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RAINI

A heart crisis.

Still dressed in a yellow floral dress on a floppy shoe, I felt my lie was enough to evade him.

It was one of the hottest days of the summer so far, and already one of the windows in the room was opened as fresh air came in through the window.

The wind breezed in slowly and coolly and just when I felt it might bring more calm to my heart doing great things to it …it never did, and so I never got to cool off.

I was still right there thinking when the knock came, I would have thought he might have gone off but it turned out to be right there at my door.

The front door opened and I saw him right there as the awareness ran from my nape down the length of my spine. I realized that I couldn't run from the man, not in his house.

I had never felt more numb in front of a man than when having this conversation with Zavier Wood.

It seemed he took a part of my mind and made it his, a mind control freak as you may say.

Standing right there listening to him try to get the wo