“I won’t be too far behind ma’am.” I looked sourly at Dimitri who had refused to call me by my name. I nodded at him anyway and walked towards the burial site.Charlie waved from afar off and I waved back. Seeing her after not talking to her for so long had me smiling a little regardless of what the day represented.I had opted for a simple black gown and my hair was packed neatly behind my ears in a bun.“Hey.” Charlie attacked me with a hug. I’d missed her too. I looked around for David.“He’s not here. He never comes visiting.” My lips took a downturn. All the more reason to hate him.“It’s not like that. He just…” The closed-off expression on my face shut her up. At least she was here and she hadn’t even met her either.The sky had turned cloudy and rumbled loudly with thunder. Rain in March?Hardly had we paid our respects when David came, a thunder introducing him. I looked up at the sky with a scowl on my face. Dramatic much?Then, I looked at Charlie with a “I thought you said
Dimitri’s POV“Yes sir. Another car came through earlier. Seemed to be Mr Rivers.”“He’s there?” My boss’s voice echoed angrily over the phone. I didn’t know much about Miss Victoria’s private life but from what I’d seen from driving her to and back from places, there’s no love lost between them.“Yes sir.” He cursed under his breath and exhaled loudly the same time thunder roared.“Just...keep your eyes on her.” The call ended.I’d have to move closer than we had originally planned. I turned on the wiper to rid the windshield of the trickling droplets of water. I couldn’t imagine Miss Victoria in the rain, just standing there. The rain had been so unexpected that no one thought to bring an umbrella and I couldn’t go meet her. She wouldn’t like that.All that fog, rain, phone call and distance was all it took for me to lose sight of her.A car whizzed past me and I looked at the car, alarmed. It was the same car that drove Mr Rivers. So, where was Miss Victoria?I drove right up to the
It was probably unhealthy but I was back at work. My bruises had healed but my mental health was still recovering.I was working like never before. I didn’t pick calls from Charlie either. I needed space from the family. If she thought an apology could somehow fix that, she was dead wrong. People whispered behind my back as I went through the day. Only Dara had the guts to ask what happened.“I just fell sick for a couple of days. Nothing too serious.” I faked a smile. My voice wasn’t back a hundred percent but I was clear enough for people who came close to me.She smiled sadly and got back to work but not before telling me to delegate some of my work to her if I was feeling tired. I nodded in response and continued what I was doing.I was far behind on my work on my personal project because of the recent happenings around me. Well, no more. I wasn’t going to let anyone or anything distract me, not even gossip.***“I heard she and boss are seeing eachother.”“Really? Eww! She’s so s
I ran to my apartment and met the door ajar. The place was trashed in its entirety.“What the f*ck!” The chairs were torn apart and feathers and foam were strewn across in no particular order. I ran to my room to see if it was in similar fashion. Everywhere was disorganised. I covered my nose to avoid the horrible stench wafting in.“What the f*ck is this?” There was blood everywhere. The words man stealer were painted in red over my bathroom mirror. The whole place was in disarray.It looked more horrible than the picture the unknown sender had forwarded to me. I picked up my phone to call the one person I would tell on a whim. Pissed at me or not, he needed to know. A movement caught the corner of my eye, sending my heart dipping to my stomach. Before I could turn to find out what or who it was, I felt a sharp pain at the back of my head.I fell to the floor with a loud thud, my head hitting the counter top in the process. Warmth trickled through my hair down to my neck and my vision
Kol’s POV“So… Did you get everything you needed?” If Josh thought I was going to dignify that with an answer, he was senile.“Come on man. We got who we were looking for, didn’t we?” No, we didn’t. Not entirely. The manager had interrupted us before the woman could say anything. We didn’t need her anymore. Everything we needed was right with me and though it’d take longer to figure it out, we’d figure it out together. Me and this nincompoop.“The end justifies the means, no?”“Certainly does not.” Dimitri said nothing as we drove back to the company. Silent as ever.“So, mind telling what the f*ck happened between the both of you?” I thought I saw Dimitri look back and then front swiftly with the speed of a cheetah but maybe I was wrong.“Thought you said she told you.” If I didn’t think Josh knew he couldn’t physically win a fight with me, because I’d beat his a*s to pluto and back, blindfolded, he would have punched me with the look on his face.“Your side of the story.”“Look, I k
Tori’s POVI squeezed my eyes tight as the ringing in my head increased. I groaned in pain. My head hurt like a b*tch. I raised my hands to feel the back of my head where I knew my hair was matted and a lump was forming but my hands wouldn’t budge.I opened my eyes but there was almost no difference from when my eyes were shut. Everywhere was dark. Black. Black was the appropriate word. Was it day? Was it night? I couldn’t tell. How long had I passed out?I clenched my fists and pulled my hands but only a metal clang echoed in what I now poorly saw as a large empty and abandoned building. I was bound. Silver glinted in the dark. Were those metal rods?I tried to pull myself up but my feet wouldn’t budge either. Bound by hands and feet. I came up short on who could have done this. I hadn’t figured it out in months, thinking I could figure it right now was just fool’s hope. I had nothing else to do than to wait for an opportunity, an opening, something.What kind of sadistic human tied u
Kol’s POVWe had our stalker, now we had to find her. She was going to regret ever laying hands on what was mine. She had managed to make her face so forgettable and unsuspecting that she never crossed my mind.“The police are on their way.” They’d better be. I wasn’t going to wait for them. I looked for our employee records. This wasn’t some other company. It was mine and I had the right to do whatever. I pulled up Dara Pears’ records.“Her address?” Josh sneered beside me. Josh was just as pissed as I was. She had been right under our noses all this while.“Got it.” I put in the location into our map and Josh drove us there.“I can’t believe that tiny, shy f*cker is a f*cking stalker and assaulter. Did you know she liked you?” Josh stared at me incredulously for a few seconds and looked back to the road.“No. Of course not. I mean, I knew she was weird around me but she was weird around everybody.” I shivered in disgust. I remembered the thousands of roses, how she stalked my house.
WARNING: VIOLENT SCENCESTori’s POVThe swelling around my head and jaw where I had been hit hurt like h*ll. My legs had turned numb and I was sure there was a purpling bruise around my ankles just like they were around my wrists. My vision kept going in and out of focus. I was already partially blind without my glasses, the dim lighting only worsened the situation.Dara had gone out again to receive some call and everytime she came back, her mood worsened. She became agitated. She’d given me two kicks in the ribs because I had breathed too loud, sending me sprawling on the floor. I was hurting everywhere but my survival was paramount. I wasn’t sure anyone was coming to save me so, I had to save myself, if there was even any chance at all that I was going to make it.I hurriedly slipped my house key from beneath my hips where I lay and prayed. It was rare that different keys worked for the same lock but the off chance that it could had me fumbling for the locks of my wrist. If my apart