Healing Slowly But Surely By R. Joseph novel Chapter 281

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 me; but all my attempts were fruitless. Bland.

It felt like I was fighting against a stone wall, and instead of letting me 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 me go!” I yelled angrily, kicking, but instead of responding, or doing as told, he simply pinched my left leg, causing me to gasp before my mouth snapped shut.

Before I could make sense of what was happening, he dropped me into the passenger seat without flourish, slammed the door shut and rounded the car, only to come sit beside me 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 me into his car.

“This is insane!” I hissed,

“You’re welcome,” 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 me 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 me 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 me, and maybe it was the fact that he was treating me like I was a child… or maybe it was because he hadn’t even looked at me at all that made me 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 me close?”

“Leilani?”

“You’ve done worse things in the past. You’ve lied countless times too; So what in hell makes you think or believe that I wouldn’t suspect this to be one of the times 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 came to a stop at the corner of the road, his face flushed as he ground out;

“If you do not believe me, mate, you can leave.”

I froze.

But I wasn’t sure if it was because he’d simply asked me to leave or if it was because he’d referred to me 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 me 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,”

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