Erica’s POV
I stared at him in shock. He was leaning on the wall and had his cock in his hand, stroking it furiously and groaning.
My face was a deep scarlet as I saw him and he looked at me in shock.
“Erica?”
I said nothing and left the bathroom. I wished there was a way that I could bleach my eyes and unsee what I had just seen.
I was about to leave the room but I heard the bathroom door open.
Lorenzo came out with his towel wrapped around his waist and his hair a soaking mess and they made wet spikes.
“Erica wait, I’m sorry.”
I stopped in my tracks and took a deep breath.
There was a heavy silence in the room and Lorenzo moved in to touch me.
I turned around to look at him and I had tears in my eyes. He looked confused and glanced me over.
“Oh my God! What happened to your arm and leg?”
Finally, he saw the bandages.
His eyes were wide open as he stared at my teary face. I was able to squeeze out a few words despite my hoarse voice.
“Where were you last night?”
“What?”
I felt anger ripple through me.
“Don’t play dumb with me, Lorenzo. Where were you last night?”
He took a step back and looked at me in disbelief.
“I was home all day with the kids just like I said I would be.”
I folded my arms over my chest and turned away from me.
“Then why weren’t you answering your phone?”
A tear dropped from my eyes but I wiped it off
“I called you while I was at the hospital but you didn’t return any of my calls and you didn’t even call back.”
“You were at the hospital?!”
I felt Lorenzo touch my shoulder and I shrugged him off and turned angrily to face him.
“Don’t try and change the subject. Where were you?”
He looked exasperated and was holding on to the towel to make sure that it didn’t fall off.
“Like I told you before. I was home with the kids. You can ask them if you want. They will tell you.”
“Don’t bring my kids into this!”
I felt threatened and took a step forward.
I turned my head and caught a glimpse of his phone on the bedside table.
I rushed towards it and grabbed it.
I saw Lorenzo flinch a little but he didn’t take the phone away from me.
I opened his phone and saw a call to Clarissa.
“Clarissa? Clarissa was here? I thought I gave her the day off.”
Lorenzo took a deep breath.
“You did but I called her to come over. I needed help with the kids. They seemed unresponsive to me and I thought that they would relate better to her. And I was right. Also, I didn’t get any of your calls. My phone was on silent and I left the room so that I could focus on the kids. I was just so tired after that I forgot to check my phone for any calls.”
I fell silent. His reason wasn’t good enough but I wasn’t going to press on about it.
Besides, going on about it meant telling him that I was out with Javier. I didn’t want him to feel jealous.
“So, aren’t you going to tell me what happened?”
He looked at me with concern and I gave a reluctant and angry sigh.
“I was attacked on my stroll by a werewolf…”
“Attacked?!”
He rushed towards me and tried to hold me tenderly but I pushed him away. I didn’t want him to touch me right now. Not with those hands.
“Are you alright?” He asked.
“Well, I’m back from the hospital. What do you think?”
He took a step backward. My replies were cold and harsh. I was still angry at him for not calling.
I sighed. Lorenzo was a good man but these days I felt he was drifting further away from me and I from him.
“Was it possibly Hazan that attacked you?”
I sat on his bed and sighed again. My heart felt heavy.
“Possibly. Or one of his minions.”
The thought of Hazan made me remember what my father told me and I stood up angrily and glared at him.
“I called my dad and he told me that he asked you to give me something. You never gave it to me or mentioned when you go back.”
I watched him search his mind for a while and then like magic, he brightened up.
“Oh yes. I forgot. I was so angry about what Dante did that I forgot to give it to you.”
I said nothing. Part of me felt that he was lying. Part of me also wanted to ask him who he was thinking about while he was touching himself in the bathroom, but I refrained. Did I really want to know?
He walked to his bag and pulled it out.
It was a large bundle wrapped in expensive silk. He gave it to me and I opened it.
The book marvelled me and I found myself staring at the beautiful engraving and appreciating that craftsmanship.
I touched the book with my palm and I felt everything around me disappear.
I was in a room covered in white.
“Lorenzo?”
He had disappeared and was nowhere to be found in the white-washed room.
I was scared and lonely.
I was silent and soon I felt an ominous presence behind me.
I gasped and turned around.
I nearly screamed seeing the large black wolf standing behind me.
I looked at it carefully.
It…it was my wolf?
She towered above me, snarling and growling.
Our eyes met and hers pierced deep into my soul.
“Who are you?”
My voice was barely audible as I questioned the beast before me.
“Taya.”
Her reply was laced with hate and anguish. I felt my heart shatter.
“free me from this torment.”
I looked at her in shock.
Torment? What torment?
“What are you talking…”
“… rica? Erica? Erica?”
I felt a hand tap my shoulder and I was pulled out of my trance. The white room had disappeared and I was back in Lorenzo’s room.
He was staring at me with concern and confusion.
I was just as concerned as he was.
“Erica, are you alright? You zoned out for a while.”
I said nothing, pushed past him, and left the room angrily.
He had no reason to care about me. He didn’t call me and had kept this book away from me for such a long time.
I left the room. And good riddance too. It smelled funny.