BLACK GHOUL
Chapter 182: Black Lovers Tiff [1]

Chapter 182: Black Lovers Tiff [1]

"Let go of me," Riley said, trying to break free from his hold.

"Riley!" he growled.

She yanked her arm off his grip, holding her shoulder in pain, staring at him with furious eyes.

"Riley!" he urged, coming to a step closer once more to touch her.

She took a step backward.

"I said, don’t touch me!" she yelled at the top of her lungs making Liam halt his steps abruptly.

His eyes were wide like he didn’t expect her to raise her voice like that, she saw it, the shock and she regretted what she did, silently murmuring a mantra of curses in her head, now she’s done it!

"I-I’m sorry I just..." she gave a heavy sigh, biting her bottom lip, regret flushed through her like a wave and a dread feeling, she shouldn’t have done that.

With one step, Liam was in front of her with an unreadable expression, she couldn’t decipher, she was forced to gulp hard.

"Liam?" She said, puzzled, hoping she would understand his looks, her heart slamming loudly in her chest like they would give out the next, she hated it when she couldn’t read him.

He reached for her in the hot silence and removed her hand from her shoulder, her black sweater was already drenched in blood. And the metallic stench of it filled his nostrils, he was about to lose it when he saw that wound, he wanted nothing but blood from whoever did this to her. But he tried to calm his raging insides down.

"What..." He began with clenched teeth, feeling his senses slipping but he tried for ’calm’ as much as he could. " What happened to your shoulder?" He asked in a low tone trying to sound as composed as he could.

"I..." she began, she raised her leveled gaze to meet him, but she couldn’t bring herself to, she leveled them and further bit her lip. "I don’t wanna talk about it," she said sternly.

Liam just made a hmm sound. "Then get your arm treated," he said sternly as he pulled away from her, walking out.

Riley’s body trembled, as she took a heavy breath, the back of her head met the wall as she nudge it backward, seriously hating herself right now, but it was better this way, if he knew what really happened, she knew Liam he won’t be happy she went off on her own to kill her uncle, he wouldn’t understand like she chose that path, he will think that she did it out of negligence when she was only doing it to lessen the burden on him.

***

The O’Brien Mansion

The thunder strikes loudly, the skies pitch black as the rain pours heavily, the wind heavily outside and whistles in the entire area. The windows in the house were shut because of it, there was a storm out there.

Riley was alone in their master bedroom as she watched the rain pour at the glass windows, observing as the droplets of water stained the windows and cold imprints on them, she may be staring but her mind was further deep in thoughts about what transpired between her and Liam.

She pulled the covers more to her body and groaned in pain when the action hurt her wounded shoulder once again, she just replaced the bandages and guessed it was soaked again. She shivered in the cold, she was only on a lavender silk nightie, stopping at the knees, she wouldn’t feel so cold if she was with Liam, but he wasn’t here.

Her hand found the small bandage on her shoulder with the help of Sean, she could still remember their encounter.

***

Hours Ago

Riley gave a slight groan as Sean removed the gold bullet from her shoulder. So it was a bullet in there causing all the discomfort.

"Well this bullet is surely different," Sean said while studying it.

"It was very deep in your shoulder, but now it’s out you will heal but slowly," he explains, dropping the blood-stained bullet on the steel plate.

"I guess it won’t be the same for the one in my hand," Riley said as her nails extended.

"Wait what?" Sean said dumbfounded but then he froze when Riley dug her nails in her palm bringing out a gold bullet.

"That will make it two," she said, dropping the bullet on the pan. Her palm wound healed, no wonder her palm was all fuzzy, it was buried there when she caught a bullet with her palm. "Guess it wasn’t too deep then," she said.

"Wow... okay how the fuck did you get 2 bullets inside you" Sean demands an explanation.

"It’s a long story," she said.

"No it wasn’t because Iris told me, she was worried about you, and couldn’t keep it in anymore"

"Shit"

"Riley why would you do something like that, Liam is gonna be furious when he finds out"

"He won’t, okay!" Riley snaps, she didn’t have it in mind to tell at all, she didn’t want that, she didn’t want him worried or angry at her. But what she pulled off already brought those things she wanted to avoid.

"You won’t tell him?"

"I don’t have to" she looks away.

Sean sighs, shaking his head, she has always been stubborn, to begin with. "What’s going on with you two Hmm?" Sean demands.

"Nothing that will lead to divorce," she said, shrugging.

"Riley" he scolds.

She sighs.

"You have to tell him so that both of you can have an understanding, that’s very important," he clarified.

"It doesn’t seem like we have an understanding now, since he’s not talking to me," she said with a sigh.

***

Present Day.

The sun shined brightly within the mansion, as the sun rays came in through the windows indicating it was dawn.

Riley, fast asleep, tousled and turned on the bed. She was able to replace the bandage last night before going to sleep, and it didn’t bleed out again, she was able to have a peaceful sleep.

A smile graced her lips as she felt the side of the bed, but frowned when she found it empty, she opened her eyes and saw the empty space, she sighed realizing she fell asleep alone last night. She really hoped he would come, she waited until sleep caught up with her.

"He didn’t come in last night," she said faintly observing the room, sensing his present wasn’t here throughout the night, then where did he sleep?

Searching for her husband in the mansion, she couldn’t find him anywhere, she was getting frustrated by this, she found her way to the kitchen seeing him there making himself breakfast, wearing just loose pants only.

"Where did you sleep?" Riley demands letting her anger get the best of her, she folded her arms.

He flipped the pancake on the frying pan, before facing her.

"Not even a good morning," he said sternly.

She gulps hard.

"Good morning," she said through gritted teeth.

Liam just huffed.

"And I asked a question... how come you didn’t come to bed" she demands once more.

"The guest room seemed comfortable," he said, pressing a button, and the fire went off.

"Oh really?"

"Someone said I shouldn’t touch her," he said, placing his pancake on a plate.

Riley’s shoulders fell at his words.

"You know I didn’t mean that," she said.

He dropped the plate.

"Now I don’t have the appetite," He said, turning to leave.

She held his arm with both her hands making him halt his steps.

"I’m... I’m sorry, okay... I had it, I thought I did" she sighs.

"I thought I could kill him and save us all the trouble" she adds.

He faced her with furious eyes.

"Vincent Jones?" he demands.

She gave a slight nod.

"Why would you do something like that without telling me, you could have been killed!" he hissed.

"I know, I know, I wasn’t supposed to act out like that... but I couldn’t just sit till and allow you carry all the load yourself"

"Riley, I thought we talked about this, there’s no need to feel inferior cause you’re not"

"It’s not just about feeling inferior Liam... you’re keeping me away from this fight and I hate it, you’re not the only one whose lives were ruined by them.. you’re not the only one who lost a son" she hissed as the tears threatened to fall, she sobbed.

"You can’t protect me from everything Liam, you can’t... you know sooner or later I’m gonna join the fight" she sobbed.

"I didn’t wanna tell you about what I did because I knew you were gonna be furious".

"Well too late... I’m furious" Liam said sternly, her shaky eyes met his.

"If I had lost you again... do you think I’m gonna ever recover from that?" he states with hurtful eyes.

"I guess you didn’t think of that," he said with a nudge of his head as he walked away.

Riley held onto the island to steady herself, the tears fell silently as she sobbed.

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