Helanie:
"Honestly, I feel like my best self ever."
Lucy had darkened her eyes with eyeliner. She never used to wear such heavy and bright makeup. She looked good, though, but the sudden change in her seed like denial to .
"What about—the mate bond—" Lamar shut up when I eyed him for bringing it up.
And the way her smile faded before she forced a wide grin just hinted at how she was doing her best to forget about it.
"It happened. It is okay. I an—I guess—he wasn’t ant to be with ," she looked away but then started running her hands through her hair to make it seem like it didn’t affect her much.
"Lucy!" I instantly hugged her, and she closed her eyes, sniffling silently.
"Helanie, when I was in a coma, I had this recurring feeling of being stuck in a long, empty, and dark tunnel. I tried so hard to get out of it. I did my best, but every ti I thought I was getting closer to the light, it would get darker again. During all that ti, I realized what I had done. My life didn’t end with Gavin, Helanie. It didn’t," she spoke determinedly, but little whimpers still left her lips.
I broke the hug and watched her smile at .
"My life is beyond him. It is a precious thing to be able to wake up every day and have a family with you. I cannot imagine waking up having no one by my side. And I was giving that up for soone who didn’t give two shits before cheating on ?" she hissed suddenly, making realize she was angry with Gavin.
And rightfully so.
"Anyway," she rubbed her face with her hands, "I want to live my life to the fullest. I don’t want to just beco soone’s mate. I tried to be a nice girl, but no! That wasn’t . I want to enjoy—I want to be a free spirit," she shrugged her shoulders, and that’s when Lamar and I shared a glance.
We forgot to ask her the most important question until she ntioned the word ’spirit.’
"What happened to you two?" she frowned when she noticed how we had been sharing looks.
"Lucy, do you rember anything from that night?" I questioned worriedly.
Because I rembered that night vividly. It left broken. I rember being so petrified for her and losing my mind.
"Umm yeah, I was on the rooftop and just—lost my mind."
The minute her mother stepped in, Lucy gave her a smile.
I don’t know why she was lying. I knew she was on the tenth floor.
"Lucy! The tenth floor," I uttered, and she pouted.
"What tenth floor?" she let out a laugh, making look stupid.
"I am so glad my baby has friends like you guys," her mother was all smiles as she served us food.
She had a pretty cute family.
Her father was the regular, sweet kind of man, always holding the newspaper with his big glasses on. Her siblings were twelve and eight.
She was right—she had everything she could ever wish for.
"But Lucy—rember—" I shifted my attention back to Lucy while she was giggling with her mother.
That’s when Lamar placed his hand on the back of my hand and eyed Lucy’s mother. I shut up and let her mother walk out. The minute she did, Lucy adjusted her posture to face properly in bed.
"The entity got out," she spoke up in a whisper, making realize she didn’t want her mother to freak out, so she hadn’t told anyone—especially her mother—about the entity.
"What do you an by it got out? Tell from the beginning."
Now that she wasn’t lying and was openly talking about the entity—and also admitting to knowing about her—I started asking more questions.
"I went to the tenth floor because my dumb ass liked speaking with that entity. It seed like he or she—whoever it was—knew and was making feel better. She convinced to let her into my body. She said once she gave power and made feel better, she would move on," Lucy reminded of my own conversation with that entity.
"She promised, and I let her in—but the minute she entered my body, she started to control my mind. I got scared and decided to jump off so that she wouldn’t get to take over . However, right when I hit the ground, I heard her giggles. And Helanie—they didn’t co from inside . She is out and about now—"
Her words sent chills down my spine.
Lamar and I exchanged a terrified look as we understood just how scary this was going to get.
"What do you an by that? Did you see her?" Lamar asked, both of us really worried now.
"No! I just—heard her. And I knew she was free," Lucy confird.
My mind began to race. What if it got into soone more powerful?
"I feel guilty because I’m the reason it got out. But what if—what if it tries to co for ?" She instantly held my hands before forcing a smile. "It can’t, right? I sort of beca the reason she’s free now. So she wouldn’t co for ?"
I felt bad for her. She had only woken up a few days ago, and she was already stressed out. But honestly, I had no idea what the entity was planning to do.
"Or maybe go after the last survivor?" Lamar recalled that there was soone who had escaped the entity’s grasp but also managed to trap her—unlike Lucy.
"It’s okay, Lucy. We will find a way to catch her, okay?" I reassured her, and she nodded ekly.
"Tell , what have I missed?" she asked in her usual soft and timid voice.
She was trying hard to be cheerful, but I knew it would take her so ti to get back to normal.
"Oh, where to begin?" I sighed, rembering that I had to tell her about my relationship with the trainers—who now hated .
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