Fated To Three Betrayed By All Until She Rose (Leilani) by Ahvahh novel Chapter 109

Chapter 109: Stupid as fuck.

Leilani.

"Because I want you..."

Those four words felt like poison to my ears. And if I felt hurt before, then pain was mild compared to the searing ache now tearing through my chest.

My eyes stung with tears but now... now, they were angry tears.

I spat; "Kael... leave." I said slowly, my voice coming out as a hoarse whisper. It sounded cold. Detached and had this edge to it that made it seem like my throat was being scraped against sandpaper.

Kael raised his eyes to meet mine and the look I found there had me forgetting how to breathe for a moment. It had my knees weak and my soul torn. Because so help me goddess, he looked like he was begging me with his eyes.

Like there was a thousand and one things he wanted to say to me but couldn’t. I looked away from him— mostly to stop the traitorous flutter in my chest, but that was impossible.

And when he dropped his head and sighed, I had this irresistible urge to go pull him into a hug. To console him; but for what reason? I had no idea. So I clamped down that thought and hissed; "You should go."

"I don’t want to." He argued. I noticed how he stopped to glance at my car then back at my face. He drawled; "I really don’t want to."

"Why?"

"Because I want to talk to you." He spat, "I want to understand how I feel about you. I want to know why I feel the way I feel."

Now, his words were already beginning to turn into an almost unintelligible slur. I rolled my eyes at him, brushed past him to unlock my door and spun around to face him when I felt him following me.

"What?" I snapped. "Who told you you could come in?"

"But I feel cold." He argued, "...and I don’t feel too well. But I want to talk to you."

Gosh, his attitude was starting to grate on my nerves. Or maybe it wasn’t.. maybe it was just my emotions that were all over the place.

My eyebrows shot into my hairline as I pinned a glare at him. I drawled; "You’ve talked to me."

"Please.."

"No, Kael."

"Please, I beg you." He whispered.

My hand hovered over my doorknob for a moment while I contemplated the implications of what he was asking of me. Suddenly a strong wind blew and when he shivered, wrapping his arms around himself... that made me pity him.

I spat; "Okay," and with that, stepped into the house whilst leaving the door wide open.

Kael followed closely behind me, his eyes widening with innocent curiosity as he took in the entire set up of my home. After a moment of silence, he turned to smile at me and whispered; "Your house is lovely."

But I didn’t respond. I simply let the compliment fly over my head.

Crossing my arm over my chest, I finally decided to address the elephant in the room once and for all, so I asked; "What do you want from me?"

And at that, he dropped his head, his voice lowering a few octaves as he said; "I don’t know how I feel, Leilani. I say I hate you. I say I can never forgive you for all the things you did to my brothers and I... I used to believe that I was in love with Chalice, but now... now, I don’t want to live in a world that doesn’t have you in it..."

And goddess, I do not know how I felt after hearing that... but I certainly did not feel good.

"Kael..."

"...I want you despite your craziness, Leilani, despite how evil and twisted you are; And you can call me a hypocrite but I’d kill before I let you go."

Goddess, I felt like I couldn’t breathe anymore. Like there was an invisible force squeezing at my heart— but not in a good way.

Tears burned at the corners of my eyes, but they didn’t drop. They could never drop, especially in front of him. My chest felt heavy, even my knees were weak and wobbly. But ignoring the discomfort in my body, I managed to meet his gaze squarely and drawled;

"You’re engaged to my sister."

"I know." He murmured almost instantly.

"And for that reason, you shouldn’t be here. You shouldn’t be saying these things to me. You don’t deserve to share the same space as me, especially after everything."

He scoffed. "Of course you wouldn’t. You’ll pretend. But unlike you, I don’t pretend. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I was a dick to you in the past— not like you didn’t deserve it, but even though." 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

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