45: I Want You Back

SUNSHINE:

How long has it been since I last heard his voice? A couple of days? A few weeks? It felt like a year already had gone.

“I’m glad you still remember and love me.”

Rage pulsed through my veins.

"Jericho," I uttered as if his name brought a plague. “What the fuck do you want?”

“I thought you hated me.”

“I hate to run even through the deepest water. Get lost!”

Knoxx and my eyes met.

‘Who is that?’ he asked through our mind link.

My hands struggled to control my shaking, but I did not succeed.

‘None of your business,’ I snapped.

‘It’s Jericho.’

‘That man died already.’

‘I heard you earlier.’

‘Don’t eavesdrop on someone else’s conversation.’

‘That man won’t stop you.’

I stopped replying and distanced myself when Knoxx was eavesdropping on our conversation. I softly shut the door inside the room and focused on the call.

“Are you listening to me, my beautiful Sunshine?”

I flinched at Jericho’s creepy endearment. Yes. Creepy. But before, whenever he called me on our endearment,