Chapter 94

Karl

I woke up to the sound of my alarm with a terrible hangover that threatened to rip my head apart. I had spent the entire night drinking, cussing at Lennox, strategizing how I was going to tear Lennox and Diamond apart, doing more drinking, and then ultimately falling asleep. I didn't think I could be this affected by a person, more so a woman. Not even my own family had this much control over my mood and behavior. I had learnt to just pretend that they didn't exist and that they didn't matter to me, as they have done to me all my life. It was easy to do that. But with Diamond, the case was very different. When she had broken up with me, I was hurt but I didn't react this way. When she went ahead to get married to my brother, I was devastated but I never reacted this way. Even when she and Lennox threatened to frame me for assault just to get out of their ‘happily married life,’ I didn't react this way. Then, I was already sick of getting hurt by one woman. I had accepted that I l