Emperor of Annihilation

TWENTY EIGHT

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I was a mess, both physically and mentally. I stand in front of the full body mirror, analyzing my disarrayed attire with perfect precision, wondering how would I make it out of here alive. The sounds of music from downstairs enters my ears, creating a low vibration.

My phone constantly buzzed with messages from Autumn and Cam, both asking where I went and if I'm okay. If only they knew. I stare at the messages until the screen goes black, then pull out the comb from my purse that I had brought with me in case of a situation like this.

Granted, I wouldn't have ever thought I would end up getting eaten out inside my friend's washroom during a house party.

I felt disgusted with myself. This wasn't even the first time I let him take complete control over my body. That night at the brothel became a constant reminder of how lowly I deem myself. To allow myself to let go of anything, indulging in self pleasure, wasn't how I went about life.

I shook my head, believing if I shake my head hard enough, every reconciliation of tonight's encounter will fade away into existence, never to be seen and heard from again.Unfortunately, that's not how life works.

I hold my head in the palms of my hand, bending over the counter as I felt a spike of bile about to rise in my throat, spilling all over Atticus parents' respondent, golden sink.

I give myself a quick pep talk in the mirror, failing miserably to make myself look and feel okay. I brush my hair out of my face with a comb, then fix my mascara and walk out. I'm smoothing out my dress with one hand, the other on the knob of the door I just exited from, when I hear a low whistle coming from the dark corner a few feet down from me.

"Kenzo?" I asked, moving my hand to my stomach as I slowly approached him, eyes squinting. "Is that you?" I thought I was the only one up here. Well, apart from the stranger in the mask.

"The one and only, baby."

My jaw ticks at his words. "I'm not your baby." I tell him with a clenched fist, then take a look at my surroundings. The man had to be long gone by now. Could it be Kenzo was here the entire time, just watching?

Blah. I scrunched up my face. What a creep. I starred in a porn without knowing.

He smiles at me and it's a wicked one. The creepy gesture spreads his lips like a virus, coiling around his face like a deadly snake. He's just so uncomfortable to be around, like the mad hatter. Everyone with a brain knew how uncomfortable he made Alice in the film. Not sexually, personally wise.

I bit down on my teeth then sigh. I walk off.

"Wait."

I spun around, my footsteps coming to a halt. "Yes?"

My stomach drops to the floor when he motions me over with two fingers. My gaze tracks his every move, observing as he extends a hand towards something on the floor that I can't quite see until he holds it up in the light of his phone. "I think you dropped this."