Wolf of Stone novel Chapter 26

I was flabbergasted.

What ridiculousness was he talking about?

My heart began to beat irregularly as the warmth of his hold travelled from his hand to mine, soothing me, making me aware of his presence.

It scared me.

I quickly pulled my hand from his grasp and ended our eye contact, a nervous laugh releasing from my lips.

"You're very brave to grab me like that. Stop playing around and let's get back to work," I replied, then quickly slipped away to look for another book.

We spent hours in the library browsing from book to book, looking for the missing pieces in Sylia's history. I couldn't find anything coming close to what really happened back then.

Maybe it was because I was so preoccupied with what Axil, and I spoke of that I couldn't really focus on what I was reading. I could only hope that Liza had a better search than I did.

I couldn't even find it in myself to get out and eat something. My stomach was in knots all day, but I refused to acknowledge what was said. He was clearly joking with me.

We picked Liza up around 4pm then went back home. Liza didn't manage to find anything either, much to my disappointment.

The harder it is to find the truth means the deadlier the enemy to have hidden it so well.

How depressing.

When we got home, I chose to avoid Axil at all costs and remained locked up in my room, reading Kindle until Liza forced me downstairs to eat something.

That's how we spent the entire week. Everyday Axil and I would take Liza to school then head towards the library, where I continued to search while Axil gained more knowledge on this era. We didn't say much to each other, only muttering mere pleasantries and greetings. It was a bit awkward, but I refused to listen to any stupidness that came out of his mouth.

After an entire week of dead-end after dead-end, it was Saturday again.

Liza was off school and was home today.

I sighed as I rolled unto my stomach on the bed, my legs lightly swinging in the air, and turned the page of the book I borrowed from the library.

It was a book on Sylia's political history dating back to 1830. It was quite boring honestly.

I was dressed in a white, oversized t-shirt with nothing underneath besides my big, blue granny panties.

It was early in the morning, and I surprisingly woke up early today but instead of reading on Kindle, I chose to continue my research.

It's been a week already and we still haven't found anything. To make it worst the neighbourhood have been much quieter than usual, making me cautious as this foreshadowing blanketed the entire house.

I felt like it was the calm before the storm and honestly, it had me on edge.

Ugh

I groaned and slammed my forehead into the book.

I groaned as Liza's heavy body collided with mine. I rolled over and made her fall off me.

"Are you crazy woman!? You're so damn heavy I almost choked to death." I breathed out, clutching at my chest that beat irregularly due to Liza startling me.

Liza laughed, "you deserve it."

I grabbed the pillow that was above my head and used it to swing at Liza's face as she laid on the bed.

Liza screeched as it made contact, quickly rolling away and falling off of the bed. I laughed and repeated her words, "you deserve it."

Liza huffed and got up off of the floor, dusting herself off.

"Have you talked to mama recently? She sends me messages every morning telling me to have a good day."

I sat up on the bed and stretched, a yawn releasing from my lips, "yeah I get the morning messages as well. I usually just return the greeting to her and call it a day."

Liza nodded, "we have to call them soon though or else they'll start to worry. I have school so I haven't been able to keep in touch as much as I'd like," she shot me a pointed stare, "what's your excuse?"

I pursed my lips and looked away.

I had no excuse, but I also didn't know what to tell them if I called. Say that I'm still lounging around the house with no job? I doubt they'll like that. They've always urged for me to be as proactive as Liza was, but I just couldn't find any motivation in these lazy bones to even go and look for a job. Besides, it's not like I didn't have any money. Even though the money wasn't necessarily mine....