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Life After Divorce: The Rise Of Elijah Crawford Chapter 265
“Mum!” Laura ran beside her mother.With the help of Rhonda, they dragged her onto a couch.“Call 911 someone!” Laura screamed looking around for help as she cried uncontrollably.“Mum, please wake up!” She pleaded.Beside her, Rhonda stood, too upset to feel as much pain as she should.She loved that she had a mother. Appreciated that there was at least one remaining parental figure in her life. It was the reason she didn't think too much of it while sacrificing her time to her family. She didn't argue when her mother made her do the things she didn't want to do.Her biggest regret to date was letting go of Elijah. That too had been orchestrated by her mother.All of that she could have forgiven. But not this blatant disrespect and disregard of her efforts.She had spent countless hours breaking her back so that their business could keep competing with the treats of Quantum City.All of this she had done without ever whining or throwing tantrums.However, she only ended up being pai
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Elijah covered Winnie with his body, and stayed in that position until the quake ended.Slowly, he lifted his body up, and turned to her. “Are you okay?!”“Yeah, I'm fine,” she replied.His shoulders began to relax. Taking a trip down to Cleo, he saw she had done the same for Tobias. “What was that, man?” He asked, standing to his feet.“I don't know, but I'll go check,” Elijah said, rising to his feet.“Wait!” Winnie placed a hand on his arm. “Be careful,” she said when he turned to her.He nodded, and continued out the door.“And where do you think you're going to?” Cleo questioned Tobias and he made a move to follow behind Elijah.“To go help Elijah out,” he replied, confused as to why she would even ask that kind of question in the first place.“You're joking, right? You're actually not going anywhere,” she said.“Yeah, I am.”“Are you fully human? You can't risk your life like that. Stay with Winnie, I'll go help Elijah out.”He scoffed in disbelief. “While I appreciate your co
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Elijah followed Winnie into his room. She sat on his bed, and he joined beside her.“So many things have happened,” she began without giving space to breathe. “So many things I never would have imagined would actually happen. You've lied to me, and betrayed my trust in you. That's okay though. It's not like I change the past—”“Winnie–”“No, listen. You have to listen to me. I left my grandfather to talk to you. He's in fact the biggest reason why I'm not so mad at you anymore. If you can put your anger aside, desire what he represents for you, I have no right to hold grudges.”He grabbed her hands into his, and squeezed it passionately. “Don't say that, please. Don't you dare. You have every right to be mad at me. This has nothing to do with the situation with your grandfather.”“Why didn't you tell me, Elijah?” She asked, her eyes watering.“And say what? I wanted to protect you. How could I tell you that by the virtue of your blood, you're a danger? I thought if I kept you at arms
Life After Divorce: The Rise Of Elijah Crawford Chapter 268
Elijah walked into the art exhibition with his hand pushed into his suit pants. He nodded his head in appreciation of how they had designed the room holding the exhibition.They had created an illusion that made it look like the guests were floating in water. The walls sizzled like a distorted image, and whooshing effects were being played on loop.It looked like a cave with a stream in it. The smell of Jasmine filled his nose, giving the environment even better ambience than he ever expected.He was staring at a painting Lexington apparently had made when it clicked in his head why the design had gone the way it did.Lexington was the god of water. Of course, he would want to feel at home.This particular painting to the side of the one he was just staring at caught his attention and he moved over to stare at it.It was simply an eye. But inside the eye was where the magic of the painting rested. There was a whole different world there. A world which if you had an iota of discernme
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Winnie was putting on her dress when she felt a shuddering presence looming around the room.“Hello?” She whipped her body around.“Is anyone there?” She called.“What do you think?” She heard a voice that sounded like it was in her head.“Darius!” The words slipped out of her mouth, as her eyes darkened from panic.“You know me? I'm honored. Maybe I can get to know you too?” He asked, laughing sinisterly.“You could never know me. I don't know conniving fools like you!” She spat back.“Are you sure you want to take that tone with me? If you're good to me, I can be nice. But if you're not, well let's just say we would have a problem.”“What do you want from me? My blood? Why? Because everyone keeps saying you want me. What do you want me for?”“To make an indestructible army of course,” he laughed maniacally, making her take frantic steps backwards. “You're joking right? You already have so much power. Why do you need more? No one needs that much power.”“Says who? There's nothing li
Life After Divorce: The Rise Of Elijah Crawford Chapter 270
“What do you want to tell me, Avery?” Elijah asked in a bored tone.Avery smiled. He hadn’t changed one bit. Still trying to make her pay with nonchalance for setting him up after practically eight years together.“I think you would find the information I'm going to give you quite useful. But if you still don't want to hear it, I promise it's fine.” She moved to walk away, but paused and smiled when he called her back.‘I thought so too,” she said, returning to his side. “So are you coming with me now?” she asked.“Let’s go,” he said, after communicating with his eyes to Tobias who was staring curiously at him, from the other end of the room.She slipped her hand into his, and stepped in beside him. He rolled his eyes at the action, but didn’t make any attempt to push her away.Together they strolled out of earshot. As they inched closer to the balcony, Elijah slowed his steps.“This should be secretive enough for you,” he said, finally pulling her hands away.She opened her mouth to
