My tempting mistake ✔ || book 1

Chapter 79.

The lights went off. 

"I must say." I heard her voice and it felt as if my heart stopped beating. "I miss you bitch!" It's her, it's really her. "Payback!" She kicked the gun out of her hands.

"Annette?" Kathleen said as the lights went back on. "How?" She smirked.

"Kathleen!" Annette smiled. 

"How are you..." She touched her face. "Alive?" Kathleen tried running to the gun but Annette got it first. "Came back to kill me?" 

"Yes." She took the bullets out of the gun and threw it away. 

"Now it makes sense." Kathleen smirked. "The guy that left your room that night didn't kill you, he, was part of your plan." She punched Annette.

"You were there?" Annette asked, fighting with Kathleen. "That night?" She questioned dogging the punches.

I pinched myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming. know how my Annette fights and talks so it's really her?

I closed my eyes, trying to comprehend everything that was happening. Annette is not dead, she's alive and she's fighting with Kathleen but that doesn't make any sense. She is supposed to be dead!

I opened my eyes and Kathleen was on top of Annette, beating her up so I closed my eyes again. I am hallucinating, I can't believe my eyes anymore.

I opened my eyes again and they were still fighting. I took the key and unhandcuffed myself. I don't know what's happening but I don't trust my eyes at all. 

The gun went off and they were both on top of one another. I didn't look away nor blinked. I kept staring at them, waiting for one of them to move. All of a sudden, Annette pushed Kathleen off herself. She got up and walked to me. 

She took the key from me and started to unlock the lock on the chains on my legs. I kept staring at her, confused about everything. 

I got up and she smiled at me. I hugged her tightly and she hugged me back after a while. 

"Elijah." I heard my dad's voice so I broke the hug. "I always have good timing."

"My poor baby." Mom hugged me kissing me. "Wait, Annette?" She looked at Annette.

"I never knew you would be a good actress." Adrian said to Annette and that's when it hit me. I am happy over this? How can I be happy over this?

"You faked your own death?" I shook my head. "You were alive all this time and we were worried about you." 

"Honey, where have you been?" Mom asked her.

"Don't bother answering those questions." I said. "We don't want to hear any more lies." 

"Elijah it's not what it looks like." She replied. "I swear!"

"We will wait in the car." Dad said so they all left Annette and me alone.

"Why are you here? You came back to ruin my family again?" I asked and she shook her head. 

"How can you say such things? You know I care about the family." She said. "I love you and the family, I would never hurt any of you."

"Care? Love?" I laughed. "You the same person that broke us apart. You ruined the peace we had!"

"Elijah, please don't say that. You know I love you." 

"You don't love me!" I shouted. "Stop lying to yourself." I am tired of her. "No one ever hurts their love continuously. You abandoned me, and everyone else!"

"I didn't, I always looked out for you." She smiled. "I could never abandon you or hurt you. Don't you remember what we used to say as kids?" She asked, with teary eyes. "Best friends forever and love never runs. We made up a lot of nonsense and vowed to never break them."

"You broke me and everything I was. You said you would love me with all you have and all you ever will be but instead, you killed me with all you are, and now you want to remind me what I said as a kid." I shook my head. "You the only one capable of destroying someone and asking them to not break their childhood promises. You should've remained dead."

"Elijah!" She cried.

"Fake tears!" I said. "Do you know how many times I cried for you, I begged you to come back. I just wanted my love but little did I know you were alive on the other side while I blamed God for taking you from me." I smiled. "I feel like a fool now. I wish I prayed to God to take you to hell!" She tried to say something but I interrupted her. "Stay away from me and my family!" I walked out of Kathleen's house. 

I got in the car with Adrian. He started driving and didn't ask me anything. Tears kept streaming my face. 

Why do the people you love the most, hurt you?

Adrian stopped the car in front of my house.

"Your parents said I should tell you not---." I got out of the car. "Elijah?" Adrian opened my house for me.

"Thanks." I mumbled as I went inside. 

You mourn for the dead but what happens when they are alive? My Annette left me that night and tonight, a fake, Annette came to me. She was Annette by appearance I won't lie, but that's not my real Annette. My Annette never lies nor hurts anyone.

I broke all the frames that had Annette's pictures. 

"You didn't die that night!" I screamed. "Your soul did!" I cried.

I did tell everyone that Annette didn't die that night and something didn't add up but no one believed me. I then moved on with my life and became the old Elijah I was despite always missing her terribly and wanting her back so much. I moved on, I made peace with her death, and today, today she wants to return. She wants to hurt me again as she did before. She just can never see me happy!