Chapter 0587

I was entirely drawn into cleaning. So much so that the rest of the world seemed to fall into the background.

Maybe this was why I didn't notice right away the sound of footsteps and the slight drip of water down onto the ground from a very wet body.

Odd, I thought. Didn't I turn the facet off? Did it have a drip?

I turned my head toward the sink, when Ronan grabbed me by the back of the head, clutching a bunch of my hair, and yanked me backwards, off-balance and onto my ass.

I opened my mouth to scream, but he was prepared for that. He stuffed a soaking wet handkerchief into my mouth.

He started to drag me toward the door. I struggled, kicking my feet, while clawing at his wrist with my fingernails. But his hold was firm, and I couldn't seem to catch any friction on the floor.

"Why can't you just fucking die already?" Ronan snapped.

me out into the hallway. I tried to grab at the door, at anything I could reach really, knowing Veronica was just over in the living room. If she listened, she

Ronan threw me out the back door. I landed with a

spit the handkerchief from my mouth.

hear me.

down with open disgust and hatred in his eyes. "I pity you. You don't know what it's like to be in love. I would do anything for the love of my life. If she wants you gone, it's my honor

require someone

small shimmer of hope spread through me. Maybe I'd gotten to him. Maybe

hope smashed down like waves on a rocky

man possessed. "She asks so little of me, and accepts all of me. I will never betray her. Never desert her like so many others

He was too far gone. Whatever delusion that

was lost to his delusion. And I was surely about

to crawl away, scrambling like a crab. I made it a good foot or

you going, like minnow?" Ronan said. An eerie sort of glee entered his voice. He was

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