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“Tell me I wasn’t too late?”
I shook my head, telling him no, she hadn’t, and the relief was easy to see. But then shame filled my veins as I admitted,
“I didn’t fight back.” At this his gaze grew even more tender as he whispered my name,
“Evie.”
“I usually fight back… I’ve always fought back, Ryker,” I told him, making him sigh.
“To fight back against such a being might have been the difference in getting to you in time,” he told me, making me shiver once at the thought of the crazed bitch. A reaction he clearly didn’t like, because his features hardened as if the thought of what could have happened crossed his mind, making him hold me tighter.
“I don’t understand your world,” I admitted quietly, making him sigh again before agreeing softly,
“I know, sweetheart.” Then I felt him kiss me on top of my head before I remembered something.
“She told me you were hers, that she was your fiancé.” At this he scoffed and told me,
“Not fucking likely.”
“But why would she say that? Is she… is she a girlfriend?”
I felt the deep inhale of frustration instead of hearing the sigh that no doubt followed.
“Oh god, that’s it, isn’t it?!” I said when he didn’t answer me, pulling back away from him and letting the blanket slip to the floor. To which he stood, so he could put me back on the bed off his lap. This allowed me the freedom to shift myself up the bed before tucking my legs up against me. I also realized I was still only wearing a robe, so I purposely held the collar together with a fisted hand held at my heart. One that felt like it would break depending on what he told me next.
Of course, it didn’t look good when he rose from the bed and started pacing the floor, as if struggling to find the right words.
“That’s it, isn’t it?” I repeated, to which he stopped walking and turned towards me to say,
“Fuck no… not anymore, not for a while have I...” He trailed off, clearly not knowing how to explain, and I tried to find comfort in this. But then just the thought of him with that crazy bitch must have been written across my face like an open book to read.
“I know what you’re thinking.”
“Yeah, and what am I thinking, Ryker?” I pressed.
“That I must have been out of my fucking mind to be with someone like that.” Okay, so yeah, he knew what I was thinking.
“It doesn’t exactly say much for your taste in women,” I admitted.
“My taste in women…” he muttered, mimicking my words.
“Gods, Evie, if only you knew,” he added in sight of my frown.
“If only I knew what?” I forced myself to ask.
“I don’t date, Evelyn.” Needless to say, this statement didn’t do anything to dispel my frown.
“I don’t understand, then what did you intend for me?”
“Not to fucking date you, that’s for damn sure.” I had to say, this was a fucking blow I wasn’t expecting, and I swear, I jerked back from his words as if he had been the one to strike me.
“Right… right,” I stated at the same time I straightened my whole body. This before launching myself off the bed, making him look shocked because he clearly wasn’t expecting it.
“Well, I think you have made yourself perfectly clear,” I told him as I stormed toward the door, hoping that when I opened it, the crazed bitch was long gone. However, not surprisingly, I didn’t get far.
“Just where do you think you’re going?!” he snapped, grabbing my arm and turning me back to face him. However, my anger burst from me enough that with the forced movement came retaliation, and I used both hands to push him back.
“Getting the fuck away from you, that’s what!” I shouted before turning back to the door and trying once again to get through it. In truth, I didn’t know where this bravery had come from, considering what I had seen him capable of doing. Clearly, he wasn’t fucking human! It was like I’d been keeping it in reserve or something, because I could have done with it about ten minutes ago when faced with the raging psycho.
