Chapter 105 : Her cry

MAXINE. “No!” I manage to scream, but my body is still locked in its paralyzed state. “Theo….” Draco just chuckles as though I just told him a mildly entertaining joke. “Well, that’s enough of that. It’s a shame he showed up. It really is.” He kneels down and tries to look for the empty syringe, but it’s now powder hiding in the grass and the dried leaves. He curses under his breath, rifling through his pockets. When he finds that he no longer has anything other than the one tainted in poison, he starts to scream like a toddler being denied his toys. Wordlessly, he straightens his jacket and looks at me. Then, he starts to march away from the scene as though nothing happened, as though he’s not sporting a broken nose and a busted lip and two swollen eyes. Anger is flowing in me like a dam, on the verge of exploding and flooding everything. I move my hands and they start to twitch, breaking out from the grip of whatever it was he made me inhale. But despair is moving within that an