All Chapters of Vows & Void: A Marriage Unbound: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

The loud, steady beeping in my head made me stir awake in my sleep. At first, I thought it was my alarm. I rolled to the left side of my bed. Do I really have to go to school? Can’t I just be a bed potato for a day, please? A blaring ring from a phone I thought was mine reached me, and I searched for it. I got you, I mumbled under my breath. “Hello, Mr. Quin.” A deep, husky voice reached my ears. “Who is this?” I jerked up from the bed, fully awake. “Mr. Quin, you called me.” Huh? In reflex, I looked at my screen, and the caller name was saved as “Mr. Smith The Hard Core.” I struggled to remember how I got the number and where. My attention was suddenly drawn to the long tube inserted in my hand. An IV drip? Did my crisis start again? And where’s this place? I know I’ve had a series of crises, and this wasn’t the first time I woke up with an IV drip in my hand, but I had never woken up in a different room with a loud beeping computer beside my bed. My dad would only invi

“You’re beginning to scare me now Mace, why would he drug me?” I asked.Mace shrugged his shoulder, half as calm as I thought he will be.“I don’t know, how can someone wake up with no memory of a whole month, I mean it weirdly unbelievable if you ask me.” Well, his speculation might be true. I remember that man coming out of the bathroom with a towel around his neck, while I was just on this big jersey with only a black lacy pant which design I’ve never seen before.I felt too exhausted to start crying, my eyes were already swollen from tears. “We will figure this out together Gina.” Mace said in a calm soothing voice.I picked up my phone which I had carelessly thrown on the couch when I first entered.“You know Mace. Someone called my phone.” I said as I wonder who that was.“Your dad? Because your line was off.” Mace lazily enquired.“The caller, referred to me as Mr Quin.” “Wait, Mr Quin…Mr Quin? Like The Mr Quin? Or Mr Deshawn Quin?” He questioned unbelievably.“Wa

Before we knew it, Mace had a grip on Deshawn’s collar, hiding me behind his wide back, his eyes burning with anger. Deshawn, on the other hand, looked calm and collected, as if Mace were just some sort of nuisance. “Call the cops, Gina!” Mace thundered. “Mace, please calm down. He’s not what we think he is,” I pleaded, surprised at myself for taking the side of a complete stranger over my childhood best friend.“What do you mean, Gina?” Mace asked, confusion written all over his face. Shawn firmly removed Mace’s grip from his collar, then dusted it off as if there were invisible dust on it. With a gritty, cold smile, he stretched out one hand while the other was stuffed into his pocket.“Quin Deshawn, I believe you’re Mason, Regina’s childhood best friend.” Mace threw a surprised glance toward me, and I shrugged. Dude, even I don’t know how he knew everything about me either.Mason’s eyes traveled from my face to Deshawn’s outstretched hand. I could feel the heat emanating from him.