Mimi was right. She was stupid. How could she be stupid enough to waste so many years on one man?She had been like a rooted tree when she admired him from afar, like an idiot. She had worked hard and studied, just to be in the same college as he was. Everything she had done was for him.When they had gotten married, he hated her during their first two years. Not only had he been humiliating her with particularly vicious words, but he would also have women on the side, one after another. She had continued staying by his side anyway.Actually, at the time, she had already thrown all of her dignity out the window. At that time, it seemed like no good would come from this marriage.Later, he had softened up. She had been under the impression that he had truly changed and wanted to be with her forever. No one expected her to run into his affair with the secretary.In the end, this affair had struck a fatal blow to her confidence in their relationship, putting her into a fit of madness
Mimi only rose out of her slumber by three in the morning. Still in Jeanette’s home, she opened her eyes to the pitch-black darkness lying beyond the windowpane, suggesting that she had risen before the sun. She yawned and craned her head in Jeanette’s direction. Her friend was lying on the mat and deeply asleep. She managed to find the best possible position and found comfort in her discomfort.Mimi smiled. Last night, the volcano inside her had erupted into an explosion of hurt feelings and
The object of Mimi’s affection and love had always been him! Him, and only him, and no other sons of b*tches!Elias’ unflinchingly asinine invective stung Mimi into a startle. She clenched her hands into fists, her nails digging into the flesh of her palms as a painful gash tore open across her heart.How could he say that? Was that who she was to him? Was he so disgusted by his own impression of her that he cut across the city to where she lived just to humiliate her like this?Mimi had neve
Mimi had changed. She was no longer the girl who loved him with all her soul. A matching smile used to blossom on her face whenever she saw him. But now, it was as if he bore no place in her heart anymore.It pissed Elias off the more he grappled with that reality. She had been in so, so much love with him! So how!? How could her love be so… so weak? So malleable!?“Mimi Norton!” Elias bellowed through gritted teeth as he glowered at her. “That’s all there is to it, isn’t it? You love the kind
Elias was stunned.The fact that she would freely admit the worst of what he had suspected infuriated him. Jealousy sputtered and roared as it burned in his chest. He was jealous of all the men who got to see Mimi smile. Elias was not sure what was happening to him because he would have never cared so much about something like that. Did someone curse him? Why did it feel like the rein over the beast of emotions inside him kept snapping these days?Mimi, sniggering, was not done adding more fue
All manner of control fell apart.In the dark, Elias tasted Mimi’s lips with the hunger of a desert wanderer who found a fountain in an oasis. He shoved her to the wall, trapping the young woman’s weaker body under the tyranny of his stronger physique and snuffing out any struggle or protest.There was a hint of nectar in her lips. Tasting it made stopping impossible.His fury had found itself an outlet. His lips angrily planted themselves onto hers, retreated, scraped through her neck, made her tremble. Slithered upward, snaked along the bony frame of her ear, circled back to her cheek.A chilling trickle wetted his lips.Elias stopped dead on his movement and licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. A hint of saltiness stung his taste bud, and a surge of bitterness raided his throat.He felt a pang on his chest as though a sledgehammer had landed on him. He stared at Mimi’s eyes in a baffled trance. He could see the weakly glistening trails on her cheeks and her puffy eyes ev
With reddened eyes, Mimi scrubbed Elias’ sweat away from her during her shower. Yet, tried as she might, she could not get the trail of hickeys imprinted on his skin washed away.She turned the knob to the shower and wiped the mist on the mirror clean. A pair of puffy, red eyes gazed into her reflection. She wondered how badly the rest of her body must look.A long, unending trail of hickeys ran from her neck, across her breasts, and to her back. Elias had been as sound as a rabid man, carving
Mimi shuffled her feet mechanically into the dressing room’s costume section and undressed. She was about to change when her eyes darted to the mirror, meeting blue-black spots glaring from her skin. She froze, and her eyes reddened again.“Enough is enough, Elias. I’m giving up on you. I really am…”She told herself she was never going to mistreat herself anymore. Loving another was a Sisyphean labor, plain and simple. Now, she would rather be loved than to love—the former might make her happ