The Oddities of Grand Marquis - Book 3: Elegant Armageddon 🪼✔️

Twenty-Fourth

MAX

We went down the hallway and ended up at the last room at the end of the hallway. There was a scream from inside and I looked at Dawaen. Dawaen looked at me and made the international motion for crazy and thumbed the door. I made a face and put my hand on the doorknob.

"You really want to do this?"

"I don't really have a choice."

"Yes you do. No one said you had to see this asshole. He's the one who led you to me and started all of this mess."

"Maybe so but... he was my friend once."

"So? He was mine too and he played me just like you."

"I don't think anyone can get played as much as I did." I said with a dry laugh.

There was another scream from inside the room and we looked at the door.

"Well, if you insist." Dawaen said.

I sighed and opened the door.

Kole was whimpering in the corner of his bed, his knees as close to him as he could get them. It was clear he was pregnant and he looked like shit. His eyes hazel eyes were red and puffy from crying and lack of sleep. There was a craziness in them that couldn't be faked. Dawaen crossed his arms beside me.

"Damn, they weren't kidding..."

"Who are you?" he asked.

"I'm Max and this is Dawaen."

Kole looked at Dawaen for a minute and licked his lips.

"You're pregnant too?"

"Yup."

His eyes seemed to brighten. "Then... then you were kidnapped too? Abducted? By..." He pointed to the ceiling. "*Them?"

"Yup."

I smacked him. "Dawaen."

"What? That's all the answers I can do."

"Wait... wait, I know you..." Kole hit his head a little. "You're Max Taylor? You're the one who started all of this!" he screamed, suddenly lunging at me from the bed.

Dawaen moved in front of me and put his hand on Kole's forehead, making him unable to get to me.

"Hey, what the hell's your problem?!"

"It's all his fault! If it wasn't for him then I wouldn't be here! It's his fault! From the very beginning!"

"How do you know that if you have amnesia, Kole?"

"It comes and goes!" he yelled, pulling back from Dawaen. He pointed at me with wild, crazy eyes. "I don't know what's happening to me but I know your name! It permeates my brain like a burrowing worm! Max Taylor, Max Taylor, Max Taylor! Everything is because of you."

I moved from behind Dawaen and Kole screamed, falling back into his bed and scrambling to get to the corner.

"Don't come near me! No!"

I walked over to him anyway and he just started screaming bloody murder until I smacked him as hard as I could across the face. He screamed again but this time it was more like a 'how dare you' scream.

"SHUT UP!!!" I yelled back at him. His eyes widened and I glared at him. "It's because of you that I ended up this way and why I don't have a fucking family!"

"You not having a family isn't my problem."

I couldn't even try to keep in the anger that I had towards him and I lunged at him. He screamed and I straddled him in the bed, choking him.