Fated To Three Betrayed By All Until She Rose (Leilani) by Ahvahh novel Chapter 94

Chapter 94: Getting under Chalice’s skin.

Leilani. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

I left Jarek’s house in a daze. On one hand, I was glad that he’d finally opened up to me, letting me know what exactly was happening with him; and on the other hand, I was worried and afraid. I was afraid on his behalf.

I feared for what would happen when we do not find a lasting solution to his ailment. And do you know what was worse besides that? The fact that I had to leave my coat behind, to remind him of my smell just in case he slipped into another episode, yet he refused to allow me to stay behind with him in fear of hurting me.

So in essence, the unpredictability of it all scared me more than anything.

My hands shook slightly as I drove to my house. It was snowing lightly. In fact, these days, it snowed a lot. Blinking through the tears in my eyes, I made my way to my house, that is after a quick stop at Walmart to get some groceries.

However, I’d just driven into my parking lot when I noticed someone by my porch dressed in a pink woolly coat and bent over some items.

My curiosity spiked. I quickly turned off the ignition and got out of my car, a frown forming on my face as I walked over to whoever it was. However, when I saw that it was Chalice, I froze, my fingers tightening on my paper bags containing groceries as I wondered why she was here.

I spat; "What are you doing here?"

At the sound of my voice, Chalice froze. She turned around quickly and I noticed to my amusement that she’d been busy ripping through a bouquet of red roses. The torn out petals lay strewn on the floor, and her bruised hands bled from tugging at the branches plus its thorns.

But she didn’t look hurt. If anything, she smiled at me, wiped the blood on her hands on her coat and drawled: "I came to see you. And then I noticed that some secret lover must’ve kept that so I destroyed it."

My eyes darted between her and the destroyed bouquet but I felt nothing. I smirked. "Thank you for tearing it down." I said, "I’d have preferred if you just threw it away though."

Her face fell. She spat; "You—"

But I was quick to butt in. I rolled my eyes. "Yes, me. You thought I’ll be hurt when I come here and find out that you destroyed that? That just goes to show how petty you are!"

"Bitc—"

"Oh, you see, I’ve been getting those flowers a lot recently, and I just throw them away. It’s nice to see that you’ll hurt yourself just to do what I always did without stress, as long as it made you feel like you were hurting me."

Now her face was a bright shade of red. She scoffed derisively whilst stomping on the destroyed flowers on the floor; and then she turned to me with malice gleaming in her bright blue eyes.

She yelled; "This is not why I came here today though!"

I smiled softly and crossed my arms over my chest. I loved that my calmness riled her up, and I especially loved the fact that she was fuming even now that I haven’t said a thing to her yet.

I drawled; "So tell me, Ms Blackthorne, why did you crawl out of your hole today? Is there something of importance that you’d want to tell me—"

"I want you to stay away from Kael, Zevran and Caelum!" She spat, interrupting me, and making my frown deepen before a slow smile suddenly spread out on my face.

And goddess, I couldn’t help it. I laughed. I laughed so loud, a few of my passing neighbors stopped to stare with smiles on their faces.

The red on Chalice’s face bloomed as she watched me and in irritation, she ducked her head, mumbling under her breath; "What’s so funny about what I just said?"

At that, I broke into another fit of laughter. And after laughing to my fill, I stopped, dropped my grocery bag on the floor and sassed; "Everything."