Chapter49: The Lightness

James stopped after his hand blistered and half injured from hitting the punch bag too hard with his bare hands. He walked out of the room in his wrinkled half-open shirt and went into one of the bathrooms to clean himself up. James only kept quiet, trying to suppress the wrath swirling in his heart. James only grew more irritated under the splash of water that usually calmed him down. He threw everything he could get his hands on in a grand bathroom as Delilah's words kept ringing in his mind. Why was he so affected by the murderous terms Delilah pinned on him? James killed a few times and did that ruthlessly without guilt or compassion. It doesn't feel out of the ordinary. Then why should he be mad when Delilah pinned him as a killer? After all, that is reality. But James' heart didn't want to take it. After bathing and getting dressed, James sat in the small garden near one of the rooms where he cooled off. He kept staring at the small swimming pool in the quiet garden. But the soot