Eternal

I almost laughed out loud at that, until it dawned on me that she did remember what had happened, and yet she wasn’t reacting the way I thought she should be. I knew she didn’t react when it first happened but she had been so battered, I thought she was just to shattered too be able too. But that did not explain how she could be so aloof about it now.

“No, it definitely happened, I thought that you would be cowering away from me to be honest with you,” I stated, and I noticed that her eyes opened a little wider at my statement.

“He was trying to kill me, why would I care that you slit his throat?”

“Because I murdered a man before your very eyes, because his blood flowed across your face and because no one would ever be as relaxed about that sort of situation as you are being, it does not make any sense.”

I could tell that she was weighing up her next response, when Kat bounded over to her, not even taking a second to acknowledge my presence.

“You have no idea how relieved I feel that you have awoken, I was so worried about you girlie.”

Unya smiled at her, but I noticed that no warmth reached her eyes, the smile looked so genuine, but I knew that there was no genuine emotion behind it. That fact seemed to elude Kat though, as she gave Unya a mega-watt smile in return.

“How long have I been asleep?”

Chapter Seventeen

Unya

Three days, that was what Kat had replied to me, but it didn’t make any sense. Surely my ankle still should have been in pain as well as every other part of myself that had sustained an injury from their onslaught.

“So, I wasn’t as injured as I thought then,” I said out loud and saw the look that passed between Lawson and Kat after I had said that.

Kat proceeded to pull her phone from her pocket and began to show me picture after picture of my injuries, she explained the injuries that the pictures didn’t show and after, while I just laid there completely dumb struck.

There was no way in hell that I should have healed from all of that in only three days, and then recalled what Mihaela had said. Don’t get me wrong it’s not as though I believed what she said about being related to a Greek god, but with the accelerated healing I found myself wondering if I should give her another chance to explain.

“Why hasn’t any of this surprised you?” I asked as I realised that they didn’t seem perplexed in the least by my miraculous recovery.

“We all have our secrets to bare, but trust me when I say this Unya, I have witnessed and even lived through a lot weirder stuff than what has happened to you,” stated Kat as her smile faltered slightly.

“So, have you seen that side of Lawson too then?”

She did look perplexed this time, so I decided to elaborate.

“The side of Lawson where he slits a man’s throat without a second thought, with a smile spread across his mouth and enjoyment clear in his eyes.”

Kat looked genuinely surprised by my revelation, where she tore her gaze from mine and connected with Lawson’s sheepish look.

“Lawson, are you kidding me, I know amongst all your protests you had claimed to save her life, but to take a life right in front of her. Have you lost your ever-loving mind?” She enquired.

“I think the death was the least of her worries, I would have been more concerned by the blood that she was washed in if I had been in her shoes,” he replied meeting her gaze head on.

Kat grabbed him by the cuff of his top and proceeded to drag him from the room, the door slamming closed behind them in an act of finality.

I had no idea what was going on between them, but it was clear to see that a wedge had been driven deeply between them and their f

riendship had not come out unscathed. I was lost in my reverie when the door was gently pushed open and an unknown guy entered looking quite uncomfortably towards me.

“Can I help you?” I asked, wondering if he had expected to find Kat but had unfortunately found myself instead.

“I just wanted to see how you were feeling, you were in such a bad way when you arrived and a few accusations may have been hurtled towards Lawson in your honour,” he replied rather glumly and I found myself wondering if he wanted Lawson to be solely responsible for what had been bestowed upon me.

“I’m sorry to dampen your hopes, but Lawson didn’t cause any of that to happen, in fact he wasn’t even there when it began,” I stated it with such conviction so that he would have no reason to doubt what I had said.

“Please allow me to introduce myself, I am Marcus and I guess you could say that I am a friend of Kat’s.”

“Do you honestly believe that you can just call yourself her friend, I may not know you but I have heard of you and that girl is certainly crazy about you.”