CHAPTER 11: REVENGE FANTASY
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Dylan's POV
I watched her. Her body was shaking, as though she had been poured some really cold water. Her fingers, down to her knees. Her face was as pale as a ghost.
What could make a woman shake like this, I thought, observing her lips as they quaked.
"They framed me," she said. Her eyes already pink, with tears flowing away from them, like a stream all cascading down her cheeks.
I could feel it for myself, an intense emotion of betrayal. I knew just how hard it was to take the fact that you got betrayed by someone you thought to be your friend and close one.
"I'm so sorry," I heard myself say, struggling in my head to decide whether I should put my hand on her shoulder or not.
"It's alright," she said to me, words in between the sobs. "It's all in the past."
Those words stung me in my soul. "What is in the past?"
"All of it. I don't want to think about it anymore. I don't want to think about it anymore. I want to take it all in and shove it somewhere I would not remember, lock it up,, and throw it in a river."
I chucked. I could detect something in her tone of voice, a faintness.
"Why are you laughing?" she asked, her eyes looking down at me from the bed where she was, her fingers and palms pressed into the thick duvet.
"O,h nothin,,g," I said, casting my gaze at the window. It was a crescent moon just outside of it, illuminating the approaching darkness that shrouded around it, like a beaten soldier, surrounded by a ton of enemies. There was not a single cloud around it.
"What are you looking at?" She turned around partially, a bit worried and still shaky. "You have not answered me yet. I know you were not laughing for nothing."
"And what do you think I was laughing at since you say so?" I brought my gaze back to her.
"What? Well..." Her voice seemed to freeze in her throat as her words found no bearing.
I decided to spit it all out. "Let me tell you this, as truthfully as I could ever be. You do not really believe you can let go of all that hurt. And you know it. You might try to lie to yourself, but deep down you know that you will only be hurting yourself more if you do."
There was silence. The kind I would always keep after saying something that I thought the person really needed to sit down and think for themselves about.
"So what did you want me to do?" she asked, as teary-eyed as she had been.
"I don't need to tell you. For God's sake, you are a grown up. You can make any decision for yourself as long as you have the means to carry it out. Don't let me, or even anyone tell you what to do."
She looked down at the floor. I could only see her hair, but I could tell her green eyes were scanning not the ground but her self, her soul.
She looked back up at me. "I have decided....I have decided that I will make them pay. I will get to the bottom of all of this."
He chuckled once again. This time she did not ask a question.
"I can tell that you are telling yourself the truth this time," I said. "And I will help you. I promise to. I will add that to my side of the bargain."
I did not know when I placed my finger to her chin, drawing her head upwards, and she followed without resistance of any sort. She had a really round face, and oddly, on her cheeks were cheekbones that gave it sigh a regal look. Adding to that were the green eyes. Looking at it, I remembered telling her that I did not find her attractive in the slightest. Perhaps that was an exaggeration on my part. I was beginning to see it after all.
Her lips were pouted as she drew her face in, closer for a kiss. I drew my hand away, retracting like the claws of a cat.
"Stay back," I said at once to her. "What are you doing?"
"I just... I just... I thought you wanted it." Her eyes immediately took on the look of desperation that I found in them the first moment we met. I grew a sudden disgust and began to leave.
"Wait, stop" she pleaded, about standing up and following me."
I gave it a thought briefly and decided to wait. "Tell me what you need to say, and quickly too. It's already gotten pretty late. Tomorrow is going to be a very long day."
"Okay." I could hear her breathe anxiously. "I just needed to ask; what... What do you think of me?"
I could not tell what it was she needed me to say to her, but then, I did not really care either way. "Oh, I don't think of you... Not at all."
Her face grew pale at my words, and her head sunk low below her shoulder like a hook dipped into water.
"Okay," she said solemnly.
"At least, not today," I added as well. "Goodnight." I walked out of the room and got my own room, different from hers. I needed somewhere smaller. I found hers too big with a lot of very unnecessary and useless things.
I got the the bathroom immediately. There was a mirror just close to the jacuzzi. I was about to take off my clothes when my phone beeped. I saw that it was a call from Jack. I picked it up.
"Hello," he began immediately. "I ran an intelligence check on the woman you picked on the way, just in case. I just think there is something about her you should know."
"Tell me," I said, impressed that Jack had already gotten info on her, and guess what it was.
"It seems she just got released from prison today. She was arrested and charged to court for the smuggling of drugs."
"It's alright, Jack. I just found out all about that today."
"I see... So do you still want to press on with your plans with her?"
There was a slight hesitation in my tone, but then, I finally said "We shall see.”
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