Chapter 53: Restlessness

~Xavier~

For days, my mood was entirely off. Anyone who got in my way was treated accordingly and made to pay for a problem that they knew nothing about. Everything that I’d tried to do to forget that Kira lied to me, proved abortive.

Initially, I decided to give Lola a chance when she slithered up to me like a serpent in need of a rat to feed on, but I couldn’t even stand her for one whole day. After Kira barged into my office that day and saw us, I immediately sent her out after I was sure that Kira wasn’t anywhere near the office anymore.

Seeing her in that deplorable state weakened any sort of erection that I would have gotten from Lola’s touch- not that I was going to anyway. For a moment there, I was tempted to take her into my arms and comfort her- tell her that there was no need for her to be so hard on herself. I was tempted to clean that one stray tear that escaped from her eyes, even though I could see how strongly she tried to keep the others in.

I hadn’t spared her a gla