Fated To Three Betrayed By All Until She Rose (Leilani) by Ahvahh novel Chapter 390

Chapter 390: How many more secrets do we have to unravel?

Leilani.

We all watched Jarek sleep like hawks protecting their offsprings, and whenever he would move or stir in his sleep, we would all jerk around to watch him closely until he returned back to his peaceful or not so peaceful slumber.

This practice continued until sometime after midnight when we all began to doze off one after the other as well.

Oh, and... just so you know, all my injuries from earlier had surprisingly healed up. Even the cracked knuckle that I had gotten from punching Jarek squarely in the face was also gone...

Now, back to what I was talking about. I was on the verge of dozing off when I heard a soft sound not so far off. It sounded like someone getting off one of the couches where we were all perked on and when I slowly peeled my eyes open, my breath caught in my throat when I realized that it was Jarek, and I could only watch him as he stumbled to his feet, picked up a bottle of wine and began to tiptoe back to where we all were.

"And what exactly are you trying to do?" I asked coldly, not missing the way he suddenly came to a halt. The bottle slipped from his hands to the floor where it shattered into a gazillion tiny pieces.

"Leilani!" He screeched, "you scared me there!"

"You scared me first!" I snapped back, whilst doing all I could to put as much distance between us.

His eyes thinned for a moment as if trying to understand why I kept taking small steps back, and when it finally dawned on him, they widened slowly before his entire face simply crumpled.

He drawled; "You can’t even look at me."

His words made me whip my head up to meet his gaze and when my eyes caught onto the sadness slash regret swirling in his eyes, my breath hitched again.

"You won’t even come close."

"That’s because you tried to hurt me." I answered, hating the way those words tasted like bile on my tongue.

If I was told some time ago that there will come a time when I’d be having this kind of conversation with Jarek... my Jarek, then I would never have believed.

"I did?" He sounded sincerely shocked and concerned, and I couldn’t ascertain if this was because he had been drunk earlier— hence his reason for not knowing— or he had simply just almost slipped into a feral state.

I nodded but didn’t say anything.

Why?

Because I decided to watch his expressions instead. I wanted to be sure of what I was dealing with by seeing the effects my words had on him directly, and when all he showed was remorse and guilt, I tentatively took a step forward.

"Leilani—" that was Caelum whose voice came with a silent warning. I glanced at him only for a moment to see the worry creasing his eyebrows before I slowly nodded at him.

"It’s okay."

"It’s not. This guy tried to hurt you. First he almost hit you with his car; scratch that, he hit you with his car, and then he scratched both of your arms until you were bleeding all over the place."

The words Caelum said vaguely reminded me of what happened, sending a tremor rushing up my spine.

But do you know what it did to Jarek? 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

It completely destroyed him.

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