10 - Emilia

It’s 5 pm and Kaius hasn’t even returned yet. I whipped up some bacon carbonara for an early supper and now I’m sitting in the living room with two bottles of red wine in front of me. I’m dressed in a silk pajama dress already since I told this day to go fuck itself. I’ve already had half a bottle of wine anyway, and for the first time in a long time, I feel happy.

I know it’s the alcohol, but fuck it.

“Hey, Ivan, why don’t you join me for a glass?” I gesture to my favorite knucklehead standing at the kitchen counter. “Come on, take a load off!”

He looks at me and raises his eyebrow, then grunts out a ‘no’ and continues to look everywhere but my way. Well, I guess Fun isn’t his middle name, then.

I lay down on the couch and sigh just as the front door opens and a sweaty Kaius saunters inside the cabin. He doesn’t look at me, just heads straight to his bedroom where I can faintly hear the shower running soon after.

I wonder where he’s been all this time. Did he run straight back to civ