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“Well, I guess you did save me… again,” she said, making me smirk down at her when she muttered the word ‘again’ in a begrudging tone.
It was fucking adorable.
But I had hit my limit on being in this office building, knowing now the danger it could present. No, I needed to get her to somewhere more secure and to do that, I first needed to get her on a plane.
So, I took her hand in my own and started to walk from my office, with her trailing behind slightly in my haste.
“Wait… where are we going?” I ignored this question, too focused on what I wanted to happen next. Which meant, when I found my men waiting for me in the main office space like I knew they would be, I started barking out my orders.
“Van, Faron, you are with us. Hades, I want you to gather your men, I want a convoy to escort us.” Each of my council members bowed a head and replied with ‘My Lord.’
Evie’s reaction to this was to tense next to me and squeeze my hand tighter as if on instinct. In return, I gave her hand a gentle, reassuring one in return before walking to the bank of elevators and pressing the button. Then once the doors opened, I pulled Evie inside with Van and Faron following us.
However, it was only once the doors were closing did Evie hit her limit on waiting for an answer as she asked once more,
“Ryker, please… where are you taking me?”
I finally told her in an unyielding way…
“I’m taking my little bird home with me.”
8
OUT OF THIS WORLD
EVIE
As soon as he said this, I pulled my hand from his and took a quick step back, making him growl like some wild beast denied of his dinner. Even his dashingly handsome, blonde friend looked shocked enough to warn,
“Easy, Ryker.”
However, to this, he reached out and pressed the button for the next floor, making the doors open seconds later.
“Both of you, take the stairs,” Ryker ordered in a way as if he was also grinding glass between his teeth.
Van released a knowing sigh, now leaning closer toward his friend and whispering something in Ryker’s ear before stepping back. I didn’t know what was said, as it was too quiet for me to hear. But whatever it was, it made Ryker take a much-needed breath before nodding his head in some kind of acceptance. Faron had already stepped away from the elevator, clearly ready to obey with his boss’s request, getting out only one floor down.
As for me, the second the elevator doors closed in front of them, I couldn’t help but feel like a cornered animal. Especially when Ryker turned around and faced me. As if I was the newest conquest to battle and win. I knew this for certain when he then hit the stop button without taking his eyes off me, making the elevator jerk to an abrupt stop. But then, this was nothing compared to the predatory way he stepped toward me, making my back hit the wall before my hand rose in front of me, trying to get him to stop in his pursuit.
However, he didn’t even look at my hand, let alone take it as a sign to stop. No, he simply took it in his own before rising it above me. Of course, my reaction to this was to try and twist out of his grip, making him take my other one in hand and then raise that one too. Doing so until both of my hands met above my head. Then he took the last step until he was against me, breathing hard and making me afraid to look up at him. Because despite how much I wanted to deny what I had seen in that bathroom, I knew now that there was so much more to this world than I knew. So much more than what most people would be able to comprehend without seeing it with their own two eyes. It was the unbelievable made believable as there was no other explanation.
Monsters existed.
And I was pretty sure that now, I was faced with one of them.
But then even as I thought it, something within me told me I was wrong. For how could a monster want to risk his life to protect that of another, if he was evil at his core? Unless everything I knew, which, granted, was more based on fairytales and folklore, was wrong? That it wasn’t clear cut and monsters weren’t all bad? For starters, Ryker had never hurt me and seemed like he was extending a lot of effort on his part just to keep me alive.
So, what was I so afraid of? Was it more to do with my heart and knowing now that I hadn’t simply fallen for a dangerous man, but more like a dangerous other worldly being? But that was the problem, as now I didn’t know what to think. Because just when I thought I didn’t know this man before, now, I felt like I knew him even less.
Of course, none of this seemed to matter to him because, clearly, he was trying to lay claim over me, and the power he wielded against me was nothing other than intimidation.
Something that wasn’t hard to do considering he towered above me, was built to kill, and obviously had no issue with doing so. But most of all, my fear now stemmed from not knowing what or who he truly was. Which was why I was now close to panting, admittedly in both fear and arousal shamefully combined. I couldn’t seem to get my body in gear with what my mind was screaming at it to do.
“You pull away from me, Little Dove?” he asked in a dangerous way, one I knew to be cautious around.
“I… you…”
“Speak freely,” he told me when he saw me obviously struggling.
