Lu swallowed, blinked, and looked again, it could have been that he didn’t watch it for a quick second and imagined what might be in her mind. He kept staring at her hoping she would smile and keep biting the object but she didn’t. Her gaze was fierce and he could tell how angry she is.
“Fucking chicken” Alita smirked “You locked me here and feed me with dry bread and water” she stood up and aim the camera on her body “Nice of you to ask the kid to keep me company and try to make me happy”
She swings her head, sending her damp hair over her shoulders away from her face. Her body seems dry but still naked and she didn’t care, her breasts bounce as she walked to a chest to get a robe.
“You know I wish I could come over there and stab you in the neck with one of your precious pens” she yelled, her breast moving up and down corresponding to the way she was breathing “Disgusting perv! I know you have been watching me all those while”
She dropped the ball and walked away, although Lu couldn’t see her but he could tell she was looking for what to wear as a rattling noise followed. It didn’t take long before she picked up the camera and walked back to the bed.
“Jordan is a nice boy” her lips curved into an evil smile “And I can tell he has a big dick too”
Alita bent her head to the side and smiled, it wasn’t a sweet girl kind of smile but had so many hidden missions, It look mischievous. Her green eyes no longer looked meek and innocent as they used to, it had no resemblance to the one Lu saw years ago.
“See you soon,” She said and the camera went blank.
Lu went still, he drew in several deep breaths as he stared blankly at his table. In his state of mind, it would be difficult for him to even tell what he was feeling. He clenched his fist with the phone still in his palm, his grip tightened as he held it as if he could crush it.
“FUCK!!!” He threw the phone to the wall sending it in several pieces.
He yelled, with a quick swipe of his left hand his laptop was sent flying, it crashed into the next table and broke into two. Just as if it wasn’t hard for him, he sprang up and stomped to the shelf, he was about to push it when he stopped.
He wouldn’t be able to forgive himself if he sends so much confidential Information out.
“Urggghhh!!!” He yelled again.
He moved his finger into his hair and yelled more, with raw frustration written all over his red face he walked out of the office. Clearly, he was heading to his room but he doesn’t know what to do yet. Maybe his temper would calm before he gets to Alita then he might try to beg her again until she agree.
Everything seems to add to his frustration, his men, one of his phones that keeps vibrating in his pocket, his shoemaking pop sounds, including his door. It almost took forever to scan his palm before it opened which was strange.
His door opens immediately after the second beep and vibration from the door but it went on five times. It was like his hand was been rejected and he had to try his left hand, immediately he put that, the door gave way.
His brows connect as he noticed his towel on his bed. When he left that morning, he had made sure to leave it on the floor so Mia would be it when doing the laundry. Even as that, she could not have entered because she forgot had no key and only his fingers can open the door or he opens it from his office.
Lu slowed down, he stood still as his breath calmed, he was sure he couldn’t get anything with such anxiety to meet Alita. He removed his towel and dropped it back to the floor, maybe the towel would grow legs and hands to climb up the bed again. He caught glimpse of his windows open and he stood still.
“Show yourself” his stern voice echoed.
Quickly, he pulled a handgun from the back of his waist and removes the safety, with one hand holding the gun firm with his finger on the trigger, the other pulled the curtain to meet the boring look of his room wall. He made sure to check everywhere including under his bed but found nothing.
‘Fuck! I am beginning to feel paranoid ‘ he thought.
After scanning his room for the last time, he put the gun back in his waistband and walked to the two pictures of the naked model in his room, he looked back as if surveying the area then pulled the pictures aside from each other. It revealed a steel wall that look like an entrance with no handle, blue light source appeared from the middle. It wasn’t even as big as half of his palm and it scan his face.
“Face recognition failed,” A female disembodied voice said calmly “Please say your password”
“Alita Alonso” Lu replied, instantly the blue light source vanished and the door opened.
He walked in to find himself in the room he had locked Alita. The room was as dark looking as his, with dull paint, a large bed, three couches, everything as it is in his room except his no television and no room filled with clothes. Her wardrobe looked as big as his bookshelf in his office, after all, she doesn’t need to have them there when he has them already in his dresser.
Lu’s heart melts as he saw Alita seated with her back against him, although she didn’t stir he knows she felt his presence and she just wants to ignore him.
Slow but steady, he walked towards her, many things kept running through his mind as he start to imagine positive things.
He saw her stand up and turn slowly to him, her eyes were swollen and red, she had cried her eyes out just this few minutes she spoke to him.
She walked to him and fell into his open arms, Alita buried her face in his broad chest and cried more, she kept crying until she had no tears left.
“I forgive you, Luciano” she mumbled to his chest “I love you” she sniffed.
Lu smiled, he kissed her head and sigh in relief, at least not everything goes the way it was supposed to be.
“Stay there!” Alita’s harsh voice brought him back to reality “I love social distance” she turned back and glared at him.
Lu swallowed, he put both hands in his pocket and moved another step forward.
“This is why people like you die” Alita scoffed.
They both glared at each other in silence, Alita’s gaze show nothing but pain and revenge, she wouldn’t blink her green eyes as she stared deeply into Lu’s blue ones. For her, it would be a kill-or-be-killed type of war, if she doesn’t kill Lu then he just killed her.
“Alita,” Lu said, he removed his hands from his pocket and went on his knees “I know you want to kill me but believe me, I didn’t mean to kill your father” he swallowed “I was only trying to -”
“To make him lose his memory” Alita suggested sarcastically, her hands rested on her hips and she smiled “Were you trying to make him meet his wife faster?”
Lu’s head dropped, his shoulders sloped as he looked at his feet “I was only seventeen and wanted to prove to my father that I can be a brave son. I never meant to make you suffer”
“Wow!” Alita snickered “And you did make him proud” she picked up a pillow and threw it at him “I was twelve and Gio was a day old. It was cold and you left me to die in the snow”
“But you didn’t” Lu interrupted as he got up to his feet “I couldn’t get to kill you”
“I was as good as dead where me!” Alita yelled “No food, no clothes, no shoes, no parents. I don’t even know how long we spent behind the snowman before Mama Samantha saw us”
She paused and closed her eyes, her lips quivered as she took shallow breathes trying to calm herself and not break down in front of him again. Her green eyes flicked open alongside with a smirk on her face, she crossed her hands behind her and walked towards Lu who was actually walking close to her.
“I was as cold as death that I couldn’t feel my own face” her cheeks dropped “My limbs were frozen same as my heart and for the next hours I prayed” she got close to him and walked slowly Into his open arms “I prayed to God to let me live so I will kill you”
A weird smirked appeared on her face as she drew something from behind her clothes, she flipped it open and forced it towards Lu’s stomach.