Chapter 24 Wondering

“Hi, Sleeping Beauty!” he whispered so close to me.

I don’t know if this man would notice but I kind of dislike him. I heard what he did to Marco the day I met him with a gunshot wound. Marco also told me, although I could not respond and he talked alone, that he wants to believe everything this man named Gabriel Carter had told him, but still, Marco could not avoid being cautious. And I am not blaming Marco for how he feels about this man.

I, myself, do not like everything I see of this Gabriel’s personality. He and Marco have so many things unalike. He is playful, like an annoyingly mischievous fox. I can see him as skillful yet in a slightly dishonest way. I might be wrong, but the negative impression he had on me has marked him with an indisputable “X” for someone to be comfortable with.

And this man seems to be so willing to prove to me I am right to think of him this way when he stealthily moved back to the door as if he just arrived. Without making a sound he stepped out of