ELIDETH MERCURY RAISED AGAIN FROM HER ASHES TO BECOME A STRONGER WOMAN. WILL SHE BE ABLE TO FACE EVERYTHING THIS DANGEROUS TIME TRAVEL HAS IN STORE FOR HER?
Well, here we are. One of my unusually long bridge chapters. I'm not a great fan of writing extremely long chapters (or reading them, by the bye, jejeje). What can I say? Wish got me writing and writing non stop. She got that influence over me and it's just intoxicating, right? Enjoy... or whatever. Love you. 🥰
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WISHFUL-THINKER-10 POV
Nina still appeared in my thoughts day after day. Sometimes she appeared in violent, disturbing nightmares that turned my stomach in such a terrible way. Sometimes she showed up linked to some motorbike noise in the distance, some bolognese spaguetti which she used to stained her beautiful blood red lips, those sexy and provocative clothes she had designed just to see me through them and then hurriedly strip them away. Let alone my sixth scar that I watched every single day in the mirror and the phone I used. All those things still felt like they belonged to her and tortured me even more than the nightmares. She was still with me to remind me she had defeated me and my oversized ego got hurt again.
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It was something very strange and evil thinking so often of someone I hated so much. She started to elbow her way through along with other two giants who plagued my mind. Evan and Freddie. Evan used to appear when thinking about Nina became unbearable and Freddie appeared timidly, less and less but still touched me.
I couldn't talk about Freddie to Elideth, only about Nina. She kept telling me I must going through some therapeutic sessions regularly with a psychologist but I put it off. I had spent most of my life stepping into psychologist's offices. It was like a curse to me. I only knew one psychologist who could help me now and it was Evan. Sometimes I had to be so strong to not click on the app and travel back to him, to Staten Island. The snow-covered beach, his breath warming up my hands. There was no one in the whole universe with whom I could be more real than with him. There was no place to doubts.
- Hey, carrot cake. Where were you?
I hid my phone right away. I was about to travel back helplessly and Freddie stood there to remind me what my damn job was about. Seemingly he didn't always appear to bug me but also to save me. That sweet novelty warmed my heart and at the same time gave me a frustrated shooting pain. As though someone is taking away from you the last drink before collapsing.
- Hey -I just waved.
- Is everything okay?
- Sure.
- I barely see you. Anyone could tell you are my wife's best friend and bodyguard.
- Didn't you stop and think I might avoid you as hard as I can?
We held our gazes together for a while. I took the control and held his two dark and glowing eyes so well. Well done, lieutenant. Actually after our conversation in the hospital it seemed like we could move on to the next level. That level in which I got the feeling we could handle ourselves with confidence but with no sex in my mind on and on. That level was about being able to have a friendship and feeling at ease one close to the other with no double readings. Without feeling my control was tumbling down.
