Unfortunately, I was reminded again that this man is Harvey Torex, the first person in line to take over the Torex gang. He’s the real heir of Torex.
A lump formed in my throat as I watched Harvey continuing to run his fingers along the handcuffs on the table. He didn’t say anything, but he seemed to be thinking of something. I took a few steps back to distance myself from him.
“You should take a seat,” Harvey said casually, his eyes still lingering on the handcuffs.
My body wouldn’t move, and it was like I was frozen to the spot. After a moment, Harvey turned his head around to look at me. His face told me that he wasn’t quite impressed that I was still standing quite far away from where he was seated.
“Come over here and sit down on this chair,” he commanded with full detail.
I gulped before I bit my lower lip as I willed my body to move. Slowly, I made my way to the chair located very close to where Harvey was sitting. Finally, I was sitting close to Harvey, and he presented me with a charming smile as his eyes watched my face intently.
The silence in the room was abruptly disturbed when Harvey began giggling before his giggles fully transformed into loud laughs. My eyes widened at his outburst, and I wondered what he thought was funny. I haven’t said anything, and I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to say anything.
“You don’t have to act so scared…even if you are,” Harvey said while trying to control his own laughter.
That was easy for him to say. He probably forgot that he was the one who suggested to Hayden that I should be killed very recently. That hadn’t slipped my mind.
“I guess I should apologize for taking my joke too far the other day. You were so scared that I thought it was funny,” Harvey said followed by a grin.
It was hard for me to believe that he was actually apologizing, and then again, I wasn’t sure if Harvey really felt guilty about it. His character really did surprise me, though. Now that we were chatting alone in my new room, he felt very casual and surprisingly easygoing. I wouldn’t go as far as to say that he was someone who was easy to deal with, but he didn’t seem as intimidating and dangerous as I perceived him at first.
“It’s ok…” I mumbled.
Harvey smiled a relief smiled before he nodded his head at me. I still wondered why he came to see me. He didn’t come all the way down here just to apologize for what he did to me the other day, right? I wasn’t sure what he wanted from me, but I knew what I wanted from him.
“You want to know what Hayden has been up to and why he hasn’t visited you, don’t you?” Harvey asked with a know-it-all smile.
He read my mind. Just like that, he read my mind. I thought I knew this before when I first met him but now that I was meeting him for the second time, I was convinced that the first impression that I had of him was absolutely correct. This man is crazy.
“You think I’m crazy, don’t you?” Harvey asked as he smiled knowingly at me.
How did he…?
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