Chapter 61


    I don’t care what he’s thinking about, I just want to get my medicine and be left alone for all time. His


    presence is like a lead weight and as much as I have ached to see him for the past Fort-Eight hours, I


    realise that it just reminds me how much I hate him, hate what he’s capable of making me feel.


    ‘’Here.’’ He holds out his handkerchief to me and despite wanting to push it away I have water running


    down my face and a nose that’s running like crazy, I ept it despite wanting to tell him where to go


    and just avoid eye contact once again.


    ‘’Stop being nice, I don’t like it and it just makes me suspicious of your motives, which means I can’t


    rx.’’ I snap childishly and start drying my skin, dabbing my face and blowing my nose as discreetly


    as I can. As soon as I have done all I can I just sag, so I face nk my own knees and sigh heavily;


    face against the damp rough fabric but being horizontal is far better than upright as another wave of


    dizziness overtakes my brain. He’s the worst kind of headache and I don’t need more.


    ‘‘What are you doing?’’ His annoying tone grates on my nerves. I close my eyes to nk him out


    feeling surreal and dreamy as my fever ups a gear and starts to seep over my entire body.


    ‘‘I’m so sick.’’ I can’t face sitting up, it’s better to be down here, my voice is getting croaky with every


    attempt at talking and I wish I had nevere out at all. The weather has made this a hundred times


    worse, and I just want to close my eyes and sleep it off while he has us driven across town to get what I


    need. For a moment I am actually grateful he decided to drive me.


    ‘‘Take this off, it’s making you cold.’’ Alexi tugs at my jacket but I just yank away from him again.


    ‘‘Cooling me down, so it stays on.’’ I battle, half coherently without opening my eyes and I can even


    hear the slur in my own speech. I am not really enjoying being in soaked clothes but I have zero energy


    to lift myself back up and I don’t want him to know how weak I really am in this state. My legs have


    turned to lead, and my body is giving up on me. That wave of fatigue hitting me hard and I tell myself if


    I just rest my eyes for a few minutes then the overwhelming sense of falling will pass.


    ‘’Stop fighting me Cam, just for once.’’ Alexi sounds fed up and I ignore him, curling my arms around


    my head and just close my eyes tightly to block him out. I know my position is fucking weird, but it’s


    helping me feel less crap and also has the added benefit of not having to look at the arsehole or


    acknowledge him in any way.


    Wonder what happened to London? Guess that was just a cute name when he was trying to keep me


    under the thumb. He has decided to give me the heave-ho, so the pet name is gone too.


    Wanker!


    ‘‘Whatever.’’ I answer softly, letting the motion of the car soothe me as my body hits the extreme


    shivers, only this time I get a wave of cold enveloping me on top of them and I try to block it out. Letting


    my body give in to the feeling of rxation, and just let darkness move in for a little while to give me


    some relief.


    I jump with the jerk that jolts through my body and try to sit up in rm, failing epically as heaviness


    pulls me back own. Confused, dazed and realising I’m topless, just in a bra and Alexi is yanking my wet


    trousers down my legs. I have no clue where the hell I am as I was just sitting in his car thirty seconds


    ago and I don’t know how I even got in here.


    I’m so out of it, it’s like I am on something, wondering if he would drug me to bepliant and


    remember I never took anything from him to get this way. It must be the fever hitting me full blown as I


    am so out of whack I am practically walking on clouds.


    I seem to be on the bed of the apartment I have been staying in. Mico is setting up a tray by my bed


    with an assortment of fluids and medicines before switching on the TV on the wall behind him. I have


    no idea which reality I just woke up in where Carrero men are bedside nurses and Alexi is willingly


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    ‘‘What the hell are you doing?’’ I blurt out groggily, my voice weird and speech slurred and incoherent


    and theny very still as another wave of dizziness overtakes me, losing my fierce as vulnerable and


    weak takeover.


    ‘‘Taking your wet clothes off, you’re burning up and I need to cool you down, get you dry.’’


    ‘‘I don’t need your help.’’ I try verbally again, crazily disorientated to the point everything is swaying and


    I can barely focus. I toss on the bed as bright colours obscure my vision and jump when I realise Mico


    has duplicated and there’s two of him.


    No.


    Four wandering across the room throwing me a weird look and then his whole self blurs out of focus


    and everything blends into one weird coloured mass. I try to roll but my body feels weirdly unconnected


    to me and the weight surrounding me might possibly be my limbs which have ceased to function. I can’t


    open my eyes properly anymore.


    Shit, I think I’m sicker than I thought.


    ‘’Yet here I am.’’ Alexi sounds different, normal, far away and I toss and turn again in a bid to clear my


    head and shift the overwhelming sensation of heat and cold waving through my body in intervals. I’m


    jerked again as he pulls the legs of my trousers free and all I’m left in is wet underwear, somehow


    aware that I’m lying on a bed mostly naked, and yet I feel detached from reality as though I’m stuck in a


    bubble in my mind and the normal world is getting to be so far away.


    ‘‘You can’t put her on a flight like this. Airports are starting to open in the morning ording to Jake but


    no way in hell is she fit for a journey.’’ Mico’s voice waves through and I give up trying to look where it’s


    coming from. I close my eyes and rx into the sensation of being bodiless. Stop fighting and be


    weightless, so I can fly around the room like a dandelion seed.


    Maybe I am that weed after all and I finally found my way to flying free on the breeze.


    ‘’I know, I can see her you know? She needs a doctor, call Wilson. We need to cool her down, she’s


    spiking a fever.’’ Alexi sounds almost human for a moment, I hardly recognise him and wonder if he is


    different when he’s alone with his family. He sounds more like his brother and for a moment I forget


    how much I despise him.


    ‘’Go to your dinner, I can take care of her. I’ll get Wilson up here and do whatever he says.’’ Mico


    sounds like his normal solid self and I think I like him, really. He’s not the hard arse bastard I thought he


    was, and he genuinely seems to give a shit. I have never really felt threatened around him, never got


    the vibes he was undressing me in his head, and he has never touched me sexually or inappropriately


    apart from that time he bodily carried me to the car.


    ‘’You were already supposed to be taking care of her, yet I find her walking the streets in this state. No


    one checked on her to see how she was in two days? Did you know she was sick? What the fuck do I


    pay you for? She looks like hell.’’ Alexi sounds pissed but I’m literally washing away on an


    ufortable hot breeze that feels more like I am being baked in a sauna. I swear I’m sweating and


    my face feels damp and mmy as sunlight burns my skin off, it’s suddenly very bright in here and I


    couldn’t open my eyes anymore if I tried.


    ‘’You told me to get rid of her, you didn’t tell me to babysit. I was running around doing shit you told me


    to do.’’ Mico is snapping back. I have never heard him disobey or argue with Alexi. Alexi seems to


    disregard his petnce, surprisingl. Seems he only punishes women for talking back.


    ‘’Go turn the shower on and turn the temp down to lukewarm I’ll take her in there. If she keeps getting


    hotter she might have a seizure.’’


    ‘’You’re just sending her mixed signals Lex, leave her to me and just go. She got the message loud and


    clear … she knows you don’t give a shit and want her gone, all this does is confuse things.’’