"What do you want from me?" Derek asked through gritted teeth, keeping his emotion in check, or they'd call the law enforcer."We just want Haze's death certificate and all of his medical reports."Derek laughed at that. "Why do you think I have them?""You were his best friend–""Best friend? If he wasn't dead already, I'd kill him myself for even thinking we're close! That damned egoist bastard cost me everything! He failed me when I needed him the most! Because of him, my investor withdrew and my company went bankrupt! He ruined everything!"The electricity in Derek's apartment unit suddenly went out and–Bam!The front door opened harshly, revealing a figure standing in the middle. The light from the corridor made it so that only the figure's silhouette was visible, telling him it was a male."Who is there?!" Derek shouted, making both girls look towards the front door over their shoulders. He frantically search

Vicky opened her apartment door and switched on the lights. She frowned when it merely flickered several times before completely going dark.“Great, now I have to call someone to fix it,” she grumbled and closed the door behind her.It annoyed her, but a glimpse of the rose diamond on her finger obliterated it immediately. “Ah, I can’t believe this is happening to me. I will marry Kain, and everyone will be jealous of me!”After lying on the red couch in the living room, Vicky called the landlord and reported that her electricity was out. The landlord would send someone to fix it later tonight because, apparently, only her unit was dark.Vicky was about to post the picture of her rose diamond ring when she heard something from the kitchen. She frowned and turned on her phone’s flashlight, walking on her tippy toes as fear slowly crept into her veins.Thud!The sound came from the closed bathroom, just on t

Today, Haze and Elaine headed to Grand Meadow Hospital, where Cassius was proclaimed dead.Despite his clear protest, Maxine coerced him into letting her tag along. If the bruise on his face wasn’t hurting, he would do anything to prevent her going with them. Unfortunately, her lethal fist left a painful memory in its wake.Once they arrived at the hospital, Haze already donned a disguise. It was nothing special, but Elaine turned out to be very capable with a set of make up in her hands. She managed to make him appear different with a blond bleached hair and eyeshadows. The makeup also served a purpose to hide the proof of Maxine’s physical attack.All in all, dressed in a black tee, ripped jeans, and combat boots made Haze look like a rocker losing his way in the hospital. Not one or two, but almost everyone they passed in the lobby stared at him.Haze tried to hide his uneasiness. “Okay, you know what? I think this only makes me stand

The wind called for him. Haze felt it caressed his cheeks, running through every strand of his bleached hair and trying to push him over the edge. He felt it calling for him, ‘Come here and play with me,’ the wind said in his mind. Opening his dark eyes, Haze leaned forward and let gravity drag him down. He fell, and would definitely hit the ground with a sickening sound if not for the skateboard under his feet and the curving floor of the park. “Woah!” Haze breezed past Elaine and Maxine as they licked the ice cream found in Haze’s wallet. He had enough from the 7th World Game Tournament’s prize, so he wouldn’t touch the credit card Elaine gave him in the name of Blackwood. As they licked their prized ice cream, Haze continued to roll back and forth using his newly-bought skateboard. It was bright orange with white lines diagonally, unlike his old navy and grey board that broke when he graduated high school. It had been a while since he last played in the park like this, but his

Three days later, Cassius’s younger sister came to the hill house where Haze and Elaine stayed for the duration of his contract.“What are we going to do now?” Maxine asked the moment she opened the door and leaned with her arms crossed against it. “We have no lead from the doctor.”Haze didn’t really want to discuss this. Not when Leonard’s ruthless way was fresh in his mind. Perhaps he sympathized too much with the doctor, but his rational mind thought that it was the least he could do. Even if the doctor now hated him with rage.He lost a wife for a completely unreasonable thing after all.The last few days, he spent the time learning everything Cassius knew. Elaine was a big help, and also a bigger jerk when it came to teaching him how to act like Cassius. It was as if she didn’t want him to imitate Cassius’s behavior, while at the same time didn’t want to fail her task from Leonard.He was in the middle of writing a speech, when the teen menace came. “Can we lay it off for now?”