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Elijah thought about it for all but twenty seconds before he shook his head, rejecting the idea. “No. I absolutely cannot use Winnie that way. If I have to wait until the day of the fundraiser, then so be it.”“Look, I get it. Winnie is special to you. She’s the one you love, or whatever. Regardless, this is your best shot. Colin knows that you’re a god.”“What!” he raised his brow, temporarily startled?“I had to tell him about us, because he pretty much figured out the basics. Anyway, that’s not even the case right now. If you don’t find a way to sneak into the house soon, he’s going to set you up so bad when the time comes, I’m afraid you may not be able to escape the ambush.”He let her words sit in his head for a few minutes. His biggest enemy at the moment was time. By all indications, Colin planned on using the next weekend for his fundraiser. This would make it exactly one week from today. In a way, he could admit Avery was right. He had to move fast if he wanted to thwart C
Life After Divorce: The Rise Of Elijah Crawford Chapter 272
“We will have to return to the exhibition one after the other, though. Just follow my lead,” Winnie said.Elijah blinked multiple times as he tried to wrap his mind around Winnie’s enthusiasm. She had the biggest smile on her face, as if she had been waiting for this day all her life.“Are you ready?” she lifted her head, her gaze darting between Elijah and Avery.“I don’t know what exactly you’re trying to do. But I’m bored and down for anything, so let’s do it.” Avery shrugged. “That’s the spirit!” she pumped her fist, then turned to Elijah. “You?” she asked, eyeing him gently as she waited for his response.“Do I have a choice?”“No!” Both Avery and Winnie screamed in unison.“Fine.” He threw his hands into the air in surrender. They stood aside, as Winnie stomped her foot on the ground twice before storming towards the exhibition room.“It’s not just me, right? She’s really enjoying this.” Elijah observed out loud.“Yeah buddy. You got yourself a show girl. In other words, a dra
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A crowd gathered at the streets of Quantum City to watch the elites light up the place.They were all grateful to have been invited to the fundraising of Colin Trust. It was rare to be invited to these events, or that the events were even held in public.Amongst the people in that crowd weird Cleo and Tobias.Tobias was waiting for the signal he needed before he did what he prepared to do. As he turned his head around, he came face to face with Laura Anderson.She drew closer, and stopped in front of him. “The least you could do was answer my calls, you know? My mother was dying in the hospital, and I needed your help. I know about everything done to Elijah, so you can't even use that as an excuse. I just needed to talk to someone,” she said, tears in her eyes.Cleo was ready to go off when she turned and saw Laura Anderson. “You're the one that has a crush on my boyfriend,” she said before Tobias could respond.Laura painfully tore her gaze from Tobias, and turned to Cleo. “So you're
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Lexington knocked at Elijah's door at seven in the evening, and the door was immediately opened by Cleo.“Hey, you came,” she said, stepping aside so he could go through.He found Tobias, and the god in the living room, but Winnie was nowhere to be found.“Where's Winnie?” He asked.“What do you mean, where's Winnie? Isn't she supposed to be with you?” Tobias asked.“No. She texted that she would be spending the night here, and I told her I'd pick her up for the fundraiser this evening,” he replied.“Are you sure? Because I'm pretty certain she received a call from you shortly after you left, and zapotec out to receive it.”“Wait a second,” Lexington took a step forward. “You're trying to tell me you haven't heard from her since she stepped out to receive a call?”“She said you wanted to speak to her. When we heard her car drive away, we assumed she was going to meet up with you,” but as Cleo said it, she began to realise the situation was not as straightforward as it seemed.Lexingto
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“Leave me alone. Just go away,” Elijah muttered over and over again, as he scraped the walls of his cell with his fingers.It had gotten dark, and everytime it was dark, the voices got louder and more menacing.“Elijah?!” The most off-putting of all the voices sounded.He knew who he belonged to, but he couldn't quite place it. His mind was too disorganised.“Leave me alone,” he begged.“Why? You don't want to be reminded of your sins? I thought you were a self righteous prick!”“I didn't do it,” he shook his head continuously. “I didn't. An accident. She did it. She caused it.”Darius laughed. “But no one that matters knows. In the papers, you're a murderer. You need to see the paper stands, and the news on the city's projector screens. They're all carrying your face and your crime. Maybe you should have publicised your healing abilities. If you had, the, would have been more inclined to support you.” he laughed maniacally.“I'm innocent. I'm innocent,” Elijah repeated.The more he s
