Virtual Reality Bites by Ava Wixx

Author:Ava Wixx [Wixx, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ava Wixx

Chapter 13

Agitated, Xander ran his hands through his already disheveled hair, pacing back and forth across my living room, his gaze darting around warily. “They’re not excuses, Zoe. It’s the plain truth. I can’t help it if you don’t like what I have to say.”

I tried to stay seated, to stay calm, but the moment felt pivotal somehow and I couldn’t let things go on the way they were. “No. Wait. You don’t understand. You have it all wrong.”

“I think I have it exactly right.” He tugged at his hair. “I thought … I thought you and me—” He raised his hands and backed away slowly. “It doesn’t matter what I thought. I was wrong.”

My heart twisted and broke, dropping into my stomach to stir up dread. “If you won’t listen to me, then all you have to say is a bunch of bullshit excuses. It’s not the truth at all. You don’t even know what the truth is.”

Still backing away slowly, Xander’s lips formed a sad facsimile to his usual smile. “I want to believe you. More than anything. But I have to stop lying to myself.”

“Please … just, please. You need to listen. I just need time. That’s all. You don’t understand what he’s like. He … I’m afraid of what he’ll do. He could try to take everything from me and succeed. I need to be in a better position.” My throat closed up, choking off my ill-delivered ramble. Maybe I wouldn’t be able to explain the situation even if given the chance, but I had to try.

“You’re never going to leave him. I can see that now. And I don’t even understand why.”

“Yes, I am! I just need time! Please! Why won’t you listen to me?” I knew he was technically hearing my words, but they weren’t reaching him, not really. And I didn’t know how I could get through to him. What was someone supposed to do when the truth wasn’t good enough?

Xander turned away from me, head hanging as he braced his arms against the mantel of my fireplace. “I couldn’t see the truth before because I didn’t want to. I thought our story was going to be one for the ages like—” He shook his head harshly. “I was a fool. Your fool. But I won’t be anymore.”

Ripped away from the scene before me, my vision blurred and my head spun, dizziness quickly giving way to nausea. I clutched at my head, groaning.

“Zoe.”

“Make it stop. You need to make it stop.”

“It’s okay. It’ll settle in a second.”

Bit by bit, piece by piece my current world slowed to a stop, leaving me with the urge to kiss the ground. It was then I realized I was curled up on said ground amidst a bed of multicolored flowers.

Xander hovered over me, concern etched into every line on his face. “Better?”

Confusion nettled, my brain filled with cotton candy. “Why did you drag me through another door the way you did and what the hell was the scene in my living room with you?”

His brow furrowed.

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