TLO Chapter 23

 Chapter 23

The lights were so bright that I was forced to close my eyes again. Their shine pierced my closed eyelids and still dazzled me, so I struggled to turn around in the bed, wondering why somebody would arrange the sheets so tightly around me. 

The reason was self-evident. My body hurt like hell after making the smallest movement. Therefore some genius thought that making a mummy out of me would prevent any hurtful movement. Through my half-open eyelids, I could see that I was in a large room devoid of every furniture or decoration but for one strange looking machine parked on a corned and a hook to hold an IV line attached to the back of my left hand.

“Don’t wiggle or you’ll regret it.” A voice from behind me said and I could hear footsteps circling the bed. 

Sven smirked in an attempt to smile at me. “Should be glad you’re still alive.”

“Can’t say the same about that witch, can we?” I retorted bitterly. 

“You’re certainly recovering if you can whine again.”

I huffed in reply and he shrugged back at me. So classy!

TLO Chapter 22

 Chapter 22

Trying to leave the bed unnoticed was like playing Mikado for the World League. Lars considered my body as his teddy bear and he was always spooning me with a gorilla grip. We did it twice, therefore he considered he had regained every right of ownership over me. 

I still didn’t understand why I had done it. I had liked it the second time, true but it had been a very rushed (lousy) decision. I wanted to get rid of him and I was again in bed with him? Well, kitchen and bathroom but we definitely were in bed now, sleeping together. 

I needed to spend all my money on shrinks. 

“Where are you going?” He asked me half asleep when my foot tangled itself with his calf. Bad move; lost my turn at mikado. 

“Toilet and kitchen. I need my afternoon pills for the shoulder. Or are they tampered too?” 

“No, they are fine. It was just a few doses but you seem to be recovering very well, runt.” 

I pushed him away but he caught me easily. “Was it too much for you? We don’t have to repeat it if you didn’t like it.” 

“It was… strange but fine.” 

“You don’t want to do it again,” he affirmed and he was right. The whole thing was fine but it wasn’t worth the effort. It had been like one of those fancy, expensive Belgian chocolate boxes you buy thinking it’s the best and then, the chocolate is too fatty and all the chocolates taste the same. You finish the box and keep it because it’s nice and you can store things inside. 

But you will never buy it again. 

TLO Chapter 21

Chapter 21

We met by chance. I left the Brontosaur’s magnificent office and bumped into a good suit (it’s hard to see anything if you’re carrying five legal digests the size of a phone book)

“Hey! How are you?” The dark tanned man greeted me. Though the suit was a bit on the bling-bling side of tailoring for me, it was well cut and of good quality. 

I gaped at him because familiarity doesn’t abound in this firm. I didn’t have a clue of who he was but the junior lawyer standing two steps behind him was certainly courteous towards him (bordering on unctuous).

“Can’t believe you forgot me after all what we went through.” The man said falsely aggravated. 

I had no idea to whom that golden Rolex belonged to. 

“Two rucola specials, no cheese?” He smiled broadly.