Black and Grey | Book 1

Chapter 23

I wasn't sure if my eyes were playing tricks on me, but I knew they weren't as I got closer to the door.

"Valentina?" I said confused and she broke away from Matthias' hug to face me. She looked at me for a moment, before her face broke out in a big smile and she wrapped her arms around me and squeezed tightly.

"I missed you so much, oh my god Iris. Are you okay?" She asked and I nodded.

"I'm fine, but how did you know I was here?" I asked and she sighed, looking at Matthias and at everyone else and then finally at me.

"I'm close friends with Matthias. I-I know about you Iris, your history to be more specific. I work with them. I was assigned to look after you and make sure you were doing okay, but I guess I found a best friend as part of that as well. Matthias told me about the few things that have happened these past few months, but that's not why I'm here." She said, grabbing my hand and resting it in hers.

"Dean Smith is dead, Iris." She said bluntly and I felt like I got punched in the face.

"What?!" I asked, crazed.

"He's dead, yes." She replied back, looking at me straight in the eyes.

For some reason my eyes averted to Grayson and he stood, leaning against the banister, listening to what we were saying. He caught my gaze before he sighed and rolled his eyes.

"Yes, I killed him." He said, brushing it off lightly.

"What?!" I shrieked again from hearing all this, not believing anything.

"You killed him?" Said Valentina, a little surprised, but not gob smacked like I was.

"Yeah, I spent the last couple of weeks trying to hunt him down." He said and looked at me, to tell me that he was telling the truth.

I didn't know what to say. Although Dean was a huge dickhead, did he really deserve to be dead?

What am I saying? He's a rapist, thinking it's okay to go raping girls.

"Why did you kill him?" I asked, curious and he looked at me as if I was crazy.

"Are you being serious right now?" He said and I frowned at him.

"He deserved it, the fucker." Grayson said angrily and a spark erupted in me, at the fact that he stood up for me.

"What did he do?" Asked Matthias and we all looked at him and then at each other. Valentina looked at me and I nodded at her. She put her hand on his shoulder and escorted him somewhere private, to tell him who exactly Dean Smith was and what he had done.

"Come let's talk." Grayson said and held my hand softly and led me to his room where no one could interrupt us. As we passed the hallway, excitement ran through me as I remembered what had just happened before Sebastian interrupted us.

"Let me explain." He started and I nodded, motioning him to speak.

"I'm sorry for saying all that shit to you. I don't know what came over me when I said it and I know it was a dickhead comment. I don't expect you to forgive me, but the reason I said all that was because I didn't want you to find out what I was doing. I knew you would stop me. I was just angry at that fucker Dean. It was hard to find him at first, turns out he was living on the streets." He said, clenching his fists.

"He remembered you, you know." He said after a moment and I snapped my eyes up to him.

"He remembered me?" I said and gulped and he nodded silently, looking at the floor.

"He did look regretful not going to lie, but he probably only did because he knew I was going to beat the shit out of him and then put a bullet through his head." He gritted out as he remembered what had happened and I said nothing back for a moment as I stared at him.

"Thank you." I sighed.
"But you really didn't have to." I said again and he rolled his eyes.

"I didn't want him coming anywhere near you, he deserves to be dead anyways, thinking he could get away like that." He said and came closer to me, gripping my hands in his.

"Thank you." I murmur into his chest

"So, are we okay?" I asked.

"Depends, I mean if you want to go another week of ignoring me." He smirked and I narrowed my eyes at him and crossed my arms in front of me.

"Fine, if that's you want-"

"Shut up." He said and suddenly pulled me into him to place his sweet lips on mine again.

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A/N:
Hey, sorry I didn't update yesterday, I was too tired. I decided to update today as I knew that if I didn't, then I'd probably start procrastinating and this book would probably go on hold again. I'm hoping to complete this book soon so I can start writing a sequel.
Yep, a sequel, but I'm not too sure just yet, but watch out for more updates.
I got two teeth taken out today, so I'm in a lot of pain and my mouth is numb, which is great 😁☹️
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Until then ♠️

[Edited: 07/07/2021]
P.S. Just remembered the trauma of getting my teeth taken out. That fucking needle hurt so bad :((