MONALISA
I walked into my room, my insides boiling with anger but my anger wasn’t at him but at myself. Was this just who I was? Was I someone who wasn’t lovely enough to be kept around for long?
I looked into the mirror and stared at my reflection. I looked beautiful but I didn’t feel beautiful anymore. I had looked into this same mirror yesterday and I had looked and felt beautiful but not anymore.
Lucius’ eyes had held something I couldn’t decipher and the best I could do eventually was to conclude that he didn’t want me anymore.
I thought about going back home but decided against it. He had carefully and firmly stated that I wasn’t to leave and even if I left, I was staying right opposite so was that even me leaving?
My heart clenched and I felt a hurt that I had hardly ever felt. It hurt like the day I had found Francesca in bed with Bryant. It hurt like the moment Francesca had said those rude and harsh words to me.
I plopped down to the edge of my bed and then laid on the bed, staring at the ceiling.
Just then, my phone rang but I ignored it, rolling over in the bed and pressing my face into the bed. But it rang again and this time I got up and picked it up.
It was Irene calling.
I took in a deep breath before picking up the call.
“Hey” I said as cheerfully as I could at that moment.
“Hey Lisa…” She seemed to be busy doing something on the other side of the line.
“Yes Irene?”
“Just get to the point” I heard a feminine voice underground.
“Is everything okay?” I asked, noticing that the voice sounded a little bit hostile.
“Yes, completely fine. And how are you doing today? I hope your friend with benefit didn’t take away your inability to walk today” she joked and I couldn’t even laugh or smile.
That ‘friend with benefit’ was now bored of me anyways.
“Not at all, I am fine today”
“Great. Still in for clubbing tonight? We can go after lectures” she replied.
“Sure. I am all in”
Even though right now, I didn’t feel like going to a club or any place close to being crowdy, I didn’t want to disappoint Irene once again and maybe hanging out could also help with this damp feeling.
“Glad. Just wanted to make sure you are still in”
“I promised you yesterday so for sure, we will be hitting the club and clubbing all night!” I tried to sound excited and Irene chuckled.
“Good thing we have morning lectures tomorrow”
“Yes, we can drink as much as we want and have fun!” I ended my words with a loud laughter just to hide the hurt in my voice.
Irene also laughed a little.
“I’ve got to go now” she said and ended the call while I continued laughing.
I dropped the phone on the bed, still laughing like a maniac until I felt tears roll down my cheeks. My laughter died down and I brushed the tears off my face.
“I… I knew it was going to end anyways. A man like him, handsome, wealthy, hot, absolutely sexy. The dream of tons of women couldn’t possibly have sex with me for long. He… He has been with other women, women who are much more beautiful and women much more sexier. He couldn’t possibly be with me for long. It’s… It’s good enough that I had him more than once and twice. I knew it was going to end anyways. I always knew so I should not be surprised” I assured myself over and over again but it didn’t totally help ease the hurt.
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LUCIUS
“I really know nothing about those men. They are just random customers like every other… Other person. I know nothing about them. This bar is a…” He took in a shaky breath.
“This bar is a local bar and several people come and go. We don’t keep tabs on…” I interrupted him with a kick to his chest, pressing him to the floor.
“Please!” He groaned and gritted in pain as I made to stand on his chest.
“I… I really know nothing about them”
“Lies… Lies. I hate liars” I groaned but was immediately reminded that I was a liar myself.
I had lied to Lisa and her mum all these years. I was no best friend to Sebastian. I was no friend to Sebastian. And I had being a liar to Lisa again this morning. I was the same person I hated. I hated myself.
Feeling the rage surge in my veins, I pointed the gun at the manager of the bar and took my finger to the trigger.
“Ready to say the truth?” I asked and without waiting for a response, I shot at his right arm.
“Aaaargh!” He cried out as I pressed my foot harder to his chest.
“Please!” Sweats broke out from his forehead but I just lifted my foot to the gunshot wound on his arm and pressed down on it.
“Please! I know nothing! I really know no…” Another gunshot to his right leg.
“You will look good, dead and limp” I grinned at him.
“Please! Do not kill me! I really…”
Ignoring his heavy breathing and bleeding, I took my feet off him and moved to the bar counter. I picked a bottle of half drunk wine and smashed it, breaking it into pieces.
Grabbing two quite big shards of glass, I returned to the bleeding man and threw the gun to Andro before crouching to the floor with a menacing grin.
I stabbed the first shard of glass into his wound and he screamed out in pains.
“I am going to die!!” He screamed.
“Nah, not so fast” I pulled out the shard of glass and cut his wrist in one sharp movement.
His breathing became heavy and irregular as he struggled to go through the pains.
“You could help yourself by just spilling it” I stated.
“My… My family” he struggled to say.
“I will keep your family safe and will provide for them. Who were those men meeting with?”
“They met… They met with different men on different days but these different men had… Had the same boss. I don’t know their boss” with every word he said, he struggled even more.
“I have the information of the men who met those four men but I don’t know their… Their boss”
“Where’s the information?”
“Behind… Behind the counter in a small jotter” he rasped.
“Bring it to me” I ordered and one of my men walked behind the counter, returning with the small jotter.
I got back on my feet took it from him and flipped through it. In the middle of the jotter were three names.
“Andro”
“Yes boss” he stepped forward and I grabbed the gun from his hand, replacing it with the book.
“Find out who they work for”
“Yes boss”
I turned back to the struggling man on the floor.
“The… The hospital” he struggled.
“Death is better when it’s faster so let’s make this faster for you” I shot at him and that was the end of him.
“Clean up this mess and discard of him”
“Andro, you find his family and help them move somewhere else. Have them watched after until you are sure no one will go after them. Provide them with enough to start a new life”
“Yes boss”
I dropped the gun to the floor and turned away from the bloody corpse. I had barely gotten to the door of the bar when my phone beeped with a message.
I brought it out of my pocket and glanced at it.
“Miss. Lisa is out at a club, clubbing at the moment. Should we let her be, boss?”
My face darkened and I felt my blood boil. Jealousy grew inside of me and almost instantly, I had developed an image in my head. Lisa dancing and those perverts feeding their eyes and trying to get to her.
“Fuck!” I cursed as I texted back.
“What Club is she at?”