Fated To Three Betrayed By All Until She Rose (Leilani) by Ahvahh novel Chapter 117

Chapter 117: Because I’m jealous.

Leilani.

The sounds of heavy breathing by my door snapped me out of the thoughts in my head. My head sprung up as I glanced away from my laptop, thinking I’d heard wrong, but the sound didn’t stop; if anything, it seemed to intensify with each passing second and I slowly rose from my chair, grabbed a baton and tiptoed to the door with the intention of striking whoever it was first before they got to me.

However, as soon as I slowly pushed the door open, I froze with my baton hanging midair when I saw who the intruder was...

"Jay?" I whispered incredulously, my eyes widening when I took in his disheveled state.

After returning from the hospital earlier, I’d been in such a bad mood. I’d been distressed as well and disheveled, and to make myself feel better, I’d buried myself in work. But now, looking at Jay, I could boldly say that my earlier mood was nothing compared to his current state.

He looked... utterly drained and had dark circles around his deep grayish eyes. He sighed tiredly when his eyes met mine, a small smile playing at his lips when his eyes snagged on my baton, and without a word, pulled me into a tight hug.

I froze.

I do not know for how long we stood there, holding onto each other like our lives depended on it, but I knew that at some point, my knees began to feel weak. The tips of my fingers were frozen to stiffness too and my cheeks were so stiff and hurt so much from the cold.

I muttered; "Come on in! I have a small fancy fireplace we can sit close to!"

Jay’s eyes flashed with gratitude and then slowly... very slowly, he beamed a smile at me and drawled; "You’re too kind, Leilani."

Shrugging off his words as his usual sarcasm, I pulled away from him and brushed into the house, not ignoring the way his large presence filled the space behind me.

For the first time since I left home, I had decided to do a bit of Christmas decorations, and Jarek, knowing how I used to forbid Christmas, gasped when he saw the large Christmas tree hanging at a corner of my living room. The corners of his lips tilted upwards at the sight but he said nothing.

Frankly, he didn’t need to as his expression had done all the talking he could possibly do.

He settled in front of the fireplace, and after serving him a plate of dessert, I did too, whilst coming to sit beside him with my laptop.

His scrutinizing eyes darted between the lit up screen of my laptop to my face and then he asked; "You were working?"

I didn’t respond right away, instead I nodded.

"Do you do anything else besides work in your free time?" He asked, and I couldn’t tell if he was joking or being serious because even though the words sounded playful, his eyes were everything but that.

I sighed. "I do... sometimes."

"And do you think that that’s such a good thing?"

"Jay please... work is a lot of fun for me. I don’t want you reminding me of how my entire life is—"

"I’m not trying to remind you of anything." He snapped, cutting in quickly and the words I had at the tip of my tongue died when I saw the worrisome expression on his face.

He wasn’t trying to lecture me. He was simply worried about me.

His voice dropped a few notches and the look in his eyes turned gentler as he whispered; "I’m your employer... and even I think you work a lot more than I do... or can ever do."

"And that’s why you pay my salary," I joked, taking a bite of my banana.

His eyes followed that action, lingering on the bit banana for a second too long before he finally drawled; "And what about Chalice?"

"What about her?" I asked, cocking my eyebrows at him.

My expression shifted when his face flushed slightly, and then he dropped his gaze whilst scratching the back of his neck. "Do you still plan on ’surprising’ her at her wedding?"

Something about the way he asked that question made me frown slightly but I didn’t know what it was. He looked like he had something to say... an input or something, and me, the curious one, wanted to know what he was driving at, so I answered truthfully;

"Yes."

"Why?"

Why?

Out of every possible reason I could’ve thought for his sudden behavior, those words were the last thing I’d expected to hear. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

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