Helanie:
"Fucking untie ! You can’t force to stop seeing your husband. If he wants , he wants ," Lucy scread, sounding oblivious.
We had tied Lucy to a bed in an all-white bedroom. There were only beds in the room, with plain white sheets. I stood at the edge of her feet, next to the bed, arms crossed over my chest.
"Do you seriously think that’s why you’re tied here? That I’m going to ask you to stop flirting with my husband?" I asked, rolling my eyes.
She looked angry and confused, but more like soone afraid of their secret being revealed.
"Then why have you tied up here? Are you going to kill ? Is that what you’ve resorted to, Miss Helanie Niles?" she scread, deliberately saying the na I no longer wanted associated with .
"It’s Helanie Soren Vaughn. And if you knew the na and the legend behind it, you’d know there’s no way I’d kill soone innocent for my mates, because I don’t need to. My mates love . They would never cheat on ," I said, laughing slightly at the fact that she really thought Norman was wrapped around her finger. I noticed her frown and scrunch eyebrows.
"Huh. You can say whatever you want. All I see is a broken woman trying her hardest to convince herself her husband still loves her," she mumbled, using her eyes to emphasize her words since her hands were tired and to also give out the an girl energy.
"Seriously, Lucy, you believe what you’re saying?" I scoffed and turned toward the door. "You can co in," I called, and the door opened, letting Norman inside.
I watched Lucy try to adjust her posture until realization hit her that she needed to act like a victim, a damsel in distress.
"Professor Norman, look, your wife has gone crazy," she said in a gentle voice, still probably not understanding the truth.
Norman arrived and wrapped his arm around my back, leaning in to kiss my cheek. I bet he could still feel the resistance in my body.
"Why are you kissing her? She tied up, and you’re showing her affection?" Lucy scread, still missing the hint. I couldn’t help but wonder how stubborn and delusional she was. She was entitled, thinking she could just take over soone’s body like it was her own.
"Co on, seriously, Lucy, shut the fuck up," Norman said and turned to look at her, grunting, and I noticed her eyes widen in shock.
"You tried to get into my head using our connection with the tenth floor. You tried, but none of it affected . And you know why? Because my love for Helanie is stronger than your compulsion," Norman said, hands in his pockets. She reacted, very, very frightened by his words.
"What compulsion? I don’t know what you’re talking about," she stuttered, waving her hands to untie the ropes.
"Lucy, the compulsion you do when soone arrives at the tenth floor," Norman said. She paused and gasped.
"Yeah, I know who you are. And you thought that just because you could convince others on the tenth floor, you could convince too. You did it once, but that was when my own life was on the line and I was worried for my brother. But this ti, it was Helanie. How could you think I would betray her? You were in my body for just a few seconds. Didn’t you realize I’m stubborn?" Norman hissed at her.
I could only imagine how relieved he felt to finally confront the very reason he had four heartbeats. Lucy hissed back like a snake, thrashing on the bed as if she was possessed.
"I would never cheat on Helanie. Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t. My heart doesn’t acknowledge anyone else. When I see other won, I just see an existence, nothing else. No charms, nothing. I’ve never looked at anyone and thought, ’Wow, she’s hot.’ I’m incapable of falling in love except with Helaine," Norman said, making slowly lower my hands from my chest.
I had been giving him a hard ti ever since I found out he had planned sothing without telling . Both he and Maximus had gotten a good earful from and Emt. But maybe I had been a little too harsh.
Lucy snapped out of my thoughts when she started laughing.
"Okay, fine. I am. Zoo. And my brother Zaa is inside this body as well. Now what are you going to do? Kill ? Because you’d be killing Lucy too, who, by the way, thinks you’re not her friends."
Now that she was finally introducing herself and letting us know what was happening inside her body, I could understand what Lucy was feeling. Honestly, it made feel bad. If she’s listening, she needs to know she’s still our friend, and we won’t stop until we’ve helped her. I clenched my fist, and Lucy laughed from the other side.
"And how are you going to do it?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.
I looked at Norman, then back at her with a smirk. I gently raised my hand and touched the pearl on my neck. I watched Lucy follow my hand, and her expression changed. That’s how I knew she recognized the pearls.
"Didn’t you guys forget about her? What made you rember her so suddenly? It’s obvious she doesn’t an anything to you, or else you would have noticed the changes in her, or tried your best to stop her from becoming a trainwreck. But you didn’t, so let her be. At least I’m putting her body to better use than crying over so mate who cheated on her."
She hissed, listing all the reasons we were bad friends, and to be honest, I agreed with her.
"You’re right, we were bad friends. It took us a little while to realize what was happening with her. We thought her changes were her free will, her choice. Little did we know, our Lucy was trapped. And here I am, trying to be a better friend, and you cannot stop ," I said determinedly, holding her gaze.
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