Katie's POV I found myself softly slipping into a soft slumber on the bin bag I sat in while their laughter and conversation hovered over me. Till eventually, the darkness won. ~~~~~I could tell a lot of time had passed by the time I was woken up by a gentle tap on the arm. It was Shedrack. The sun had almost completely set and the night was looking very eager to take over as I stretched to look outside.The only thing that wasn't like I remembered was the living area. The bin bags had been taken away except for the one I laid on, making the living room space a lot wider than I remembered it. He told me we were going to have a party in an hour or two and I needed to get ready for it. Apparently, there was a pre-party ritual that was set to take place in the living room before people came by 8It was a whole dump of information for someone who had just woken up. I nodded in agreement like I understood everything he said and led myself to the room he had given me to stay in. I walked
Katie's POV “Viola!”My jaw could have as well fallen out when I saw the result of Babe's work. I was gorgeous.The make up was light, just as she said. But everything else was lurking with dark shades that somehow made the black dress I was wearing pop. I felt powerful. I was on my feet and heading closer to the mirror to have a closer look when I noticed the eyeliner, she also darkened my eyebrows and helped me make them better in shape.“Do you like it?” She asked, standing behind me. How could I not like it?“I love it!” I turned around and gave her a hug. I wasn't expecting it and neither was she but it only took a second for her to hug me back, laughing. “Now don't get all emotional and ruin the makeup," Babe scolded me. "The only thing that should ruin it is either a really good make out session or tears from throwing up today's regret.”I couldn't tell if she was joking or actually being serious, but either way, I didn't think both were going to happen considering I wasn't
Killian's POVI've been so busy looking out for Katie as well as babysitting Ana that I haven't stepped foot in my office for a long time. Walking into the building, the incessant chatter amongst my employees was suddenly replaced by a hushed silence, they weren't expecting me anytime soon though so their reaction was expected. "Good morning, Mr. Huxley," they greeted one after another, with a tight-lipped smile.I nodded in response and made my way to my office. As soon as I got to my office, Mellissa, the head of my campaign team walked up to me. "Killian we really really need you to make a quick interview or something. Donald is catching up with us—”“Melissa—”“He is on 56% chance rate now” some random guy chipped in from behind his computer. I know he was part of my team, but I only paid attention to Melissa. "See?" Melissa shoved her iPad in my face, not giving me a single second to process all they were saying. "Listen, Killian, I understand–""Melissa!" I snapped irritated
Katie's POVI have never felt more alive than I did at this moment.Babe and I have been taking over a hundred pictures throughout the party. I found myself conversing so easily with people I had never seen before and they all seemed to like me. It felt like a fever dream.I knew it was the effect of the alcohol. I have never taken this much since the last time I tasted it.Babe did say I was the chatty kind of drunk. My feet felt like they were made of rubber and spring but with the adrenaline pumping through my veins and my visual constantly being stimulated by deep LED light, to kept focusing on one thing before another took my attention.Right now, I was outside. The contrast of the cold air to the hot air inside made it seem like my skin could finally breathe and the air was finally getting through the silk dress.“Hey! There you are,” Roman called out, and came to sit beside me on the concrete bench that was infused into the ground. "I had no idea you were a party animal," he sa
Katie's POVA red wolf walked through the midst of clouds around me and I saw her.“Lucy?!”My voice echoed so loud in my own head that it hurt every corner of it. Even while I knew I lay awake in the real world, I could still feel the side of my cranium ticking from the worrying amount of blood that drove north to my brain.Truly, it was her. The similarity in the divinity of her presence remained constant. I unconsciously found myself bending to a knee.“What are you doing?” Lucy asked, her voice displaying elements of a puzzled being.I looked up at my wolf, her large red fur head was cocked to the side. Even in the unidentified world, she still somehow looked just like I remembered her the last time. “Am I dead?”I took the initiative to ask. I wanted to ask all this time instead of figuring it out on my own. Death had been explained in so many ways in the past and I feared this may have been one of them. “No Katie, you are not dead. This is your mind, where I stay.” I glanced a
Katie's POVTurned out that waking up in the lake was exactly what my soul needed exactly.Maybe it was the sun or the smell of earth that gravitated towards me coming from the woods that surrounded the lake but it healed the worry inside of me.It was Sunday. Sundays were usually the days I went grocery shopping with my mother even though it would come with a lot of grudges and second thoughts, I always went with her anyway. But now things had changed so fast, It took me some time to wonder what I was doing here.I retired to the not-so-cabin house after the sun started to get brighter with the aging of the day. I didn't know how I could exchange the warmest for the brightness so I decided to let it all go at once. The rest of them were on their phones scattered around the kitchen, the smell of pancakes brushing the air with that nice confectionery scent that reminded me of My Café where Shedrack and I worked. The only distinguishing property was the absence of coffee which no one wa
Katie's POV Staring down at my now dead screen phone, I waited for some sort of emotion to override me, pull me back into making another phone call, and apologize to a man powerful enough to run against my father. It just wasn't enough to beat the low-sipping rage that fueled my system. I looked down at my phone again.‘Maybe he would call back and I would just explain how this whole thing was his fault’I thought, tapping my feet on the ground. When I figured my nerves wouldn't let me rest—like at all, I picked myself up and walked all the way to the front of the house and just stood there, staring at the white door for entrance. Everything made me mad the more I thought about it.‘Cabin house my foot! It wasn't even a cabin house, it was like rich people wanted to eat their cake and have it,’I studied the house as it rose as high as the height of the trees beside it. Clearly, they knew how much of a mansion this was rather than a cabin…they knew exactly what the fuck they were do
Katie's POV A light flashed at me, the mic over my head.I literally walked into a media ambush. And There everyone stood in a U shape and I was right there in their center looking like a fish drawn out of the coldest lake. The sound of the door clicked behind me which meant the evil beast for a stepmother didn't only close the door to reduce my chances of escaping from this setup, but further threw the key into the ocean just to make sure that I was ruined. I haven't known her for long but it was very much typical of her.She sort of glided from my back where I couldn't quite see her but knew she was watching me to where I could see her full dull deep blue dress that stretched over her legs. The expensive pearl on her neck and modest hair were one instead of the extravagant lustrous hair she wore that bounced like it had spring infused in it.This was very much a huge set up alright. They looked modest, almost like they were mourning but with secret smiles on their faces.“Miss Kati