Promised To The Alpha Twins – Chapter 20
I managed to sleep enough to feel rested the next day. It was such a deep sleep that I didn’t even remember thinking about anything that happened the night before, which I didn’t recall until I saw the daylight filtering through the window of my room. The pain in my face returned, as well as in my ankle, which I checked superficially. It was a miracle that, after how much I had strained and even mistreated it, it wasn’t more swollen but, on the contrary, seemed to be healing.
Anyway, I had already decided that I would leave the town next Friday. I had considerable savings, still not enough to sustain me for a lifetime, but at least they would allow me to leave for another city, rent something, and get a job. I would eventually earn my degree with the GED exam.
During that week, I would finalize the details of the trip.
atever I managed to take home from the restaurant where I worked.
rom the night before, and the bruises around my injured eye kept it shut. The other eye had opened a little more; my lips were no longer bleeding, and I managed to concea
ed to the front door, but before I reached it, I met Lia, who was waiting for me with a glass of
e are for the pain,
ok them. I really ne
happened?”
llowed the pills.
”
s later with the same appearance you have now.”
the consignment she would receive that Friday was still pending, the same day I had planned to leave once and for all.
thing?”
thing she rarely did.
pen again. Whoever hurt you won’t do it again.”
ou’re not being serious. We both know that simply
in Lia’s expression, and it wasn’t pleasant. I don’t know what I stirred or unsettled within her, but I know it caused her pain.
house, just a few meters from the entrance, I could see her, and I knew that there, inside the car, another interrogation awaited me. I didn’t know what would be worse.
many times.
st behind me, but it didn’t happen, and I left.
sn’t worth trying too hard with me because, in the end, she didn’t really need to know what had happened to me because, as I would have told her, knowing wouldn’t change anything.
eyes when she looked at me. It wasn’t pleasant. The second round of the interrogation marathon that awaited me in the coming days was about to begin.
y asked before starting the car, her calm voice anticipating the start of a storm de
provoking her.
y hit the steering wheel hard, surp
bout you too?”
going to be late.”
u seen your face? What happened to you?”
I said, determined not to give in despite Aly’s anger.
in a terrible state and that you rejected them, that you acted crazy with them, but I hesitated to believe them.”
the fact that it won’t happen again,” I said, with the s
who.”
“Who?”
o did th
oulders.
ly, that doesn’t matter. The most
anger, Aly started the car and set off, but I already knew that didn’t mean the interrogation was over. I needed to give her something to make her give up.
, I’ll tell you later, alright?”
but that didn’t mean she wa
ontinued the journey in silence, which I appr
rget of a barrage of glances, just as I expected, but the terror of my appearance at least deterred anyone from asking, including Angelo, who only looked at me as if he wasn’t sure whether I should work that day or not. He decided not to pay me for another day to stay at home.
as going through a tough time and needed all the help possible, so the tips improved significantly.
ooking for me, and without wasting a second, I went to hide in the kitchen.
I received from the twins, looked at me strangely.
’t you going to serve them?” sh
Jennifer seemed determined that I should go attend to the twins.
rs welled up in my eyes were enough to convince Jennifer, who then changed her attitude.
n. Follow me,” she said, extending h
I took it, albeit hesita
he employees’ bathroom with me.
ur makeup,” she said while rummaging through her bag. “You look the worst I’ve
er words. Jennifer could be tough and sometimes too blunt, without filters, but now I could see that she was also a good person or, at least, acted guided by fr
ng area, don’t worry.”
s I touched up the makeup that had smudged from the tears that managed