Chapter 23
Seeing Icouldn’t grab my phone, Zien looked smag, waving it around before me. “Hudson, if you don’t behave, you’ll end up just like this phone,” he sneered, then hurled it to the ground with force
With a sharp crack, my phone shattered into pieces. I picked it up–the screen was destroyed, and it wouldn’t turn on Clearly, his resentment toward me can deep.
My phone was beyond repair, and there was nothing could do about it. All could salvage was the SIM card, which I would need tools to extract later.
I was fuming looking at my broken plione and then Zion. I set the phone down, then threw punches at him and kicked him. He didn’t resist, allowing me to vent my anger on him. After a few hits, my hustration subsided, and 1 stood up.
Staring at his bruised, swollen face didn’t bring me
me any satisfaction. “This is illegal detention,” I said coldly.
Zion wiped the blood from his mouth, his tone defiant “So what if it is?
Then he doubled over in a fitof coughing, his eyes tilling with tears–whether from pain or something else, tcouldn’t tell
Looking at me, he said slowly and deliberately, “Hudson, I have no other choice.”
He glanced over selena, who was still asleep, seemingly undisturbed by our commotion. I couldn’t tell it she was pretending or really out.
Zion goed at her with such tenderness, his hand lingering on her pale face as he gently adjusted her blanket.
“I’m not letting you go until Selena tally recovers,” he said. “As for your girlfriend, I’ll have someone reach out and explain things to her. Don’t worry. As long as you don’t walk zway your, I’ll make sure this doesn’t cost you your relationship”
With that, he held his chest and staggered toward the door. When it opened, I saw severd men stationed outside. So it wasn’t just the done that was locked–be hadewn set up guards. Anger flared up in me all over again.
“Elon, if you love Selena so mech, why don’t you handle all this yourself? Aren’t you afraid that she’ll fall for me all over again and leave you by keeping me here? Are you crazy?
He stopped, then burst out laughing. At first, it was a laugh, but then tears mixed in, making him look half–mad. He approached me with a twisted misture of tears and laughter, and I instinctively took a step back as the locked eyes with me
“Wes, Tam crazy,” he said. “I love Selena. I can’t stand seeing her like this. I’d do anything if it meant she could be herself again.” Thad no espoir for him–jest sense of utter bewilderment.
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