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____...○ ○ ○ O L I V I A ○ ○ ○.Every single cell in my body screamed in protest. I could hear a faint buzz of chaos around me but no matter how hard I tried to open my eyes or move my hands, I just could not. I let out a groan and all the buzz stopped immediately. "Dude, she is waking up." I heard a gruff voice over the deafening ringing in my ears. "Should we call the boss and let him know?" "I will do that. You stay here." I heard another man. I could hear a door opening and closing, and as I squinted my eyes open, who looked rugged but still no more than in his early twenties, walked over to me. I finally adjusted to the room. It was a well-furnished room and I was on a canopy bed which looked like my childhood dream and my daughter's worst nightmare. "Who... Who are you?" It was an effort to speak. "And how did I get here?" "You have been kidnapped, duh." He shrugged as if he was talking about the weather. Was this man for real? "I can see that." I said more fi
______...○ ○ ○ J A C K S O N ○ ○ ○ .“Do you know what this feels like?” Olivia spun on her heels and looked at me with a questioning brow. “What?” I asked, looking around. We had been silently enjoying our respective ice cream cones and we had not talked about anything for a while. I did not know what was going through her mind. Was she going to bring up something that I did when I was busy being an idiot?“The whole situation.” She waved her hand in the air in general. “It feels like we are trying to solve a puzzle without finding all the pieces. And sometimes, it feels like we have too many pieces and too many puzzles and we don't know what goes where.” I rubbed the back of my neck. She was right about that. It did feel like life was shit these days. "So what do we do? How the hell are we supposed to find out whether we are stuck with one puzzle and a few missing pieces? Or whether we are stuck with multiple puzzles and too many different pieces?" I asked
______...○ ○ ○ O L I V I A ○ ○ ○."So what is the story behind the hair?" I asked as I placed the plates of muffins in front of us. Jackson slid into the seat next to me with the tray of coffees. And he gave a look. The man did not seem as interested in Agatha as I was. I knew where he was coming from. I was talking to a potential criminal like she was a friend from high school. But she was so old and looked so sweet and had the prettiest hair. I aspired to have her kind of confidence. Here I was, in my thirties and never even plucking up my courage to get my hair dyed in any other color which strayed two shades away from my original brunette waves, and then there was this ancient woman, at least in her seventies - if not in her eighties - with the most punky looking hair out there. Agatha shrugged. "I never got to live my life like I wanted when I was younger. So now I do what I want, because how the hell am I supposed to look my mother in the eye when I get there?
____...○ ○ ○ J A C K S O N ○ ○ ○.I was never one to pretend that I was a good guy. In fact, there was a time when I used to be proud of the fact that I was a piece of shit who would go to any extent to get what I wanted. But, I guess those days were over. Because all of the bad things that I did to others were coming right back at me. And it was not a good feeling. I guess that was my lesson. Now I knew how it felt to be stabbed in the back. How it felt to have all my options crashing against each other. To have to run and run and run and only find myself in a dead end. I felt as if I was stuck in the middle of an ocean, and I did not know which direction to swim. I was trapped, and I was trapped with Olivia. But she seemed infinitesimally more positive than I did. Maybe because she was not overburdened by all the things. Her priorities were simple. One, protect Lilith Corp because it was my mother's legacy and she could not have someone like Thomas Abrams taki
_____ . . . ○ ○ ○ O L I V I A ○ ○ ○ . I felt like a teenager who was doing something that I was not supposed to do behind my parents. Which did not make any sense since I was thirty-years-old and I was here with my so called husband. And technically, it was my Dad who started this by not listening to reason and going on a revenge rampage which made no sense. To hurt Jackson, he was allying with a man who had hurt the love of his life. Which was horrendous. If Mom found out, she would be devastated. My father did not care about me as much as she cared about my mother. I felt like it was more of an ego bruise than some real hurt regarding me that was making him do it. After all, all of this shit had happened right under his nose for all these years and he had not even caught a whiff of it. That must have hurt his feelings. California was a cool and cheerful as compared to the serenity of the Chateux. I mean, I would have enjoyed the stay there if it was not for
______...○ ○ ○ O L I V I A ○ ○ ○."I just realized my life sucks!" I exclaimed at the breakfast table. "And why is that?" Jackson asked, patting his face with a napkin. "Well, my marriage sucks. My honeymoon sucks. And I am going to have an anxiety attack in the first vacation I have gone on in years!" I groaned. Jackson feigned hurt but chuckled as soon as I narrowed my eyes at his theatrics. "Can I pretend to be sick so that we can go back?" I asked. "My heart is being squeezed inside my chest!" "You were fine when we landed. What happened now?" Jackson asked. I hated how relaxed he looked in all of this when anything could happen at any moment and destroy everything. "I swear, Jackson, I will throw something at your head if you do not look more worried about what is going on! This is insane. I am going crazy. And you are here, having a hearty breakfast." Jackson heaved out a sigh, that stupid sigh he does when he thinks I am being unreasonable, and my need to thr