Revenant

14| The Mafia Queen

RHETT'S POV

FLASHBACK

I can't breathe–

I can't get enough air into my lungs,

I was in too much pain. I felt as if I were drowning from lack of air, even though my lungs appeared to be working hard to suck in the much needed air.

My entire body felt as though it was on the verge of bursting apart.

My heart was pounding so erratically in my chest that I could only hear the incessantly loud vibrations of my own heart beating, almost as if it was trying to jump out of my chest.

With an inferno of thoughts racing through my mind, I felt frozen and I completely forgot how to breathe.

My vision was fuzzy, and everything in my sight whirled so fast that I instinctively reached out to grab something to keep myself steady.

Black lines started to dance across my sight while I tried to blink away the blurriness.

I felt helpless...

...extremely powerless—

I couldn't move.

I couldn't bring any words out of my mouth.

I couldn't yell for help.

I was falling—

My legs finally gave up on supporting my weight, and I collapsed on the ground, gasping for air. My hands subconsciously reached up to my hair, and I painfully tugged on them, wanting to pull myself back into reality.

Those blue eyes—

So cold,

Completely void of expressions.

No..no...

How is that even possible?!

Tears were uncontrollably falling from my eyes just like the rain pouring down on me.

I looked up at the dark sky, which was covered in dark grey clouds that seemed to be crying as well, pouring out tears which were mixed with the loud sobs and shakes of the thunder.

Storm was welling in my heart just the same way as it was rising up in the sky. This storm was removing and robbing every spec of illusion from my eyes.

I helplessly sat on the ground, trying to make sense of everything I saw.

My heart had already been broken by the news of my angel's death but this was soul shattering.

I felt this sadness, this feeling of agony before; for times that now had turned uncountable.

My emotions had begun to subside under the harsh reality of coldness that I had started to brew in my heart.

The sadness, however, remained, but no longer raw, now it was empty– the kind that couldn't easily be lifted.

But what I was feeling at the moment was something more profound than the everlasting gashes of heartbreak,

Betrayal–

It was the fire of betrayal that was now leeching up on every single nerve in my body.

Slowly rising up, I stumbled my way through the gates of the mansion that had now lost every aspect of homeliness that once graced every single wall of the building, which also took away the love that these people had for one another.