes are covered with a thin metal frame. He looks almost sad, and I find it odd since he has everything he wants.

“Years of reading do that to a man. If you looking for the chocolate there is a Belgium one on the top cupboard behind you.”

“Thanks.”

“Aliyana,”

“Did you know my sister? Azurella?”

He is so silent, and I wonder if I were to drop a feather would I hear it.

“Yes, I did. We all knew her, and I know what you thinking.”

go to the cupboard and pull out

gets up and walks around the counter and I look up

there did not mean that I just forgot about her, Deno named his fucking club after her. We have

I slam the chocolate in his chest and he holds my wrist, holding my hand to his

pull my hand away

no right. You

depths drown me, all over again. I am not weak, but now I don’t

had a fucking choice? You think I want to watch you throw yourself at other men?” He pushes me toward the fridge door, away from

hand holds on to my waist, “You honestly believe I chose to let

“Please, Marco, don’t.”

the sanity behind this moment, someday I would look back and pray it finally

the man who hurt me, the one who wants to kill my friend. Today, I betray my soul, my sister, my friends and my father as Marco lifts my body, and his hands grab onto my naked flesh.

he consumes me yet again. Only this time he is not mine and I know as much as it feels like it is, today I lie and sin. Today I choose lust of loyalty. And I don’t regret it one single bit,

Marco back and he stands there looking like a man lost but equal parts hungry, his chest rising and falling and I

I should storm out, but I

now, I don’t have anywhere else to go

been awfully quiet since lunch, is everything alright?”

as I stand in the cold,

know her name,” I

jacket and I know somewhere in the back of my mind it is freezing

grabs my arm moving me further away from

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