Eva's Sins.

XXXIX

„And yet today is a day of death"

  „Who you killed, Miss Davis?" cried Eva with all the contempt she was capable of, even though deep in her soul she knew she should have behaved differently.

  Miss Davis, who at that moment was heading for the stairs, with the thought of going up to the second floor, stopped in place and without any specific expression on her face, she turned to Eva and glanced at her, but said nothing.

  Eva took two steps away from the door, where she had stopped when she just entered, as if struck by thunder right in the middle of her head. She was not understanding what was happening to her at that moment and why the words came out of her mouth alone, when in fact she should have been silent, but in the end, she decided to approach Emily, but still keeping a reasonable distance between them, for something in the depths of her soul told her that she should be more restrained, now that she is carrying a baby in her womb.

  „Why do you ask??" was Emily's answer, who was sitting in the same place where she had stopped, glaring at the girl, even though her face betrayed no emotion, and this restrained silence of Miss Davis made Eva be confused.

  „And yet, I was right!" Eva whispered, after staring at each other for a few minutes, without any of them knowing the next step the "rival" will take. „And yet someone died because of us," she continued and her hands began to tremble, a sign that the girl was about to have a nervous breakdown, like the ones she used to have more and more often lately and they were largely related to the anxiety caused by betrayal and by Brian's abandonment.

  Emily stepped forward, but this movement of hers forced Eva to step back until she touched the door with her back. But Emily didn't stop until she reached the young woman and with a sudden movement of her hand, she grabbed Eva's chin and forced her to look into her eyes.

  „There are things that one should not know, if he can't handle it, Eva, and this time the one who shouldn't get involved and to stay as far away as possible from this, without being interested in past events, present or future, is you."

  Horror was in Eva's eyes at that moment, when looking at Emily's hardened face, she realized that even though the two of them had been living in the same house and eating at the same table for almost two years, she hadn't known her at all, and that thought rushed out and suddenly tears welled up in her eyes, which didn't care at all to dripping down her cheeks.

  But Eva's crying left Emily cold, who continued to target her rival with her black and deep eyes, but in the end, disgusted by the girl's continuous crying, she pushed her chin to one side and looked out the window, where the sun played with the petals of red geranium flowers, which had bloomed so beautifully this time, but when Eva spoke again, she looked at her for a long time, as if the young woman hadn't talked to her, but with a person totally foreign to her.

  „And yet, Miss Davis, we're talking about someone's life. How can you say such words without even blinking with remorse?"

  Emily laughed and her hysterical laughter brought Lorenne into the room, who at first stared at the two in astonishment, not understanding what was going on. "Remorse?!" Emily hissed through her teeth. „In front of whom or for what should I feel remorse?!"

  Eva swallowed her tears, thus trying to untie the knot of heavy emotions that had settled in her throat. „To someone's life. For someone's future, who has been crushed by your indifference and reckless zeal," and these words were rewarded with a slap in the face, which stung the skin of her cheeks to the depths.

  „Emily," Lorenne shouted and, approaching the two, she stood in front of Miss Davis, defending Eva with her body. „How can you be so reckless? She is expecting, Emily. How to slap her in the face, when a baby is in her womb?" but instead of repentance from Miss Davis, Lorenne was even more astonished to see a glimmer of hatred in Emily's eyes. „Sometimes your cold blood makes me shudder. Did you know that?"