*SILIA* The world seemed like an alien place to me.It had been so long since I had been here that I felt completely out of place and slightly paranoid about the eyes on me.Was there someone watching me? Was there someone still after me? Did they know that I had a gun wound on my shoulder?I tried to tell myself that I was safe and that the accident from before was just a freak coincidence but a fear had settled in the back of my mind. As long as I had been with Nick I hadn’t been able to feel it because of the comfort that he provided me but now that I was all alone I was weirdly conscious of everything about me.Deciding to at least walk inside I look around to see people hanging out with their friends, families spending time together but it wasn’t as crowded as it could have been given that it was still early morning and a week day.I had been to this particular mall many times before so it wasn’t as if I had been completely clueless and deciding to go to one of the famous pastry

*SILIA*Making my way towards the exit in a hurry I am briefly aware of the eyes on me but unlike before I couldn’t be bothered by them. All I knew was I needed to get out of there. My heart was crushing in my chest. Its fragments a dust inside the shell of my body.How many more times did I need to fix it for you to break it again Draven?By now the mall has become busier from before and being careful to not bump into anyone with my injured shoulder I walk on the extreme side of the mall against the walls. Thee exit is visible to me in a distance and wiping the tears I am about to head towards it when I hear someone call out to me.“Excuse me, ma’am!”I don’t want to stop so I refuse to look back but I recognize that voice and the guard from before quickly catches up to me.“What happened?” she asks blocking my path while looking down at my shivering body that I clutched tighter to myself to somehow stop it from vibrating so much.“I-” I try to speak but words get caught in my throat

“Nick please let me go to a hotel. I’ll rather stay there than go to Draven’s place”.With some consciousness back in my mind I had now realised the position that I had fallen into. Don't get me wrong I loved Diana but having to see Draven again, so soon, was not something that I believed my heart could do.Therefore I requested again, “Please Nick can you let me off at a hotel, any hotel. I'll stay the night there I don't mind staying alone.”“Absolutely not. It is not safe there and Alfeo will chew my head off if he finds out that I had let you be in an unprotected environment.” As he said this he increased the speed of his vehicle and rushed towards Diana’s house I could see the familiar streets passing by and the closer I got the more I could feel my heart beating; almost ready to fly out of my chest.“Then what about Alfeo’s home. I can stay there, right? That shouldn't be a problem.” Giving me a strange look that clearly spelled out ‘are you crazy’ he asked, “You do realise that

*SILIA*When I wake up the next morning I am briefly aware of my surroundings. There is a light streaming in from a small gap in between the heavy curtains that have doused the room in darkness. Thankfully for that small stream of brightness I understand that it must be morning now.Diana is no longer by my side and with some difficulty I pull myself up in a sitting position taking her room in. Without her there beside me the room felt cold and unwelcoming and rubbing my eyes I try to adjust them to the light to help me figure out my escape route better.Looking for my phone I grasp for it around me to find that I had tucked it under my pillow. Taking it out I switch it on to see that it had still been quite early in the morning, around seven to be exact. I wondered if Diana had left for work but knowing her I knew that she would skip a day if it meant to safeguard the door from me leaving here without an explanation.I dreaded that interrogation and I dreaded the possibility of seein

*SILIA*“Diana can you please let me go?” I said trying to distance myself from her.“Silia, please I am really sorry about what Draven just did, you know how much of a bonehead he is. Believe me he only wants to protect you,” she said and sighing at the repetition of the same topic over and over again I looked at Nick to help me to the sofa and away from her.Walking there I saw the scattered glass pieces and thinking otherwise I moved back towards the door to directly make my exit.“Silia, Please don’t go back. Stay with me. I will somehow get Draven to agree,” she said but I had enough of their nonsense.“Why? So that I can keep waiting for the time when Draven would finally come to his senses and accept me?” I asked trying to relay to her how frustrated this whole situation had made me.“No, that is not what I meant. I am just- I am sure if you come back,” she started to say but I cut in, “You sure what? That Draven would somehow fall for me? But no I don’t think he will.”That wa