Chapter 131

• The rain had stopped outside, and the dying glow of the late afternoon sun filtered through the glass walls. The movie I had been watching rolled to an end and I straightened my bare legs on the sleek couch, moving up to a sitting position.
• The dull, muffled sounds of fists hitting a punching bag filtered through the thick gym door to my ears. I sighed. He had been brooding all day. Silent, cold and gloomy. I thought I had made it clear to him that I’m over the circumstances by which he brought me here?
• “What makes you think you’re so important to his life that he'd brood for days over you?” My conscience hissed viciously in my mind. I winced from the harsh thought. Then again, my conscience had gone into silence ever since I let my lust for Adonis overcome my guilt, but now that it was stirring once again inside, I guess a part of myself was still mad at my reckless and forbidden actions.