AllFreeNovel
Share Us
TWENTY-EIGHT
Amethyst
“So, what do we do now?”I asked after he got back in the car. “Go for pizza?”
He lifted one corner of his mouth, though there was no humor in it.
“We go home,” he said.
I settled back into the SUV but said nothing.
Maybe I was in shock, but I knew my reaction was off.
Keenan was dead.
I hadn’t done anything to save him.
“He would have killed you,” Davit said.
“If you don’t mind, I would rather not talk to you right now,” I whispered.
I looked at him, and though he had no expression, I could see his jaw was clenched.
I stared at him longer, hating myself for the fact that I still wanted him.
The ride was silent, and my mind was racing, though also calm.
I had no framework to analyze what had just happened.
Yet again, I cursed myself and my stupid curiosity. I had been so fucking eager to unravel a mystery, and what had it gotten me?
I’d always thought I understood the myth of Pandora’s box. I never expected to be living it.
Davit parked in front of his place, and I got out of the SUV and went inside his house.
I’d really come to like this place, much to my surprise and horror.
I was so tired, too tired to think, so I sat at the table in one of those horrible fucking chairs. Davit did something in the kitchen, and a few minutes later, he put a plate of something in front of me.
I ate it mechanically but didn’t taste it. And I didn’t utter a sound.
“Are you giving me the silent treatment?” he finally asked.
He wasn’t angry, didn’t display any emotion at all. But somehow, I knew he was bothered.
“It means nothing to you, does it?” I asked.
“What means nothing to me?” he responded.
“Keenan. What you did to him.”
He didn’t break eye contact. “No. It means nothing to me at all. The minute he hired that hitman, his life was forfeit.”
“And you won’t lose any sleep over it, will you?”
“No. Will you?” he asked.
I didn’t know, and that terrified me.
