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“Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again.”
"Some ice cream for your thoughts," Adrian said, extending a cone towards me with that unnervingly charming smile.
I took the ice cream with a forced smile of my own. "Thanks, but I need to put Andrew to sleep first." My stomach churned, a sense of dread gnawing at me like a festering wound. Something wasn’t right. Levi felt it too. His instincts were screaming at him, and now, so were mine. Logic be damned, sometimes the gut knows what the mind refuses to see.
As I walked towards Andrew’s room, I couldn’t shake the feeling that everything was unraveling, the threads of our carefully woven plans being pulled apart by an unseen hand. Levi had pulled off a nearly impossible task—hacking into Octavio's tightly secured laptop and retrieving files that should have been locked away forever. I had done my part too, sneaking into Zayn’s office and temporarily misappropriating files related to Roman and the psychopath obsessed with me. We had enough information to realize that Levi’s gut feeling wasn’t just paranoia. But it was too late. The trap had already been set.
Adrian’s voice interrupted my spiraling thoughts. "Let me escort you to his room," he offered, his smile never wavering, though something in his eyes flickered that I didn't bother to decipher.
I returned his smile, "You’ve been helping me a lot lately. Thank you for that. You need to sit down for a while. I’ll be back," I replied, hoping to keep him at bay a little longer.
After putting Andrew to sleep, I turned on every baby monitor, and locked the door behind me. Trust was a luxury I couldn’t afford anymore. There were too many new faces in the mansion, too many unknowns. Zayn had stationed his men inside and outside the mansion, but even that didn’t make me feel safe.
"Hey," a voice whispered behind me, making me jump. Levi stood there, his face pale as usual but eyes wide with something close to fear.
"You scared me!" I hissed, trying to steady my racing heart. Levi didn’t laugh this time. His eyes were too focused, too intense.
"I need to talk to you about something," he said, his voice barely above a whisper. There was something in his tone that sent a shiver down my spine.
He led me to his room, locking the door behind us. "Don’t you think there are too many people here?" he asked, his voice tense.
I nodded slowly, the feeling of dread deepening. "Yes, that’s been bothering me. Zayn has never let this many people into the mansion, no matter the situation."
Levi’s eyes darted around the room, as if checking for hidden threats. "Should we talk to Adrian?" he asked, his voice laced with suspicion.
"Do you trust him?" I countered, my mind racing to connect the dots that were starting to appear.
Levi hesitated, his breath coming in uneven gasps. "Not that much. He’s too clever. Zayn once told me, 'Never trust someone too clever. They’ll stab you in the back with a poisonous dagger that has no cure.'"
A chill ran down my spine as his words sank in. "You’re having a bad feeling about all this, don't you?" I asked, already knowing the answer.
He nodded, his eyes haunted. "Let’s go to Ace’s room," I suggested, my voice trembling slightly.
"I was thinking the same thing. It’s the safest room, and we’ll be close to Andrew if by chance something happens."
We left Levi’s room quietly, trying to stay unnoticed. As we turned a corner, I spotted Adrian pacing in the hallway. The moment he saw us, his smile reappeared.
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BLOOD AND HEART
Gizem / Gerilim"He had many people's blood on his hands and one woman in his heart." She woke up with a pounding headache, a strange tattoo, and memories of her family being brutally attacked. All because of the documents she stole. Now, protected by one of the wo...
