Chapter 13
Arielle sat heavily on the chair after doing a random search of the house and finding nothing, Luciano’s manly and expensive scent still lingered in the room, and the taste of his lips too, she still couldn’t believe she let him kiss her, but even more than the kiss was a bigger fear, which enveloped her as the reality of her situation dawned on her, Luciano had no reason to lie, he won’t say shits like that if they were not real, she couldn’t keep deluding herself that he was lying on her parents, for one, they were not here.
“How could they?”
She voiced out as painful tears gathered in her eyes, she always knew they never loved or cared for her but she never once thought they would do something this awful to her, leave her at the mercy of someone as devious as Luciano, like no one, absolutely no one who loves someone will do that, she say in silence all day trying to figure out what her next move would be and nothing came up, she had nothing, she searched the whole house for clues as to where her parents went but nothing, they left no clue, they left her high and dry.
Since she couldn’t spend the whole day feeling sorry for herself, she managed to get herself out of the house and towards her work place, she was left and she was not in the mood for work but she needed every penny she could get.
“Arielle? You turning up late? The boss is super pissed right now,”
Her coworker Davis said.
“I am sorry, I had a lot going on,”
She said as she changed into her work clothes, the door to the dressing room flew open and a very angry boss walked in.
“You ungrateful bitch, you think this is your business? You think you can come in at any time you want?”
Her boss yelled, Arielle watched as her coworker silently left the room, leaving her at the mercy of the angry woman.RêAd lat𝙚St chapters at Novel(D)ra/ma.Org Only
“I am sorry, I didn’t mean to be late, I just had a lot going on,”
She said bowing her head.
“Excuses after excuse, you have a lot going on? We all do, don’t ruin my business because of your personal life,”
She yelled, it pissed Arielle so bad, she has never been late before since she started working here and she was making her feel like she did it deliberately.
“I am sorry if I can’t be here early all the time, I am sorry if I don’t meet up with your expectations, I am sorry that I sometimes feel like not doing anything, I am sorry I can’t be a perfect human!”
She cried out in pain as hot tears rolled down her eyes.
“You are fired, I don’t ever want to see your pity ass near my business and I am not paying you for the days that you have worked this week, you don’t deserve a penny from me.”
The wicked woman said grabbing her forcefully and pulling her out of the dressing room, and down towards the bar area, even though she was yelling for her to let go, she didn’t until she got outside her bar and pushed her that she fell down.
“Get lost bitch, since you can’t work, go do hookups, that’s what young girls as lazy as you are doing these days,”
She yelled and walked back into the bar, Arielle felt ashamed as they were people walking by that were looking at her, some even had their phones out filming her, she got up, dusted her clothes, and made to walk back into the bar to at least get the clothes she wore from home, her boss came out in that moment and threw her clothes and bag at her.
“The shirt is all you take from here, lazy fucker,”
She insulted. Arielle ignored her and picked her stuff from the ground, there was no point in begging and she was in too much pain to even do that, she took her stuff and walked the distance back to the house, crying for half of the journey, it didn’t get better when she got home, she cried herself to sleep.
Arielle spent the rest of the week doing nothing, getting fired was the least of her problem, she still couldn’t reach her parents, they didn’t even bother to explain why they did something like that to her, and to be honest, they really didn’t care for her, after looking for them for three who days, it became clear to her that they were no longer in Russia and no matter how she looks she would not find them and she just needed to accept that.
Her mornings were like her nights because she spend the whole day in bed and at night, she goes for walks to clear her head and think of what to do next with her life, being so young and lost, she didn’t feel the need to live but she didn’t want to die either.
“There has to be some kind of redemption in the end,”
She would tell herself but as the days went by, it didn’t get better, Luciano hasn’t shown his face for days and even though she knew he would not just live her alone like that, she did hope that was the case.
Today, she decided to leave the house in the morning and spent the whole of her day just roaming the streets of the city, with no thoughts and destination in mind, she kind of felt like not going home even when it started getting dark, but she didn’t have enough money with her to get a hotel room or a motel at that so she got on the bus back home.
“I thought you were not going to come back, we have been waiting here for ages”
She heard a voice say as she walked closer to the house, she turned around wondering who the strange man was and why he was talking to her, it was already dark and a man in the streets, when it is dark, should be feared, at least that’s what she was made to believe, she was already close to her house so she could run in but the problem is she was alone in the house too.
“Oh, don’t worry about me, my boss has been waiting for hours for you to return,”
The man said, pointing in the direction of her apartment before she could ask, her heart skipped a beat, she knew who he was referring to, Luciano, he was back as she had feared…