Chapter 36: Message

He shut his eyes tight and pinched his nose in frustration. What the hell. What did he think he was doing? He wasn't actually trying to be nice, was he?

Anger filled his chest. He was angry at himself. She was nothing to him. She was literally no one in his life. But how did she manage to make him submit to her? She should be the one submitting to him, not the other way around.

But Xavier seems to be smitten by her.

And he fucking hates it.

Frustrated, he stood up and left. He went straight to the pool and took some cigarettes in his pockets. He rarely smokes, only because his mother would definitely scold him if she was still alive. But she was not here, so there was no stopping him.

"The fuck..." he chuckled, shaking his head in disbelief. He couldn't believe he did such a thing. It was still beyond his belief he would do something like that. "I must've gone insane."

His phone suddenly rang. A call from an unknown number was calling. His forehead creased.

If this is one of his me