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I’ll see you again soon my little bird.
I can’t wait.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Nerissa
Istand in the doorway for ages. Frozen from fear and shock. I have already watched long enough to see him disappear down the stairway, out of sight. I listened as his footsteps faded all the way to the ground floor. But I still can’t move myself from this doorframe.
My eyes are still glued to the end of the passage.
I am so terrified I can’t move.
From somewhere in my little apartment my phone buzzes as I receive a message.
I jump in fright, snapped out of my stupor. I close the door and lock it.
I can’t believe that just happened.
Tuomo Vece was in my apartment. He was here. He was - he pinned me to the bed - he - he kissed me.
I lift my hand and touch my fingers to my lips. He kissed me.
When I was young, his kiss was the most exciting thing I had ever experienced in my entire life.
But I was naïve back then. I didn’t understand he was an actual monster of a man from a monstrous family.
I sigh, walking towards my bed to find my phone.
Now, I am old enough to see the truth about who he is, but his kissstillshook me to my core. I’ve kissed other men - but it has never felt like that.
I think, perhaps, it is just the sense of danger. The adrenaline in my veins. The fear in my heart. That’s all it was.
I sit on my bed, facing the door because I am too scared to turn my back to it.
I flick my phone on and navigate to the messages to see who is sending me things at four in the morning.
Tuomo: Turn off your light and go to sleep, little bird. I will see you at Restaurant Du Mort on the seventeenth at eight o’clock. Night, beautiful girl.
I stare at the message. And somehow, I know he is looking through my bedroom window. He is down there, in the street, perhaps sitting in his car, and he is looking at my bedroom window.
I should check, but I’m too scared.
Instead, I reach over and switch my light off. Then I sit with my legs curled against my chest and the blankets wrapped around me, unable to sleep. Barely able to move.
I can’t believe what just happened.
I can’t believe he was in my apartment.
How many times has he been in here? He knew exactly where the wine was, and where the glasses were. Even where my little memory box was. He knew which dress I had been admiring in the shop window.
I bite my bottom lip, sinking down into my bed.
I am so tired I feel like my bones are aching from it.
I think I will never sleep again, but it’s been a long night and sleep steals me away much faster than I could have imagined.
I wake up the next morning with a fright. Rolling over and throwing the blankets off and looking around my entire apartment.
