Chapter 64

ARIA

That night, I didn’t go to sleep.

Or that’s what I had planned but sometime during the night, I drifted to sleep.

When I felt the weight of a stare; the prickles on my skin and the feeling of ants crawling over me, I bolted upright on my bed.

She was here. Again.

I blinked the sleep out of my eyes and turned my head, meeting her eyes more quickly than I had thought I would, making my heart jump.

She was sitting at the edge of the bed, her eyes on her lap and legs dangling down from the bed.

“How did you come in?” I questioned without any delay.

She had done enough with me taking advantage of the fact that I was weak and stuck in my own mind.

Not now. Not again.

She wanted to mess with me. Fuck her! I would mess wither right back. People often targeted the weak. The only way to get rid of them was to become strong.

And that’s what I was going to do.

She played with her fingers but raised her head, staring into my eyes and smiling widely;

“Men are foolish.”

I prepared myself for an