Given to Madness by Fox Winter

Author:Fox, Winter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Winter Fox
Published: 2019-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

19

Liss

I came back down into the kitchen after twenty-minutes of trying to choose an outfit, but if Ilya was impatient with my time-keeping he didn’t let it show. He was standing waiting at the floor-to-ceiling kitchen windows, looking out over a lush orchard of different fruit trees. There were apples, oranges, plums, and even olives. It was a very beautiful view.

He turned toward me at the sound of my footsteps on the tiled floor, and he didn’t even try to hide the hungry look which crossed his face as he took in my attire. I was wearing a pair of denim shorts, an orange tank which showed off my tanned skin, and the outfit was finished off by a pair of neon orange sports trainers. It was far too warm outside for any more clothes.

“Are you ready to go?” He started for the door.

“Do I get to choose where we go?” I asked. Following after him.

He shrugged. “Sure. Why not.”

We stepped out of the comfortably air-conditioned house, and into the oppressive heat of the early afternoon. Ilya pointed at a huge black SUV, clicking the key fob in his hands to unlock the doors. I climbed into the passenger seat, and put my seatbelt on, while Ilya did the same on the driver side.

As he pulled the car out of the vast driveway, he flicked the radio on, and asked me where I wanted to go.

“The park,” I replied without hesitation.

“The park?” He repeated.

I frowned at him. “Why does that surprise you?”

“I don’t know. I think I just expected you to say the mall.”

I crossed my arms over my chest moodily. “I’m not a fucking bimbo, you know. There’s more to my life than designer clothes.”

He chuckled. “Such as?”

The moment I paused to think about my answer, I realized that he had won. What did I have in my life? Apart from my brothers’ whom I probably wouldn’t see again for a very long time. I’d never asked for my life to be the way it was. But I had just accepted it. Until now.

“I didn’t choose my life, Ilya,” I murmured, turning to look out of the smoked glass window at the world passing by outside.

“That was unfair of me, milaya. I know that you didn’t get to choose. You didn’t even get to choose your husband in the end.” He looked uncomfortably sorry.

We arrived at the park, and Ilya pulled the car into a space at the front of a coffee stall. It was a stall which I happened to know sold the best cappuccino’s in the entire city. I jumped out of the car, and jogged over to the stall to place my order. Ilya slammed his door, and ran to catch me up; grabbing a hold of my elbow when he did.

“Don’t run off like that again, or we go right back home,” he hissed in my ear, making the barista eye us nervously.

Snatching my elbow back, I glared at him. How did he manage to

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