The Second Life of Lenora

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answer in his head to give her. That gesture alone made him look hotter. Lenora thoug

uld I?" His British accent and his husky voice were like lullabies in Lenora's ea

sume you go around kissing women like that." She spat, hoping to derive some s

himself, did that mean he went around kissing women? She thought to

tay away from him. I don't

. "What's your name?" Lenora found herself asking, but she

Megan to spite her. They had been cheating on her just like she knew already, but it was another level of pain to witness it happening again. It felt like it was over

e body scent had captured her like a drug. She had felt strangely safe in a stranger's arms. That wasn't the plan. "Get it together Nora," She smacked herself lightly on the cheek. She sho

ed. Her gold-colored heels clicked elegantly against the pavem

blamed it on exhaustion and the lingering effects of that unexpected kiss. S

e her feel better. Her mother had warned her severally in the past to stay away from Lucian but

oticed that the door was unlocked. Her breath hitched. Emily, her mother, was one caut

left. She walked deeper into the house. "Mum?" She called out but got no response. And that was when

you there?" Her voice shook as the smell became thicker the more she walked in

ear. All her senses were now highly ale

felt heavier, as if the walls themselves were pressing in. Wh

ad searched through it. The coffee table had been shifted slightly, and the lar

had been

ne was st

t like she was close to panicking. She could o

. The hairs on her neck stood on end. She turned around slowly, her pulse drumming in her ears. "Mum, is that you

on it, that she almost thought she had imagined it. Slowly,

her mother's voice, low and weak. She scrambled up and fled to the kitchen only to see her mother on the marble floor in a pool of blood. "God no!" She screamed as

no 83. My mother was just stabbed and she's dying. Please n

tic swirl of urgency. Lenora sat in fear in the back of the ambulance, clut

es fluttered open every now and then, whispering weak

her voice cracking. "Please, you'r