Chapter 10

ZERO

Two hours later, I was feeling edgy. We sat at the dining table for dinner.

"Damned motherfucker!" I cussed angrily, slapping the table.

Lani jumped. Morris the bastard just chew on his food like it's the best damn meal he has had in a long time.

Lani released shaky breaths and tried to concentrate on her food.

I was angry and on edge. It's as if the damn beast in me has risen and refused to go back to sleep.

Lani has told me every damn thing. From the way she went to use the bathroom and the way fucking Felaray thought she overheard whatever it is he was hiding.

Something so confidential enough the motherfucker ordered her murder for.

Just the thought of it had me spitting nails in anger, I was growling at the damn dinner table.

"Goddamnit!" I shouted again and slapped my palm on the damn table.

Lani was so rattled, she knocked down the glass from the table as she jumped again. The glass fell to the floor and shattered, she bent down to reach for it.

"Don't!" I pushed to my feet instantly, and she shrank away from me. "Leave it, Morris will take care of it."

"Yeah. Fucking houseboy Morris will take care of it." Morris gritted out through his teeth and I glared daggers at him.

He sighed and then smiled reassuringly at Lani. "Go to bed, dear Lani. I'm sure you've had a long day."

She nodded, looking relieved. She turned and almost ran out of the living room to the bedroom.

"You're scaring the shit out of her, man."

"She's been scared fucking shitless all damn day."

"She needs a break. It's been a hell of a tough day for her."

"I'm gonna kill that cocksucker Felaray. I'm gonna send his head back to Spider wrapped up in a bag." I stated flatly.

Morris was horrified. He started reminding me that the boss wants Felaray protected not killed.

"You'll just put her in the line of fire if you kill Felaray like that. Think with your head and not your damn cock."

"I'll think with whatever one I want, Morris. No matter the one I do the damn thinking with, Death is still the answer."

"The whole shitbags of them all will come for you. For her."

I narrowed my eyes to slits. "They are free to try to come for her. They'll never live to tell the goddamn tale, even Spider."

Morris watched me carefully. Then, he grinned, "I never knew I'll see you the day you'll fall in love with a woman. Where in God's tits was I when you were falling on your damn ass for that sweet beautiful innocent girl?"

For a few moment, I drew fucking blank.

I stared at the man then, and I saw a man that has lost his mind. Bastard must have finally gone insane. Me? In what?

I walked close to him and got into his face in all seriousness.

"I don't have a fucking clue what in heaven's fuck you're talking about, but if you put a damn curse like that on me again, I'll peel off your skin slowly and make you watch. I mean this with every damn breath on my body."

All the smile left his asshole face when he found out just how serious I was. He raised his hand in surrender.

"Hell, man. You don't have to go all killer on me. I was just observ---"

"Keep your fucking observations to your miserable self. I ain't know shit about loving any-motherfucking-body and I ain't gonna try to know."

"All I know is that I'm gonna be balls deep into that girl over and over again until I've worked her out of my fucking system. I'm going to dirty her up in every damn way possible then, I'll be done with her, you feel me?"

"Hell yeah, I do." He responded.

But I don't like one bit the look of pity that flashed in his eyes before it cleared.

Why the hell would the bastard pity me? No smart bastard would ever pity me and with good reasons too.

"Good. I'm going to bed." I stated as I turned and followed the way Lani just walked a few minutes ago.

LEILANI

He looked like there was a big storm brewing in him as he made his way into the bedroom. He looked....more intense than ever.

He had been so angry after I told him everything, but now he looks....more.

What happened after I left the living room?

When he walked to the wardrobe and started taking off his clothes, I quickly turned away from him, my cheeks flushed.

"Get into that bed before I come out of the damn bathroom." He groaned behind me.

I heard the bathroom door opening and closing. I released the breath I didn't know I was holding and stood beside the window, staring at the bed in horror.

I'm tired. After the day I had today, I just want to lie down on the bed and sleep like the dead but I can't! I just can't!

In just today, a lot has happened to me.

A man tried to kill me. I watched a man die. I'm in a house with two strangers. A man saw me in a towel.

Now, I'm going to be sleeping in the same bed as a man. And I'm only wearing a shirt.

Tears filled my eyes but I refused to give in to them anymore. This day couldn't get any worse and I'm really tired of fighting Zero. I always lose anyway.

Even with everything that has happened today, even with the way he has treated me and I'm scared half to death of him, I still feel safe with him.

It's unexplainable and it scares me too.

I walked to the bed and laid down on it. I curled up into myself and started my night prayers in my mind.

ZERO

She was asleep by the time I came out of the bathroom.

The sight of her, lying there on my bed did something to me. A fucked up feeling of calmness settled over me.

I drank in the sight of her. She was curled protectively into herself, her wavy blond hair everywhere.

She looked so small and innocent lying there and so fucking angelic, the sight was overwhelming.

If I had a fucking conscience, I know I should let her go. An angel like her should never be in the company of a devil-like me.

But I ain't got no conscience and I'm happiest about the damn fact.

I'm not a good man and anyone who thinks such shit of me needs a certificate of insanity.....right after I put a bullet through his head.

He can go up there and explain to whatever creature that's up there how he died from his error in judgment and he's got a certificate of insanity to show for it.

My sins are my own. I ain't need no redemption. No fucking forgiveness.

I know my greatest sin is going to be this girl sleeping on my bed. Every damn thing I want to do with her. For her. To her. In her.

I dried off and put on my boxers and got into bed. I laid facing her. I couldn't stop staring at her face.

Even asleep, she is the most beautiful thing I've ever laid my damn eyes on.

A fucked up man like me should never be staring at such a pure and innocent creature. But any man who fucking thinks he can stop me is free to try.

It can only end one way. Or several ways with one result.

I laid so closed to her but I made no move to touch her. Tonight's all about sleep.

And yet, I couldn't sleep.

Hours passed, and I was still staring at her angelic face as she slept.

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