Fated To Three, Betrayed By All… Until She Rose. Chapter 281: The bodyguard

Leilani.

If I thought that fighting would be my escape out of here, then I was wrong. Completely wrong.

Because I fought, thrashed, scratched at his skin and did everything known in the book just to make him drop ; but all my attempts were fruitless. Bland.

It felt like I was fighting against a stone wall, and instead of letting go, he held on tighter, his fingers digging into my skin as he marched the rest of the way to his car.

"Zevran! This isn’t funny! Let go!" I yelled angrily, kicking, but instead of responding, or doing as told, he simply pinched my left leg, causing to gasp before my mouth snapped shut.

Before I could make sense of what was happening, he dropped into the passenger seat without flourish, slamd the door shut and rounded the car, only to co sit beside a few seconds later, his face the usual mask of indifference, so much so that one wouldn’t even guess that he’d just literally hauled into his car.

"This is insane!" I hissed,

"You’re welco," he drawled, a small smile playing at the corner of his lips.

And I swear to the moon goddess, I wanted to wipe that smug smile off with the back of my hand! I wanted to bash his head straight into his steering wheel until it disappeared.

My hands itched to do one of those, but before I could question where all of these violent tendencies were coming from, he muttered;

"You can sulk."

I frowned. "Huh?"

"I said that you can sulk. You can be mad at for being so stubborn and perhaps crude but I can not let you out of my sight today."

"Why?" I hissed, feeling my anger rising. "Because your Chalice has miraculously escaped from her cell?"

"Yes." He spat without looking at , and maybe it was the fact that he was treating like I was a child... or maybe it was because he hadn’t even looked at at all that made see red. But I found myself inching closer to him, my voice as cold as ice as I sneered;

"And what makes you think that I even believe that happened? Or is this not just one of your soon to fail attempts at keeping close?"

"Leilani?"

"You’ve done worse things in the past. You’ve lied countless tis too; So what in hell makes you think or believe that I wouldn’t suspect this to be one of the tis when you lie?" I snapped, interrupting him.

And at my words, he went silent. However, just when I had begun to think that he wouldn’t respond, he swerved his car off the road and ca to a stop at the corner of the road, his face flushed as he ground out;

"If you do not believe , mate, you can leave."

I froze.

But I wasn’t sure if it was because he’d simply asked to leave or if it was because he’d referred to as ’mate’.

My eyes widened infinitesimally but shaking off the shock coursing through my veins, I leaned away and tried to pry the door open.

However, before I could do that, he began to speak again. He rasped; "Leilani, I want to keep you close. I want to protect you... and so help moon goddess, I do not even need anything from you in return. But I’d never lie just to have that. I won’t pretend that you’re in danger when you’re not, just to have you in my car; And even though that thought in itself is as tempting as sin, you need to know that I would never do it!"

"So Chalice had indeed escaped?" I whispered quietly, a stark contrast to the loud pounding of my heart in my chest.

"Yes,"

"Goddess!"

"And I fear that she fled her cell with a prisoner or two."

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For the next couple of hours, I got myself a bodyguard and I an that in a literal sense. Because tell why Zevran Stormborn wanted to follow literally everywhere?

Tell why he was hovering around my kitchen door when I was inside cooking and even hung around my bathroom door when I got in to ease myself?

My face burned with embarrassnt and a tinge of rage when I stepped out to find him sitting on the floor a little distance away from the door, his face between his knees as he slowly raised his gaze to et mine.

He drawled; "You’re done."

It was a statent not a question. And the finality in it had gnashing my teeth together.

Oh, how I wanted him to leave. How I wanted this day to end... and for Chalice to be found with imdiate effect. My blood boiled in my veins, but reigning it in... even if it was only a little, I hissed; "Now this is just too much."

"What?" He snapped, feigning confusion. But I could see right through him. I could see the smile he couldn’t fully hide... could perceive the way his shoulders were bunched together, as if he was holding in laughter.

I rolled my eyes as I walked away from him and headed to the kitchen, my frown deepening when I realized that he was now following .

"Leilani..."

"If you sit in the living room, Zevran, I will be fine. I won’t be kidnapped or anything. I swear, I won’t die either..."

"But you’ll be out of my sight." He countered, his face twisted into a look of worry, "...and I cannot help the thoughts that have been swirling around my mind. I cannot help but think that sothing or soone could attack you when we least expect. I fear that sothing could..."

"Not happen." I snapped, interrupting him. "No one can hurt ... especially when you’re here."

Silence.

It descended upon us as soon as I said that, plunging us both into an uncomfortable situation where we could both only stare at each other.

A mont passed and then two, and just when he opened his mouth, as if finally able to co up with sothing to respond to with, my doorbell rang.

I froze.

"Are you expecting anyone?" He asked softly— too softly.

I shook my head. "No."

"Is there anyone who drops by unannounced?"

"Besides you and your brothers?" I hissed sharply, "no one else!"

And with that, I turned around and began to walk towards the door. But before I could pull the wooden object open, Zevran suddenly pulled backwards and into his warm arms, his breath fanning against the top of my head as he hissed;

"Let do it, Leilani. Please."

His tone was desperate... pleading.

I nodded. "Okay."