25. A New Beginning .

Lucien Delano

It was only after two days that it finally dawned on him that she had left him for good.

Worse, she appeared to have vanished from the face of the earth. There was no trace of her.

Her friends appeared to be as baffled as he was.

In the ferocity of his anger, he had driven to the apartment that very night, the one she had shared with her old friends, although it had been close to 4 a.m when he stood, banging on the door, unmindful of the commotion, ignoring the irate neighbors.

One look at his furious snarling face, and the old woman who had peeked out from the neighboring apartment to complain had vanished hastily.

The bleary-eyed girls had been as perplexed, openly worried.

The tall blonde, Tanya had been on the verge of tears,

'You...gangster, she sobbed,' You broke her heart, didn't you? With those cheap photographs pasted all over the net!'

She had been too distraught to continue, sitting down on the couch and howling,

'Now she's gone...!!!'

Luc