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Eighty-Three: Utterly Betrayed
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ILLICIT AFFAIRS Eighty-Four
AXELI woke from what felt like a trance when the chilling feeling of cold water being poured down my face and entire body hit me. I felt as though I’d been electrified and anger consumed me at the thought of being treated that way, but more than anything I was confused and could hardly remember how I’d gotten to where I was.Everything that had happened in the past few hours flashed before my eyes and I winced in pain as I remembered how chaotic and emotionally draining it had been, I had no wish whatsoever to relive it- not even in my memories.With vigor, I tried to raise my head to shake off the thoughts that had begun to occupy my mind but as soon as I raised my eyes, I was met with my father’s angry face. I’d seen his angry face countless times but it was rarely ever directed at me so this was a foreign experience and I had no idea how to respond to his anger.Instead of speaking, I let my head drop while I tried to think of how I’d gotten to where I was, and more importantly -
ILLICIT AFFAIRS Eighty-Five
LISAEverything hurt, so bad.My heart, every joint in my body, and everything that made up my entire being. At this point, I felt like I was barely holding on to my will to live and I wasn’t even fighting back all of the depressing feelings that had flooded my mind for the past few days.I could never ever forgive myself for betraying Axel and insulting his ego by confronting him like he didn't mean anything to me. As his wounded face flashed through my mind’s eye, I punched my pillow weakly and fell back into my bed with my face facing the sheets, I had hated every second of my life from the minute I saw how much Axel was in pain and it only got worse by the day.It had already been two days since I’d sabotaged his mission but life had only kept getting more and more miserable for me, doing anything was a chore and I couldn't stop beating myself up for how everything had played out. I hadn't gotten a blink of sleep for two nights and anyone could see that I looked like hell, every d
ILLICIT AFFAIRS Eighty-Six
LISADespite knowing who he was and why he'd come for me, as soon as his feet thudded while he landed in my room from the window, I staggered and almost fell backward because I'd lost my balance briefly. I'd been impatiently expecting him for the past few days, but his presence startled me still and my feet betrayed me by turning into jelly underneath me as I took in his physique.He took a more defensive stance on seeing me lose my balance so suddenly and I assumed that he'd mistaken my staggering for an attempt to try and call for help. On instinct, he moved dangerously closer to me and my heart got stuck in my throat as he approached me angrily."Don't you dare try to call for help" He said in an unusually dark and authoritative tone that made chills run through my spine especially since I knew that his displeasure was directed at me, even though I deserved it- it still stung like crazy having experienced it now."I wasn't trying to call for help, I swear" I barely choked out the w
ILLICIT AFFAIRS Eighty-Seven
Axel’s POVEver since I began the mission to take back everything I’d lost in full force, Prince had been calling often for updates and to show his support. Despite my hyper-independence, at a time like this, I genuinely appreciated his concern and I also felt empowered knowing that someone believed in me to turn things around despite everything that had happened recently with the last shipment.Even now, he’d called to check in and get updates on how things had turned out so far and as usual, I was willing to share every single detail with him, even though my hold on trusting people had dwindled greatly after being betrayed by Lisa.“How’s everything going? I hope everything’s in place now.” Prince asked and I could sense that he’d been a little tense because he knew how delicate this mission was to us, we needed a big win so badly.“We’ve successfully landed on the remote island where one of our safe houses is located, as per your insistence we've also set up security to the max and
ILLICIT AFFAIRS Eighty-Eight
AXELI stood in a spot as I was mere inches away from Lisa, I knew that I wasn't sane enough to be dealing with the stubbornness she’d been putting up concerning eating her meals. Why wouldn't she eat when it seemed like she’d been starved for days even when I kidnapped her? She had absolutely no right to make me worry about her now when she was meant to be nothing but a common prisoner to me.I didn't know if she wasn't eating as a sign of protest but I didn't want to show her any emotion rather than the anger that had boiled through my veins nonstop for the last few days, so I tried my best to act as though her appearance and her refusal to eat didn't bother me in the slightest way. Also, if my anger would coerce her to eat so that I’d stop giving a fuck about her well-being, then I was willing to pull a few strings and make her eat already.“If you know what's good for you, you'll eat every single meal that’s brought to you because trying to do a little protest by going on a hunger
ILLICIT AFFAIRS Eighty-Nine
I didn't deserve a morsel of food.I didn't deserve anything good, I knew that and that's why I didn't want to eat anything that had been brought to my room in the last two days. It’d been ringing in my head non-stop that I didn't deserve the comfort I was being offered here as a prisoner, I wasn't here to be fed or given a comfortable bed to rest my head on, I was here to be taken revenge on and I truly wished he’d get on with it already before the guilt I felt ate me up inside out.When would he finally torture me as he’d kept threatening to? I impatiently wondered. Instead, he’d just been here ordering me to eat as though I was going on a hunger strike to protest being kidnapped, little did he know that I was simply punishing myself for being a bitch to him. But I knew that I couldn’t tell him that, I wasn't seeking pity or sympathy from him, I just needed him to level the playing ground by exacting his revenge on me for my betrayal so that we’d finally be even in a way.He looked
ILLICIT AFFAIRS Ninety
AXELMy head always ended up being a mess after any little interaction with Lisa these days, I could control my emotions and expressions with anyone else but not around her. Even when I managed to successfully control my emotions by masking them, it's a fucking struggle and I almost always lose the struggle.I don’t know why I’d asked her about the memories we shared when I knew deep down that her answers would most likely hurt me. It had slipped out of my lips before I could drop myself and it rendered all the commandeering I’d been doing earlier as null and void somehow. It's all because I let myself get lost in my head while it replayed all the memories of where I would've given the world just to keep watching her smile. I should've never let myself get wrapped up in our memories after what she’d done and how she’d crushed my heart.After the question had slipped out, I needed to do damage control so I masked my feelings again just to get an answer out of her. Things had gone south
ILLICIT AFFAIRS Ninety-One
Axel's POVAfter the previous day’s call with Lisa’s father, I was prepared for a more dramatic day than it was because I was ready to pull all the strings I possibly could to track down my lost shipment, or better still, get him to hand it over by surrendering.It was bright and early in the morning, and I was in the study of the safe house where I’d been doing some important paperwork. It hadn't been up to thirty minutes since I’d gotten started on the paperwork before I was irritatingly interrupted by my phone’s incessant buzzing while it rang out loud.As I looked down at my phone on the desk, I noticed that the number wasn't saved on my phone so I guessed it might be a new client or one of our anonymous dealers that reached out with different numbers, so I immediately accepted the call and held the phone up to my ear.“You Bastard!” Was the first thing I heard screamed right into the receiver and I pulled the phone away from my ear briefly because of the unexpected tone that reso
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