074 Platonic Love
Scarlett’s POV
The building’s structure is like a hotel. The elevator is designed in the center, with two lines of small rooms going around it. We were in one of the rooms on the inner lines, and the light we saw came through the room on the outer circle.
I didn’t know this until Liam Ryan dragged both Ava and me out of the room, through a pitch–dark hallway, to a huge hole in the center of the building.
The half–built elevator shaft is like the enormous mouth of a monster lurking in the dark, waiting for us to drop in.
The back of our chairs are inches away from the edge. I dare not to move, turn, or even peek at the abyss behind me, and I’m already getting dizzy from acrophobia.
I’m going to puke…
“Scared?” Liam Ryan smirks at me, “You weren’t looking so pale when I pulled you up from right that hole behind you, with that pulley.”
I turn my head slightly, only to see what I can only call a middle school student craft homework. It’s just a few wheels with a rope! I can’t believe this psycho pulled me up with that thing! He really is crazy.
Ava burst into tears.
“Ohh, she remembers,” Liam Ryan lets out a horrifying laugh, “She was well awake when I got her up.”
Should I thank him for putting me out for that?
“Don’t worry, neither of you will have to come up here again after today, for different reasons though. I-” Liam Ryan’s eyes glimmer with craziness, but the next second they freeze in a direction. A wide grin crawls onto his face slowly, to an almost bizarre width, “You are finally here. I have been waiting.”
Sebastian.
He ran his way up to the 17th floor, it seems. He is not exactly panting, but his collar is open, and his face is flushed with thin sweat glimmering under the moonlight.
I know he is not here for me, but the moment I see a familiar face still activates my tear system.
074 Platonic Love
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He walks over slowly, and I feel like I’m back to that day, when I was just a seven–year- old, lost in the woods. He was just like this–wearing his tiny, children’s suits all serious, his face covered in sweat and mud, but none of that could outshine the smile on his face when he reached his hand over me, and he said-
“Whose lost kitten is this?”
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