CHAPTER 55
GLENN"What?""Santiago? "I couldn't process my thoughts for a minute, but the words kept going through her words again, what could it be that he wanted.Had he gotten back his memories…"Hello?" The voice came again, it was only then I realized I was still yet to give a reply." Oh, sorry." I apologized. "I'd try to be there, but I am still a bit busy right now.""He is getting discharged this evening, you could as well make it here before he leaves. "I nod my head, "Alright. " I rolled my eyes.Already, Ann was signaling to me wanting to know what was going on or at least that was what I thought till I turned and came face to face with my boss.Apparently, she had been trying to tell me he had walked in and I had been too dumbass stupid to get whatever she was trying to say, at that moment, I was filled with a different type of fear.I watched as his gaze settled in on me, at that moment I could see his gaze filled with disdain."I—""Save it, how do you explain making a personal call while on duty that is totally unprofessional."His gaze burned into my cheek. “I was just… The call came in impromptu. "" And you thought the best place to get this call is here. " He ran his hands through his hair frustrated.I wasn’t sure how I recognized It but I could tell that I was totally in deep shit, I needed no one to tell me that .He wasn’t someone to sit around giving second chances and yet he had given me like — Ten or so."I will deal with you later." He walked out.Soon, as he was out I let out a breath and inhaled one of fresher air.It was as though a heavy weight had been lifted away from my shoulders.Ann walked quickly to where I was. "That was a close one." She grasped my shoulder."I had been trying to tell you he was there, what were you thinking?"All that while I was still trying to get my breath, I leaned on the table for support."Trust me , I don't know.""What was this all about?"she asked.By now I knew she was talking about something entirely different. She was no longer talking about the fact that i might lose my job very soon." The call? " I asked just to be sure."yeah, I am curious tell me what it was about. "I hesitated for a minute not wanting to speak, I was feeling frustrated already at this point . One part of my mind was wondering how I could fit into all of this."Glenn." She called me just to let me know she was still waiting."Santiago asked to speak with me."She gasped, I could tell she was surprised as I was about the recent situation."That is unexpected." She mutters when she finally found her voice.Some part of my mind was screaming right at her, demanding that somehow in my head I'd have a way out of these maze."I wasn't expecting this, I don't even know if I am ready to face him."I admitted my fear's, it had exactly been why I had been this scared, nit knowing if truly I wanted to see him. Not knowing what he would say.If there was anyone that would totally understand this state I was in, it was most definitely her.As her gaze settled in on me I could see every bit of her fears too in them."What do I feel this is about to get so much worsen?""No , don't say that… why would you think the situation wouldn't get better? " He asked." I don't know, I am just so Confused. "I sighed after speaking. The entire room and this Silence almost like you could hear a pin drop.Soon, I was starting to feel my soul was being enclosed in all of this so much that I could feel it trying to burst out."What are you going to do?" She asked .It was a question I hadn't even tried to consider one that my heart filled with… Nothing!"To be honest, I have no idea. I am just ." I sighed.If there was anything I so much hated, it was making decisions on my own and this very much looked like one of them.Nausea swirled in my belly, and without even thinking too deeply about it I pressed a hand to my stomach, I could definitely feel the butterflies flipping round Inside of me, and tried to breathe through it.Still they swayed in it, they swayed as though my mind was a kind of place for them to me.Ann threw her hands around me.“You are going to be fine. " For some reason I tried to believe what she was saying and the fact that it was best I accepted it.It felt like she was squeezing the life out of me, as she embraced me enough that i felt that might as well just suffocate.“For goodness’ sake, Ann, you are going to choke me to death with that hug. "I commented.My word's forced a smile from her as we stared at ourselves for a brief second."You know, I really do appreciate your care all this while.""Well what more can I do?""Back to your lover —"" He is not my lover. " I rolled my eyes."Whatever, back to him what are you going to do? "" Honestly, I don't know… I am about to lose my job too, don't you think I should be worried about that more. "Ann hopped from her the counter where sher had been sitting, and I met herher midway —“You will be fine, I know Boss." She grimaced and rubbed my back.There was a part of me that just wanted to know, that just wanted to be sure that all of this would end up good.My heart danced at the the thought of thatas let out an unamused breath, but didn’t say another word.My stomach tightened with the need toassure myself that perhaps the call was for a good reason, as it did I felt an itch in. my throat but down the words."Alright, I would." I said, sighing. "I would go see him. "CHAPTER 56SANTIAGOI could tell all these weren't real but there was no way for me to stop it, the more I tossed on my bed every few seconds, the more I was buried Into this … This madness that looked to consume every part of me.At some point, I was hoping that all this would end at some point.I could feel it, I didn't need anyone to tell me all this was leading me to some kind of insanity.There was a missing chapter that I was certain about, but replacing those pictures was this bright blinding might .Something didn't feel right.My mind was clouded with thoughts, so many thoughts that all I saw was façade's.My mind went blank for a few seconds, at first I was wondering where I was.Tossing on my bed I was still caught up in the dreamscape, wondering how all of these would end or at least play out.From the distance all I could hear was the voice, then the sound of my name."Santiago!"My eyelids fluttered as I looked blankly at the woman for what seemed like long second's.Ju
