He turned the bend as fast as he could. Getting to the same spot she had been seconds ago at a supernatural speed, he looked around, but she was nowhere to be found.
It did look like she had just disappeared into the dimly lighted hallway.
His heartbeat sounded in fury at the thought of everything. No one had ever turned him down, at least not this way, no one had ever resisted his charms.
She had done both. She had turned him down and surprisingly resisted his charm.
Someone once told him about fate. His father or nanny, he couldn't quite place it at the moment.
He ran his hands through his hair, this felt like a perfect example of everything they had talked about.
Right there, he was chasing shadows of something. Something he might not find at the end, and it did look like he had
