Crash-landed On An Island With Nine Beauties novel Chapter 82

"No, no way. No way. That didn't happen. It's not possible."

Claire stopped running when she was close enough to the Castle. She gulped, shaking her head violently.

"No, that doesn't make any sense. It wasn't him. It couldn't be him."

She turned to her back and observed closely to figure out whether or not she was being chased. When she was certain that there was nothing, she took a deep breath.

"Damien? No, no way. I must be seeing things."

"What happened to Damien?"

An assertive yet demanding voice came from behind. She flinched.

"Why are you so scared? Did something happen... to Damien?"

Ayisha moved closer to Claire who looked another way, avoiding an eye contact.

"Talk to me."

Claire rolled her eyes, made a weird noise deep in her throttle and walked past Ayisha, almost knocking her off.

"I know you love him."

Claire's feet became glued to the earth when those hasty yet violent words hit her. Ayisha retained her position, but her words wanted to stroll,

"You are not good at hiding it."

Claire turned to her this time. She was going to say a thing but Ayisha denied her,

"I know you regret shooting the arrow. You wanted to see his reflex. You didn't want him dead. You wanted him to prove himself perceptive and smooth before the girls. That's why you shot the arrow. So when he catches it, the girls would respect him more."

Claire shook her head,

"Now I understand why you are a writer. You must have a lot of imaginations."

She scoffed,

"But too bad, you can't play the words game with me. I'm smarter than you can ever think, even though I'm a model and not a best selling steamy novels writer."

There was more sarcasm at the end of the sentence than she gave credit for.

"I'm so glad that he is gone. Now I can rest. I don't have any rivals here anymore. Y'all are too little for me. Y'all will be wrapped around my fingers in no time and I'll be the queen of this Island! And all of you will bow to me, I'll make sure of that."

She wanted to turn away at once, but it seemed as though she still had few things to say.

"So, worry about what next would hit y'all. Quit worrying about what you think you know. Go get ready for the nightmare of Claire. At least till we find a ship that will take us away."

She turned to leave.

"You've been searching around for his corpse, body I mean.. I know that his body is no longer in the village of the Cannibal."

Ayisha attacked her again. The blow this time was way too strong for Claire to ignore. So, she halted... involuntarily?

"Also, I see that you've been leaving the castle momentarily into the woods to a particular place where I figure out to be where his body is."

Ayisha was walking closer to her now.

"I further got a grip of this when I saw you running her and muttering his name. Though I have no idea what this is about, yet I know that you saw something rather strange. Perhaps he's still alive."

Ayisha walked to stand at her front.

"I'm not saying that you are doing something terrible. You have every right to be worried about him, like many of the girls are."

She sighed, licking her lips. She looked away from Claire to a bunny running around the foot of the tiny trunk of a tall tree.

Back to Claire,

"What am I saying is that you don't have to be hard on yourself. Let yourself go with the emotions. The more you deny it, the hurt you'll get. And I know the feeling it gives when you see him with another girl. To think that acting this way means that you have ego is quite childish."

Ayisha scoffed.

"There's a difference between ignoring your emotions and pretending to. Sorry Claire, you're doing the latter... And that means lying to yourself over and over again."

She heaved a sigh.

"I wish you good luck with the nightmare and stuff. But always know that you'll always have a rival... whether in love or gaining control here."

"Be good."

Ayisha chuckled wryly and walked away.

"That wench!!! What a load of bullshit!"

Claire bit the words angrily, but Ayisha pretended not to hear. That got the former really angry. She followed Ayisha.

"Stop there you bitch! I can't love him! There is no way the only daughter of one of the richest men of the world would fall for such a loser who got a shady chance at change!! I can't fall for him."

"I can't!!!"

You would think she would shit her pants at the way she screamed the last words. Ayisha didn't for once stop.

"I don't think I have anything to worry about."