Impure Affair {h.s.}

thirty nine

"What a man." I turned around to meet Rose standing in the doorway of the bedroom. I fixed my bowtie and moved over to her. "What a woman." I stated back and laid my hands on her hips taking in her appearance. She had on a ruby red dress with her hair falling down on her shoulders. Her makeup was simple with the pop of her red lipstick. "You look gorgeous." I smiled and she reflected my expression.

"Are you ready? Your guests are starting to arrive."

"Well yes I think I am." I looked back to the mirror and fixed whatever needed to be fixed. "Don't worry, you look terrific." She told me as she handed me a mask and put hers on.

"Let's go."

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The party was a buzz with chattering people and laughs with their faces hidden behind masks. I was with my group while Rose was with the other women. I watched her depart from the group to go in to the kitchen and thats is when I excused myself. I brushed past people to finally reach the kitchen that was busy with cooks and waiters running back and forth, but I spotted her in the corner.

"Why are you all alone?" I stood beside her and glanced down at her phone.

"No..reason." She stuffed it under her arm. "Are you okay?" She sulked as she turned to me.
"Who is this?" She shoved the phone in my face.

Midnight, my friend is when your life will be ended. You throat will be slashed from one end to the other. Your limbs beaten blue then cut off. You will die a slow and painful death ad we sit back and watch you cry for mercy, but it will have been too late.
See you soon, kisses.

"It's Eliana." I felt dread run through my body. "I want you to stay here." I left her and pushed past people in the party. I went upstairs and walked straight to my room then I paused.

"Shit." A girl was sat in a dress similar to Roses' along with a black wig and a mask to cover her full face.

"Why hello Harry." She said and kicked off her heels. "Have you missed me?"

"Elizabeth?" I breathed out heavily with my mouth agape. She stood up and walked towards me with a chilling smile.
She gripped my hair and pressed our lips together. The familiar touch, her scent, her presence, it was her.

"Does that answer your question?"
My expression change, I was pissed. I pushed her away and she fell back on the bed.

"You-I thought you were dead!" I yelled at her and her smile got wider.

"I faked it, I learned from the best." She said with pride as she raised a leg and walked her foot up my torso, but I pushed it away.

"You bitch. You lied to me! I loved you and you turned around and did that to me! Your death left me depressed for months. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep, I simply couldn't live because you were gone! Or so I thought." I was filled with rage, anger, sadness, many emotions fueled me.

"Aww my baby missed me." She teased and yanked me by my jacket.
"Fuck you." I spat and pushed her off of me once again. I walked towards my bedside table and pulled something out of the drawer.

"What's that you have there dear?" I turned around and saw her fiddling with her hair, curious by what was behind my back.

"Please, sweetheart, tell me what else you have learned from me." I sat down, facing her with a grim smile on my face.

"Well, I have learned how to manipulate people, how to kidnap, steal, wipe yourself off the face of the earth, hmm what else?" I scooted closer to her and instructed her to turn around, as I was going to do her hair, so she could get comfortable with me.

"You know there is one thing you have not learned from me."

"Which is?"

"How to kill." The knife I had went to her neck but before I could cut deep someone appeared.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." It was Eliana. "You're going to kill then let the love of your life suffer and bleed out on the ground while you stood satisfied? Disgusting." She wore the same dress as Elizabeth but had no mask and wore her normal red hair.
I looked back at Lisa, then Eliana.

"You both were in this together." I said as more of a statement. "But why?"

"You are a horrible man, don't you get it? You're not liked, you're feared." Eliana sniped with a small growl. "Tell him Lisa, tell him why you faked your death."
We looked at her and she hit me with the look of fear, I knew it too well. She shook her head and looked away.

"Fine, I'll tell him. She was scared of you, she was scared for her life. Now don't get me wrong, she loved you and she still does, but that love for you diminished just a bit when you met that whore of yours." She grunted referring to Rose. Our attention reverted to the ringing of my cell phone. "Speaking of the devil." Eliana walked over to pick it up but I pushed her away and answered it.

"Rose, baby, stay in the kitchen."

"Where are you?"

"I'm checking the house and making sure we have extra protection." In my view was a gun pointed at my eye.

"Tell her to come upstairs or I shoot."

"Rose, grab a knife and come to the bedroom." She asked questions but I hung up on her.

"You know I'm going to strip her of weapons right?" I stared at Eliana and stood up.

"I hope you know that if I was still my old self your arse would be on the ground in a pool of blood."

"Blah blah blah. Give me the fucking gun." Lisa said to Eliana and she tossed her the weapon. Lisa clocked it and pointed it at me.

"You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this moment." She whispered with anger.

"Put the gun down!" I heard a shout coming from the entrance of the bedroom door.  "Or I shoot."

"Rose don't, trust me" I said as a way to calm her down. "What do you all want?" I asked the women around me.

"We want you to suffer, that's all we want." Eliana said with a grin on her face, then I felt a hard object hit my temple and I was out.

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Rose.

"Get her!" One of the girls yelled and I shut my eyes then shot. Once I did a slur of curses filled the room and my eyes opened with shock.

"You bitch! You fucking shot me!" There was a pool of blood beginning to build by one of the girls. The one helping looked at me and ran at me but I ran out the room. I ran down the steps almost losing my balance a few times.
I ran into the arms of someone and explained the situation.

"Where is he? Upstairs?" I nodded at the familiar voice and was dragged along with the person. We barged into the room and there was no one there.
"The basement." The man said and I was once again pulled along.

We reached the basement and heard agonizing moans get louder. "Harry?" I rushed over to him and hugged him. He was sat in a chair tied down to it, he was barely conscious. "They'll be back, hide." He barely got the words out and went back to being silent.

"Here." The man gave me a knife. "Start cutting the rope." I went over to Harry and heard the click of the gun.

We heard the opening and slamming of the door. The sounds of heels got louder with each step. With each creak of the stairs, I cut faster until he was free. He got up and pushed me behind him as he grabbed the knife out of my hand.

"Close your eyes." He whispered to me, sounding frightened. I fought with him on it and that just made him even more upset.

"Close your eyes!"

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