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“You're a murderer! A monster. You've claimed you save lives. You claim you can't fight the urge to be a messiah to ailing people. Look at you now. A murderer!”“Leave me alone! Leave me!” Elijah closed his ears, and dropped to the ground in a ball.He rolled from one end of the room to the other, trying to wade off the voices in his head.Still, they didn't relent. The more he tried to keep them away, the more they laughed and mocked him.“Do you know how many people you killed?” Another baritone voice began in a singsong tone.“Not one,” one shrieked.“Not even two,” another thundered.“Not five either,” a third chirped.“So many!” The first voice screamed and broke into a feat of laughter.“No, I didn't mean to. It was a mistake. A setup. Please. Mercy!” He begged, and cried.“No, you did! You put on the ring when you knew how blood thirsty it was. You wanted this. Craved it, because deep down, you're truly a monster!”“No I'm not!” He screamed back.“Yes you are!”“No I'm not!”“Y
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They were driving along the highway when Avery turned on the radio and began to sing along to the music being played.“You haven't changed that much,” he said, as she sang.Despite the volume turned all the way up, she could hear him clearly.“It's the curse of being a star, my darling.” She continued singing loudly, pulling a head shake out of his head.He didn't care what she chose to do. The only thing he was happy about was the fact he had managed to get the sixth herb. Despite every setback be had to face, it was just the remaining two left.His thoughts became bothered as he wondered what they were going to be. He assumed if he hadn't seen it yet, it was because of how life threatening they were bound to be.He didn't care though. No matter what it was, he planned on doing it just to see his mother up and about again.She had spent so much time being unconscious, she probably didn't know how the world worked anymore.“Why aren't you singing? You just achieved a major feat. You s
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Avery shot forward, and dropped to the ground beside him.“Elijah!” She smacked his chest.“Move!” He screamed at her. “It's just the ring. It's trying to control me,” he explained.“Oh,” she looked reluctant to leave him alone, nervously twisting her head from side to side. “Is there something I can do to help you out? Tell me, and I'll do it,” she asked desperately.“Just move, Avery. Move please,” he pleaded.“Okay,” she rose to her feet. “But I'm not moving far away. Just in case you need my help.”He sighed and rose to his feet. She was stubborn, but it was understandable. She just wanted to help.“You listen to me,” he spoke through his bringing the ring to his face. “You're not going to keep doing whatever the fuck you want to do. I'm going to get that herb, and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it!” With every word he spoke, his tone grew higher and higher, until the veins on his forehead formed a poll of creasing mass.With a determined stride, he pushed forward an
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Elijah drove to a stop in front of the Trusts mansion.“There's a way we can play this off without alerting Colin's boys. But if you want to go the badass route, then we can just walk in.”“What way?” Elijah asked, his trouble sensing tingling.“With your tongue shoved down my throat. They'd think we're in heat and just want to make love. Without any questions asked, they would open the door and let us in.”“No!” He said, immediately she was done.“Okay, Mr God. Chill with the outburst. It was only a suggestion. It's either that, or we go in together. If we do, there's a chance one of them might recognize you and report back to Colin. Are you willing to risk that?”“I'm already here. I don't care if anyone recognizes me or not. All I want to do is get in there, take the herb, and get out.”“You say it like it's that easy,” she said, withdrawing her legs from the dashboard. “Doesn't it take a whole process? Or are you willing to risk the ring working against you?”“The ring feeds on vi
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“We will have to return to the exhibition one after the other, though. Just follow my lead,” Winnie said.Elijah blinked multiple times as he tried to wrap his mind around Winnie’s enthusiasm. She had the biggest smile on her face, as if she had been waiting for this day all her life.“Are you ready?” she lifted her head, her gaze darting between Elijah and Avery.“I don’t know what exactly you’re trying to do. But I’m bored and down for anything, so let’s do it.” Avery shrugged. “That’s the spirit!” she pumped her fist, then turned to Elijah. “You?” she asked, eyeing him gently as she waited for his response.“Do I have a choice?”“No!” Both Avery and Winnie screamed in unison.“Fine.” He threw his hands into the air in surrender. They stood aside, as Winnie stomped her foot on the ground twice before storming towards the exhibition room.“It’s not just me, right? She’s really enjoying this.” Elijah observed out loud.“Yeah buddy. You got yourself a show girl. In other words, a dra
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Elijah thought about it for all but twenty seconds before he shook his head, rejecting the idea. “No. I absolutely cannot use Winnie that way. If I have to wait until the day of the fundraiser, then so be it.”“Look, I get it. Winnie is special to you. She’s the one you love, or whatever. Regardless, this is your best shot. Colin knows that you’re a god.”“What!” he raised his brow, temporarily startled?“I had to tell him about us, because he pretty much figured out the basics. Anyway, that’s not even the case right now. If you don’t find a way to sneak into the house soon, he’s going to set you up so bad when the time comes, I’m afraid you may not be able to escape the ambush.”He let her words sit in his head for a few minutes. His biggest enemy at the moment was time. By all indications, Colin planned on using the next weekend for his fundraiser. This would make it exactly one week from today. In a way, he could admit Avery was right. He had to move fast if he wanted to thwart C
