Healing Slowly But Surely By R. Joseph novel Chapter 284

Chapter 284: Their monster.

Leilani.

The first time I was paid my salary at the end of the month, I had tried to get a Saint Laurent shoe from a middleman named Joe, and maybe I was still so stupid because who the fuck gets things from someone with the name; ’Joe.’?

But that aside, I paid about five thousand dollars— another mistake— for the shoe, only to get some filthy thing from Walmart the next day.

Soooo moral of the story is: you should understand how devastated I was. How utterly miserable I felt after learning that I had just been scammed…

And that is exactly how I felt when Zevran pulled the door open and Caelum and Kael rushed in, both panting like they’d just run a marathon. Both cursing under their breaths because apparently, we had left them outside for a little too long.

When their eyes snagged on mine, they froze and then Caelum exhaled deeply, his chest rising and falling rapidly as he hissed through gritted teeth; “You’re safe.”

“Was I supposed to be unsafe?” I bit back, sounding way harsher than I intended.

His face crumbled at my words, but quickly returning his smile to his face, he shrugged and said; “That’s not what I mean,”

But I was far from listening to him. I was way beyond having any form of civil conversation with them. I pushed away from where I stood and began to walk back to my kitchen, and as I moved, I could hear the sounds of their footsteps echoing behind me. I could feel the way they followed cautiously, as if afraid to walk too loudly or to walk past me.

“Leilani, Chalice has been caught,” Kael said suddenly, startling me, and for some reason, that was enough for me to stop mid track.

I spun around quickly to face them and to my utter confusion, they all backed away quickly as if I would hurt them. You know how it is when an abusive parent hovers over you?

—Sikeee, you probably cannot relate to that but I can.

I frowned. “What’s that?”

“What’s what?” Zevran mumbled,

“Why are you three acting that way? Aren’t you big bad Alphas anymore? Why are you behaving like I would hit you?” I snapped and rolled my eyes when they flinched even more.

“Because we cannot afford to get on your bad side right now,” Caelum cut in softly, pouting in a way that I would’ve found cute if I wasn’t so anti-triplets, “we’ll just hang around behind you…”

“You don’t have to hang around my house now. You should leave.” I hissed, feeling my anger beginning to sizzle just underneath the surface of my skin, “Chalice has been found. She can no longer hurt me…”

“But Louis escaped.” Kael finished, his voice stone cold, sending chills down my spine.

Amongst the three, he was the one who seemed the most detached today. He looked like he was Merlin— and he doesn’t even have the weight of the whole world on his shoulders.

I shrugged; “Louis knows better than to try to attack me. He knows he’ll only be a fool if he comes back here after everything.”

Gosh, Chalice must’ve been the only one to see this side of them.

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