Chapter34

#Chapter34

Everything was a blur, my whole body was numb. I stared blankly out the car window.

I barely registered the fact that Sebastian had stopped the car and that we had reached the safe-house. He wrenched the door open and bent down so that he was eye-level with me. I could see his lips moving but his voice sounded distant. His eyes pleaded with me, he wanted me to respond but I couldn't, my lips refused to move.

The images of Giovanni's body slumping to the floor and his lifeless eyes staring ahead blankly were burned into my brain, they festered in my soul.

Sebastian's hands grasped my biceps as he shook me gently, when that still didn't work his shoulders drooped in defeat.

Without another word he slipped off my shoes, one of his arms went behind my back and the other under my knees as he lifted me up and carried me inside.

I closed my eyes.