He Chose The Mistress, I Took Everything

Vitiel

asn't just falling;

dissolving the city into a blurre

shivering in my trench coat, watching

d SUV pulled u

, equipped with bulletproof glass and

door clic

ated that Dante step

llo didn't serv

he stay

ette against the

another silhou

ainst my ribs, a fra

eager to get out of th

as my

ught on a

rp and white-hot, stealing

my knee slamming on

hem of my coat, staini

t the open ma

looking

dn't

his wife, who was kneeling

t flicker with conce

oice cutting through the sound of the

swallowing a scream,

with every heartbe

he car and cl

melled of rich leather and a sickly sweet l

s sitting next

. A porcelain doll in a

etually on the verge of tears, and she was wearing a

laced with faux concern. "Are you okay? You

dn't loo

he temperature controls

missing my pain with a wave o

ur

harder than

mule. Like somethin

water dripping from my hair on

nally flicking to mine, cold and detached. "Sofia

red a

icate stomach while I was bl

ay, merging seaml

his posture softening in

ftly. "That is the park where w

a sound like

st got arrested for

lau

shared sound-a lan

her side of the

the bo

the ch

st haunting m

to Sofia, completely ignoring my presence. "The arch

d snap

d," I said, my voice sharp.

ally look

were shar

tional, Elena.

to Sofia, shutt

he thinks the main terminal sho

I argued, my voice rising despite the pain in my ankle.

" Sofia chimed in

t it to be bea

miled

mile, sharp teeth hid

ctly what sh

just taking

erasing

my hands tremblin

o the estate,"

off!" I

his eyes darting to

at me, his ja

ene. You are emba

. "Parading your mistress in front

hand t

I thought he m

essed a button

t and back seats slid up with

e bourbon on his breath. "You will sit there, and you will be silent. Yo

ed at

her compact mirror, entirely unboth

that silence w

deep breath be

re I burned his whol