Chapter 7 Brutal Lies

• Surprisingly, the man turned out to be a nice guy after all. He had a simplistic marvellous smile but the voice that took the form of Levy reminded me that he was the bad guy, definitely not the good guy.
• The guy seemed sceptical about me as he tried not to make it too clear that he glanced at me from time to time as we watched the fish scatter and come together again for the guy that flickered the food around on top of the gigantic aquarium.
• "Where are you from?" He asked unexpectedly. For a girl that had good grades, I was surely dumb-founded about his question as his beady-looking eyes analyzed me uncomfortably.
• Come on, Lia, think of the first country that would pop out in your mind. I encouraged myself as my fingers fidgeted.
• "I am from Alaska." I wanted to bash my head at the dumb answer, that was the first thing that came to mind and I didn't even look from Alaska.
• "Interesting." he gave me a side-eye as he inspected my attire and I wanted to cringe at his over-evaluated stare. Levy would surely have my head at the end of the day.
• It was already four pm and I was beside the most dangerous guy in the whole region. I wanted to vomit and I was itching to escape without him noticing.
• "It was nice to meet you," I said. "I have to go now to my mom, she's waiting for me." I excused myself and he shook hands with me. I attempted a calm and composed walk but I made the mistake of looking back at the man, he was already looking back at me, more like staring into my soul.
• I would not take responsibility that I went outside of my room to see the aquarium, it was Levy's responsibility because he was the one who didn't inform me about the man's new interest in aquariums.
• I rolled my eyes at Levy's already exposed news.
• "Mr. Denis is outside at the aquarium, don't go there."
• I wanted to laugh at Levy's oblivious state. The man already saw me and took his time to let his cerulean eyes devour all of me visually, memorizing me. How was I supposed to tell Levy now?
• Returning to the elevator because Levy decided to be overprotective and didn't allow me to roam around. I witnessed the guy from earlier now disappeared when he was in front of the aquarium, first row with me. I furrowed my eyebrows as my eyes tried to find the man and I successfully did, he re-entered the room. I guessed that it was the meeting area in the hotel.
• It seemed odd that the man decided to go out just to watch fish quarrel for food. It must have been for a completely different reason.
• I huffed in boredom when I placed the keys on the table and tried to distract myself by eating an apple. I still didn't reply to Levy on the phone because he would flip shit at me and scold me, possibly even return me to Oregon.
• Sensing something bad was going to happen, I turned on the TV to see the same two men with different names on the NBC news and my heart stopped at what I saw. These two men were a part of the global secret mafia and had killed 1,000 people in Orange County. I felt bile going up my throat as I focused on breathing, I had to protect Levy from them before they killed him after they would be done with him.
• A knock was heard and I was in my usual panicking mood since I got here. I opened the door to find a livid Levy with balled-up fists.
• His silence killed me when he barged in and I closed the door, afraid to be near him when he was out of his mind. His broad back flexed in agitation and my heart dropped when he turned his gaze from the view to me in a heated glare that stole my breath away.
• One realization settled into me: he knew that I was caught by the man.
• "You are going back to Oregon and that is final," he ordered strictly with a cold-hearted look on his face.
• "I had to listen to some gang man babbling about my girlfriend telling us that he meets a hot shag and how he wanted to fuck her senseless!" he roared and I whimpered as my eyes grew teary. "Never would I have imagined that I would regret the day that I told you about this." He snapped as he stormed outside with a loud bang! a sound of my door.
• I laid in a fetus position and sobbed whole-heartedly. I hated being scolded by Levy, it tore me apart all of the time and the fact that he was right made it worse. I should have never been here, why did I care? he was a big boy, he could have handled it.
• He gave me a chance to see his dark, deranged world and I ruined it. I clutched my bedsheets and sobbed even more. I didn't want to go to Oregon, worrying about when he would come back. There were a whole lot of things that I didn't want but I was not God to turn things around. He was this way because of his family and he has been tarnished forever into the world of killing to release his anger.
• I wiped my tears with my sleeve and took a big gulp of water to ease my mind a little bit. To ease the heartache I went through, so I did one thing I would never do in a million years, my hand wrapped around the red wine and I poured myself two full glasses to numb the pain.
• I drowned in them as the alcoholic high took me to another place where rage didn't exist. Was that how it felt to be hurt by someone? like a guilty pleasure towards alcohol but drinking it for the first time.