CHAPTER 57GLENNMoments —They talk about moments being the best memories you never forget but for me it was more than that .All I wanted was for this one chance I had with him to last forever, we stood there still looking at each other, his gaze settling on me and setting me on flames."What do you really want?" I asked.Guess he might never get to know how bad I wanted him to speak and voice out whatever was it that was buried deep in his mind.All that followed was silence, silence that was so engrossing.I sighed. "You won't believe it if i tell you.""Well, the world just seems different after I wake up."A thick atmosphere hung in the air that I wouldn’t have expected in such a confined space.For starters, there were still those goosebumps every now and then and I didn't know how in the hell to control it or stop my mind from spinning.Or rather, the truth was I hadn’t exactly figured out what I would say, the world was at the back of my mind all jam-packed into a big hold
CHAPTER 58GLENN"What? I don't get you." I grimaced.I was trying to process my mind through whatever she was saying at the moment, still feeling stunned in a way that she had offered me money in exchange for me to leave him."Please, I know you want this deal so bad." She closed the rest of the space between us."I made my findings and I know you are in need of money.""But not your money."She shrugged. " Well. "Looking at her, I could say that she was the most impossible person. Here I was thinking of a way to ignore her but then she was coming up with this."Well, I know this is a very hard decision to make so I'd give you this." She hands me her card. " Call me when you make up your mind. "It was a long bus trip home, I sat with my head glued to the glass in deep thoughts about the entire situation.One part of my mind saw all of this as a lost course, perhaps taking the deal felt more kind of awkward.I sighed, at that moment I wasn't even thinking straight, my mind was cloude
CHAPTER 59SANTIAGOBeing traumatized came with it own demon and literally I could feel mine breathing down on my neck —Each night had been eventful on its own part after the accident, each left me stricken with fear with every bit of fear to face reality.It was as though I was staring straight into the eye of my own fear, the deeper I looked the more I was starting to know what all the craziness was about.I gasped suddenly, a thunder clasped across the sky as I woke up panting. It was only ten hours back home at the motel and already I was being tormented by these frequent nightmares over and over.The dream all starts the same way, I find myself walking in a path when suddenly I am dragged away and forced into some kind of path where I was being trailed by the shadow of a wolf.From a far away distance, the wolf sounded as my mind tried to get a hold on reality …Right there on my way every bit of everything else looked to melt away , fragments by fragments till it formed just o
ÇHAPTER 60SANTIAGOSaying that name went like a kind of relief, it was almost as if my mind had been waiting to scream it out , yet no matter how sweet it sounded it left me wondering why the name of that strange woman that saved my life was right there at the tip of my lips."Why did you say that name?" Her voice was calm and collected as age tried to know, it left a dangerous feeling behind." Why, I don't know… I just felt like .""Do you remember anything?" The name did strike a bell but remembering felt like something far- off.The conversation was going in a totally different way from what I expected, here I was trying to apologize for acting all rude and she was totally freaking out .This conversation should have been easy, perhaps relaxed, though I couldn’t help but notice her movements were slightly tense just before she asked the question."Santiago why did you say that name?" This time she sounded rather infuriating and I was on the verge of losing it again.It was as tho
CHAPTER 61GLENNLove is selfish —When it chooses you, it does regardless of class, gender and in my case specie. It gives you no chance but consumes you completely, till you are a part of its body, spirit and soul.I was a victim to this same fate, this love or whatever it was called. The thought of Santiago consumed every part of me till I felt no part belonged to me any longer . No matter how hard I tried it was almost impossible to shut him out of my thoughts.He took it over completely, so much that my soul travailed In search of him while I slept.At first, the lucid dreams appeared to me as unreal and unrealistic, but the fact they left the same feeling of thrill was what seeked to consume my own soul.I woke up in bed every morning with the memories of being at the window again, this time he was there as usual, right there standing at the edge of the window looking at the soul of my wolf.It occurred to me that something must be special about this man, I was left wanting to kn
CHAPTER 62GLENNWe were right there in her car and I couldn't believe she actually waited twenty minutes. I rang Ann before I made my way to her telling her about the whole situation just as I was leaving the apartment.The last thing I wanted was to share a bus with someone I so much hated, but at that moment it seemed like she left me with no choice.I had my heart right there in my mouth all this while, all this moment felt restless —right from the moment she got into the car till the car was Ignited.Martha remained silent as we drove, the sunlight flickering and fading into the car as we drove past the civilization.There was still that unreadable expression in her face each time I tried to look and guess what it was all about, she withardly said a word to me.During his silence, I let my mind race through all that she possibly wanted to say. I knew the bottom line would be the money, but I still wanted to know what she would say.Each turn she made, each sound if her fabric
ÇHAPTER 63SANTIAGOThe wind blew through the room as sweat dripped down my back under the scorching heat. I had woken up to an empty room and to make things worse she went with my phone.The feeling it left in me was irritating, as I was totally pissed—I was a free man yet I wasn't being treated as though I was. If there was anything humiliating it was definitely the fact she had me on lockdown and disappeared into the thin air without telling me where she was going to—The damn woman.I roamed around the room aimlessly, at one point I tried to wonder why she had acted so absurd.She actually had been acting weird since the previous night, but never would I have been able to guess that she would lock me indoors.With the heavy thoughts creeping through my mind, I could feel every pore in me break out in sweat.I walked into the bathroom and splashed water on my face as I could feel the tension coiled beneath my skin, the sudden urge to smoke filled my mind but even that seemed impo