Chapter 84: Downfall I
Chapter 84 - Downfall 1
Aaron woke up the morning after and felt refreshed. Yesterday felt like a blur; being down with fever and cold wasn’t part of his schedule.
The sunlight radiating through his bedroom window seemed brighter somehow, as if mocking the darkness that had settled over his life these past days.
He stretched, feeling the familiar ache in his muscles from the restless night he’d spent tossing and turning, Katherine’s sad, dejected, angry face haunting his dreams.
Raymond dropped by Aaron’s house to check on him and grinned with his boyish face. "I thought it would be your corpse I’d see this morning," he joked, patting Aaron’s back softly.
"Then your plan failed to cry at my funeral," Aaron responded, then touched his stinging cheek, wincing at the sharp pain that shot through his jaw.
Fuck! That blonde had a strong fist.
Raymond tilted his head, studying Aaron’s face with a raised brow. "This wasn’t there yesterday," he murmured, his fingers hovering over the angry red mark. "What happened?"
"Well, shit went down and Amanda," Aaron gritted her name out like a nasty curse, the name tasting bitter on his tongue. Just saying her name, remembering her existence made his blood pressure rise.
"What did that clown do?" Raymond’s voice dropped an octave, like he should have known that woman was already the problem.
"Amanda lied to Katherine about being pregnant and Katherine," he pinched the bridge of his nose, feeling the familiar throb of a headache building behind his eyes, "believed her and locked me out like the first time." He sighed, dropping his hands on the counter, his hand rubbing his head in slow, circular motions.