Promised To The Alpha Twins – Chapter 19
The arms were squeezing me tightly, but I resisted being touched and shook myself, desperate. It didn’t take long before those hands trying to hold me gave up, and I kept trying to free myself from the sensation of their touch, even though a voice was screaming at me, deep inside my head, that it was enough, that I should lift my gaze and see who was in front of me.
This time I obeyed.
I lifted my gaze and could recognize, among the shadows that covered them, Ethan and Liam. They were observing me just as surprised, if not more, as I saw them at that moment.
ussan, but what… What happened to you
cause it stung again with a throbbing pain, and in the twins’ bewildered expr
ace and, feeling embarrassed and furiou
f them seeing me in the state I was in.
us help you.”
hand off my shoulder. “I’m tired of you and all of this. Leave me al
more than just strength, I continued on my way, this time with the firm intention of taking
as I could.
felt the grass under my feet, damp and soft, accelerating my steps as if I could glide through it, and although the bushes scratched my arms, the long-sleeved shirt I was wearing protected me from the thorns.
t felt like I had been running a whole lifetime there, but at others, it was as if I had only done it for a few moments.
cost.
kest darkness and find the detour I needed to reach the road that would take me home. When I found it, I took refuge at the first sound of an approaching car. Hidden behind a fern, I watched it pass and only came out again when I was sure no car would stan
t was already familiar to me, close to home.
ry, I wanted to arrive and have them there. I cared little or nothing about what either of them might say about t
ch and bounded up to the entrance. I opened the door and stepped into the saf
t them help you?” said that strange voice that had now taken root in
: to be going insane.
to me anymore. Leave me alone. I don’t want to know anything more about them, not Chloe, not Amelia, Vera, or Erick. They are names and people that I n
mental balance.
nes who can protect you now,” answered that strange voice that ha
y mind.
manifestation of that voice to the drug Erick had given me, I had no other explanation, and I clung to it because it was the only thing th
he never seemed to change positions, although when he did, it was better for me to be hidden.
thing in the kitchen and must have felt me approaching because she turned with the sound of my shadow. Just like with the twins, I suspected how terrible my face must have looked when I saw her horrified expression. Later, I also realized that the appearance of my body couldn’t have been any better because her eyes roamed, wide-eyed, all over my humanity.
ve her time to even exclaim an
I saw her, in the reflec
e press. So many branches hung from her hair that she looked like he came from a theatrical performance where she had played a fern, and the zipper of my pants was still open. If I didn’t cry at that moment, it was because my appearance was also dramatically funny.
but she either believed she had seen a ghost or she was confirming that nothing about me mattered to her except bank deposits.
phone on my right buttock.
it with me, it was also almost intact.
her number.
I hear from you! What happened to you? Where are y
tatement.
m?”
r that I had seen them.
, “I was surprised because I thought it was there, so I went by and asked the twins if they knew anything. They didn’t know
had run into them on the street, near the house where the party did take place, and Aly’
ided to come home. I need to rest now.”
”
nly a few minutes after hanging up, I f