Will To Live (4)

When those words accidentally slipped out of his lips, he should have known that no sane person hearing them would remain calm or indifferent, especially if faced with a foolish and crazy suicidal.

However, when Chris realized his blunder, a fair but strong hand had already grabbed and pulled him up by his hair, making him groan sharply due to the pain which added on top of what he was already enduring. A second later, he got deafened by the booming smacking that fell squarely on his left cheek, which unfortunately also found its way to his right, then back to the left, then right... The switch between the two was quite quick, rendering him to lose count of the number of slaps his poor face received.

When he felt like the world had spun a few dozen times around, that was only when the woman stayed her hand, deeming it enough for his muddled head to forget whatever suicidal intention he was having earlier.