Chapter 81 SPOILT

Chapter 81 SPOILT
Pixie hands me a card before we step down from the car.

I flip the black Amex in my hands and look at her.
“It has my name on it.”
“That’s because it’s yours.” She says with a small smile
“I never signed up for this… Did Dante get this for me?”
“Yep. He instructed that you buy whatever you want.”

Whatever I want.
“He's spoiling me.”
“As he should.” Pixie says with a chuckle

We both step down from the car and make our way into the mall.
“I really don’t enjoy shopping for dresses.” I confess
“You don’t?”
“No.”
“Hmm, how about a spa day.”
“Sounds amazing.” I feel eyes burning holes to the back of my skull but when I turn around, I see no one.
“We should at least pick a few dresses. Dante told me that you guys are having a date tonight.”
“We are.”

I feel heat crawl up my cheeks.

“You know, you're good for him.”
“What?”
“You Anya, I've never seen Dante so grounded before and he's been alive since you came. Not that he was dead but, you know what I mean.”
“Thank you, that's such a nice thing to say.”

We round up on the corner when I spot a baby blue dress.
“Look.” Pixie says, already walking in the direction of another dress.

I grab the blue dress from the hanger and rush in her direction.

“Er, how about we branch to the pharmacy before we leave for the spa.”

She stops dead in her tracks, her face blank and unreadable.
“What's wrong?”
“Nothing, I just need new birth control pills.”
“Oh, I'll just order that from the hospital.”
“Thank you.”

On our way out of the store, we bump into a Russian man. I don't know if we had bumped into him or he'd bumped into us because one second I'm holding hands with Pixie and she's telling me a joke and the next second, there's this tank of a man, pushing me so hard I almost slam my head against the glass doors. He rips his hat back and smirks, extending one hand to help Pixie up while the other hand is shoved tight in his pocket.

“She's fine” I say rushing towards Pixie and helping her up. The man smiles at me then he clicks his tongue for whatever reason.

I know he's Russian because he apologised in the language, but there's something familiar about his eyes.

“Are you okay, miss?” Sebastian asks
“We're fine.” Pixie says to him

I turn around to see the man in the hat watching us from inside the store.


“I don't feel so good.” Pixie says about five minutes later.
“What's wrong?”
She looks pale, visibly pale.

I place the back of my hand against her forehead and it burns.
“Pixie, you're having a fever.” I turn to Sebastian. “Drive us to the hospital.”
“The private hospital.” she says to Sebastian with a groan.

The corners of her lips and eyes are turning red. She was fine a second ago.
“Pixie…”

“Anya, I need you to check my belly, see if there's a tiny prick. I feel a dull pain coming from there.”

She lifts her dress and I search but I don't find anything.
“What exactly am I supposed to be looking for?”
“A raised firm part of the skin… Like a needle–” her voice comes out slurred, as if her tongue is being tangled up in her mouth.

I spot a tiny red dot, nothing bigger than a pore.
“Here.”
“That man, he must have pricked me.”

I process the information slowly but then it hits me hard and fast. He injected her with something.
“I'm calling Dante, Sebastian drive as fast as you fucking can!”
“We're almost there, miss.”

I ring Dante and he picks up almost immediately.
“Dante, Pixie is not feeling well… as we were leaving the boutique, there was a man that bumped into us and he injected Pixie with something, I don't know what it is but she's barely able to lift her head now.”
“Anya, listen to me…”
“Okay.”
“Where are you now?”
“Sebastian is driving us to the hospital, we're there now.”
“Are you alright?”
“I am but she…”
“I'm not asking about her darling, I'm asking about you.”
“I'm fine. I…”

Sebastian hops down the car and opens the door of the car.
He lifts Pixie and I follow behind them.
“I have to go…” I say into the phone
I'm heading to the hospital now. Stay on the line till I get there.”

I feel my heart squeeze with every heat.
Sebastian explains things to the doctor and even though I was an eye witness, I can barely get my words out.

“She'll be fine, they're checking up on her now.”
I should believe him and relax but I can't
“Why don't you come and have a seat in the waiting area?” Sebastian tries again and then he leaves.

He doesn't leave completely, I feel his presence behind me.
“God please, let Pixie be fine. She's literally my only friend.”

I stopped praying when I watched my mum deteriorate in the hospital day and night, but she's alive and well now so it means that some parts of my prayers were heard.

I feel him before I see him, I turn around to find Dante walking into the hallway.

I press my face into his neck as he wraps his hands tight around me.
“I watched it happen.” My shoulders shake hard as I sob
“Pixie will be alright, she's strong.”
“He was so slick about it. I swear if I find him I'll kill him.”
“You don't really mean that.” Dante says, it's not deflection… He's really asking me if that's what I want for revenge.

I pull away from the hug and I look up into his eyes.
“You will find him.”
“I will.”
“Promise me to find him, Dante”
“I promise you, I will find him.”
“I will be the one to kill him.”

Dante glides his fingers gently over the curve of my chin.
“Yes, my darling.”
He leans in and kisses me slowly, I melt into the warm and sweetness of his mouth.