Submitting novel Chapter 47

A door opened somewhere. It was one of those classic cliche door opening noises in horror movies. The same groaning squeak, the same sluggish movement and most of all, the anonymity of its source. And then there was absolute silence.

I kept looking into Liza’s eyes who looked at me the same but it wasn’t the Liza I knew at all. The dark, soulless eyes looked at me unflinchingly. Not a single expression at display but just a poker face that revealed nothing and yet so much. I knew this was not my Liza and whatever was going to happen next, I was going to be all alone through it.

Arms wrapped around me from the behind and squeezed me into tight embrace. A face buried in my neck and inhaled me deep and strong. Their body warm but I felt nothing but chilling cold.

“I missed you.” He whispered in my ear and I knew that all the things that I tried to escape from are back. All the paid that I went through was nothing but a waste. The loss that I had, all but in vain.

“I missed you too.” I dragged in a shaky breath. Trying to steel myself for what was about to come.

“I know you did.” He made me turn around and look at his face, his serpent eyes, sparkling like a cursed gem. A small smile on his face that looked genuine, pale skin and dark circles underneath his eyes. He missed me indeed.

He stared at me and I stared at him until he closed the gab between us and kissed me deeply. His hands roaming, feeling me to make sure that I am not just thin air. And I let him. my hand inching towards my thigh but before anything else could happen, a large slap resounded on Dimitri’s back and in walked Ivan with his glinting smirk.

“Enjoying your makeup sex?” He spared me a glance that held so many things which were impossible to unpack in that split moment before he walked over to Liza and kissed her harshly with his hand on his neck. It went on for a few minutes while Dimitri snuggled his face back in my neck and I just stood there looking at the both of them.

“You did good babe” Ivan broke the kiss finally and whispered loudly enough for all of us to hear. Penelope just laid there on the counter, completely quiet from the moment the two men walked in. “We meet again, Rosie.” He turned to look at me and nodded in acknowledgement. I didn’t want to talk to him at all, but instead smiled to my bestest ability and looked away, hoping he wouldn’t sense the insincerity in my demeanour.

With that he turned Liza around so that her back was facing me as he kissed her again, ferociously, as if she was the one who had run away and was missing from his life for months. Meanwhile, his eyes scaled me, making sure I kept looking at him with an unblinking gaze with all the hatred I had inside me for him, raw and bare.