Chapter 61.

Her eyes were definitely the same crazy eyes I remembered from the past. I really should have known better. Taking a nap was a huge mistake after all. I had the strength to resist her now, but I felt guilty towards her at the same time. In the end I didn’t want to see her hurt despite knowing of her insanity. Even if I was hurt by her in the past, the way I handled things back then was incorrect. I only ran away from her in the end and inevitably betrayed her. She didn’t seem to think of it that way and instead it appeared she was still strongly convinced we were still together. Even if it got me killed I wanted to at least start from square one with her.

Oh god, why is square one so scary?

Telling your psycho ex that you’ve been broken up for the last five years and she needs to face reality? I really must have a death wish. No, I definitely have a death wish. Shit! Just suck it up, me. and take one for the team.

What do I mean suck it up?! This is death we’re talking about here! Are you stupid? Are you crazy? Did I lose too many marbles recently?

“Adele…”

Ah, no. What am I doing? Stop me! I don’t want to do this. Dying so soon isn’t okay, me.

Shut up me in my head.

Why am I even talking to myself like this? Just how much of a nutcase am I now?

“What is it Darling?”

She had a daring, or maybe it was better described as a dangerous looking smile on her face while she traced one of her fingers along the rim of my lips.

Scary! Damn she’s scary!

Deep breaths me. Deep breaths. Just say what you have to say and get it over with.

“I love you.”

No, not that! Continue damn it! Don’t pause like an idiot!

She smiled and said, “of course I know that Darling. It still makes me happy to hear that though. Would you say it again?”

“Adele, I love you deeply… but, there’s a misunderstanding we need to clear up.”

“A misunderstanding?”

“Yes, a big misunderstanding.”

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“Could it be Darling thinks of me not as a girlfriend but a wife already? How embarrassing, for me to make such a mistake, I’m a complete failure as your wife.”

“That’s definitely not what I mean, Adele.”

“Then, what do you mean, Darling?”

“We aren’t dating anymore. Five years ago we broke up. I turned you over to the authorities and you were put in a mental asylum. You need to accept that already.”

“What are you talking about, Darling? You’re still madly in love with me, why would you say such a thing? Could it be... Darling has been cheating on me all this time despite loving me so much and Darling feels guilty? I really don’t know what I'd do if you tell me you cheated on me. Hey Darling, have you ever heard about double suicide? Don’t you think it’s quite a romantic way to go? In death we’d be together forever and you’d never be able to cheat on me again.”

“Adele if you want to kill me, I don’t mind dying for you. I’ve done a terrible thing to you by running away from you for the last five years.”

Despite my corny words, I was naturally bluffing. I have no desire to die at her hands. If it was a painless death, that would be one thing, but would Adele be sane enough to give me a painless one?

She placed both her hands on my cheeks while looking deep into my eyes. She moved her face closer and closer which made me think she intended to kiss me; however, she stopped in place right when our noses touched together. She didn’t blink even once throughout the entire process.

“Darling, will you be together with me even in death? If you hesitate to answer or lie, I will definitely kill you and then I’ll follow you by taking my own life. If you resist me… you see the snake wrapped around my right leg? It’s a hybrid snake I’ve personally bred and raised whose toxins are among the deadliest in the world.”

Of course, I was stunned by the rapidly devolving situation and it took a few seconds for her words to register in my head.

“Too long.”

By the time her words did register, by Adele’s standards, I was too slow to answer. She slid her hands around my neck and locked our lips. We spent several minutes with our lips locked together and over time it became increasingly difficult to breathe with how passionate she was. Gradually, over time, she increased the pressure around my neck which further decreased my already low air supply. Before I was able to put up any sort of resistance, I’d already grown light headed, weak and dizzy.

I tried to push her away, but the sharp gleam in Adele’s eyes told me she was serious about using the snake to kill me. While I barely managed to somehow stay conscious, in my groggy state of mind, my eyes rolled backwards. In the instant they rolled back I noticed the face of a semi transparent figure. It was likely a hallucination, but she resembled the young woman from my earlier dream. The only difference was her defining pure white hair that resembled Adele’s greatly.

I desperately struggled to take in a mouthful of air. I even tried to bite at Adele’s tongue to get her to release me, but her tongue was like a sea serpent, slippery and quick, I couldn’t lock down on it at all. Adele didn’t seem to mind me trying to bite her tongue either and just masterfully played around with me, treating me like I was just trying to give her a lovers bite.

I’m seriously going to die at this rate. My body started convulsing and twitching violently as I tried everything to break free, but with the lack of oxygen, I couldn’t build up enough strength to escape her by this point. The snake had also slithered along from Adele’s leg and at some point it had wrapped around and constricted the two of us together.

Shit, shouldn’t all this just be another hallucination? Can’t I just wake up and find myself in the car outside the forest? Why is it this time it has to be real?

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