NEVER CAN I EVER

CHAPTER THREE

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     "Mr.Winston! I have your dri--- Ew! what happened to your face!?" she screeches.

     "My face?"Mr.Winston touches his beard.

     "It's...ugly," she struggles.

I chuckle at their situation as I turn to leave.

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     "I'm impressed," Christopher nods as he circles me: observing my appearance from head to toe.

He looks down at my grey wig in his hands and inspects it.

     "I'm impressed. You managed to escape unnoticed and untouched. I think I will help you with your wish," he holds the wig with two fingers and places it on the tray a blonde maid holds.

Holding out his palm, he allows his female bodyguard to squeeze a bit of hand sanitizer in his palm.

     "You want to meet Thea, am I right?" he asks: lathering the sanitizer.

     "Yes," I nod.

     "Very well," he trails off. "Where do you think she is?"

     "It caught: jail," I state, "If not: in hiding maybe."

Christopher nods.

     "What if they don't know she was the one who did it?"

     "Covering her tracks," I state nonchalantly.

He smiles.

     "I see you've thought about all the possibilities. Impressive. Well, she's in jail. I'll have my daughter: Mae, show you the way.

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I glance over at Mae and watch in awe as her waist-length, dark brown hair sways in sync with the movement of her hips.

     "How old are you?" I ask. "You look a bit young to get involved in things like this."

She rolls her eyes before she shoots me a glare.

     "What is that supposed to mean? I am too young? too immature? too stupid ?" she asks as she step in front of me and blacks my path.

     "What! No!" my eyes widen. "I mean....well, yeah. That's what I meant."

Her nose flares and her deep purple and caramel brown eyes bore into my grey ones as she steps closer. Even with my height advancement her hard glare is so scary, it's enough to weaken my knees.

     "You dare not question my capabilities," she steps closer, merely a few inches away from me now. "I can promise you: you will regret that day."

With one last toe curling glare, she turns around and marches forward, leaving me: Stunned.

Silence envelope the remaining time period to the prison. Successfully able to ignore the beauty walking ahead of me, my thoughts drift back to Thea.

Thea.

I remember the last time I saw her, back in America eight months ago. My father had sent me to form some sort of business deal with a Mary-Alice Falls on behalf of my father's best friend: Christopher Love.

She was in the same situation as the others; Wanting the same thing.

Wishing the same wish.

Regretting the same actions.

They were all naive, idiots.

Thea was just living a normal life, I'd seen her a few times in the halls when I attended the school there. Her best friend at the time was a boy named: Brian.

He was your average blonde-haired, blue-eyed jock who was too rich for his own good. He was a twin and completely opposite to his brother: Leo.

Leo is kind, caring and selfless, one could only imagine what type of person Brian was.

Nearing the end of my visit, I became aware that Christopher Love was planning the assassination of Thea Whyte. It wasn't my place to intervene so I stayed out of it and watched from the sidelines.

That was the moment I began to see the real Thea under the good girl facade.

My eyes were captivated by her graceful style of fighting.

The one thing however that stands out to me, was the first sentences I'd heard her speak.

     "I can't believe you! You're siding with my so-called 'father' !?"

If she was telling the truth and Christopher is her father...

Why did he want to kill her?

Is she lying?

Or, is there much more to Christopher Love than what meets the eye?

     "Hey, dreamer boy," a voice calls as a hand waves before my face.

I grip the hand roughly and push it away before I realize what I'm doing.

     "Sorry," I say with widened eyes. "Did I hurt you?"

     "I am a lot tougher than you think," Mae scoffs. "I am fine. Let us go in. We are here."

Time to meet Thea.

And hear her side of things.

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Hello Humans,

Now we've met Mae.

What do you think of her?

What about Grayson, Are you excited to finally meet Thea?

And who's Mary-Alice?

What's Christopher hiding?

Do you think Thea really killed Grayson's dad? Who do you think did it?

Yours Sincerely,

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