Chapter 20 - SHATTER (1/2)
People do crazy things when their heart gets broken.
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Lise stayed still on the bed, with her body curled into a fetal position, as Gael covered her nakedness with a blanket and kissed her cheek, her temple, her hair and shoulder.
”I love you,” he whispered, as if he meant it, although what he had given her was nothing but pain. ”I want you to stay until I say otherwise.”
In other words, Lise would miss her class for weeks, or maybe she wouldn't return to college this semester and must repeat it again.
Lise kept silent until she heard the sound of the door closing and the bedroom fell into a pit of silence, while out there, the darkness still hung over the night sky, it would be an hour or so before dawn.
Finally, when the girl finally felt safe in this solitude, her demeanour cracked.
At first it was a soft sob that echoed throughout the dark room, a whimper from a broken girl who just experienced how cruel and unfair life could be, yet it didn't take too long before her whimpers to turn into a full blown crying session.
She wept and howled in pain, as her chest tightened and no matter how hard she tried to keep herself together, the realization that hit her kept shattering her apart.
She saw her future in fear, as she knew how it would be if things kept going like this.
Lise cried until her throat hurt and her heart splintered into a million pieces, but that was not enough. The anger and sadness that entailed her pain was simply too much for her to bear.
She didn't know how long she cried her heart out, but when Anna, a woman in her mid thirties, who was in charge of overseeing all her needs, came into the room, all left of Lise was only a girl, who was staring away into the distance.
Anna had short auburn colored hair and her bright green eyes stared at Lise, but she said nothing, as she put down her breakfast tray and walked out of the room silently.
Lise was as good as dead at this moment.
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”Where is Knox?” Gael asked one of Knox's men whose name he couldn't remember, as he stormed into the gloomy house that served as Knox's base of operations.
”Basement,” the man replied hastily and caught up with Gael, but the latter stopped walking and glared at him.
”Why are you following me? Do you think I don't know where the basement is?” He had been here countless times, they should have known him and his temper and at this moment, Gael was not his easy- going self, it was quite clear to see it.
”Mr. McKeltar doesn't want to be interrupted, he is in the middle of interrogation,” he said.
”Don't worry, I will let him know a new method to kill someone, but if you follow me, I will assume that you want to volunteer to try it first hand.” Gael smiled, it was a harmless smile, but everyone knew better than to push him further.
The man stood still and when Gael continued walking away, he no longer followed him and only reported his appearance to the other man.
Meanwhile, Gael walked down the same corridor that he had known like the back of his hand and smelled the dampness in the air that he hated the most. If it was not for what Knox did, he wouldn't have been here to confront him.